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

[David Haslam]

Further observation.

The actual GBF markup is like this example.

<WTH3-2>

PocketSword renders these as italics superscript (3-2) within parentheses.

David

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On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 16:30, Tobias Klein <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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