[sword-devel] Status of OSIS?

[Greg Hellings]

On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 1:07 PM Michael H <cmahte at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've got 40 works and growing that I've been meaning to look at creating
> Sword Modules. All of these are genbooks. Almost 100% currently are works
> by Andrew Murray (but the list is much bigger.)
>
> But, as I try to make sense of the OSIS spec, I'm facing a 2006 spec in
> not very well done PDF, and another one with comments, and an xslt file,
> and a mountain of comments on the wiki that span from outright errors, to
> support gaps, to wishlist.
>

The only official place for OSIS stuff is in the XSLT.

Also, if you're looking at genbooks, you mostly shouldn't be looking at
OSIS. That's really only applicable to actual scriptural material or
possibly commentaries. But it realy fits best in line with things that
conform to a canonical book.chapter.verse scheme.

--Greg

>
> What is the status of OSIS? Is there a draft or official source, or even
> Crosswire source that we can at least fix typos to? I've started one, just
> to turn Appendix F into a real table... but as I read through the wiki, now
> it seems I'm going to have to process everything to be able to trust what
> I'm reading, and it makes sense that I should be dropping the result
> somewhere more official than my google drive.
>
> If we have permission to host the OSIS spec, do we have permission to
> bugfix it (at least the spelling gaps, and fixing the tables of information
> to be tabular?)
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