[sword-devel] Diatheke, section headings and Psalm titles?

David Haslam dfhdfh at protonmail.com
Mon Apr 9 11:59:17 MST 2018


Apologies.

I seem to have forgotten what Greg pointed out only last week.
For some strange reason, the Psalm titles are currently output before verse 2 rather than before verse 1.

Best regards,

David

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On 9 April 2018 7:36 PM, David Haslam <dfhdfh at protonmail.com> wrote:

> Going on from the earlier thread.
>
> It's evident that diatheke can output section headings, viz., try this:
>>diatheke -b ESV2011 -o h -f plain -k Matt.1
> The output includes:
> The Genealogy of Jesus Christ
> (before verse 2)
> The Birth of Jesus Christ
> (before verse 19)
> both of which are titles supplied by the ESV translators.
>
> Yet diatheke seems to be unable to output canonical Psalm titles, viz., try this:
>>diatheke -b ESV2011 -o h -f plain -k Ps.3
> The 8 verses are output, but no Psalm title appears,
> neither the uninspired "Save Me, O My God" (supplied by the translators)
> nor the inspired "A Psalm of David when he fled from Absolom his son." (as translated from the Hebrew).
>
> Surely it's a serious deficiency in diatheke that it can output some uninspired section headings but not others and never the inspired Psalm titles?
>
> Do the developers have any ideas on how to remedy this inconsistency?
>
> Or is it a problem in how modules are made that leaves these titles in limbo like this?
>
> Best regards,
>
> David
>
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