Re: [be] Sharing notes with paratext?

[John Brownie]

Teus Benschop wrote:
> On 12/07/2011 09:10 AM, David Gardner wrote:
> > PS: I tried exporting notes from Bibledit-gtk 4.3  yesterday, (didn't get an
> > option on what format it should be) and received and error "no such column:
> > ref_osis". I recreated the index file and had the same result today, with
> > code fresh from git.  Is this a known bug?
> I believe that the code that handles the export of the project notes is
> old code, and has not been updated when the format of the notes files
> and the accompanying index database, changed. Thus this code tries to
> access an old column ref_osis in the table, but this field has long
> gone. Teus.
I just had a look at that code, and it sure is using the wrong format. I 
did a bit of experimenting and got it to export what is in the index.sql 
database, but it generates invalid XML if there are <br> references in 
the note (generated from a new line in the note, I think), and I also 
had an extraneous &nbsp; which Firefox complained about. I could only 
get the note in its case-folded form.

So my conclusion was that it's not very useful to try and fix that code 
without going into more detail in the newer notes format. In particular, 
there is no human-understandable reference in the notes, so it's hard to 
find the notes you want. It's simpler in the long run to manually look 
at the notes in the data directory, or possibly write a Perl script to 
grab the data out of the files, or even resort to copy and paste.

John