importing Bible texts with the Tetragrammaton

j_tizzle

I import Bible texts from biblegateway.com with the OpenLP Bible plugin, which works nearly flawlessly. The only issue is the import has never pulled in the Tetragrammaton ("YHWH") properly, rendering "the LORD" as "the Lord" or "the Lord GOD" as "the Lord God". I never thought much of it until I discovered biblegateway does, in fact, send the text with the tag "small-caps".

I have a vim script that also pulls text from biblegateway and since it was also pulling in the Tetragrammaton as "the Lord" I didn't think much of OpenLP doing the same. I've tweaked my vim script so that it imports Bible texts into my sermons and renders the small-caps coding properly (in LaTeX this would be "\textsc{Lord}").

Is it possible to get OpenLP to render the small caps as small caps? When I import, say, Exodus 3:6, I get, "…but by my name the Lord I did not make myself known to them" rather than "…but by my name the LORD I did not make myself known to them".

PaulRowell

j_tizzle can I add my vote to this request?

funkydan2

I'm not too fussed about small caps, even all capitals for the divine name (as is the English convention) would be sufficient and beneficial.

I wonder if part of the history is the copyright surrounding Biblical texts, and the various workarounds OpenLP uses, where every source has its own style/markup syntax. But if Biblegateway is the most used source, I reckon it'd be worth at least supporting its system.

j_tizzle

funkydan2 It's not an issue of copyright for the ESV has very generous terms (hence its availability online!). The text is being sent to the Bible plugin with the correct tagging; what I'd like is for OpenLP to render the "small-caps" tags, whether with actual small caps or with all capital letters.