[bt-devel] [ bibletime-Bugs-1660413 ] Capitalization of "LORD"

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Martin,

This is not an issue of altering the module's content for presentation. 
  It is an issue of presenting markup in a way you would like.   All 
translations from Hebrew Yahweh to English LORD have been marked up as 
<divineName>Lord</divineName>.   Most display filters have been changed 
to transform <divineName> tags to smallcap their contents.  I would be 
my opinion that Bibletime should update their filters to do the same.

This might be a good opportunity to consider dropping your custom filter 
set and using the builtin HTML filter set from SWORD, as does swordweb, 
gnomesword, qpsword, and swordreader.  We keep this filter set updated 
and it would remove a great burden from your team to get free updates as 
we share in a common filter set.

	-Troy.



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> Bugs item #1660413, was opened at 2007-02-15 10:55
> Message generated for change (Comment added) made by mgruner
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> Category: General
> Group: None
>> Status: Closed
>> Resolution: Wont Fix
> Priority: 5
> Private: No
> Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
>> Assigned to: Martin Gruner (mgruner)
> Summary: Capitalization of "LORD"
> 
> Initial Comment:
> Recent version of Bibletime (I've only tested 1.6.2 and 1.6.3b) have dropped the capitalization of the name "LORD" in the KJV.  See for example Genesis 2:7 where "LORD" has become "Lord" in recent versions of Bibletime.
> 
> I submitted this first as a bug to the SWORD project, but this was their reply:
> 
> When we re-encoded this module the places where 'LORD' was in capitalized were marked in such a way that the program you view it in decides how to format it. The program can do as some print versions do and mark it with small-caps or all caps, or it could be italicized. The reason this is, is because where the KJV used to have LORD in all caps it refers to the personal name of God, 
> it is translated as Lord because that is the way the Hebrews would read the scripture, and the way the Greek version of the old testament (the Septuagint) translated it as well. Many publishers do all-caps or small-caps in order to distinguish LORD as representing the personal name of God, vs the word Lord that occurs in the text.
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>> Comment By: Martin Gruner (mgruner)
> Date: 2007-02-15 17:52
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> This is not a bug.
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> BibleTime will not alter the contents of modules for presentation.
> 
> Sorry.
> 
> mg
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