[sword-devel] How to get vowels in the Arabic bible module?

[John H.]

Yeah, I know what you mean.

Please let me know if you need someone to test a module with vowels:)

On Jan 21, 2008 3:00 AM, peter <refdoc at gmx.net> wrote:
> John H. wrote:
> > Peter,
> >
> > All printed copies I have seen, I have noticed the vowels as well.
> >
> > I just pointed to this one because it was easily accessible and
> > already had the vowels.  I was just wondering how to get a sword
> > module with the vowels, however possible:)
>
> I think then the assertion of copyright in the website is simply not
> sustainable and we can take the work. It might not be the most friendly
> act, but it would be well within the law.
>
> Personally I found the best approach to negotiations of this kind is to
> take the text + run, create the module and then present it back - "see
> what we can do with your module. We want to acknowledge you, obviously.
> What do you think?"
>
> peter
>
>
> >
> > On Jan 21, 2008 2:43 AM, peter <refdoc at gmx.net> wrote:
> >> Irrespective of this labour of love etc, I do doubt that vowel signs can
> >> be copyrighted.
> >>
> >> I would think if the Van Dyke is public domain so this is , unless there
> >> are more profound revisions done. In fact all printed editions I have
> >> ever seen, have the vocalisation present, so this is not copyrightable IMHO.
> >>
> >> Just because you put your mind to getting something from paper to
> >> electrons does not create a copyright.
> >>
> >> Peter
> >>
> >>
> >> John H. wrote:
> >>> This goes into more depth about it...
> >>>
> >>> http://www.arabicbible.com/bible/vandyke.htm
> >>>
> >>> Specifically...
> >>>
> >>> "These Arabic MS Word Documents of the Arabic Bible Vandyke
> >>> Translation are available for your personnel use.  Any of the
> >>> followings:
> >>>
> >>>    1.
> >>>
> >>>       Posting them on the internet
> >>>    2.
> >>>
> >>>       Selling them
> >>>    3.
> >>>
> >>>       Altering them
> >>>
> >>> without the exclusive permission from the Webmaster of the Arabic
> >>> Bible Outreach Ministry (webmaster at info@arabicbible.com) is strictly
> >>> prohibited.
> >>>
> >>> The Copy Rights are Exclusive for the Arabic Bible Outreach Ministry .
> >>>  They are posted on the Internet for readers to download for personnel
> >>> use.
> >>>
> >>> This labor of love was performed by a young man from Egypt by the name
> >>> of Usama K. He poured 4 years of his life into this monumental work.
> >>>
> >>> We thank the Lord for raising men who dedicated their lives to publish
> >>> the Arabic Bible free for the Arab world. All praise is for our Lord
> >>> and redeemer Jesus Christ.
> >>>
> >>>      Abd El-Massih,
> >>>
> >>>      Webmaster"
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> http://www.arabicbible.com/bible/use.htm
> >>>
> >>> On Jan 21, 2008 2:08 AM, Chris Little <chrislit at crosswire.org> wrote:
> >>>> On Jan 20, 2008, at 11:09 PM, John H. wrote:
> >>>>> I was wondering how to get the vowels to display in the ASV module?
> >>>> A new module would need to be created.
> >>>>
> >>>>> A word document with all the vowels is available here...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> http://www.arabicbible.com/bible/doc_bible.htm
> >>>>> In the ASV version.
> >>>> To use that text, we would need permission from the website and then
> >>>> someone would have to extract the text from the Word documents into a
> >>>> usable Unicode text (which doesn't look too difficult) and make an
> >>>> OSIS document out of it.
> >>>>
> >>>> --Chris
> >>>>
> >>>>
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