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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">The main problem with commentaries is getting the annotateRef attribute right without manual intervention. Logos supports nested levels of reference, eg. book-level, chapter-level,
verse-level, and verse ranges (that can span mutiple chapters). As far as I can tell, osis2mod gets terribly confused with nested ranges.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Generally speaking, black box converters are pretty much a lost cause. I have used a .conf file approach where variable stuff can be configured, for example how to map class and style
attributes to the limited rendering capabilities of Sword. And I have separate scripts for genbooks, bibles, commentaries, and dictionaries/lexicons.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">John</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Any time your list of exceptional conditions contains more text than the
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> conversion itself, you have to start questioning whether 'automation' is
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> I spent time developing similar scripts (something like wordxml ->
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> USFM) for single use cases. Doing the conversion was usually about
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> 10 steps, but then dealing with the exceptions (both before and after
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> the conversion) took 100+ steps. Without automation, the 10 steps
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> was good enough. but not keeping a human involved, all the human
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 10:39 AM Greg Hellings <greg.hellings@gmail.com> wrote:</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 10:35 AM Dudeck, John <John.Dudeck@sim.org> wrote:</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> I am developing a set of Perl scripts that convert Logos XML to OSIS for
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> commentaries. It has proven to be a non-trivial exercise.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> I undertook a similar exercise over a decade ago as part of an internship. It was a beast of
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> a task and one that was never fully completed.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> --Greg</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">John Dudeck</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Programmer at Editions Cle Lyon, France</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">john.dudeck@sim.org john@editionscle.com</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">"Hmm, doubtful. The source code generally wasn't there when I needed it."</span></font></div>
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