[sword-devel] Lemmas, Strongs & Morph

[David Haslam]

Though most front-end apps have a UI option to toggle Strongs & Morph, not
all have an option to toggle Lemmas. Xiphos is one that does.

The KJV module from CrossWire has all three switches in the configuration.

GlobalOptionFilter=OSISLemma
GlobalOptionFilter=OSISStrongs
GlobalOptionFilter=OSISMorph

and conforms to the note in the wiki that says, that OSISLemma ... Must
precede OSISStrongs.

In another thread, someone said that OSISLemma is only required when one has
something "other than Strongs", and that it provides an "independent means"
to display non-Strongs lemmas.

In Xiphos, this is not quite true. In Module Options, having

Strong's Numbers OFF
Lemmas ON
Morphology OFF

results merely in increasing the line spacing in the main text display. It
doesn't display any lemmas.

Strong's Numbers ON
Lemmas OFF
Morphology OFF

works as expected.

Strong's Numbers ON
Lemmas ON
Morphology OFF

then adds the Greek words of the lemmas into the display.

In other words, displaying lemmas is currently not "independent" of Strongs,
but "dependent".

Of course, one could desire that it be truly independent, and just display
the Greek words without the Strongs numbers, but Xiphos would need to be
different, as would (I assume) the SWORD engine.

What can be said is that Lemmas are "independent" of Morphology.
The Morphology setting does not affect the action of toggling Lemmas.

Best regards,

David



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