[sword-devel] OSIS and intros

[DM Smith]

> On Jul 11, 2025, at 4:15 PM, pinoaffe <pinoaffe at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Karl Kleinpaste <karl at kleinpaste.org> writes:
>> On 7/10/25 6:20 PM, Kahunapule Michael Johnson wrote:
>>> In USFM, any introductory material for the New Testament would be
>>> actually included in the beginning of Matthew, before the chapter 1
>>> marker. Introductory material for the Old Testament would be in
>>> Genesis, or could be in the "INT" or "PRE" books.
>> Are there any Sword modules in existence that include either module or testament intros?
> 
> I am currently working on OSIS-ifying some old bibles with extensive
> module and/or testament introductions, but those aren't publicly
> available yet

At this time, osis2mod does not support them and places them elsewhere. So no OSIS modules has them. The capability has been in the engine from the earliest days. I don’t know if any of the other importers (Plain, GBF or ThML) supports it but imp2mod does. So it’d be easy to dump a module in imp format and add the intros to the file and recreate the module. For the sake of testing it.

I hope to add the front matter (Module Intro) to the KJV. I’m still looking for a good source for it other than the rtf that used to be next to the dat files.

DM