OK - so the ordinary common ANSI hyphen/minus character cannot be used.
But what about the Unicode HYPHEN character U+2010 ‐ ?
That has no special use in OSIS as a separator, surely ?
Would this cause a problem to parse vernacular references?
Or does SWORD somehow reduce this under the hood?
David
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On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 16:23, Troy A. Griffitts <scr...@crosswire.org> wrote:
> Generally, Fr. Cyrille is correct. Specifically, in this instance there is a
> deficiency in the SWORD engine which will not allow what you wish.
>
> Let me explain a bit.
>
> First, SWORD always overlays a chosen locale on top of English. This means
> that when choosing, say, Ukrainian, both Луки and Luke will work for the 3rd
> Gospel. The referencing language in SWORD uses OSIS which has a set of books
> defined using English names.
>
> That shouldn't pose a problem for you, but does give a bit of background for
> the real problem...
>
> OSIS (osisRef) and English ranges and verse lists use the three "- , ;"
> characters for special delimiters, each with a specific meaning. These
> characters cannot currently be used as part of a localized book name.
>
> Eventually, SWORD should allow localization of verse reference and list
> symbols, but this will require no longer supporting 2 locales at once (both
> OSIS / English underlying a selected localization) but will require either
> the parser to be smarter in determining context within a verse list and
> determining how to parse symbols (OSIS / English, or using the
> locale-provided symbol meaning, if they contradict each other), or else the
> client of the library will need to manually state which mode to use.
>
> Bottom line, right now, "- , ;" cannot be used in localized book names.
>
> I am sorry for the bad news. Welcome! Thank you for your willingness to work
> together.
>
> Troy
>
> On April 23, 2021 7:31:50 AM MST, Fr Cyrille <fr.cyri...@tiberiade.be> wrote:
>
>> Probably download sword http://www.crosswire.org/sword/develop/index.jsp and
>> use svn for your changes. You need to change the file
>> locales.d/uk-utf8.conf and then send a patch to Troy.
>>
>> Le 23/04/2021 à 16:02, Evgen Kucherov a écrit :
>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> I'm new to the SWORD project. I'm currently contributing a bit to the Ezra
>>> Bible App (Ezra project). In general I'm interested in improving the
>>> quality of Russian and Ukrainian modules.
>>>
>>> But for now I want to fix book names that has numbers in their titles:
>>>
>>> It should be "1-e Коринтян" instead of "1. Коринтян" and so on.
>>>
>>> How I can do this? Is there a git repository?
>>>
>>> --
>>> sincerely,
>>> Evgen Kucherov
>>>
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