Troy,
Is it important to prefix with an asterisk or can some other markup be used?
There is nothing in the conf or on the page that would indicate what the *
would mean. As it is, it looks like a dangling footnote marker.
In Him,
DM
> On Feb 8, 2016, at 1:16 PM, Troy A. Griffitts <scr...@crosswire.org> wrote:
>
> Here is an example of the transChange in the NASB. While looking this
> up, I noticed the previous verse has formatting differences with old and
> new version of the proposed NASB. I am not sure where we are not, but
> if we want to check where we are now, I would suggest we publish the
> absolute latest version on swordweb and build a list of parallel links
> to verses which demonstrate challenging markup, like the link below:
>
> http://crosswire.org/study/parallelstudy.jsp?add=NASB&add=NASBnew&key=Mat.2.18#cv
>
>
> I don't know which converted was used over the years to produce "NASB"
> and "NASBnew" but new is obviously work than the previous version in
> verse 18. Verse 19 shows the transChange '*'.
>
> Troy
>
>
>
> On 02/08/2016 10:40 AM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
>> Hey guys. The tenseChange to add a '*' was part of the NASB source
>> updates. The NASB renders tenseChange with a '*' next to the verb.
>> Typically in the Gospels, when the author is storytelling, they
>> frequently switch to the present tense (we do this in English too when
>> tell stories, e.g., "so I go into the store, and the clerk gives me a
>> winning lottery ticket and asks me to cash it and he only asks me for
>> 40% of the gross winnings. It turns out, after taxes, that's ALL the
>> winnings!"). The NASB and most all other English translations, change
>> the verbs to past tense. The NASB at least marks the verbs with an '*'
>> to show they changed the tense to read more formally.
>>
>> I realize we prefer not to use an '*' directly in the filter, but
>> instead CSS to let the frontends decide how they wish to render these,
>> but removing the '*' without providing proper CSS to insert an '*' or
>> some other default rendering is a backwards step, and one specifically
>> affecting the release of the NASB.
>>
>> Troy
>>
>>
>> On 02/05/2016 10:32 AM, Peter Von Kaehne wrote:
>>> is this in svn head? Or simply a release?
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>>> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 05. Februar 2016 um 17:10 Uhr
>>> *Von:* "DM Smith" <dmsm...@crosswire.org>
>>> *An:* "SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum" <sword-devel@crosswire.org>
>>> *Betreff:* Re: [sword-devel] transChange within a rdg element
>>> At this point the code (osisxhtml) says:
>>> if ((type == "added") || (type == "supplied"))
>>> outText("<span class=\"transChangeSupplied\">", buf, u);
>>> else if (type == "tenseChange")
>>> buf += "*";
>>>
>>> Note: supplied is not a valid value for transChange and probably
>>> represents an earlier OSIS text.
>>>
>>> It really bother’s me that tenseChange is given with mark down. And that
>>> none of the other transChange type attributes are passed as class values.
>>>
>>> Here is how it handles catchWord and rdg.
>>> // <catchWord> & <rdg> tags (italicize)
>>> else if (!strcmp(tag.getName(), "rdg") || !strcmp(tag.getName(),
>>> "catchWord")) {
>>> if ((!tag.isEndTag()) && (!tag.isEmpty())) {
>>> outText("<i>", buf, u);
>>> }
>>> else if (tag.isEndTag()) {
>>> outText("</i>", buf, u);
>>> }
>>> }
>>>
>>> This is not good. Probably should have been <span class=“…”> And catch
>>> word should be styled as bold.
>>>
>>> DM
>>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 5, 2016, at 11:52 AM, Greg Hellings <greg.helli...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> At this point, I believe that SWORD hands off styling like that to the
>>> app to do with CSS (for those apps using HTML output). Does it not? I
>>> don't thin it's using <i> or <em>, although I could be wrong.
>>>
>>> --Greg
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 10:26 AM, David Haslam
>>> <dfh...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Something that DM and I have mooted.
>>>
>>> When transChange is used within a rdg element (i.e. inside a
>>> note), and
>>> since SWORD renders text within a rdg as italics, then the text
>>> within the
>>> transChange ought ideally to be rendered as normal type in order
>>> to maintain
>>> the contrast with the other text that's in italics.
>>>
>>> If not already done, please could this be patched in the SWORD
>>> source code.
>>>
>>> DM will implement it in JSword.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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