On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Peter von Kaehne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Talbert wrote: >>> General historic policy at CrossWire is: we will not be an authoritative >>> source repository. > > I think there is some misunderstanding which keeps creeping up in this > kind of discussions. > > Yes CrossWire is not a source of texts. But we regularly do create some > kind of import format which is the last step from xxx2mod. And keeping > this around to allow some easy changes is what we should do. > > The round trip is now possible - but is it perfect? And are improvements > via round trip acceptable? If not then the last step before module > creation is a useful thing to have. > > for many of us (myself included) teh creation of a module us a > nightmare. But to fix something simple within an existing XML text is > something we are able. Keeping import format round allows people like us > - who know what we are doing, but perform on not too high a level - to > be employed usefully. > > And then there are the multitude of dodgy PD texts where we are able to > make OSIS shine, quite irrespective of original source text etc. Markup > of WoJ, insertion of strongs, etc. You have it done once for KJV2003, we > should be able to the same for FarsiOPV, Luther1545 etc. But starting > always from scratch appears pointless in these matters. > > Peter
I definitely agree with all of this. I think an issue is that for a programmer, if there are 100 occurrences of a problem, the programmer will write a script. Thus we hear repeated here constantly, modify the import script and we'll update. However, non-programmers such as Peter (who's becoming less of a non-programmer all the time :) would probably just open the file in a text editor, and search 100 times and perform the edit manually. You only have to look at wikipedia to see that this approach is successful. Matthew _______________________________________________ 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
