[sword-devel] LXX verse numbering with alphanumeric character

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Just a quick note:

The engine parser has a 'suffix' concept so it understand John 3:16a -> 
John 3:16 (suffix a)

I don't remember what osis2mod does, but I think it (or another of our 
tools, e.g., imp2vs) may join all the suffix parts of a verse together 
and place a literal (a), (b), (c)... at the start of the section.  This 
is only for the benefit of the user and not anything which is separate 
in the engine.  None of this is ideal, but just an small effort to meet 
these exceptions with some kind of reasoning (even if not ideal).

On 2/20/25 12:28 PM, pierre amadio wrote:
> 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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