Ok. I think I just realized where my problem lies.
In Xiphos, the Introductory material is displaying the way you describe, which is what I want.
But in AndBible, only the text that is withing the <chapter> tags is displaying.
So I'm guessing this is a JSword or AndBible issue.
Whom do we contact about this?
John
> I’ll see if I can explain from memory. I’m the most recent contributor to osis2mod.
>
> Below “first” means the first encountered. For a complete Bible it is as you’d think, but if there is
> only one testament or an incomplete testament, first may not refer to Genesis or Matthew. Also,
> if a book or chapter doesn’t start with chapter or verse 1, then first doesn’t refer to 1.
>
> BTW, Intro, Heading, and Title are treated as the same. The toggle for headings handles all
> three the same. Initially the thought was that there were only titles and sub-titles.
>
> Bible Intro. Osis2mod doesn’t know how to properly handle this. Everything before the first
> testament is gathered as the Bible intro. OSIS doesn’t require testament divisions, but these are
> needed to identify a Bible intro.
>
> Testament Intro. Osis2mod doesn’t know how to properly handle this. Everything before the first
> book is gathered as a testament intro. Everything after the last book of the Old Testament and
> before the first book of the New Testament is gathered as the NT intro.
>
> Because osis2mod doesn’t know how to address Bible and Testament intro it is put in the first
> location it knows is after that point. Practically, it becomes intro material in the first chapter.
>
> Book Intro. Everything inside the book tag before the first chapter tag is a Book intro. While it is
> placed in chapter 0, verse 0 for the book, you never explicitly address 0. Osis2mod will figure it
> out.
>
> Chapter Intro. This is the most difficult. A chapter intro comes after the chapter tag and comes
> before the tag for verse 1. But some can be an intro that goes with the chapter and some is
> taken as the intro to a verse. Since it is hard to control where one ends and the next begins, the
> wiki has carefully laid out how osis2mod distinguishes the two. Special treatment is needed for
> canonical Psalm headings. That which goes with the chapter intro is put into verse 0 for that
> chapter, but you never explicitly address 0. Osis2mod will figure it out as well. The rest is
> prefixed to verse 1 with special markup that osis2mod adds.
>
> Verse intro (aka titles). This is everything between 2 verses after the last closing tag of the prior
> verse and before the start verse tag. Often this contains no text but only structural tags.
>
> Many frontends do not show intro material but only material from verse 1 and following.
> (Hopefully, I’m wrong.)
>
> If you make an uncompressed module and use the debug flag to show markers for verses you
> can view the built data files in a readable format.
>
> If someone can explain to me how to address the intros using the SWORD engine, I’ll update
> osis2mod to properly store them.
>
> The wiki can be improved. Feel free to make it read better.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> DM
>
> On Jun 11, 2018, at 8:11 PM, John Dudeck <john.dud...@sim.org> wrote:
>
> Would somebody please clarify the documentation on the wiki page for osis2mod.exe for
> "Handling of Introductions, Titles and Inter-Verse Material". I can't make heads nor tails out
> of it.
>
> Specifically, how are we supposed to tag (in OSIS) the introductory material in a Bible?
> The wiki page says that SWORD looks for module, testament, book and chapter
> introductory material." In the Bibles I am working on, everything inside of chapter tags is
> being displayed, but none of the stuff outside the chapter tags is being displayed.
>
> It says that "A module introduction should be place into testament 0, book 0, chapter 0,
> verse 0. A testament introduction should be placed into testament 1 or 2, book 0, chapter
> 0, verse 0." What does this mean? Where do you tag the testament number, the book
> number, etc? This is not explained in the OSIS documentation, which only mentions book
> abbreviations, and nothing about testaments.
>
> It says "See OSIS Bibles for best practices in marking up titles and introductions." But that
> page says nothing at all about introductions.
John Dudeck
Programmer at Editions Cle Lyon, France
john.dud...@sim.org j...@editionscle.com
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