The menu item View > Show Headings controls whether or not headings/titles are displayed. Yet in the file jsword/book/basic/AbstractPassageBook.java, the getOsisIterator() function is hardcoded to turn titles off if the text does not span a chapter boundary. The function should instead be hardcoded to always include titles, and let the GUI turn them on or off.

Good catch.

The cause of this is that the titles are noisy in parallel view.

I've made a change where they show when not in parallel view, but not in parallel view.

I've also added type='x-gen" to indicate that the content is not part of the OSIS module but generated by JSword.

Let me know what you think.

Adding the OSIS type was a good idea. I updated only the file which gives turning on the titles so I could see what the parallel view looks like. I don't think chapter titles add extra clutter. I like having them. If the text contains section titles those add more clutter than chapter titles do. I still think, if the user does not want titles, that is what the Show Headings menu item is for. The user can turn them on or off to their liking.

Thanks.

Not sure if this is the right place to report this, but a module I am developing has this problem. Some headings appear as headings, but some don't. They appear as canonical text (within the verse). This is also true of cross-references and footnotes. I can provide the OSIS file and compiled module if that's useful.

Look at Genesis 1:26. You'll see a title text (I know it's in Vietnamese, but I will provide a similar shot in GnomeSword to highlight the heading) at the start of the verse and a cross-reference text at the end of the verse.

Same shot in GnomeSword.

One more clarification. This is for BD 1.6, the stable version, in Linux. The problem also appears in Windows XP.

Daniel,
The quote problem you are seeing is that JSword does not display verse 0 or chapter 0 and the module is hiding titles in these locations.
This is a separate issue and is a JSword problem.