[sword-devel] Proposed parent/contained class for VerseKey: CanonVersifier?

[Chris Little]

The original system (from before I was around, but I could see vestiges 
of it when I joined) did essentially what you suggest, from a 
versification perspective.  Each version defined its own versification, 
held in .cps and .bks files.  (That's what those are for, if any of you 
have noticed the.)  We'll need to expand its power a little, to handle 
adding new books as well as just new chapters & verses.  I still think 
we should keep a closed canon to the perspective of users and module 
creators, though it would be considerably more easily extended than it 
currently is, in case we want to expand our canon of biblical books to 
incorporate texts like 1Enoch, the Shepherd of Hermas, and Laodiceans 
(which are included in the Ethiopic Orthodox canon, Codex Sinaiticus, 
and Vulgate respectively--for those who would challenge this).

--Chris

Barry Drake wrote:

> Hi there ...........
> 
> On 2 Dec 2003 at 16:05, Chris Little wrote:
> 
>>Task 2) might seem very difficult, but in a way, most of the machinery 
>>already exists in Sword.  After all, Sword formerly didn't have a set 
>>canon.  That was only added when Troy found that all of the books he was 
>>encoding were using the same versification scheme.
> 
> 
> This may be a bit presumtuous coming from someone who is little more 
> than a lurker on this list these days, as I have less and less time 
> available to make any useful contribution - and besides, my coding 
> skills are very limited.  But as one who is very interested in having 
> access to all the books in modules such as the LXX, I had given 
> thought to how this might be achieved.  How about moving from 
> canon.h to canon.ini - if there is a 'canon.ini' in the module directory, 
> read the information from this.  If there is not, read the default 
> 'canon.ini' which has the versification we use now in canon.h.  (Sorry to 
> use a bit of Windows speak with the .ini - feel free to uses the Linux 
> equivalent if you want).
> 
> Anyhow, carry on with the good work.  Personally, I couldn't manage 
> without this wonderful, versatile piece of software.
> 
> God bless you all,
> Barry