[sword-devel] Diatheke, section headings and Psalm titles?

[Greg Hellings]

The "strange reason" is a well understood design decision in the engine
that is, however, non obvious and leads frequently to this type  of
behavior for client applications.

It is also patched in Subversion already.

--Greg

On Mon, Apr 9, 2018, 14:00 David Haslam <dfhdfh at protonmail.com> wrote:

> Apologies.
>
> I seem to have forgotten what Greg pointed out only last week.
> For some strange reason, the Psalm titles are currently output *before
> verse 2* rather than before verse 1.
>
> Best regards,
>
> David
>
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> On 9 April 2018 7:36 PM, David Haslam <dfhdfh at protonmail.com> wrote:
>
> Going on from the earlier thread.
>
> It's evident that diatheke can output *section headings*, viz., try this:
> >diatheke -b ESV2011 -o h -f plain -k Matt.1
> The output includes:
> *The Genealogy of Jesus Christ*
> (before verse 2)
> *The Birth of Jesus Christ*
> (before verse 19)
> both of which are titles supplied by the ESV translators.
>
> Yet diatheke seems to be unable to output *canonical Psalm titles*, viz.,
> try this:
> >diatheke -b ESV2011 -o h -f plain -k Ps.3
> The 8 verses are output, but no Psalm title appears,
> neither the *uninspired* "*Save Me, O My God*" (supplied by the
> translators)
> nor the *inspired* "*A Psalm of David when he fled from Absolom his son.*"
> (as translated from the Hebrew).
>
> Surely it's a *serious deficiency* in diatheke that it can output *some*
> *uninspired* section headings but *not others* and *never* the *inspired*
> Psalm titles?
>
> Do the developers have any ideas on how to remedy this inconsistency?
>
> Or is it a problem in how modules are made that leaves these titles *in
> limbo* like this?
>
> Best regards,
>
> David
>
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