[sword-devel] Support for morph segmentation in front-ends?

Tue Mar 25 17:16:54 EDT 2025

I suspect an error in Dom’s conf maker script accounts for the filter’s presence in CPDV.

Those seg elements shown in bold are unrelated to morph segmentation.

Not every seg element has that function!

I was once told that one JSword based app (STEP Bible?) supports morpheme segmentation and does so by displaying odd and even segments in two different colours.

That’s what might make sense for an Ancient Hebrew module such as the WLC.

I could envisage a use for the same filter for Bible translations in languages with a writing system that has no space between [most] words, though we don’t yet have a fully fledged example of one with suitable OSIS markup.

David

On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 20:30, Karl Kleinpaste <[karl at kleinpaste.org](mailto:On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 20:30, Karl Kleinpaste <<a href=)> wrote:

> David Haslam wrote:
>
>> Might Xiphos be enhanced to implement this in future?
>
> I currently see 3 modules that claim this:
>
> cpdv.conf:GlobalOptionFilter=OSISMorphSegmentation
> hinerv.conf:GlobalOptionFilter=OSISMorphSegmentation
> turntb.conf:GlobalOptionFilter=OSISMorphSegmentation
>
> All Xiphos can do is turn on the option so that whatever Sword does, re: rendering of that option, will happen. Xiphos provides that via context menu → Module Options → Morpheme Segmentation.
>
> Xiphos uses XHTML filters. diatheke shows that the engine doesn't render <seg> content in normal output:
>
> mod2imp CPDV | grep -A1 'Genesis 1:1$'
> $$$Genesis 1:1
> <div type="x-milestone" subType="x-preverse" sID="pv1"/><title type="x-description">God creates Heaven and Earth, and all things therein, in six days.</title> <div eID="gen6" type="introduction"/> <div sID="gen7" type="x-p"/><div type="x-milestone" subType="x-preverse" eID="pv1"/>In the beginning, God created heaven and earth.<note placement="foot"><reference osisRef="Gen.1.1" type="annotateRef">1:1</reference>Heaven was created first, then earth. The creation of angels also occurred with the creation of heaven. The creation of earth is really the creation of the universe, and subsequently earth.<seg type="x-usfm-fl">(Conte)</seg></note><div eID="gen7" type="x-p"/>
>
> diatheke -b CPDV -o M -f xhtml -k g.1.1
> <html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html" charset="UTF-8" lang="en" xml:lang="en"/>
> <style type="text/css"> .divineName { font-variant: small-caps; }
> .wordsOfJesus { color: red; }
> .transChange { font-style: italic; }
> .transChange.transChange-supplied { font-style: italic; }
> .transChange.transChange-added { font-style: italic; }
> .transChange.transChange-tenseChange::before { content: '*'; }
> .transChange.transChange-tenseChange { font-style: normal; }
> .transChange:lang(zh) { font-style: normal; text-decoration: dotted underline; }
> .overline { text-decoration: overline; }
> .indent1 { margin-left: 1em; }
> .indent2 { margin-left: 2em; }
> .indent3 { margin-left: 3em; }
> .indent4 { margin-left: 4em; }
> abbr { &:hover{ &:before{ content: attr(title); } } }
> .small-caps { font-variant: small-caps; }
> .otPassage { font-variant: small-caps; }
> .selah { text-align: right; width: 50%; margin: 0; padding: 0; }
> .acrostic { text-align: center; }
> .colophon {font-style: italic; font-size: small; display: block; }
> .rdg { font-style: italic; }
> .inscription {font-variant: small-caps; }
> .catchWord {font-style: bold; }
> .x-p-indent {text-indent: 1em; }
> </style></head><body>Genesis 1:1: <span style="font:Gentium;" >In the beginning, God created heaven and earth.<br />
> </span><br />
> (CPDV)
> </body></html>
>
> I don't know what a frontend is supposed to do with it. I see no content as delivered, and I see no indication of a footnote-style tag marker that would say a UI could do something more with tags.
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