Re: [sword-devel] Quick question on alternative versification

2008-12-28 Thread David Haslam
Who indeed? I observed last year that an electronic text for the Coverdale Bible that I found somewhere on the WWW, used "&" in the text where modern English uses "and". Another trap for the unwary! Go Bible Creator doesn't cope with "&" the way Jolon said it should. I had to replace "&" by "+

Re: [sword-devel] Quick question on alternative versification

2008-12-17 Thread Daniel Owens
A KJV-versified text will work now--and I wouldn't hold my breath for non-KJV-versification to be widely supported in stable releases soon. That is to say, I wouldn't discourage releasing the more limited text now and updating when that is possible. Okay, sounds good. There are notes that co

Re: [sword-devel] Quick question on alternative versification

2008-12-17 Thread Chris Little
Greg Hellings wrote: I've updated BT to compile against SVN (if you pull the SVN of Bibletime and apply the patch in the patches directory), but seeing as I didn't have any modules which were built with either extra-canonical or alternative versification, I've not been able to test if my change

Re: [sword-devel] Quick question on alternative versification

2008-12-17 Thread Chris Little
Daniel Owens wrote: Chris Little wrote: Daniel Owens wrote: Can anyone give me some quick pointers on how to use xml2gbs to compile a module with deuterocanonical material? I have a source file I itching to try out, and for now I have resorted to deleting the extra material using a Perl

Re: [sword-devel] Quick question on alternative versification

2008-12-17 Thread Greg Hellings
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Daniel Owens wrote: > > > Chris Little wrote: >> >> >> Daniel Owens wrote: >>> >>> Can anyone give me some quick pointers on how to use xml2gbs to compile a >>> module with deuterocanonical material? I have a source file I itching to try >>> out, and for now I hav

Re: [sword-devel] Quick question on alternative versification

2008-12-17 Thread Daniel Owens
Chris Little wrote: Daniel Owens wrote: Can anyone give me some quick pointers on how to use xml2gbs to compile a module with deuterocanonical material? I have a source file I itching to try out, and for now I have resorted to deleting the extra material using a Perl script so I can compil

Re: [sword-devel] Quick question on alternative versification

2008-12-17 Thread Chris Little
Daniel Owens wrote: Can anyone give me some quick pointers on how to use xml2gbs to compile a module with deuterocanonical material? I have a source file I itching to try out, and for now I have resorted to deleting the extra material using a Perl script so I can compile using osis2mod. 1.

[sword-devel] Quick question on alternative versification

2008-12-17 Thread Daniel Owens
Can anyone give me some quick pointers on how to use xml2gbs to compile a module with deuterocanonical material? I have a source file I itching to try out, and for now I have resorted to deleting the extra material using a Perl script so I can compile using osis2mod. 1. Do I need to compile SW

[sword-devel] quick question on version

2004-03-20 Thread Bruce Bramkamp
Mr. Freedman,   Being nowhere near your knowledge level on preservation and integrity of text, but wanting to know I'm using the best possible version, -could you recommend a "best" english translation of Tanakh? Have read some of your posts on sword-devel and you seem to be an authority on

RE: [sword-devel] Quick Question

2003-01-11 Thread Daniel Adams
Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Chris Little Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 10:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Quick Question On 11 Jan 2003, Chad Snow wrote: > What processes the internal markup of the text? Is t

Re: [sword-devel] Quick Question

2003-01-11 Thread Chris Little
On 11 Jan 2003, Chad Snow wrote: > What processes the internal markup of the text? Is that done by Sword > or is it done by the front-end. Either or both. Presumably you'll tell Sword to process the text and give you a single markup format in all cases. BibleCS tells Sword to give it RTF, fo

Re: [sword-devel] Quick Question

2003-01-11 Thread Chad Snow
What processes the internal markup of the text? Is that done by Sword or is it done by the front-end. Thanks Chad On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 15:02, Chris Little wrote: > On 11 Jan 2003, Chad Snow wrote: > > > How many formats does sword support? As I read this mailing list I see > > mention of GBF,