David, I think the repository for the morphgnt is there https://github.com/morphgnt/sblgnt
On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 at 19:46, David Haslam <dfh...@protonmail.com> wrote: > > Further to my message sent to the modules team, I have suggestion for SWORD > developers. > > Modify how GlobalOptionFilter=UTF8GreekAccents works with respect to U+2019. > > Currently the filter doesn't care how this codepoint is being used > semantically. > > We could make a practical change as follows: > > Rule: Do not hide U+2019 if the preceding character is not a Greek letter. > > However, that would not be sufficient to cover all the cases in the > StatResGNT module currently in CrossWire Beta. > > Here's one that's better: > > Rule: Do not hide U+2019 if the preceding character is not a word character. > > With this in operation, the source text would not need to be changed in those > places where the RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK is immediately after a > punctuation mark. > > Then what about the remaining places where it is immediately after a Greek > letter? > > A simple kludge for an improved source text would be to insert a zero width > space or a zero width non joiner. Doing so would protect the quotation mark > from being treated contrarily as a Greek diacritic when its purpose is simply > to close a quotation. > > > Best regards, > > David > > Sent with Proton Mail secure email. > > On Saturday, March 15th, 2025 at 6:02 PM, David Haslam > <dfh...@protonmail.com> wrote: > > Thinking about the teleological conflict caused by using U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE > QUOTATION MARK as a Greek Diacritic, > I wish to suggest that in modules where this was the case, that we might > replace all U+2019 by U+0315 COMBINING COMMA ABOVE RIGHT. > > This displays very similarly, viz > > U+2019 παρ’ > U+0315 παρ̕ > > NB. The latter was not already used anywhere in the TischMorph module. > > The advantage would be that if we did this to all the Ancient Greek modules > and to any other module that makes the same contrary use of U+2019, > then eventually, we might update the SWORD engine such that it no longer > hides it with GlobalOptionFilter=UTF8GreekAccents. > > This would free up U+2019 for it's proper use as a RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION > MARK to end speech begun with U+2018 LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK. > We have just encountered this use in Beta module StatResGNT which contains > sections of text marked with both DOUBLE and SINGLE QUOTATION marks. > > I propose therefore that we perform an experiment, by implementing my > suggestion first in module TischMorph, last updated 2012-01-09. > This has 1218 instances of U+2019 and in each case, it's used contrarily as a > Greek Diacritic. > > Here's a counted list of the Greek letters that are followed by a U+2019. > > 0031 δ’ > 0109 θ’ > 0232 τ’ > 0287 π’ > 0221 λ’ > 0135 φ’ > 0059 ρ’ > 0144 ι’ > > > This is how they would look if the proposed replacements were made: > > 0031 δ̕ > 0109 θ̕ > 0232 τ̕ > 0287 π̕ > 0221 λ̕ > 0135 φ̕ > 0059 ρ̕ > 0144 ι̕ > > > NB. The upstream source for this module is no longer found at > http://morphgnt.org/ > The URL now just displays a 404 message saying "There isn't a GitHub Pages > site here." > If we can no longer find where it may have moved, we might have to use a > "round trip" of mod2imp and imp2vs to rebuild the module with my suggested > change. > > If my suggestion has any merit, we should also first discuss it with NT > scholars such as our friends at STEP Bible and their friends at Tyndale House. > > Best regards, > > David > > Sent with Proton Mail secure email. > > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
