[sword-devel] 200 volunteers required to read 5 chapters of the Bible

[Jason Brooks]

I'd be happy to pitch in 5 chapters' worth.  Should be able to wedge it in
if the timetable isn't too aggressive.

Jason Brooks
brookswv at gmail.com
http://javajeb.wordpress.com


On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 3:58 PM, fred smith
<fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 08:41:53PM +0000, Chris Burrell wrote:
> >
> >    Hi everyone
> >
> >    200 volunteers to read 5 chapters of the Bible
> >
> >    I'd like to find 200 volunteers who could spend 5 hours or so helping
> us out
>
> I might be able to help, if you can deal with Word files saved in
> LibreOffice instead of Word (I'm a Linux user). If you think you can,
> please let me see the rest of the instructions, and we cn plan from there.
>
> Fred Smith
>
> >    do a comparison between the KJV and ESV, in order to help us create
> the
> >    strong tagging for the ESV. With 200 volunteers we can almost cover
> the
> >    entire Bible.
> >
> >    The result of this work will be made available as a Sword module so
> that
> >    everyone can re-use the work.
> >
> >    How we're doing it
> >
> >    What we've done is to do create  MS Word documents containing both
> the KJV
> >    and ESV.  The documents have bright yellow words in them where the
> KJV word
> >    doesn't exactly match the ESV words (which is given in the normal
> colour).
> >
> >    So what I'm after is some volunteers to cut & paste the yellow words
> next to
> >    the equivalent ESV word. In doing so, you are effectively tagging the
> ESV
> >    Bible text. Each chapter will then be proofed by Dale (copied), who's
> a
> >    scholar in the US.
> >
> >    Why it does the tagging
> >
> >    The bit I haven't mentioned is that there numbers are attached to
> each word,
> >    so by moving the yellow word, you are essentially moving around the
> strong
> >    number with it. The numbers can be mostly ignored.
> >
> >    I have a more complete set of instructions, a video, an example file,
> etc.
> >    for anyone who would be interested in finding out more.
> >
> >    Please let Dale & myself know if you would like to volunteer a few
> hours.
> >
> >    Chris
>
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