> > Seeing as the hard coded versification scheme seems to be limiting many > areas of growth for Sword and it's possible uses, I was wondering if a > new versification method could be placed as a high priority. > > Just a thought: > Is it possible to have the Sword library parse a text file with > different versifications defined in it? If so, then a new line could be > put in the .conf files stating which versification was used. I'm also > thinking that parsing versification from a text file would probably be > incredibly slow. I just thought that it could be a way that anyone > could create a new versification for any use they needed.
I think this suggestion has been around for a while and was always considered to be a good one. But I could not programme my way out a wet paperbag either.... > > Daniel Blake > The lurker > > > Chris Little wrote: >> Greg Hellings wrote: >> >>> The issue here is that the Vulgate has some Psalms which the KJV has >>> split that it lumps together and others which the KJV lumps together >>> split up, and there's an additional Psalm as well. It's very similar >>> to the situation in which Esther and Daniel find themselves in the >>> Catholic form the canon. >>> >> Ah, ok, then it's just another part of the versification issue. There's >> nothing particular about Vulgate versification here and it's not >> remotely limited to Psalms. The KJV & Vulgate begin to diverge in >> versification back in Exodus, to my recollection. >> >> There's not a _good_ solution to the problem right now, but if you just >> encode the OSIS correctly, osis2mod will do a fair job of importing the >> text. No text is lost, but non-KJV verses appear contiguous with the >> preceding KJV verse. >> >> --Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
