> While I can not say much about the further OSIS conversion steps, I think you > want to be cautious and very careful how you approach the Swedish Bible > society. It is easy to upset people over copyrights and it takes years to > recover from that. Thanks for the warning, I will try to get them interested by showing how the software works. I happen to live in the same city as the HQ for the Swedish Bible society.
> Dealing with similar situations I found most helpful having a ready text > available, but also - and sometimes more improtantly having a translated > front-end(s). Also have a look at GoBible (for J2MEE Mobile phones) - once > you got your OSIS source ready this is an easy thing too and often gets > people quite excited. That sounds really good too. Though I would really like to show it off on my iPhone, but there are no sword clients there yet? // David > > -------- Original-Nachricht -------- >> Datum: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:41:27 +0200 >> Von: "David Fredin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> An: "SWORD Developers\' Collaboration Forum" <[email protected]> >> Betreff: Re: [sword-devel] New OSIS chapter/verse checking utility > >> Interested in sharing the source for that conversion of html-bibles? >> >> I am working on a conversion of the Swedish Bible 2000 (not a version >> number but the year it was released :-) ). And so far I have >> downloaded every chapter of the Bible as separate html-files, imported >> them into a sqlite-db with minimal html-markup (done with python + the >> BeautifulSoup-parser). So I suppose the last step to OSIS shouldn't be >> too hard. But any hints or pieces of advice is very welcome. >> >> The hardest part I suppose is to then talk the Swedish biblecommission >> into releasing it into the wild under an Creative Commons license, or >> such... >> >> All the best! >> // David Fredin >> >> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 22:13, Steven J. DeRose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Great info, thanks David! I have code in there to cover the Psalm >> > ascriptions, but I'll check vs. the sources you mention to be sure >> > I've got them all covered. The Slavonic book order difference is new >> > to me -- many thanks for pointing it out, I'll add an option for that. >> > >> > Side note -- i'm presently hacking at some code to convert a bunch of >> > online bibles to very regular OSIS files, which I'll then put online >> > somewhere (Troy, might you want to host them?). Anybody up for >> > helping with that or taking a look at results as I produce them? (I >> > wrote osisCheck mostly to ensure that my converters don't screw >> > anything up....). >> > >> >>Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:33:08 -0700 (PDT) >> >>From: David Haslam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>Subject: Re: [sword-devel] New OSIS chapter/verse checking utility >> >>To: [email protected] >> >>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> >> >>Take account that the Psalms are numbered differently in various canons. >> See >> >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psalms#Numbering >> >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psalms#Numbering >> >> >> >>And also that versification of the Psalms that have canonical >> ascriptions >> >>(such as "A Psalm of Asaph") can also differ. e.g. Most French Bibles >> assign >> >>verse 1 to these, and offset the rest by +1. This observation is not >> >>included in the above Wikipedia page. >> >> >> >>The book order in the New Testament is not the same in Slavonic Bibles >> as it >> >>is in the Western canon. The General Epistles are all between Acts and >> >>Romans. A useful link is >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_of_the_Bible >> >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_of_the_Bible >> >> >> >> >> >>Best regards, >> >>David Haslam >> > >> > -- >> > >> > Steve DeRose -- http://www.derose.net, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] >> > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >> > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> ✉ mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> ☎ mobil: 073-8289776 >> blog: http://fredin.org/david/blog/ >> GodPod Sweden podcast: http://godpodsweden.com >> Radio Kyrkans framtid: http://kyrkansframtid.se >> _______________________________________________ >> sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] >> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > > -- > Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: > http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page -- ✉ mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] ☎ mobil: 073-8289776 blog: http://fredin.org/david/blog/ GodPod Sweden podcast: http://godpodsweden.com Radio Kyrkans framtid: http://kyrkansframtid.se _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
