[sword-devel] Osis Psalms canonical titles

[David Haslam]

There may be an underlying issue.

\d \v 1 Psalm title ...
\q verse text ...

is valid USFM and is even advised by UBS for some translations.

After converting to OSIS, this construction becomes problematic for SWORD.

David

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On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 13:42, DM Smith <dmsmith at crosswire.org> wrote:

> In the Bible, some translations the Psalm titles stand before verse 1. This is how the KJV does it. Other translations have it as verse 1.
>
> osis2mod tries to identify whether a title that stands before verse 1 should be a chapter title (i.e. verse 0) or should be a verse title (i.e. verse 1). And it marks up titles in a fashion that SWORD engine expects. Dumping the module using mod2imp, will show how well or badly this was done.
>
> I think the problem here is the order of elements. So rather than <title><verse sID/>…<verse eID/></title> use <verse sID/><title>…</title><verse eID/>.
>
> The attribute canonical=“true” is supposed to tell the SWORD engine to always show the title. I think there are still problems with that. So, try turning Headers on, when you don’t see them.
>
> In Him,
> DM
>
>> On Mar 31, 2019, at 5:13 AM, Cyrille <lafricain79 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>> I'm working on a text with canonical Psalms titles. When I convert it from usfm to osis I have this result:
>> <div type="subSection">
>>         <chapter sID="Ps.3" osisID="Ps.3" n="3"/>
>>         <title>Invocazione mattutina del giusto perseguitato</title>
>>         <p></p>
>>         <!-- d -->
>>         <title type="psalm" canonical="true"><verse sID="Ps.3.1" osisID="Ps.3.1" n="1"/>Salmo di Davide quando fuggiva il figlio Assalonne.<verse eID="Ps.3.1"/></title>
>>         <lg>
>>           <l level="1"><verse sID="Ps.3.2" osisID="Ps.3.2" n="2"/>Signore, quanti sono i miei oppressori!</l>
>>           <l level="1">Molti contro di me insorgono. <verse eID="Ps.3.2"/></l>
>>
>> Is it correct? Because Bibletime [doesn't display it](https://github.com/bibletime/bibletime/issues/178).
>>
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