[sword-devel] Alternate Versification question

Andrew Thule thulester at gmail.com
Wed Aug 8 19:23:49 MST 2012


I guess you're saying that's what essentially defines a versification
.. (I wasn't sure if there was more to it ..).

Thanks.
~A

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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