Peter's considered response has real merit. I echo those sentiments. Our module making process is over-complicated, ill-defined and prone to making some things unattainable. e.g. Even when titles and other preverse material gets placed correctly, we often see widowed verse tags.
To chip in with one additional observation, to add to DM's list of bullet points.... Our esteemed friend who developed *xulsword* abandoned the use of line group and line elements for poetry. He came to the conclusion that where chunks of poetry start and finish is often ill-defined in the texts that we receive, even when they are made using UBS Paratext. Couple that with the fact that there are some XML elements disallowed within OSIS line elements, (titles for example), then the task of correctly placing these elements can be insurmountable. He therefore introduced a new OSIS element <milestone type="x-p-indent" /> It's used to provide a poetry indentation as an alternative to using line elements with level attributes. Currently, deeper indents are created by two or three <milestone type="x-p-indent" /> elements in series. By foregoing the use of line group and line elements, he's able to make xulsword display poetry pretty nigh perfectly, and at the same time to ensure that related preverse titles do not end up having verse tags, etc. His method makes much more use of the simple line break element <lb /> than most of our own modules. IMHO, it would make good sense for the SWORD trunk to adopt his code to support this alternative method. As you know, xulsword is still a branch from SWORD, albeit now very much closer to SWORD than when he first began developing Bible software for IBT. Yours in Christ's service, David Haslam -- View this message in context: http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/Titles-and-other-Inter-verse-material-tp4650583p4650587.html Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
