[sword-devel] Delitzsch Hebrew New Testament

[Yedidyah Bar David]

Hi all,

Some time ago I sent the below email to modules at crosswire.org.

Since then I corresponded with Peter von Kaehne, and it seems that the
legal issues are sorted out.

You can find the current state of my work at [1].

I'd like to get feedback about this, including but not limited to the
technical issues I mentioned in the email below. In particular:

I currently use KJV versification. At some point, as you can see in
the git history, I had a version that includes both the OT (copied
from the project MAPM) and the NT. This didn't work well with any
versification that I tried, and I gave up. Ideally I'd like to have
versification that is KJV for the NT and Masoretic for the OT - I
think most bibles in Israel that include the NT are that way, and do
not use KJV versification for the OT. Not sure what is required to
achieve this.

A provided Makefile generates two versions, with and without Nikkud
(diacritics, aka vowel points). I didn't try much searching with
different sword software, but I have a feeling that searching in the
non-nikkud version works much better in most packages, hence this
duplication.

[1] https://github.com/HebrewNewTestament/HebDelitzsch

Best regards,
-- 
Didi

2015-04-12 23:03 GMT+03:00 Yedidyah Bar David <didi at bardavid.org>:
> Hi all,
>
> Around 12 years ago a new edition of Delitzsch's translation was published
> by an Israeli NPO called "Streams in the Negev". It was done using QText, a
> now-dead word-processor. The qtext file was then printed and published, and
> I also managed to convert it to text, which I kept untouched for quite some
> years. Then a few years ago I decided to try and make a sword module from
> this. It's now more-or-less ready, at least for a first public draft.
>
> I have a signed letter from the NPO allowing publishing this.
>
> A few people are using it with "The Sword Project for Windows" and with
> And-Bible (on smartphones) successfully.
>
> Various fixes, both compared to the printed version of 2003 and to
> Delitzsch's original (checked against KJV and similar texts) were done. I
> expect more such fixes in the future.
>
> What should I do to have it included in the crosswire repository?
>
> In particular:
>
> 1. Is it enough that I open e.g. a github project to be the official source?
>
> 2. What kind of license is recommended/acceptable/common?
>
> 3. How should it be named? Delitzsch himself had several versions, and over
> the years various variations were published. Will simply DelitzschHebrew be
> good? Anything better?
>
> 4. Some technical issues to deal with/decide, including versification
> (currently KJV), diacritics (current Makefile produces versions both with
> and without), paragraphs (currently none), some day markup Strong's numbers,
> etc. Nothing urgent for now I think, will probably be done in separate
> emails/threads if needed.
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Yedidyah Bar David
>