[sword-devel] Versification scheme for a new Bible translation

2012-04-30 Thread Brian J Dumont
Hi all, I'm working with a Bible translator who has recently completed a Bible translation into the Tandroy language. I'm almost done converting his basic source into osis, and will soon be working on getting it into SWORD. The versification looks so far to be MT verses in KJV book order in

Re: [sword-devel] Versification scheme for a new Bible translation

2012-04-30 Thread Peter von Kaehne
An: SWORD Developers\' Collaboration Forum sword-devel@crosswire.org Betreff: [sword-devel] Versification scheme for a new Bible translation Hi all, I'm working with a Bible translator who has recently completed a Bible translation into the Tandroy language. I'm almost done converting his basic

Re: [sword-devel] Versification scheme for a new Bible translation

2012-04-30 Thread David Haslam
Didn't Greg Hellings write a Perl script to check which of our defined v11ns would be the most suitable for a new module? David PS. Isn't the OT of the KJV based on the MT? If so, what's the real problem? PS2. During module build, please be careful. Unless the Zcomp problem has been solved

Re: [sword-devel] Versification scheme for a new Bible translation

2012-04-30 Thread Brian J Dumont
On 04/30/2012 12:10 PM, David Haslam wrote: PS. Isn't the OT of the KJV based on the MT? If so, what's the real problem? I had thought so as well; but compare KJV to JPS. There are a number of OT chapters where the JPS has many more verses (for example, Lev 5, Num 17) --

Re: [sword-devel] Versification scheme for a new Bible translation

2012-04-30 Thread Greg Hellings
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:10 AM, David Haslam dfh...@googlemail.com wrote: Didn't Greg Hellings write a Perl script to check which of our defined v11ns would be the most suitable for a new module? Python. How dare you suggest I would sully myself with Perl?! :P

Re: [sword-devel] Versification scheme for a new Bible translation

2012-04-30 Thread Chris Little
On 04/30/2012 07:44 AM, Brian J Dumont wrote: Hi all, I'm working with a Bible translator who has recently completed a Bible translation into the Tandroy language. I'm almost done converting his basic source into osis, and will soon be working on getting it into SWORD. The versification looks

Re: [sword-devel] Versification scheme for a new Bible translation

2012-04-30 Thread Brian J Dumont
On 04/30/2012 12:37 PM, Greg Hellings wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:10 AM, David Haslamdfh...@googlemail.com wrote: Didn't Greg Hellings write a Perl script to check which of our defined v11ns would be the most suitable for a new module? Python. How dare you suggest I would sully myself

Re: [sword-devel] Versification scheme for a new Bible translation

2012-04-30 Thread Brian J Dumont
On 04/30/2012 12:47 PM, Chris Little wrote: On 04/30/2012 07:44 AM, Brian J Dumont wrote: Hi all, I'm working with a Bible translator who has recently completed a Bible translation into the Tandroy language. I'm almost done converting his basic source into osis, and will soon be working on

Re: [sword-devel] Versification scheme for a new Bible translation

2012-04-30 Thread Greg Hellings
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Brian J Dumont brian.j.dum...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/30/2012 12:37 PM, Greg Hellings wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:10 AM, David Haslamdfh...@googlemail.com  wrote: Didn't Greg Hellings write a Perl script to check which of our defined v11ns would be

Re: [sword-devel] Versification scheme for a new Bible translation

2012-04-30 Thread Kahunapule Michael Johnson
On 04/30/2012 06:47 AM, Chris Little wrote: Sounds French. We don't really have enough information to produce this v11n system yet. The most important piece of information to know is that unless you build some flexibility into the system and refrain from ever hard coding the number of verses