Footnotes: basic support

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/usfm2gmi.py b/usfm2gmi.py
index 90c18ae..aca2e26 100755
--- a/usfm2gmi.py
+++ b/usfm2gmi.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ def smallcaps(word):
 def convert(line):
   """Convert a string to a list of tuples, each a token"""
   # TODO: preserve the lack of whitespace before a backslash.
-  split = line.replace('\\', ' \\').replace('\\nd*','\\nd* ').split()
+  split = line.replace('\\', ' \\').replace('\\nd*','\\nd* ').replace('\\f*','\\f* ').split()
   out = ''
   nd = False
   if len(split) == 0:
@@ -53,6 +53,17 @@ def convert(line):
       nd = True
     elif word == '\\nd*':
       nd = False
+    # Footnotes (https://ubsicap.github.io/usfm/notes_basic/fnotes.html)
+    elif word == '\\f':
+      out += '['
+      skip = 1 # the next character is the footnote caller
+    elif word == '\\fr':
+      skip = 1 # verse reference not necessary for inline fn
+    elif word == '\\f*':
+      out += ']'
+    # TODO: support Endnotes (\fe and \fe*)
+    elif word in ['\\ft']:
+      continue # TODO: fancy formatting of more types
     else:
      if nd:
       out += smallcaps(word) + ' '