[sword-devel] Spelling errors in Afrikaans 53 module

Nico swd at nv.jakaranda.co.za
Tue Jul 20 05:35:18 MST 2004


Hi Chris,

If I recall the ones I noticed, it seems to be accented letters.

I will keep notes as I find them and send them once I have say 10.

Regards

Nico

On Tuesday 20 July 2004 14:22, you wrote:
> How would you characterise the spelling errors?  Are the same words
> consistently mis-spelled?  Is it an issue of accented letters being
> rendered incorrectly?
>
> In general, we won't modify the text we got from the South African Bible
> Society.  If we made mistakes in converting their text to our format, we
> will happily correct those, but if the errors are in the underlying
> text, we will not fix them.  (For these kinds of errors, you can notify
> the Bible society itself.)
>
> --Chris
>
> Nico wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I found some spelling errors in the Afrikaans 53 module.  I guess that
> > www.bybel.co.za was used as source.
> >
> > As far as I can remember the version used by www.e-sword.net is much
> > better spelling wise (I only recently changed to Linux as my desktop OS
> > and my need for a Bible on my PC made me discover BibleTime and
> > Crosswire)
> >
> > What would be the best way to improve the text?  I'm prepared to do
> > corrections/make notes as I find them.
> >
> > One could also investigate the possibility of using the E-Sword version
> > or even better do a comparison between the 2 versions and check the
> > differences.
> >
> > I don't know what the best way to do things would be - I'm leaving that
> > decision for the experts.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Nico
> >
> >
> >
> >
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