<html><head></head><body> <div><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks Timothy,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Adyeths withdrew his ‘orefs.py’ script because he wasn’t satisfied that it could ever achieve 100% accurate success.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And I have observed that an even greater technical challenge is to add OSIS reference markup for modules that use a Right to Left script such as Urdu. Special Unicode formatting characters are required. <caret></caret></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I made some real progress with the underlying essential principles using a bespoke TextPipe filter several years ago, but my development never saw the light of day for various reasons outside CrossWire.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best regards,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">David</div> <div><br></div><div><br></div>On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 08:53, Timothy Allen <<a class="" href="mailto:On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 08:53, Timothy Allen <<a href=">thristian@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote type="cite" class="protonmail_quote"> Since the Berean Standard Bible translation[1] was released under a<br>Creative Commons Zero licence earlier this year[2], including the USFM<br>sources and translation tables, I have been working on converting it for<br>use with the SWORD Project[3]. Adyeths' "u2o" script[4] produced a very<br>good initial conversion to OSIS XML, but there were additional cleanups<br>I wanted to do. Since I didn't want to do them by hand, I wrote some<br>scripts to do them for me, and I figured they might be useful for other<br>people too. Since they generally work by adding or removing OSIS markup,<br>I collectively refer to them as "OSIS Decorators". You can browse the<br>code here:<br><br> https://gitlab.com/Screwtapello/osis-decorators<br><br>...or if you'd prefer, just download them all in ZIP file:<br><br> https://gitlab.com/Screwtapello/osis-decorators/-/archive/main/osis-decorators.zip<br><br>Currently, there's two scripts available, each with full documentation<br>and example configuration:<br><br> * "linkify-references" recognises human-readable references like "John<br> 3:16" or "Exodus 2:4, 7-9, and 17" and adds machine-readable OSIS<br> markup to make them clickable links; book names and typographic<br> conventions are configurable so it should be useful for texts in<br> languages other than English<br> * "remove-footnote-backrefs" removes the reference from the footnote<br> text back to the verse it came from; very useful in printed Bibles<br> but a distraction in digital Bibles where you can just close the<br> footnote popup to get back to where you were<br><br>All the scripts are under the GPLv2+ licence (same as libSWORD) and<br>require only Python 3.6 or higher (no third-party libraries), so<br>hopefully it won't be too difficult for people to make use of them.<br><br>If these tools sound useful to you, please try them out! I'd love to<br>hear about your experiences with them, or about anything you think could<br>be improved.<br><br>Alternatively, if there's some existing repository of OSIS tools that<br>these could be contributed to, I'm open to that too.<br><br><br>Timothy<br><br><br>[1]: https://berean.bible/<br><br>[2]: https://berean.bible/licensing.htm<br><br>[3]: https://crosswire.org/sword/modules/ModInfo.jsp?modName=BSB<br><br>[4]: https://github.com/adyeths/u2o/<br>_______________________________________________<br>sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org<br>http://crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel<br>Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page<br></blockquote></body></html>