[sword-devel] Status of OSIS?

[Michael H]

Greg,

OSIS is the best choice for genbooks.  In fact, on the wiki (
wiki.crosswire.org) it's the only option listed for genbooks in the howto
section. I do understand that OSIS for scripture doesn't look like OSIS for
genbooks, and tools designed to convert scripture may not be well suited to
convert non-scripture into OSIS. Which is why i'm seeking all the tabular
information from the spec.

What's your recommendation for genbooks that contain a lot of scripture
references (and I want to make those live links).





On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 3:09 AM Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> 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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