[sword-devel] Grep or Sed Command to Automate OSIS References?

[Cyrille]

Hello Greg,
Can you give more information about this python library please. It's
interesting. How to use it? Is the library in the linux repo?

Le 04/02/2020 à 12:41, Greg Hellings a écrit :
> Maxwell,
>
> If you install the Python bindings to the Sword library, you can use
> the library's extensive parsing information as well as its knowledge
> of locales. A very simple Python script[0] will iterate all lines of
> input (you can give it a list of file arguments, you can pipe the
> output of a different program to it, you can write the lines in
> manually from stdin) and parse them. Doing exactly this work was
> impetus to get the bindings fixed up and compiling again some years
> back when converting references by external means was awfully slow for
> another member of this list. Using the bindings like this became
> nearly fool-proof and brought down the amount of time required to
> execute from unbearably long periods to under a second.
>
> --Greg
>
> [0] https://gist.github.com/greg-hellings/0de55fc3e07d5014f005efc12ffbdffa
>
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 11:28 AM Maxwell Murunga <maxmmur at gmail.com
> <mailto:maxmmur at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Thank you Dominique; Thanks Cyrille; Thanks Greg.
>
>      
>
>     # “Additional” steps to get the awk script 
>
>     # working fine on macOS as it does on Linux
>
>     $ brew install gawk
>
>      
>
>     # If Terminal Throws Error
>
>     $ brew unlink awk
>
>     $ brew link --overwrite gawk
>
>      
>
>     # Confirm all went well!
>
>     $ gawk --version
>
>      
>
>     # Now proceed as normal
>
>     # Make the executable
>
>     $ chmod +x Ref2Osis.sh
>
>      
>
>     # Thereafter, run it
>
>     $ ./Ref2Osis.sh
>
>
>     Works Perfect. 
>
>
>     Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to
>     everlasting. Amen, and Amen. 
>
>      
>
>     ~~Shalom.
>
>
>     On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 3:39 AM Cyrille <lafricain79 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:lafricain79 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         What are you doing exactly? If you try to convert the ref to
>         osisRef Dominique wrote an awk script which works pretty good.
>         See the attached file.
>
>         Le 01/02/2020 à 18:06, Maxwell Murunga a écrit :
>>         Greetings Saints,
>>
>>         I'm processing an OSIS Commentary in InDesign using GREP:
>>
>>         *Find: *((\d+ )?(\w+?.? \d+[:]\d+)(.\d+)?([, \d]+(.\d+)?)*)
>>         *Replace:* <reference osisRef="$1">$1</reference>
>>
>>         It partially accomplishes the task, but does not
>>         automatically convert the book names to the standard OSIS
>>         abbreviations. I also need help in figuring out how to add
>>         looking for Arabic and Roman numerals (1-2 instances of the
>>         letter "I"; or simply "1" or "2" ) to cover instances of
>>         something like I Corinthians or II Corinthians; 1 Corinthians
>>         or 2 Corinthians.
>>
>>         Could anyone be so kind enough as to provide a *grep* or
>>         *sed* script to auto convert any kind of Bible reference into
>>         this format:
>>
>>         <reference osisRef="Gen.1.1">Genesis 1:1</reference>
>>         <reference osisRef="2Chr.1.1">2 Chronicles 1:1</reference>
>>         <reference osisRef="2Chr.1.1">II Chronicles 1:1</reference>
>>
>>         In Christ Alone,
>>
>>         Maxwell.
>>
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