[sword-devel] OSIS Variants ?

[DM Smith]

There is no other option for the front-end.

The engine (SWORD and JSword) will only show one or the other of two variants. I’m pretty sure JSword doesn’t allow “the other”. To do otherwise means that the engine has to determine another mechanism which the front-end has to choose. Example, show a variant as a footnote or a gloss. Either one requires the engine to create markup that is not in the module.

At first JSword showed both variants without distinction and it was confusing to the end user, because there was no space between the variants. When we added spaces, it was confusing to the end user it was confusing because it did not read well. So JSword shows just the first and no choice for the second. No, it is much worse to show both. 

Other problems: there is no description of the variant and there is no indication as to how many variants. So far there are only 2. And the mechanism of a variant is not a part of the OSIS specification and is a kludge in the module.

JSword will achieve parity with SWORD some day.

In Him,
	DM

> On Oct 15, 2017, at 11:37 AM, David Haslam <dfhmch at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> I would agree that makes sense for a front-end that has UI support for
> selecting variants,
> but otherwise, the user never even gets to see the text for the Secondary
> Reading.
> 
> Remaining invisible is much worse than any potential confusion!
> 
> The problem therefore never gets reported to the app developers!
> 
> How can we trigger software improvements if this is happening?
> 
> David
> 
> 
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