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  2. MODTOOLS-27

suggestions from Peter von Kaehne, re: usfm2osis.py (title tentative)

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    • Type: New Feature
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      I saw your note re plans to create a new USFM to OSIS importer.

      May I make the suggestion to make this a BCV rather than a BSP importer?

      The reasons

      1) carefully imported they should look the same in all frontends.

      2) No frontend ever supported sections as a method of addressing chunks
      of texts, nor is any likely. Sections and paragraphes are important
      presentationally + exegetically, but really do not offer us much in
      terms addressing/programming.

      3) The ongoing osis2mod saga is not ever going to get resolved, I guess,
      so a format closer to the internal format will allow us to consider
      alternative ways to move from OSIS to a module.

      4) Having an XML format where verses are addressable via XPath improves
      the ability to postprocess OSIS files. I am working slowly on various
      "upgrades" we can do on PD modules - cross references, WoJ markup,
      possibly eventually in some form Strongs. There is a need for study
      bibles in many languages and this is my attempt to provide such or make
      provision easier than it is now.

      5) Equivalence of commentary and bible module - this would allow us to
      import USFM encoded commentaries/study bibles in a better way.

      I am sure there are more.

      I could come up with no reason why we should prefer the existing BSP import.

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              chrislit Chris Little
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              chrislit Chris Little
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