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<p>So, a little background surrounding why the logic is difficult to
work out a solution for this problem:</p>
<p>The current verse parser, which works fairly well, always has 3
sets of possibilities in view:</p>
OSISRef<br>
Current Locale<br>
English
<p>The parser needs to handle any of these three, typically in the
preference order listed above. The issue with changing out
symbols while parsing is that some symbols (notoriously the comma)
are used for different purposes across these 3 sets.</p>
<p>One might think that localized output might be easier than
parsing, e.g., once parsed, we could at least output the
reference: Jn 3,16. The problem here is that what the engine
outputs it also expects to be able to parse.</p>
<p>While we would like to solve this problem, it isn't as simple as
adding to the locale files: <br>
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<p>ChapterVerseSeparator=,</p>
<p>RangeSeparator=-</p>
<p>ListSeparator=.</p>
<p>This would be enough to define the locale, but not solve the
problem. We would need a fundamental change in how parsing is
done, e.g., explicitly telling the parser, "Hey, I'm sending you
localized input, so don't guess. You can count on the symbols I'm
sending you to be localized" Right now everyone has the
convenience of just passing any of the 3 sets of parsing text
listed above and theparser just figuring it out-- with the caveat
that chapter, range, and list separators are not localizable.</p>
<p>Hope this gives some background,</p>
<p>Troy</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/28/19 6:10 AM, David Haslam wrote:<br>
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<div>OK - but my observations were not entirely irrelevant. </div>
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<div>Some front-ends never need the user to enter a reference in
an edit box. Navigation is done entirely via menu selections or
clicking search results etc. </div>
<div>AFAICT this is true of PocketSword. </div>
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<div>Other front-ends are designed at the opposite extreme. All
navigation is done through an edit box. This is true (eg) of
STEP Bible. </div>
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On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 13:54, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:refdoc@gmx.net">refdoc@gmx.net</a> <<a
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<blockquote class="protonmail_quote" type="cite"> Sorry, David,
that is a complete misunderstanding. Modules need osisref. There
is and will be no need to do anything to the modules. This is
about the engine parser to read references locale appropriately.
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autocorrects.
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Subject: Re: [sword-devel] C++ volunteer<br>
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To: SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum <br>
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<div>Parsing native references is not a simple task, as we
know from the fact that adyeths orefs.py was kicked into
touch indefinitely. </div>
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<div>And that’s even when punctuation marks are defined in
the specified configuration file. </div>
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<div>Unless we might consider the possibility of adding keys
to module .conf files that define the module specific
native reference punctuation marks and separators. </div>
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<div>That could be a huge undertaking, considering the need
to maintain backwards compatibility. </div>
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<div>And it’s not as if it really is module specific
entirely. A user can be switching between modules
with different languages, yet would need the current
reference to always work, no matter what. </div>
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On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 12:10, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:refdoc@gmx.net">refdoc@gmx.net</a> <<a
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moz-do-not-send="true">refdoc@gmx.net</a>> wrote:
<blockquote class="protonmail_quote" type="cite"> The
improvement request for allowing commas in references...
adding commas in the suggested form would make millions of
currently valid Anglo references invalid. The problem is a
much wider one, references should be localised in their
punctuation too. I am not sure how difficult this would
be, but I guess we could make a start by defining what
punctuation is used for which purpose , and then take it
from there. <br>
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Cyrille, maybe start a page on the wiki and start thinking
there. <br>
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Hello Richard,<br>
Welcome!<br>
<span class="tlid-translation translation" lang="en"><span
title="" class="">May I make a very selfish
proposal to Richard who offers his help.</span> <span
title="" class="">There are two issues that I
really want to be resolved.</span> <span title=""
class="">One of which particularly handicaps
Catholic users, (but I discovered today that the
issue wasn't been reported!!! I just did it): <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://tracker.crosswire.org/browse/API-216"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://tracker.crosswire.org/browse/API-216</a><br>
</span></span>And the second: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://tracker.crosswire.org/projects/API/issues/API-180"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://tracker.crosswire.org/projects/API/issues/API-180</a><br>
<br>
<span class="tlid-translation translation" lang="en"><span
title="" class="">If there are more important
things that I am not able to estimate not being a
developer, I would have tried my luck ;)</span></span><br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Il 28/05/2019 01:38, Troy
A. Griffitts ha scritto:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Richard, sorry, I meant to give you the link to our tracker:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tracker.crosswire.org" moz-do-not-send="true">https://tracker.crosswire.org</a>
On 5/27/19 4:32 PM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Welcome, Richard!
I would start at 2 places:
First, have a look at our tracker here. We are not very (very not)
disciplined at keeping it current. Skimming through there and
commenting on anything that looks interesting, or even cleaning a few
things up in there that you confirm are no longer a problem might be a
useful exercise to get you poking around at internals and would be a
blessing for us. Our modus operandi as of late is to create a new unit
test in sword/tests/testssuite/ which fails at the bug and then once
fixed, the test should pass and we leave the test around to be sure we
don't regress. We can always use more tests in our tests suite.
Next, we have the intention to modularize our search engines support and
search types. Right now, SWModule (which represents a Bible) implements
our SWSearchable interface, which is fine, but right now it has a bunch
of #ifdef logic and switch statements to take different code paths
depending on which search engine is compiled into SWORD and which search
type is specified. This was fine initially, but has grown to such that
we now support spaghetti in there. It should probably simply have a set
of SWSearchable objects in a map<SEARCH_TYPE, SWSearchable> and proxy
the search request to the appropriate SWSearchable impl based on what
types are registered for the module. This would allow us to implement
new types and register them with modules which support special search
types, e.g., advanced Hebrew Morphology searching. That's the general
idea anyway.
You should probably become familiar with SWFilter and how we use these
throughout the engine. These prepare a buffer for particular
objectives. We have RenderFilters, EncodingFilters, StripFilters, ...
The last prepares an SWModule entry for searching by, typically,
stripping out all markup and leaving only a plaintext buffer which can
be searched. We have some special code in the SWModule::search
spaghetti which takes Greek and Hebrew modules and turns buffers into a
series of Strongs#@MorphCode Strong#@MorphCode ... which allows regex
searches to do some advanced morph searching... like: Find this strongs
number, any morphology, followed by a any verb withing 2 words. You
have to be pretty familiar with the Strong#@MorphCode syntax to
formulate something like that, but the idea is that a frontend could
have a nice UI to help a user come up with some creative searches.
Anyway, these should all be probably modulized out by renaming the
StripFilter concept to SearchFilter, and then pushing all this special
code out to SearchFilter impls which do these special things...
Finally, an objective of all this search modularization is also to break
out the code required to create search indexes for each of the search
engines we support. Ideally, we should be able to support the same
searches either as an indexed or brute force search. The same code
which iterates a module, prepares each entry, and pushes that entry to
the search engine, building the search index, should also work for a
brute force search-- iterating the module, preparing each entry for the
search engine.. and then performing a check on that buffer to see if it
matches the search expression.
I hope this gives you a few things to think about. It has been good for
me to refresh thoughts on all of this. Have a look and let me know what
you think.
Welcome! Looking forward to sharing in service together,
Troy
On 5/27/19 1:09 PM, Richard Smith wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Hi,
My name's Richard Smith. I'm a C++ software engineer with 10 years
experience in various industries. I was wondering if there was any
space for a volunteer. I've started taking a look at things (building
repos on Win/unix), but if there are specific things that are
required, within my ability, I'm happy to do that.
Best Regards
Richard Smith
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