[sword-devel] Help wanted on non-canonical text

[Greg Hellings]

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:33 AM, <johnduffy at cgcf.net> wrote:

> David,
>
> The file was converted manually to USFM, with initial help from Daniel
> Owens, who also suggested that I use Bibledit to convert to OSIS.  Thanks
> for the link to the KJVA.  It allows me to see the 81 books instead of the
> 73 that I have been working on.  The Greek Esther and Daniel extracts are
> set in separate books.  Yes, it is the ABN that I'm working on, now that I
> have some more time for it at present.
>
> All,
>
> Another question: How do Sword and 'The Bible Tool' display these extra
> books.  Are Greek Esther and Daniel displayed as separate books, or as
> additions within the canonical books.  Or are deuterocanonical books not
> supported yet for either or both of these?
>
> Forgive my ignorance if there are obvious answers.  But I know that my
> version of Sword (v1.5.11 which seems to be the latest) isn't able to
> display the deutero-canonical books (as far as I can see).  And I cannot
> navigate in The Bible Tool either to see what books and chapters are
> available (that would be a great feature to add - a list of books, and
> chapters to choose from, for people who don't know what books are in the
> Bible - at present it presupposes a certain level of biblical literacy in
> order to be able to use it).
>

Perhaps you should look at version 1.6.0, one of its primary reasons for
jumping version numbers being that it supports various versification schemes
other than the KJV that prior versions were stuck with.  You can find it on
the website as the default version to download when you go through the Linux
option of which software you want.

--Greg


>
> Thanks
>
> John Duffy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Haslam [mailto:d.haslam at ukonline.co.uk]
> Sent: 01 October 2009 13:41
> To: sword-devel at crosswire.org
> Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Help wanted on non-canonical text
>
>
> John,
>
> Are you working directly in OSIS, or using USFM and then converting?
> Presumably the text you are working on is the Irish ABN.
>
> Thanks to Kahunapule Michael Johnson in PNG,
> the KJV is available in USFM format (including deuterocanon) at
> http://ebible.org/bible/kjv/kjvsf.zip
> http://ebible.org/bible/kjv/kjvsf.zip
>
> See main KJV page - bottom of left side bar.
> http://ebible.org/bible/kjv/ http://ebible.org/bible/kjv/
>
> David Haslam
>
> johnduffy-2 wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm making progress (even though it is slow) on making an OSIS file for
> > the
> > Bible in Irish.  But there are a few things that I'd like to get help on
> > before making the final OSIS file.
> > 1     Is there a KJVA Bible that I can download or obtain for Sword
> > (v1.5.11) or Bibledit (or other program to view a Sword module)?  I'd
> like
> > to check the v11n etc.
> > 2     Some verses in Esther have both canonical and deutero-canonical
> > text.  Since OSIS uses sections which are tagged as canonical or
> > non-canonical (correct me if I am wrong), this method cannot be used to
> > mark
> > both in a single verse.  Is there another method to use to denote
> > canonical
> > from non-canonical?  My thoughts are to make the non-canonical in
> italics,
> > partly because this is what the original print edition has done as well
> > (while non-canonical books are not in italics).
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > John Duffy
> >
>
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