[sword-devel] Danish Bible module Dan and Ulrik's Danish-Bible-OT-1931 ?

[Peter von Kaehne]

Thanks David, 

Ulrik has explained to me at some point the publication history -
basically every few decades NT and OT were alternatingly revised and
newly recombined. The 1819 NT was combined as per our previous Dan1871
module with the 1871 OT. 

But the 1819 NT is nowadays basically unreadable and was also a poor
quality translation while the 1871 OT stays in use more or less. So the
combination OT1871NT1819 is, while used historically is not terribly
satisfying.

Instead he suggested to publish the last two public domain printed
editions OT1871NT1907 and OT1931NT1907 as still useful and usable texts
for study and devotion and the NT from 1819 as a historic text NT only.

I followed this rationale and have now retired our previous modules
from Project Gutenberg into the module attic.

I have written to him to inform him and see if, in the light of our
previous OT1871 NT1819 combined module he will see things differently,
but I guess not. I can easily publish a combined module, but would
prefer to follow his advice.  

Peter

On Sat, 2017-05-20 at 12:03 -0700, David Haslam wrote:
> We have an existing Danish Bible module released in 2003 called
> simply *Dan*.
> 
> This is *Det Gamle Testamente af 1931* compiled together with public
> domain
> Danish New Testament.
> 
> About=Det Gamle Testamente af 1931:\par copyrighted Etext (c)1931 Det
> Danske
> Bibelselskab.\par The Old Testament of 1931: copyrighted Etext\par
> (C) by
> Det Danske Bibelselskab 1931.\par [The Danish Bible Society]\par\par
> The New
> Testament is Public Domain.\par\par consult included gutenberg.txt
> file for
> Project Gutenberg copyrighted/public domain etext usage licenses
> 
> One of Ulrik's GitHub projects is *Danish-Bible-OT-1931*.
> 
> This prompts the question as to what will happen to the NT if we were
> to
> make a new module based solely on Ulrik's project?
> 
> Do we really want to have two different Danish Bible modules both
> containing
> the 1931 OT ?
> Wouldn't that be confusing to users?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> David
> 
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