[sword-devel] Question regarding special markup in Psalms and SWModule::stripText

[Tobias Klein]

Ok, thanks David!

So that means unless there's an updated module I would have to apply my 
own "search / replace" to get rid of these tags, huh?
Are there other modules with the same "issue"?

Best regards,
Tobias

On 17.03.19 17:46, David Haslam wrote:
> The GerSch module was made from an input file that had GBF markup.
>
> It’s not OSIS.
>
> These H tags record the verse references for the original av11n.
>
> The module was made in 2013.
> But the source text was from much earlier, 2006.
>
> It might be suitable for rebuilding if we can still obtain the 1951 
> source text.
>
> There should now be a more suitable v11n than the default KJV that was 
> used in 2006 & 2013.
>
> David
>
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>
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 16:30, Tobias Klein <contact at tklein.info 
> <mailto:contact at tklein.info>> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> when working with the German Schlachter Bibel (1951) [GerSch] I noticed
>> that there's some special markup in the Psalms:
>>
>> Ein Psalm Davids, als er vor seinem Sohne Absalom floh.
>> <H3-2> Ach, HERR, wie zahlreich sind meine Feinde! Viele stehen wider
>> mich auf;
>> <H3-3> viele sagen von meiner Seele: «Sie hat keine Hilfe bei Gott.»
>> (Pause.)
>> <H3-4> Aber du, HERR, bist ein Schild um mich, meine Ehre und der mein
>> Haupt emporhebt.
>>
>> ...
>>
>>
>> It may be a beginners question - what's the purpose of the <H*-*> markup?
>> Is there a filter option in the Sword API that would allow me to not
>> show it?
>>
>> To get the text of the verse I'm using the API function
>> SWModule::stripText().
>> In the Sword code it says that this function "calls all StripTextFilters
>> on current text" and that it returns the "module's text at specified key
>> location massaged by Strip filters".
>>
>> Am I using the right function? Do I have to apply additional filters to
>> remove the markup mentioned above?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Tobias
>>
>>
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