For what it's worth:
I've lately seen in some online help menus and peripheral documentation that
Paratext 7.3 will support a newer version of USFM. The latest is 2.35 but it's
changed multiple times in the last couple months, and as far as I know 7.3
isn't out yet. 2.35 appears to be a full and final release, but... I'd wait
until Paratext 7.3 is released. Our group isn't in the core of Paratext
development, so we're slow to get updates. I think we are on the latest stable
release 7.2.163.0, but 7.3 may already be out and we aren't on it yet. The
point is that USFM is apparently under revision. Most of the changes are
designed to support a richer paper bible experience (Study Bible sidebars
defined in the same project file as the Bible) and to further separate the
translation process from paper markup (deprecating tags for emphasised, small
caps, etc, more emphasis on using meaning filled tags like 'words of God',
etc.) Since things are being deprecated, it's worth
reviewing the USFM 2.35 spec ( or the latest once 7.3 IS released) before
embarking on a redo project of the USFM2OSIS script.
http://paratext.ubs-translations.org/about/usfm
(the "documentation" section about 70% down the page)
Draft USFM Stylesheets
You might also consider that the stylesheets available on that page
contain style definitions for the USFM tagging system in it's entirety in a
heirarchial form
(as far as I know it's complete.) That is, The stylesheet is probably
vastly more useful than the documentation for someone attempting an
USFM2OSIS or USFM2anything script from scratch, or for maintaining a
script.....
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After reviewing today, apparently my words "deprecated tags" have been lessened
from an earlier draft copy (2.33?) I last reviewed to a 'strong recommendation
against' the use of hard character styling. Apparently it is the direction
USFM is going, but they slowed down the train.
http://ubs-icap.org/chm/usfm/2.35/special_text_character_styles.htm
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Latest USFM Manual
I note that the Crosswire wiki has a nonworking link for latest USFM. This
might be the best replacement:
http://ubs-icap.org/chm/usfm/
Which seems to say that 2.35 is no longer draft but final.
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From: Chris Little <chris...@crosswire.org>
One of my personal Summer projects will be to write a USFM to OSIS converter
from scratch, but for that I won't be touching the usfm2osis.pl codebase. Given
how much we use usfm2osis.pl and how well it does its job, we really can't have
big changes to the existing code that cause regressions in functionality.
(Abundant unit & regression tests will be a feature of the re-written
converter, but for now, we have essentially nothing to identify when changes to
the code have unintended consequences--aside from diff maybe.)
--Chris
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