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

[David Haslam]

It’s not just Psalms that has these tags.

They are found also in Job, Ecclesiastes, Song, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Zechariah, Malachi

David

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On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 17:05, David Haslam <dfhdfh at protonmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Tobias,
>
> GBF is an old Bible markup format.
> We now don’t accept it for new modules.
>
> Have you found an authentic online source text?
>
> Can you obtain a better one direct from the GBS ?
>
> CrossWire doesn’t normally rebuild a module from text exported from a module.
>
> In this case, that would only be a last resort.
>
> Three steps:
> 1. mod2imp GerSch 1>filename.txt
> 2. Repair versification for Psalms
> 3. Imp2vs to rebuild the module.
>
> At a guess, the Luther v11n might be suitable.
>
> And in this rare case we’d probably not lose any content.
>
> Aside: Which front-end doesn’t render these tags ?
>
> David
>
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> On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 16:50, Tobias Klein <contact at tklein.info> wrote:
>
>> 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> 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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