[sword-devel] Re: WEB has missing verses

Mon, 19 Jan 2004 07:53:26 +1000

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At 20:31 18-01-04, Lynn Allan wrote:
>Also, Rev 22:21 (last verse in the Bible) is also missing from the 
>WEB

That is dangerous! See Rev. 22:18-19. The World English Bible is 
updated fairly often at its home at http://eBible.org/web/, as active 
edits are still happening in the Old Testament, plus the occasional 
typo correction or other minor adjustment for improved readability 
and/or accuracy in the New Testament. (The edits in the New Testament 
tend to be less and less frequent.) It sounds like some sort of 
conversion error into rawtext format may be the problem.

The next update will include making an OSIS version available from 
that site (as well as OSIS versions for the HNV, ASV, KJV, and the
completed portions of the GLW). I have an OSIS version for
Melanesian Pidgin, too, but it isn't ready for distribution until I 
sort
through some legal issues and clean up some errors in the text.

The OSIS isn't in strict compliance with OSIS 2.0, but it is closer 
than any existing OSIS text of the WEB that I have seen, and the text 
is up-to-date with the latest changes in Joshua, etc. I plan to upload 
it after I get back to my home in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. 
(The Internet connection from where I am is a bit too expensive to do 
that from here, but the snorkeling is better.)

Exceptions to the OSIS 2.0 specification are listed in the 
revisionDesc element, but in summary, they are:

Jesus' quotes are marked with <q who="Jesus"> AND typographic 
quotation marks when they are marked in the GBF file with <FR>, 
contrary to the OSIS 2.0 specification.

The xml:lang attribute is only supported for English texts, right now, 
since most of the languages I'm interested in have no two-letter 
codes. (There are too many of them. You can't represent over 6,000 
languages with two letters.)

Footnote start anchors use generic milestone markers. This may change 
if OSIS starts really supporting these. This really isn't a violation 
of the OSIS 2.0 spec, but if you use this feature beware that it may 
change.

Hebrew Psalm book titles are rendered as text (poetry <l> or prose <p> 
elements) rather than <title> elements, because <title> elements 
couldn't handle the appropriate "italics" markup for KJV "added" words 
in the current OSIS 2.0.1 schema.

Some metadata could be improved, i. e. adding original publication 
dates for the ASV & KJV, etc., and improving the contact information.

Even with all of that, these files are much closer to the OSIS 2.0 
specification than the ones currently at the BibleTechnologiesWG site. 
(Feel free to copy the new ones over or link to them in place once I 
get them uploaded.)

Once I get the OSIS files uploaded, I'll announce in on the 
WebNews@eBible.org mailing list. You may subscribe to that list at 
http://eBible.org/subscribe.htm, if you like.

Looking at a binary file in a text editor is inherently hazardous. If 
you save changes, you could corrupt a file.

- - ----- Original Message ----- 
From: Michael 
To: sword-bugs@crosswire.org 
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 11:44 PM
Subject: [sword-support] WEB

I noticed that John chapter 12 only has 36 verses but should have 50 
verses. I also found some verse missing in the middle of a chapter. 
The WEB has come out with an updated version last summer or fall, so 
it would be best to just redo the whole NT.
Thanks,
Michael
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