[sword-devel] OSIS Commentary - versification

[Michael H]

The text (https://git.door43.org/Door43-Catalog/en_tn) is not in currently
in a format supported by anything except unfoldingWord, (
https://door43.org/u/Door43-Catalog/en_tn/ff70a8adb2/) but it is in a
regular format. So the manual transform  into a supported form is currently
planned to go directly into OSIS. Considering the depth of the information,
this seems the most likely to succeed and keep the information present and
usable.

"Build my own tools" is stronger language than I would use for my effort. I
do plan to write stuff (LibreOffice Calc functions) that output OSIS
directly from the spreadsheet files in the link, but not the module. I can
synthesize what needs to happen for all of this except the header text that
will make the subsequent validation and conversion to module work. An
example OSIS source text for a valid sword commentary would be most
helpful.

The The English TN is based on ASV(NRSV) versification. But there other
languages--Russian, French, Italian where I'm expecting the reference
edition to be other versifications, because the versification was
established to follow the vulgate or something like it long before modern
era.  maybe I'm seeing a mountain where none exists, or a problem that
remains unsolvable in Sword (linking to scripture across versifications).
It seems like there should be some hook in the work itself or along with
each link that describes the versification of the intended scripture
target. I'm not seeing how to encode that.


On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 11:28 AM Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 2:08 PM Michael H <cmahte at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So I have a collection of files (based on vulgate and NRSV works) that
>> will become commentaries.
>>
>> The first thing I'd like to address are the differences in the
>> versification, primarily (for the vulgate stuff) so that commentary about
>> Psalm 119 doesn't show up on 118 or 120.
>>
>> The only place I see to label a versification is in the .conf file?
>> (after the module is finished.) And in command line utitilities that
>> probably won't apply to my case, since I'm starting from bare text, and
>> there's no reason to convert to a intermediate format.
>>
>
> Correct, but you'll eventually need to pass it through an import utility,
> unless you write the module directly yourself from a custom crafted tool.
> But, even then, you'll still need to declare the versification manually
> when you create the module object (or accept the KJV default) so that any
> index file is properly written out.
>
>
>> There isn't any declaration inside an OSIS file?   If I'm building the
>> OSIS myself, is there anything I need to be especially concerned regarding
>> the versificaiton, or just ensure that my reference tags will fit a SWORD
>> versification item?
>>
>
> Pretty sure that OSIS headers have a field for it. Almost as sure that the
> osis2mod tool ignores it along with just about everything else in the
> header.
>
> --Greg
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