[sword-devel] BPBible's handling of alternative versification
Hey Jon, I like BPBible a lot! The portability of it is really nice. The entire Bible is correct in BPBible until 3 John. 3 John is correct as well, but the last verse is left off. The last verse is then displayed at the beginning of Jude before the book introduction. The first heading becomes verse one and all of the verses are off by one verse. After Revelation 12 the verses are all off by two. Hope that helps. Blessings, Luke ___ 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] Sword 1.6.x and various frontends
I'm slowly but surely working on getting our translation's electronic bible published. I can only install the file into Xiphos when I have it unzipped. It installs into BPBible Porteable fine from the Zip file. I cannot install it at all into Alkitab or Bibledesktop. XULrunner recognizes the file I installed from Xiphos. Alkitab and Bibledesktop do not. After several hours of trying to figure this out, I decided I would go here for help. Are several of the frontends for SWORD not capable of using Sword 1.6.x? I came to this hypothesis because my translation requires NRSV versification and I used the most current sword to make it. These are the steps I took: - I exported from Paratext to OSIS. - I used the most current OSIS2Mod. - I configured it to use NRSV's versification and rawtext - I manually created .config file - I manually setup a zip file to work with this. Please give me any tips I might be missing here. I need to send the file on to my boss. Blessings, Luke ___ 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
Re: [sword-devel] Sword 1.6.x and various frontends
It is very informative to know that it is only 2 verses. That would give good reason to switch to KJV versification for Sword modules. Also thanks for the info especially on java based front-ends. XulSword and Xiphos are installing it and gets the versification correct, expect for the header gets lost for Revelations 12. I don't know why that happened. BPBible installs it, keeps the right headings, but messes up the versification. Finally, it still is a bit frustrating that even using KJV versification the java based front-ends don't recognize the Bible mod I made using the latest osis2mod where the osis was derived from Paratext export. Overall a big thanks to all of you for the numerous replies given. Luke On 5/25/2011 2:48 AM, Chris Little wrote: Since the NRSV varies from the KJV by exactly 2 verses, I would recommend just switching to KJV in osis2mod. --Chris On May 24, 2011, at 9:11, Luke Schroederl...@motimail.com wrote: I'm slowly but surely working on getting our translation's electronic bible published. I can only install the file into Xiphos when I have it unzipped. It installs into BPBible Porteable fine from the Zip file. I cannot install it at all into Alkitab or Bibledesktop. XULrunner recognizes the file I installed from Xiphos. Alkitab and Bibledesktop do not. After several hours of trying to figure this out, I decided I would go here for help. Are several of the frontends for SWORD not capable of using Sword 1.6.x? I came to this hypothesis because my translation requires NRSV versification and I used the most current sword to make it. These are the steps I took: - I exported from Paratext to OSIS. - I used the most current OSIS2Mod. - I configured it to use NRSV's versification and rawtext - I manually created .config file - I manually setup a zip file to work with this. Please give me any tips I might be missing here. I need to send the file on to my boss. Blessings, Luke ___ 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
[sword-devel] MDF/SFM Dictionary Import into Sword Format
Does anyone with a basic knowledge of programming see any merit in the following idea? Make a script that takes basic components of a dictionary and formats it alphabetically into the sword imp format. The imp format being as follows: $$$word in another language Definition or gloss of word immediately below. The dictionary format being the standard used by Bible translators, called MDF (Manual for Dictionary Formatting?) and adapted in the SIL's program Fieldworks. My idea of a script would be to allow the user to input the backslash codes into the script for the word, sense number, part of speech, definition, example sentence, example sentence translated. In our dictionary these codes would be: \lc, \sn, \ps, \ge, \xv, \xe but in others dictionaries they would want the ability to adapt the backslash codes a little since often Fieldworks gives backslash codes that include the language name. The script would then output a file in imp format. The file would look like this: $$$Word [Part of speech] [Definition] (1st sense of word) [Example Sentence] [Example Sentence translation] [Part of speech] [Definition] (2nd sense of word [Example Sentence] [Example Sentence translation] etc. It seems to me like this is very basic programming. It also seems to me that if someone really go into the project they could do a lot more than what I just described. Finally I find this beneficial, because most of the Bible translation teams for minority languages are working on dictionaries at the same time. For people like the group I work with, the dictionary is valued more than the Bible. It is easy to get the Bibles into Sword format. If this script were made it would be easy to get dictionaries into sword format (at least in their most basic form). Having the two distributed together allows interaction between both works. It helps younger people in the language understand the deeper words of their language. Any programmers out their interested? Sincerely yours, Luke S. ___ 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] Help with versification
My wife and I are team members of a minority Bible translation that we have received permission to proceed with the final stages of preparing a SWORD module for and a GoBible module. I don't completely understand how versification works. In the Sword module things work pretty well. Our translation of Matthew 1 has verse numberings that go like this: 1, 2-6, 7-11, 12-16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25. In Sword it is currently displayed like this: 1, 2, 7, 12, 17, 18, etc. It would be preferable if I could get it to display like the first set, but that isn't so big of a problem. However in GoBible I have a major problem because it displays like this: 1,2 (represents 2-6), 3 (represents 7-11), 4 (represents 12-16), 5 (17), 6 (18), and so on. Did I make myself clear? Is there anything I can do to keep the GoBible looking pretty but not have people look for a certain verse reference and find out that it is several verses off because of how we have combined some verses due to translation practice? Any help would be appreciated, Thanks ___ 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
