TurNTB version 2.0 misplaced titles

Psalm 119 in Xiphos

All the titles for Psalm 18 are displayed before Psalm 17:15

With assistance from the xulsword developer, a new build of the TurNTB has been created to demonstrate and compare his methods of converting USFM to OSIS. This solved all the problems observed in module version 2.0 though there are further features in his use of OSIS, some of which are not yet supported by CrossWire.

This module is available upon request. Please contact David Haslam if you'd like to try it, or to see the OSIS files. Another point of interest is that it totally integrates the links between the Bible module TurNTB and the Turkish glossary module TurSozluk.

Peter did the conversion to OSIS, so in principle this issue should be assigned to him.
Yet I see he's not in the list!

Have just emailed Peter.

Should I submit the module TurNTB made using the xulsword script for hosting in CrossWire Beta?

It uses some different OSIS elements/attributes than CrossWire normally does.

See http://code.google.com/p/osis-converters/wiki/Compatibility

David

usfm2osis.pl in SVN contains some code towards the end of the script with the following comment:

1. bubble verse end up
2. CCL--this may require further attention, but works for the present

Is this where the problems lie?

The code seems to move verse eID milestone UP before title elements.
This code is not present in the usfm2osis.pl that one can download from the ftpmirror.
NB. There are many differences between the two files. This is not the only one.

If we examine the XML for the titles of Psalm 18, this may give a clearer indication of the problem.

</lg><verse eID="Ps.17.15"/></div>
<div type="section">
<title subType="x-preverse">18. Mezmur</title>
<title type="parallel" subType="x-preverse">(2Sa.22:1-51)</title>
<title type="psalm" subType="x-preverse">Müzik şefi için - RAB’bin kulu Davut’un mezmuru -</title>
<title type="psalm" subType="x-preverse">RAB kendisini bütün düşmanlarının pençesinden ve</title>
<title type="psalm" subType="x-preverse">Saul’un elinden kurtardığı gün Davut</title>
<title type="psalm" subType="x-preverse">RAB’be şu ezgiyi okudu:</title>
<chapter eID="Ps.17"/><chapter sID="Ps.18" osisID="Ps.18"/><lg>
<l level="1"><verse sID="Ps.18.1" osisID="Ps.18.1"/>Seni seviyorum, gücüm sensin, ya RAB!</l>

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Observe that the chapter eID milestone for Psalm 17 occurs AFTER the titles for Psalm 18. All these titles have subType="x-preverse", so the module ends up displaying them before the preceding verse, which is verse 15 of Psalm 17.

This is an extreme example, with having so many titles at the head of Psalm 18, but it is quite typical.

Then if we examine the XML in Psalm 119 around the second acrostic title....

<l level="1"><verse eID="Ps.119.7"/><verse sID="Ps.119.8" osisID="Ps.119.8"/>Kurallarını yerine getireceğim,</l>
<l level="2">Bırakma beni hiçbir zaman!</l>
</lg>
<title type="acrostic" subType="x-preverse">(BEYT)</title>
<lg>
<l level="1"><verse eID="Ps.119.8"/><verse sID="Ps.119.9" osisID="Ps.119.9"/>Genç insan yolunu nasıl temiz tutar?</l>
<l level="2">Senin sözünü tutmakla.</l>

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Observe that the verse eID milestone for Psalm 119:8 occurs AFTER the (BEYT) title, so the title gets displayed ABOVE verse 8 instead of above verse 9 where it should be. The remaining acrostic titles are all similarly displaced.

Paratext files sent to Chris, by email.

Running usfm2osis.py on the 66 Bible book USFM files (after minor correction in MAT - missing space) output an invalid OSIS XML file. The errors seem to be caused by improperly formed end tags for poetry line groups. I have emailed Chris about this. Could be due to a bug in the Python script.

Peripheral content USFM files were excluded - they led to more complex error messages with usfm2osis.py
Those issues are not the main concern of this thread.