On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 09:07:16PM -0500, Brian J. Dumont wrote: > On 11/29/2010 05:18 PM, David Haslam wrote: > > Though this enquiry has generated a number of "asides", mmfmarin is still > > awaiting help on using this. > > > To summarize: it seems to me, that we've presented mmfmarin with two > options: > > 1. Make a ThML-ish IMP file. This is probably the fastest way, but > leaves one with a file that is harder to error-check and less > portable. It will not really be able to produce any formatted > output from BibleCS (Sword Project for Windows), but the raw text > should be displayed. The markup will likely work fine in most > (maybe all) of the other SWORD/jsword frontends. > 2. Make an OSIS file. This is probably harder. thml2osis.xslt is > very old and unsupported. If I were to do this, I think I would > power through it with a successive series of Perl scripts that > normalize the ThML and then convert each marker to an OSIS > equivalent. The final result of this process would give a file > that could be checked for validity, a process which can turn up > unexpected errors in the markup. The OSIS file would produce a > module that would work well in all SWORD/jsword frontends, and is > probably more portable to other non-SWORD programs. > > It seems that mmfmarin's decision is probably based on the planned > future of this module. I could see that decision going either way.
You are right. I will use an Osis file, just not right now, it is a project that will take me a while and cross-reference notes are not a priority right now. I decided to use vpl format for now, and succeeded to convert it into a valid sword module. I removed all ThML tags with vim macros and regexp and made sure each line had this format: Gen 1:1 This is the first verse of the bible. Valid names of the books are listed in the Osis wiki, I just made sure that my file had 31102 lines and ran: vpl2mod bibleinpvl.vpl modulename 1 1 Thanks everybody for your help, it has been very useful and you are very kind. However, I would like to make a some recommendations to the list: - I thread should be about one subject. If a newbie like me were to do some research about ThML bibles for sword modules, he/she would find this thread confusing since it has discussions that are not related to the main topic. - Write your emails in plain text, it is easier to read. The wiki helped me a lot, but the thml2osis should be marked as deprecated. Thank you again, you can consider this thread as closed. Mario Marín _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page