Jonathan Morgan wrote:
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Kahunapule Michael
Johnson<kahunapule_john...@sil.org> wrote:
Matthew Talbert wrote:
Is there any hope of getting Bibledit's Sword module generator working
with Sword well enough that it actually works in the near future?
Are you trying to generate a module within Bibledit or using the
usfm2osis.pl script, then osis2mod? I believe everyone is assuming
you're aware of the latter method, which is the only way this works,
afaik, but perhaps you're not?
I was trying to generate a module within Bibledit. I have a usfm2osis.pl
script, but it may not be the same one you are speaking of. It does not
convert all necessary USFM markup, and drops sections of Scripture. I
consider that to be a bad thing. More later...
I understand you are more interested in the Bibledit route. If it
works, that is good. However, if it doesn't then the definitive Wiki
page on USFM is
http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/Converting_SFM_Bibles_to_OSIS. It
recommends using SFMToOSIS, and from memory I've got better results
from it than from usfm2osis.
Jon
The Wiki doesn't exactly recommend one tool or the other, but I'll
adjust it to make it more clear that usfm2osis.pl is recommended. I
really do strongly recommend usfm2osis.pl over the released version of
SFMToOSIS at this point. If a new version of the latter is released that
makes its use easier I might change my mind, but for now I think
usfm2osis.pl is better (and use it exclusively for my SFM to OSIS
conversion needs).
The advantage to SFMToOSIS is that (I believe) it will definitely output
well formed XML. It might even be able to guarantee schema validated
OSIS. Those might seem like great advantages over usfm2osis.pl, since
the latter really just sees a text stream and tries its best to produce
valid OSIS from that, but can potentially fail, but I wouldn't guarantee
that SFMToOSIS will actually do the right thing for each sf tag it
encounters.
Advantages of usfm2osis.pl include that it is much easier to set up and
run. (It requires Perl, but that's all. Some people have had difficulty
setting up a Python environment for SFMToOSIS.) It doesn't require
Paratext project files, like SFMToOSIS does. (If you already have them,
that's not an issue, but most USFM that we've been given has come
without project files.) And, usfm2osis.pl is still maintained. I'm not
sure what the state of maintenance of SFMToOSIS is, but bugs in
usfm2osis.pl will be addressed if they are reported.
usfm2osis.pl was originally written for some sfm files from ABS, but has
since been adjusted to handle USFM files form Wycliffe and other groups.
Maybe most significantly for a task of converting USFM to OSIS for use
in Sword is that usfm2osis.pl has been written to generate OSIS that
Sword and the Sword importers will recognize. Generally this shouldn't
even be an issue, but if there there are any issues of interpretation of
the OSIS spec, usfm2osis.pl will at least interpret the spec in the same
way as Sword does.
Both can be run from the command line and so are quite scriptable. And
if you have the time and inclination, you can certainly try both to see
which fares better. (And please report any failings you notice in
usfm2osis.pl.)
--Chris
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