Just an interim update on what I was doing in the last few days. I have been format shifting "La Bible Pirot et Clamer" with a view to making a Go Bible version. En route, this normally involves making a ThML file as the penultimate step.
This translation is listed in the wiki page for Module requests, but you won't be able to read this again until the wiki is restored at the CrossWire NOC. It soon became apparent that the source text contains a significant number of verses that were truncated, so I have informed Yves Petrakian with a view to finding the root cause. Truncation occurs close to 255 characters (give or take a few), a number that will be familiar to anyone working in the digital domain (hexadecimal FF). I used Excel 2007 to analyse and chart the verse lengths. The underlying probability distribution is interesting. The mode is around 79 characters. Above the mode, the best fit is linear. Below the mode, the best fit is a quartic polynomial with intercept=0. There was a second peak at length=255, which confirms my conjecture that there was a systematic root cause for the truncation. Had this not occurred, the longest verse would have had around 263 characters. The Excel file can be downloaded from here (for anyone with a statistical bent) http://rapidshare.com/files/177241633/La_Bible_Pirot_Clamer__2_.tdt.zip NB. Do not use this to make anything. We should await a corrected source file from 456-Bible.com -- David -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Progress-on-%22La-Bible-Pirot-et-Clamer%22-tp21184643p21184643.html Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ 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
