[sword-devel] Psalm titles in USFM with xrefs that use \xo ?

[Peter von Kaehne]

Just for clarity's sake, my 'bad USFM' referred to references to verse 0. I think they should simply be references to the chapter(start). 

Sent from my phone. Apologies for brevity and typos.On 18 Sep 2015 8:19 pm, Kahunapule Michael Johnson <Kahunapule at eBible.org> wrote:
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> Footnotes in section headers and similar titles are allowed in USFM. I can't think of any reason why they shouldn't be. I can think of some reasons why they should be allowed, though. Haiola handles them as expected and intended by the translators, except on conversion to OSIS then Sword format. OSIS won't validate with those footnotes there, so I strip them out. This is clearly not optimal, but it prevents a worse problem of blocking publication of a whole Bible because of OSIS' inability to cope with a footnote in a title. Perhaps there is a workaround I overlooked that would be better, though.
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> There are well over 1,000 Bibles that have had their source converted to USFM and/or USX. (Those two formats are basically interchangeable for anyone with Paratext.) The ETEN DBL has Bibles all in USX. OSIS maintenance and support seems to have died, or at least gone comatose, but it seems to me that it might be worth considering either tweaking OSIS to support everything that USFM supports, or replacing OSIS with another source format for Sword use. Or at least supplementing it. (I know that old formats die hard. GBF support is still in the Sword library, even though its inventor stopped using it years ago.)
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> Just some food for thought...
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> On 09/17/2015 10:22 AM, Peter von Kaehne wrote:
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>> I am not sure that this is good USFM, though having said this, the Welsh Bible has become something like a exhibition piece for USFM.
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>> Sent from my phone. Apologies for brevity and typos.On 17 Sep 2015 13:01, David Haslam <dfhmch at googlemail.com> wrote:
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>>> A feature of USFM is that for some translations a canonical Psalm title may
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>>> contain a cross-reference.
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>>>
>>>
>>> A peculiarity may occur when the title is not [part of] verse 1, and when
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>>> the xref contains an origin marker.
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>>>
>>>
>>> Here's an example: (Welsh beibl.net)
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>>>
>>>
>>> \c 3
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>>> \s1 Gweddi yn y bore
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>>> \d Salm gan Dafydd pan oedd yn ffoi oddi wrth ei fab Absalom.\x - \xo 3:0
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>>> \xt 2 Samuel 15:13—17:22\x*
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>>> \q1
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>>> \v 1 O \nd ARGLWYDD\nd*, mae gen i gymaint o elynion!
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>>> \q2 Mae cymaint o bobl yn ymosod arna i.
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>>> \q1
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>>>
>>>
>>> Observe that the origin marker refers to verse 0 of the Psalm. (\xo 3:0)
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>>>
>>>
>>> What's the preferred way to convert this to OSIS, and how would the result
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>>> be supported by SWORD ?
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>>>
>>>
>>> David
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