[sword-devel] Alternate Versification question

Greg Hellings greg.hellings at gmail.com
Wed Aug 8 19:09:38 MST 2012


On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 9:05 PM, Andrew Thule <thulester at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Greg .. I've done that, and compared what comes with Sword to
> what's listed here:
> https://crosswire.org/svn/sword-tools/trunk/versification/basicv11ns/
>
> The only difference, as far as I was able to tell was canon_gnt.h does
> not appear to ship with sword.  I assume it was pruned or included
> with others.  Otherwise the contents appear the same.
>
> I've found a verification here:
> http://www.ccel.org/refsys/Bible.LXX.xml
>
> I'm going to try to create a canon_lxx.h myself - but what use is
> that?  If I successfully translate the CCEL LXX versification into a
> canon_lxx.h file and submit it - does that actually help anything?

It does if you are creating an LXX-based module.

--Greg

>
> ~A
>
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Some have been pruned in the past because they were either duplicates
>> or similar. It is also possible that some of the documentation is out
>> of date. The best way to know for sure is to look at the installed
>> header files, if you're on Linux, to see which ones are included. Each
>> versification is listed in a header file with the name canon_<name>.h
>>
>> Modifications must also be made in a few others places once that file
>> is in place. If the one you need isn't supported (I don't see LXX or
>> GNT at present) then you're welcome to create such a file and submit
>> it along with your module.
>>
>> --Greg
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Andrew Thule <thulester at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> osis2mod -h lists the following versifications supported:
>>>
>>>   -v <v11n>              specify a versification scheme to use (default is KJV)
>>>                                  Note: The following are valid values for v11n:
>>>                                         Catholic
>>>                                         Catholic2
>>>                                         German
>>>                                         KJV
>>>                                         KJVA
>>>                                         Leningrad
>>>                                         Luther
>>>                                         MT
>>>                                         NRSV
>>>                                         NRSVA
>>>                                         Synodal
>>>                                         Vulg
>>>
>>> However, this following page list others (such as LXX and GNT):
>>> http://svn.crosswire.org/wiki/Alternate_Versification/System_Identification
>>>
>>> I can see from this page that support for some of the versification
>>> schemes appears to be a function of the development cycle with German,
>>> Luther and Vulgate being added in 1.6.1 and Catholic and Catholic2
>>> being added in 1.6.2:
>>> http://svn.crosswire.org/wiki/Alternate_Versification#Supported_versification_systems
>>>
>>> Cutting to the chase, my question is this, are versification schemes
>>> such as LXX and GNT to be expected in subsequent development
>>> iterations or are there otherways to employ them?  I'm specifically
>>> interested in LXX as I've got valid OSIS for LXXE, but I'm constantly
>>> banging into versification errors/warning when I create my module
>>> ie.
>>> INFO(V11N): Hos.7 is not in the NRSVA versification. Appending content
>>> to Hos.6.11
>>> INFO(V11N): Tob.8 is not in the NRSVA versification. Appending content
>>> to Tob.7.16
>>> INFO(V11N): Tob.11 is not in the KJVA versification. Appending content
>>> to Tob.10.12
>>> INFO(V11N): Sir.30.27 is not in the KJVA versification. Appending
>>> content to Sir.30.25
>>> ERROR(REF): Invalid osisID/annotateRef: 4Macc.18.1
>>> etc.
>>>
>>> ~A
>>>
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