[sword-devel] Alternate Versification

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Jonathan Morgan wrote:
> I think that the versification should be shown as part of the module
> information (after all, it is part of the module configuration),

Thanks for the comments Jon.  It does currently kindof work as you 
describe; you can get it from the VerseKey of a Bible or commentary 
module with the VerseKey::getVersificationSystem().  So though not 
DIRECTLY obtainable from the module as you suggestion, you can get it 
from the module's key.

 > and
> possibly it should have a more presentable name or more information
> about a versification.

Interesting idea, but I personally can't think of what that information 
might be or what name would better and still accurately represent what a 
specific v11n system represents.  I tried brainstorming from your 
suggestion, but concluded that most users don't even know that Bibles 
use different v11n systems, and the ones that do probably will 
understand the names we've picked-- or else we probably should pick 
different names.  What do you think?

I just added a public method to expose the list of registered v11n 
systems, per DM's request.  This will result in exactly what you 
describe below (minus Luther currently).  If you still feel it is 
valuable to have different presentable names or more data, please let me 
know and provide examples, though this isn't likely to be anything we 
add for this release.

On the topic, we are currently considering which v11n systems to bundle 
with the 1.6.0 release.  Chris has quite a few available.  It is our 
current plan to shoot for the most base set of systems for scholarly 
Biblical studies.  In my mind, this includes:
WLC (Leningrad), LXX, and GNT (currently KJV comes close with the 
exception of approx. 2 verse splits).  So, bottom line, we would add one 
more system to the bundle: LXX

New systems can be packaged with subsequent 1.6.x releases, but we need 
a useful limited set initially, and I think this is a good balance to 
obtain that.

Any thoughts?

	-Troy.



> If so, this should also be available from the
> API in some form, and it seems to me that it would be useful to have
> similar things in osis2mod, so that you don't just get:
> Available versifications:
> KJV
> Leningrad
> Luther
> ...
> 
> which isn't that helpful if you know nothing about the available versifications.
> 
> Jon
> 
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