L.Allan-pbio wrote:
Please, any of you that have the time, read the manual and provide
revisions and comments. As they are actively working on OSIS 2.5, now
is a good time.
Based on your reading, would the upgraded osis spec be usable to prepare
a module that could be used to generate a printable Sharing Bible tract,
for example? Back in late 2004, I tried to use osis 2.x to prepare such
a tract.
From then until now, I don't think the osis spec changed materially (not
including the upcoming spec).
Please see my 2/7/2006 9:20 PM response to you, where I addressed this
issue. If that is insufficient, please ask more explicit questions about
your problems. There's no reason I can see why you couldn't have done
what you describe as far back as OSIS 1.0.
The idea was to have a format from which transforms could be used to
generate webpages and matching .pdf's for printing duplexed bi-fold
output. The content was roughly 2/3rds Bible verses and 1/3 "prose". My
impression was that if it could be done, the markup of the osis itself
wouldn't be all that different from preparing a General Book ... lots of
verses, but not any versification structure.
http://www.bibleinverse.org/sharingbibles/sb12/Sb2FrontPage.html (draft)
Verses still go in <verse> elements. Other text (and the verse
containers themselves) go in <p> and <div> elements.
At that time, it seemed osis wasn't appropriate because that
functionality wasn't available yet, at least based on the feedback I got
from the osis list. Has that changed?
What functionality?
The more general question would be ... is the upgraded spec appropriate
for things like commentaries and "General Books" such as SAOA, SME,
and/or "The Practice the Presence of God"? Does it have capabilites for
"page markup" to guide a transform for printing?
Some of these books were OSIS 1.0/1.1 example documents. There is no
special difficulty in encoding any of them in OSIS.
OSIS has an element <pb> for marking page breaks (and I believe it has
since 1.0). I believe it is a suggestion for where to produce a printed
page break or an indication of where page breaks occurred in a printed
edition. That is as much typesetting-oriented markup as you are ever
likely to see in OSIS (or ThML, I believe). Typesetting markup is WAY
outside the proper scope of OSIS.
Or am I uninformed and is osis not intended for that kind of module? Was
the "missing pieces" more a matter of transforms? Can GBF do a General
Book? Can osis be used to convert much of the content of CCEL which uses
(mostly?) ThmL?
OSIS can be used to encode all of the content at CCEL--and it was, via
style sheets, at the time of OSIS 1.1 (IIRC). I don't know the current
status, but at that time, all ThML content was available as OSIS too.
If not, is such capability envisioned for osis 2.5 or subsequent versions?
If none of that answered your questions (or if you have follow-ups),
feel free to ask.
--Chris
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