[sword-devel] Malayalam module

[Baiju M]

Small correction, In the picture that I giiven the title has 5 line
 (3 lines for English and 2 lines for Malayalam).


On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Baiju M <baiju.m.mail at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks David & Michael for the feedback!
>
> In the Malayalam bible printed by the Bible Society of India,
> they used both Malayalam and English in the title.
> Sometimes the title span 4 lines as given here:
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/cu6amxbue2sscgf/1Th.jpg
> Use \m1 upto \mt4 ?
>
> Should I handle this or just ignore English titles ?
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 1:51 AM, Kahunapule Michael Johnson <
> Kahunapule at ebible.org> wrote:
>
>>  Hello, Baiju.
>>
>> The USFM looks mostly good, but the title set seems to be in need of
>> editing. Also, proper USFM requires that a paragraph type be started
>> between any chapter mark and the first verse. Normally, this is just a
>> plain paragraph, like
>>
>> \c 1
>> \p
>> \v 1 ആദിമുതലുള്ളതും ഞങ്ങൾ കേട്ടതും സ്വന്ത കണ്ണുകൊണ്ടു കണ്ടതും ഞങ്ങൾ
>> നോക്കിയതും
>> \v 2 ...
>>
>> Also, the \h, \toc1, \toc2, \toc3, and \mt tags should all be in the
>> vernacular (i.e. Malayalam), and appear in that order.
>> \h is a short title (i.e. "1 John") of the book for running headers and
>> book selection links
>> \toc1 is the long title (i.e. "The First Letter from the Apostle John")
>> \toc2 is the short title (i.e. "1 John")
>> \toc3 is the abbreviation of this book used in footnotes and cross
>> references (i.e. "1 Jn")
>> The \mt set can be used like:
>> \mt2 The First Letter from the Apostle
>> \mt1 John
>>
>> Normally, \h and \toc2 have the same content, give or take capitalization.
>> Normally, \toc1 is the same as all of the \mt# tags concatenated together
>> (but not always, as sometimes translators put both long and short titles in
>> their entirety in those tags)
>> If \toc3 is present, it should be a consistently-used abbreviation or it
>> may be the same as \toc2 if no abbreviations are used.
>>
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>>    On 04/06/2014 11:24 PM, Baiju M wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have added few USFM files for Malayalam bible here:https://bitbucket.org/sathyavedapusthakam/svpm
>> Please review the file structure and let me know if any changes required.
>>
>> I have created USFM files for those books which I proofread myself.
>> So it may take more time to complete this work unless more volunteers
>> coming forward to proofread the text.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Baiju M <baiju.m.mail at gmail.com> <baiju.m.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi,
>>
>> The source files were uploaded by Nishad H. Kaippally to wiki source:
>> http://ml.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%B4%89%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%8D:Kaippally
>>
>> He also maintains another source here:http://www.malayalambible.inhttp://www.malayalambible.in/docs_faq.htm (FAQ)
>>
>> If nobody else working on Malayalam, I would like to start working on it. I
>> am very new here, so I need some pointers to start.
>>
>> I am thinking to use wiki source version as the base. Should I move that
>> source into a different format (non wiki) ? Should I keep it under version
>> control ?
>>
>> Looking forward to your suggestions.
>>
>> On Feb 27, 2014 3:03 AM, "Mike Hart" <just_mike_y at yahoo.com> <just_mike_y at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>  That page is in Malayalam, but appears to claim the bible being presented
>> at that wikisource page is an 1870 British and Foreign Bible Society work
>> (possibly updated in 1910).  However, my ability to read Malayalam is
>> somewhat nonexistent.  One of the links close to the Bottom takes you to
>> individual page views of a PDF which claims on this page:
>>
>> Encoded by Nishad H. Kaippally 1992 From the Orignal Bible Society of
>> India Bible. Please report errors in content to kaippally at gmail.com
>>
>> It looks like a clean source (from the standpoint of provenance) if this
>> can be verified.
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, February 26, 2014 2:35 PM, Baiju M <baiju.m.mail at gmail.com> <baiju.m.mail at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Is there anyone working on Malayalam (Indian language) module ?
>> I found this free text here. Is it possible to use it as a source ?
>> http://ml.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%A6%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%81%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%82
>> Regards,
>> Baiju M
>>
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