<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jun 3, 2013, at 11:44 AM, Greg Hellings <<a href="mailto:greg.hellings@gmail.com">greg.hellings@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 10:06 AM, DM Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dmsmith@crosswire.org" target="_blank">dmsmith@crosswire.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div>It is far more than 70. Every chapter can have an introduction. To see if a module one would have to check every verse 0 for text content. It is not sufficient to see if it has content. It may only have structural content. So that means it will have to be parsed for text. </div>
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<div><div><br></div><div>Worst case is a module that does not have introductions. One would have to check every verse 0. If all that is wanted is to know whether a module has at least one introduction, the code can stop having found the first one.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Also, non-canonical, non-title content can appear anywhere. It is quite possible for there to be section introductions. AFAIK, we just haven't had any modules with that. (But I have paper study bibles with that feature.) So that would mean that every verse would have to be checked to see if it has pre-verse content with introductory material.</div>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Then the scope of this thread has expanded from "Bible book introductions" to "Any introduction or title or non-canonical text anywhere".</div><div><br></div>
<div style="">--Greg</div></div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>My apologies for that. I have already hijacked it regarding scope. Probably should have started a separate thread for that.</div><div><br></div><div>If it is merely needed for book introductions, then it is lightweight.</div><div><br></div><div>However, I think his problem is actually bigger than just book introductions. I think he wants a user to be able to toggle canonical/non-canonical material in a fine grain manner (intros, colophons, titles).</div><div><br></div><div>In Him,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>DM</div><br></body></html>