If you wanted to do this you would need an appropriate font. You may
have to actually make a font. I suggest using fontforge as it is free
(as in freedom, as well as no cost).
depending on your platform this could be extremely easy to install, or
you may have to go to the website to download it.
This work would be helpful if someone wanted to make the Tyndale's
version true to the original (as it has some errors, such as the
problems with "them" and other words that are mainly contained in an
archaic symbol).
Making a module is a bit complicated as of right now. But I am sure
someone can provide you with some scripts to make easier. Though I have
never made a module, so that is just my outside opinion
On 12/13/2013 06:39 PM, Barnes, Jeffrey wrote:
Hi Swordsmen,
One thing I’ve been hoping to see is someone interested enough to make a KJV
1611 module. I like the version for a few reasons, like the natural flow of the
text, it’s poetic nature is beautiful to me, and the Reformation principle of
clarity is followed imho.
So since the Sword project doesn’t have a 1611 module yet, I’d like to
investigate what’s involved in making it.
One thing is that to be true to the 17th century printing, the alternate
spellings of the text would have to be followed. The typeface used in the
facsimiles I’ve found is a Gothic black letter face. I don’t want to use that,
because it would make it unduly hard to read, especially on mobile and computer
screens. I think one would need to use a roman, perhaps sans face for
readability.
But the roman faces that are used to render the text don’t use glyphs like the
long ’s’, the ‘thorn’, the rotunda ‘r’, etc. I think those are important visual
cues to the reading of the text. So if I would write a parser, it would replace
the roman text source (probably ascii range code points) to replace glyphs with
unicode according to the printing rules of the era.
Is this work happening currently?
If so, could I help?
If not, where could I get a text source? I’ve seen facsimile renderings with
roman parallel renderings, but they are a page at a time. It would be good if
there was one or two files already with the roman characters.
After the parser, then there’s the work of making it a module. Where can I find
a procedure for doing that? Is it a manual process?
I haven’t started any work yet, just thinking.
Any help appreciated.
Jeff
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