Gosh, that would explain a few things. :) My shell script creating the
zipped module was faulty. I fixed that AND tested it in another SWORD
installation, so the module at
https://sites.google.com/site/danielowensstuff/Home/test.zip?attredirects=0&d=1
should now work. I apologize for the hasty upload.
Daniel
On 03/04/2012 05:36 PM, DM Smith wrote:
Daniel,
I downloaded the module from the link you provided, but it was missing some
files. It only had the vss files (index files) and no data files.
DM
On Mar 4, 2012, at 6:15 PM, Daniel Owens wrote:
That is wonderful news. I have not been updating to the nightly build for
awhile, so I downloaded the latest, but the test module does not display at
all. I am not sure what to make of that, but it is a rather unorthodox module
in that it only has a little bit of content.
Daniel
On 03/04/2012 04:32 PM, DM Smith wrote:
The next release of Bible Desktop supports/displays book and chapter
introductions. It is available now as a nightly build. How well the nightly
build works on any given day is possibly broken.
AndBible will probably support it once JSword is released.
-- DM
On Mar 4, 2012, at 4:08 PM, Daniel Owens wrote:
I did some testing of several of the major front-ends (sorry, I do not have a
Mac or iPhone). I posted the results at
http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/OSIS_Bibles/BSPExample#Level_of_Support_by_Front-ends.
Overall feature support is strongest in BPBible, followed by BibleTime and
Xiphos tied for second. Then comes BibleCS, BibleDesktop, and AndBible.
That can partly be explained by the fact that BibleDesktop and AndBible do not
display book introductions (that is a reasonable choice for AndBible). However,
both support parallel titles (for synoptic passages in the Gospels) and
canonical psalm titles (as does BPBible). But BibleTime, Xiphos, and BibleCS
simply do not display the text of Canonical psalm titles. That is a severe bug.
As a novice module creator several years ago, this diversity almost drove me
crazy. I guess now at least module creators can know what features are likely
to work well, but it would be nice if front-ends worked on supporting some of
these features, even if the text is passed through as plain text, such as
canonical psalm titles. Nothing like that should be omitted, even if the
display is not anything special.
One last note, variants do not work correctly in any front-end, which tells me
the markup is not right. If anyone can provide a correction to the markup,
please let me know.
Daniel
On 03/04/2012 01:18 PM, Patrick Zimmermann wrote:
Hey,
this is great news. Thank you.
If the rendering produced by xiphos or bibletime is at least some sort of
acceptable I'll change the module I'm developing at the moment to use the
syntax. Mostly additions, removals and alternatives are affected.
Thanks again,
Patrick
On Sunday, 4. March 2012 01:59:15 Daniel Owens wrote:
Based on varied sources, including Patrick's helpful example OSIS Bible,
I put together an example OSIS "Bible" that validates and is consistent
with the wiki page on OSIS Bibles (
http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/OSIS_Bibles). The text itself is mostly
KJV text, with a little Hebrew to illustrate more than what the KJV can
by itself. I chose to use the BSP structure because the KJV illustrates
the BCV structure well already, and I have no idea idea how to deal with
paragraphs and poetry in the BCV structure.
You can find the example file and the following list of features at
http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/OSIS_Bibles/BSPExample:
- BookGroup and section titles, including parallel passages:<title>
- Book introduction
- List:<list>,<item>
- Table:<table>,<row>,<cell>
- Bold and italic text:<hi>
- Strong's numbers, lemma, and morphology:<w>, @lemma, @morph
- Notes, including study notes and cross-references:<note>,<reference>
- Marked additions:<transChange>
- Canonical title (Psalms):<title type="psalm" canonical="true">
- Poetry markup:<lg>,<l>
- Divine Name:<seg>,<divineName>
- Variants:<seg type="x-variant" subType="x-1">
- Abbreviations:<abbr>
I compiled and tested the module, and I will send a separate email when
I have a chance to record the results systematically. Suffice it to say,
no one front-end supports all of the markup well, and some features
(such as variants and tables) are conspicuously poorly supported. Since
it is not a complete text of the KJV, some odd display issues should be
ignored, but most front-ends displayed the "New Testament" title at the
bottom of Psalm 3. It would be lovely if front-end developers would see
how their front-end handles it (or doesn't). I can send a compiled
module to those who are interested.
Feedback is welcome. If I have missed something or used less-than-ideal
markup, please let me know, and we can change it.
Daniel
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