[sword-devel] LXX verse numbering with alphanumeric character

[pierre amadio]

Hi there.

Cyrille informed me about this issue:
https://github.com/crosswire/xiphos/issues/1172

According to Karl,
"""
The deeper problem causing this mess is that LXX 1Kings 2 is pretty
braindamaged. Do mod2imp LXX > /tmp/lxx.imp and look at 1Kings 2. The
markup ends with a ridiculously long single verse 2:46, with nothing
thereafter intervening from vv. 47-71 and 3:1, then picks up normally
again at 3:2. Somebody botched this one pretty badly.
"""

In the source file used to build the module, 1Kings ends with some
verse that have a funny index: it contain alphanumeric entry:

2:46
2:46a
2:46b
2:46c
... and so on until the end of the chapter.

And chapter 3 starts directly with verse 2
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/gopher/text/religion/biblical/lxxmorph/14.1Kings.mlxx

It is the same on a paper version (Septuaginta, A Reader's Edition),
so I am assuming it is not a mistake.

I can rebuild a LXX module with empty verses where there are missing
ones such as in 1Kings 3:1 (that is already the case for Odes which is
dealt with already. I plan to make a global check for all books and
chapters, just to be safe).

What about the alphanumerical verse numbering ?
Right now, i simply ignore any alphabetical character when switching
from  the imp format to the xml one:

https://github.com/pierre-amadio/LXX/blob/main/bin/imp2xml.py#L48

This ends up with several verse nodes having the same osisID in the
final xml file.

What should be the ideal way to deal with those ?
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