Re: [sword-devel] OSIS questions

2017-12-30 Thread DM Smith
The ESV uses . Osis2mod converts thes to as milestoned. This is one of the transformations I mentioned. the x-preverse is also from Osis2mod. See the wiki for a complete set of transformations that osis2mod does. The OSIS 2.1.1 is the latest manual. We maintain in the wiki a set of bug reports

Re: [sword-devel] Back conversion

2017-12-30 Thread DM Smith
I think the ESV2011 was created by Tyndale. The Strong’s numbers and morphology came from the KJV. > On Dec 30, 2017, at 4:32 PM, Tom Sullivan wrote: > > DM, Peter: > > Thank you very much. The ESV2011 and KJV use different features and are > looking to be quite helpful together. > > Tom Sul

Re: [sword-devel] OSIS questions

2017-12-30 Thread Tom Sullivan
Yes. Tom Sullivan i...@beforgiven.info FAX: 815-301-2835 - Great News! God created you, owns you and gave you commands to obey. You have disobeyed God - as your conscience very well attests to you. God's holiness and justice compel Him to punish you in Hell. Jesus Christ becam

Re: [sword-devel] OSIS questions

2017-12-30 Thread David Haslam
Tom, Have you visited our wiki yet? https://crosswire.org/wiki David Sent from ProtonMail Mobile On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 22:24, Tom Sullivan wrote: > Y'all: Now that I am able to examine, briefly so far, some "production" OSIS, > both incompleteness and discrepancies in the OSIS documentati

[sword-devel] OSIS questions

2017-12-30 Thread Tom Sullivan
Y'all: Now that I am able to examine, briefly so far, some "production" OSIS, both incompleteness and discrepancies in the OSIS documentation are very apparent. I do have the OSIS 2.1.1 manual. Am I missing some documentation? Examples: OSIS manual: div and p are not listed as milestonable. ES

Re: [sword-devel] Back conversion

2017-12-30 Thread Tom Sullivan
DM, Peter: Thank you very much. The ESV2011 and KJV use different features and are looking to be quite helpful together. Tom Sullivan i...@beforgiven.info FAX: 815-301-2835 - Great News! God created you, owns you and gave you commands to obey. You have disobeyed God - as yo

Re: [sword-devel] Back conversion

2017-12-30 Thread ref...@gmx.net
We publish the OSIS text of the KJV . It pretty much reflects best standards and has a huge number of features encoded, so can serve probably well as a working examplePeterSent from my mobile. Please forgive shortness, typos and weird autocorrects. Original Message Subject: Re: [swo

Re: [sword-devel] Back conversion

2017-12-30 Thread DM Smith
It’s there, but hidden. Find desktop.properties (location varies by OS) and set it in there. Advanced.ViewSource=true > On Dec 30, 2017, at 3:56 PM, Tom Sullivan wrote: > > Michael: > > Thank you. That option is missing from 1.6 and 2.0Beta. > > Tom Sullivan > i...@beforgiven.info > FAX: 8

Re: [sword-devel] Back conversion

2017-12-30 Thread Tom Sullivan
Michael: Thank you. That option is missing from 1.6 and 2.0Beta. Tom Sullivan i...@beforgiven.info FAX: 815-301-2835 - Great News! God created you, owns you and gave you commands to obey. You have disobeyed God - as your conscience very well attests to you. God's holiness and

Re: [sword-devel] Back conversion

2017-12-30 Thread Michael H
There is a version of BibleDesktop that allows you to 'view source' and see the osis of each verse or chapter from inside the front-end. it's an older version, so you might run into issues with newer versifications, but if using a longstanding versification it's very helpful if you're troubleshoot

Re: [sword-devel] Back conversion

2017-12-30 Thread Tom Sullivan
Thank you for the replies. I got an output using -r OSIS, but it does not look good or useful. My goal was to look at the OSIS used, for example, for ESV2011 to improve my understanding of the use of OSIS. Is there any access to that original OSIS? Regarding indexes for Hebrew words - is thi

Re: [sword-devel] Back conversion

2017-12-30 Thread David Haslam
To pick up on one possible misunderstanding by Tom, Analysis tools such as mod2imp and diatheke take the module name as the main command line argument. Not the filename of the .bzz files in the . i.e. Your command should be given in the context of the sword path as the current directory. Best

Re: [sword-devel] Back conversion

2017-12-30 Thread David Haslam
Dear Tom, Round trip back conversion is seriously disparaged. For modules having few OSIS features, being mostly plain text content, mod2imp followed by imp2vs may get you a module that should be the same as you started with. There's no guarantee. However, the moment you have a module with any

Re: [sword-devel] Back conversion

2017-12-30 Thread DM Smith
Not really. The osis2mod process is lossy (no verse markers) and transformative (it is in milestoned form). For that reason, we really don’t recommend it. Also, many OSIS modules are built from non-OSIS source. mod2imp expects the module to be installed. Beyond that I’m not sure. mod2osis shoul

[sword-devel] Morpheme segments and the Lucene search index?

2017-12-30 Thread David Haslam
Starting a new thread to pick up the question that DM asked almost as an aside. How should SWORD index (Hebrew) words containing morpheme segments? By word or by segment ? Best regards, David Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.__

[sword-devel] Back conversion

2017-12-30 Thread Tom Sullivan
Y'all: Is there a way to convert a module in .bzz format back to OSIS. I tried mod2imp, but the help message does not say how to input a module. The name of the module fails, as do .bzz files. Thanks. -- Tom Sullivan i...@beforgiven.info FAX: 815-301-2835 - Great News! God

Re: [sword-devel] Win32 sword utilities for SWORD release 1.8.0 ?

2017-12-30 Thread ref...@gmx.net
There is a reason the French texts have not been released yet and that is the current absence of front-end support for 1'8. It will happen . Sent from my mobile. Please forgive shortness, typos and weird autocorrects. Original Message Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Win32 sword utilities

[sword-devel] Docker ?

2017-12-30 Thread David Haslam
In a separate thread, DM wondered whether [Docker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docker_(software)) might be a way forward. I know virtually nothing about it, save what I can read quickly. Let's hear from developers the pros and cons in the context of what we do in CrossWire. Best regards, D

Re: [sword-devel] Win32 sword utilities for SWORD release 1.8.0 ?

2017-12-30 Thread David Haslam
Thanks Troy, When the Sword utilities supplied with the Windows edition of Xiphos are more recent than those provided ad hoc by Greg, then I'd generally use those. I've already mentioned why I had hoped to obtain a new set, which was to test out the use of the diatheke -o M command line option.

Re: [sword-devel] Hebrew Segmentation

2017-12-30 Thread David Haslam
Hi Tom, I'm sure that most of us are aware that the MAQAF (U+05BE) has a different function to morpheme segmentation. The Unicode character name is HEBREW PUNCTUATION MAQAF. The openscriptures morphhb team have marked these up accordingly: 42577 The differences in spelling are quite common am

Re: [sword-devel] OSISMorphSegmentation

2017-12-30 Thread David Haslam
Hi DM, Oh - indeed - I wholly agree. The OpenScriptures morphhb team has used the solidus in a manner that goes against the whole philosophy of OSIS. It's our job to help steer them back to the right track, as we probably have more expertise in OSIS than most other organisations put together.

Re: [sword-devel] Win32 sword utilities for SWORD release 1.8.0 ?

2017-12-30 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
As a general rule, CrossWire develops software. We don't primarily compile that software and distribute binaries. My intention is for the software we develop to run on as many platforms as possible. We have a ton of effort in the cross-platform engine (which does a large part of the work for ea

Re: [sword-devel] OSISMorphSegmentation

2017-12-30 Thread David Haslam
Hi Troy, There are at least two separate reasons why the WLC module is "defective". They are unrelated to this thread. My use of the adjective was an "aside". Both issues were reported ages ago in the CrossWire tracker for MOD. Neither issue has been addressed. Just about par for the course. i.e

[sword-devel] Hebrew Segmentation

2017-12-30 Thread Tom Sullivan
Y'all: Sometimes, one will see something like: עַל־פְּנֵי That upper "hyphen," like the vowel points, is a human interpretation that does not appear in any MSS. But it is a standard. Unfortunately, it should not be used to delineate "segments" which, I gather from the context of the discussion

Re: [sword-devel] OSISMorphSegmentation

2017-12-30 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
Agreed. Because a frontend doesn't do something with the entry attributes created by the filter, or that a chosen render filter doesn't do anything with the morpheme seg, certainly doesn't mean the WLC module is defective. Frontends are not always the target of the engine. Research can be done

[sword-devel] Formal proposal for new filter

2017-12-30 Thread David Haslam
Dear all, I wish to propose a new SWORD filter. The idea is to provide a very simple mechanism in SWORD to hide or display specified markers. Example use: The OSIS files hosted by [openscripture/morphhb](https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb) could be converted to replace each solidus in

Re: [sword-devel] OSISMorphSegmentation

2017-12-30 Thread DM Smith
I wish you had started with this. I find it more satisfying to know what the end goal is. I had thought you merely wanted to update the wiki. I’m wondering how a “morphological segment” should be rendered to an end user. I presume that it is of value to a student of Hebrew. Is it merely highligh

Re: [sword-devel] OSISMorphSegmentation

2017-12-30 Thread DM Smith
JSword does it’s own thing. The filter architecture is entirely different from SWORD’s. It converts Plain, GBF, ThML, TEI, … into OSIS. Then the toggles are passed to XSLT as parameters. The XSLT converts OSIS to HTML and it does the toggling. STEP’s XSLT was based on BibleDesktop’s. As a fork

Re: [sword-devel] OSISMorphSegmentation

2017-12-30 Thread DM Smith
Just glanced at the render filters for OSIS. They don't look for the it at all. > On Dec 30, 2017, at 10:02 AM, Karl Kleinpaste wrote: > > On 12/30/2017 08:31 AM, DM Smith wrote: >> The module matches what the filter expects. >> The filter does something. >> Third possibility: front end doesn’t

Re: [sword-devel] OSISMorphSegmentation

2017-12-30 Thread David Haslam
Thanks for the detailed report, Karl. It's just as I feared. It also indicates that STEP Bible must do its own thing for such modules. It displays alternate segments in a different colour. Best regards, David Sent from ProtonMail Mobile On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 15:02, Karl Kleinpaste wrote:

Re: [sword-devel] OSISMorphSegmentation

2017-12-30 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
On 12/30/2017 08:31 AM, DM Smith wrote: > The module matches what the filter expects. > The filter does something. > Third possibility: front end doesn’t handle the attribute. I just spent an hour stepping through Xiphos' handling of WLC Gen.1.1 with and without Morpheme Segmentation set. First,

Re: [sword-devel] Win32 sword utilities for SWORD release 1.8.0 ?

2017-12-30 Thread DM Smith
I’m wondering if using Docker would be a good solution. — DM Smith From my phone. Brief. Weird autocorrections. > On Dec 30, 2017, at 4:05 AM, David Haslam wrote: > > Thanks everyone for disparaging those of us using Windows. ;>} > > I've been building modules for years with the Win32 tools

Re: [sword-devel] OSISMorphSegmentation

2017-12-30 Thread DM Smith
The module matches what the filter expects. The filter does something. Third possibility: front end doesn’t handle the attribute. — DM Smith > On Dec 30, 2017, at 3:54 AM, David Haslam wrote: > > My concern is that we have a listed filter that either seems to do nothing > or that the module[

Re: [sword-devel] Win32 sword utilities for SWORD release 1.8.0 ?

2017-12-30 Thread David Haslam
"But not guaranteed so." Well nothing produced by CrossWire is ever "guaranteed" ! It sometimes comes over very much (however unintended) that those of us who are not on Linux are in the "second class" carriages. :( The Sword utilities built for Win32 environment work fine. Please do not disco

Re: [sword-devel] Win32 sword utilities for SWORD release 1.8.0 ?

2017-12-30 Thread Tom Sullivan
Y'all: One more point from a hardcore Linux user: Module developers need to proofread their work. This requires producing a module, then viewing on a front-end. Let us please recognize that all Sword related projects from one end to the other strengthen the usefulness of the whole. I support

Re: [sword-devel] Win32 sword utilities for SWORD release 1.8.0 ?

2017-12-30 Thread ref...@gmx.net
There is nothing disparaging in the previous thread, nor is this about module bugs. It is about being able to rely on current tools as and when they become available instead of having to wait for them and it is about tools being built for Linux, though, happily, working in other environments too. B

Re: [sword-devel] Win32 sword utilities for SWORD release 1.8.0 ?

2017-12-30 Thread David Haslam
Thanks everyone for disparaging those of us using Windows. ;>} I've been building modules for years with the Win32 tools, and barely encountered any problems attributable to the utility itself. Nearly all the problems that arise in module development are due to getting things wrong in the OSIS

Re: [sword-devel] OSISMorphSegmentation

2017-12-30 Thread David Haslam
Thanks everyone for each "pearl of wisdom". It wasn't that I didn't understand what Hebrew morpheme segmentation is. That's pretty evident from examining the content of the modules concerned. Nor was it that I am unfamiliar with use of the seg element in OSIS XML. I've been using OSIS for long en