I, like others, was also hoping for a way to put book introductions into
some bible format for translation into mod format. So far I've come up
relatively empty, and it seems reasonably obvious that at least OSIS
doesn't provide for book-level introductions, let alone chapter-level,
without some strange interpretation in either of Xiphos or Ezra. I haven't
really tried to see what Bibletime does. For example, one version I have of
the printed The Message bible includes these introductions, and I was
attempting to make myself a sword module I can carry around.
Ah well, that's the way things go, I guess.
God be with you,
brickviking
On Sat, 12 Jul 2025 at 08:34, pinoaffe <pinoa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> DM Smith <dmsm...@crosswire.org> writes:
> > The issue with heuristics is that they essentially enforce
> > assumptions, which may very well be wrong.
> I think a heuristic along the line of "Does this book group contain only
> new testament books and are all new testament books that are present in
> this bible contained in this book group" might be good enough for our
> purpose
>
> > The module team has a usfm2osis.py to convert USFM to OSIS. Michael
> > also has one. The nature of USFM is that it’s goal is presentation not
> > OSIS’s nature of semantic markup. I don’t know how that transformation
> > handles intro material. I’m pretty sure neither has a begin/end
> > testament construct. It is a simple thing to manually add such after
> > transformation if that fits with one’s workflow.
> >
> > I think it’s a shortcoming of the OSIS spec that it is flexible when
> > marking up testaments. Your suggestion of explicitly marking testament
> > may be the only real solution. In the KJV’s OSIS it uses
> > type=“bookGroup” subType=“x-{testament}” where {testament} is OT or
> > NT. It also uses x-DC for the apocrypha.
> I think OSIS's flexibility is also its strength, particularly when it
> comes to milestoning and giving module authors freedom on how to
> structure their bibles - otherwise many bibles could not be represented
> in OSIS. However, an additional list of standards/conventions would be
> good to add, at the very least something like "If you have a testament
> bookGroup, represent it like this, if you have a gospels bookgroup,
> represent it like this, etc.
>
> In general, I think it would be good if the OSIS spec got a major
> overhaul.
>
> > I’m wondering whether SWORD’s [ Testament 1|2 Heading ] could/should
> > be represented as an OSIS ID, type or subType.
>
> I've not put much thought into this, but have no strong preference
>
> > Should a mechanism be imposed on OSIS creators? We’ve resisted that as
> > much as possible.
> I feel like it would not be much of an imposition. We could even add an
> (optional?) preprocessing script that tries to group books by testament
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