Gentlemen, This is from the same group whose director contacted me a few weeks ago. I will keep in touch with them and report any progress.
The story I know is that they thought e-Sword was very nice. But after contacting the author they found out that incorporating Chinese material is not enjoying high priority. Therefore they went back on searching for a way to distribute free Chinese materials. There are also, in my knowledge, other efforts. IMHO project like Sword is a good tool, if nothing else, to start from. After spending my own efforts on this for about 10 years, I personally will only contribute to open source projects like ours. On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Martin Gruner wrote: > Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 20:47:49 +0100 > From: Martin Gruner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [sword-devel] Fwd: Chinese Texts > > Today I received an interesting email about Chinese text projects on the > internet. I guess it is at least interesting for Steve and Christian, maybe > for other people who want to make good Chinese material available. > Hope it is useful. > > Martin > > ------- Forwarded message follows ------- > From: "Vincent Yang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Patrick McIntyre'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "'Dr. Fai Cheng'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: FW: Please join Chinese Union Bible Source Standardization > Project Date sent: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 00:59:30 -0800 > > Dear Brothers and Sisters: > > > > I found out about your projects related to Chinese Bible in my old email > archive. So I think you might be interested to know about this bible > text sources update. If you can compare our code with your sources > code, it will help both of us to correct any errors in the sources. > > > > God Bless his WORD. > > > > Vincent Yang > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vincent Yang [mailto:vyang@;ccim.org] > Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 12:44 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Please join Chinese Union Bible Source Standardization Project > > > > Dear Brothers and Sisters: > > > > I collected your name from CCIM Bible resource link pages > http://www2.ccim.org/~bible/blink.html. > > > > I would like to report a new update for our Chinese Bible Source code, > would like to invite you to take a look and see if that can benefit your > project. Also, I would like to invite you to consider join this > project, although I have not figure out the best approach yet. > > > > This bible text version are completely free for any Christian website, > you are welcome to forward to anyone or any site might be interested > update their sources. > > > > If you have any suggestion, feedback, bug report, please send to me for > now, and if God lead more people to involve in this project, we will > setup an email alias, and also setup some source control tools to > coordinate this project. > > > > God Bless His WORD! > > > > Vincent Yang > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Oct. 2002 > > > > _____ > > > Chinese Union Bible Source Standardization Project > > > Released: Sunday October 20, 2002 > Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Temporary) > URL: http://vyang.ccim.org/bible/ChineseBibleProject.htm (Temporary) > Download: http://vyang.ccim.org/bible/bibleproject.zip (Temporary) > > > Overview: > > > There are several Chinese Bible sites available on internet. Most of > them use Union Bible Version from an previous version created by > pioneers who typed in manually or converted using OCR program. We > obtained three versions from ccim.org, O-bible.org and BST 2.0. The > goal is to create a consolidated version Chinese Union Code Base, to > provide standardized version for Chinese communities. We get it for > free, and will provide it for free. > > This release fixed all the errors caught by comparing three different > versions. Most importantly, we fixed most of the characters out of > normal BIG5 or GB character set, ie. we removed any characters in > extended Chinese character sets. > > Further work might be needed to standardize on symbols, signs, as well > as he/she/it/HE, etc. > > We used Chinese Union - English NIV Bible, published by Hymnody and > Bible House, @1990, Sixth Printing May 1993 as our exclusive reference. > > > Sources: > > > Original data file came from three sources: > > http://bible.ccim.org > http://www.o-bible.org/ > http://www.holyseed.org/bst > > Special thanks to Brother San Lin and Jason Chan for providing the data > files. Without them, this project would not be possible. Praise the > Lord. > > > Package Contents: > > > ccim_b5.txt: > > BIG5 Version text in CCIM.org & O-Bible.ORG format. > > > ccim_gb.txt: > > GB version text in CCIM.ORG & O-Bible.ORG format. > > > ChineseBibleProject.htm: > > This readme HTML > > > What's changed, and what's not? > > > We searched for errors mostly by compare text files. We use Perl and > windiff.exe as main tools; use WORD for editing because it's much faster > than notepad and also its great support for both GB and BIG5 encoding > and converting. > > We fixed: mostly typo, and misused characters, especially in Simplified > vs. Traditional cases, and extended characters ranges, missed or extra > characters. > > We did not change: signs and symbols, he/she/it/HIM, the commenting > style, and several special characters that was not distinguishable in > ancient Chinese, for example, character for "where" and "there". > > > Next steps: > > > The first step is to pass these updated files to known Chinese Bible > hosting sites and software venders. Even if they could not use it > directly, they might compare to their file, and benefit from the fixed > we caught in this release. > > After that, if God permits, we will start an open source project to have > more brothers and sisters contribute to this project. I envision an > virtual group to collaborate on this effort, and we need better software > tools to merge and verify changes from different members. > > If you are interested or have comments for this project, please send to > the contact email above. I will create an email group, likely on > yahoogroup, to distribute the email. > > Please keep us in your prayer. Praise to the Highest! > > > Participate Sites: > > > http://bible.ccim.org > http://www.o-bible.org > > > ------- End of forwarded message ------- > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Steve Tang...
