[sword-devel] Versification

[Chris Little]

On Jan 28, 2008, at 9:48 AM, Martin Gruner wrote:

>>> For bibles? Does that mean they will be stored as Genbooks in  
>>> future, at
>>> least if a non-KJV versification scheme is used?
>>
>> That is what I understand.
>
> I am not sure I like this. Isn't VerseKey etc. prepared to work with  
> dynamic
> versification, only canon.h fixed the index values to save space in  
> the data
> files? Bibles should still be offered as Bibles, regardless of the  
> impl in
> the background.

The underlying storage & indexing of Bibles will use something akin to  
the RawGenBook driver and TreeKeys. The work that needs to be done yet  
is to make something like the DRCgb that I just posted appear and act  
like a Bible within a frontend without requiring much major work by  
frontend developers.

You would still be able to give the engine a plain language verse  
reference like "Genesis 1:8-12" and the engine will return the text it  
finds in Treekeys /Gen/1/8 through /Gen/1/12.

Don't get hung up on the implementation. The API should hide all of  
the complexities (to the extent possible). VerseKeys could handle  
differing versifications, provided they were simplistic versifications  
that never had out-of-order verse numbers. I'm not even sure we could  
change the ordering of books using VerseKeys.

--Chris