[sword-devel] CCEL, ThML - volunteers?

[Dudeck, John]

The main problem with commentaries is getting the annotateRef attribute right without manual intervention. Logos supports nested levels of reference, eg. book-level, chapter-level, verse-level, and verse ranges (that can span mutiple chapters). As far as I can tell, osis2mod gets terribly confused with nested ranges.

Generally speaking, black box converters are pretty much a lost cause. I have used a .conf file approach where variable stuff can be configured, for example how to map class and style attributes to the limited rendering capabilities of Sword. And I have separate scripts for genbooks, bibles, commentaries, and dictionaries/lexicons.

John

> Any time your list of exceptional conditions contains more text than the
> conversion itself, you have to start questioning whether 'automation' is
> even possible.
>
> I spent time developing similar scripts (something like wordxml ->
> USFM) for single use cases.  Doing the conversion was usually about
> 10 steps, but  then dealing with the exceptions (both before and after
> the conversion) took 100+ steps. Without automation, the 10 steps
> was good enough. but not keeping a human involved, all the human
> decisions had to be mapped.
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 10:39 AM Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com> wrote:
>
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> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 10:35 AM Dudeck, John <John.Dudeck at sim.org> wrote:
> I am developing a set of Perl scripts that convert Logos XML to OSIS for
> commentaries. It has proven to be a non-trivial exercise.
>
> I undertook a similar exercise over a decade ago as part of an internship. It was a beast of
> a task and one that was never fully completed.
>
> --Greg
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John Dudeck
Programmer at Editions Cle                             Lyon, France
john.dudeck at sim.org                            john at editionscle.com
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