[sword-devel] Inclusion of the Reina-Valera 1865

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Fri Feb 16 09:06:41 MST 2018



Le 16 février 2018 16:48:09 WAT, Vince LaRue <vinsulation117 at gmail.com> a écrit :
>Hi Michael,
>
>ParaTExt doesn't run on OSX, and I don't have the mental system 
>resources to muck about with Wine, or the money to get Crossover. 
>Autographa Lite doesn't seem to do anything; it opens and doesn't
>appear 
>to let me do anything (maybe I'm missing something; I'm not the 
>brightest bulb). translationStudio doesn't appear to allow rudimentary 
>markup like italics, at least not that I could figure out in the half
>an 
>hour or so that I wrestled with it. Bibleedit appears to require me to 
>install a server app, which I really don't want to do in order to 

No you have nothing to install  if you want to use bbd.

>convert an already complete Bible in XML into another format. I was 
>happy working in plain text, but the sheer volume of the work would 
>hinder making this available quickly.
>
>Another question: if OSIS is no longer the best way to produce digital 
>texts (which is my only interest currently), then why is nothing said 
>about a different preferred method on the Crosswire wiki? The last 
>information I can find is the 2.1.1 OSIS schema from 2006, and it's 
>consistently referenced throughout the wiki. Is that not a reliable 
>source of information?
>
>Please pardon my incessant questions; I'm simply trying to figure out 
>the best way to make this Bible available electronically. The print 
>version is a parallel but separate endeavor, though I hope that the 
>digital prep process will produce a file that can be continually 
>annotated to eventually produce a reference Bible, both print and
>digital.
>
>One other thing: I have been looking into Sketch Engine 
>(https://the.sketchengine.co.uk/) for producing a back-of-the-Bible 
>print concordance, and they recommend the "brat" annotation tool 
>(http://brat.nlplab.org/). Is this something that could at all be
>useful 
>with a Bible text, or configured to output data that would be useful?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Vince
>
>Michael H wrote:
>> Hi Vince,
>>
>> There isn't really a good native OSIS editing system. However, there 
>> are excellent Bible editing software programs available with no cost.
>>
>> I suggest you seek an USFM editor instead. Bibledit, Paratext, 
>> Autographa Lite, Translation Studio are all excellent programs. (See 
>> the links). Each of these programs has checking tools which will 
>> greatly improve your ability to detect issues with your Bible text, 
>> and to correct the issues you find. Once you have a clean USFM, 
>> conforming to OSIS is relatively simple. I believe the preferred 
>> method these days is a python script 'u2o.py'.
>>
>> OSIS is an output intended for computers.  USFM is a tagging language
>
>> that is usable by humans and computers, which produces USX (An xml 
>> language similar to OSIS, but designed this decade by the same groups
>
>> that produced OSIS in the early 2000's.)
>>
>> Paratext: https://pt8.paratext.org/
>> Bibledit: http://bibledit.org/
>>     I think Bibledit imports OSIS, if you already have worked toward 
>> clean OSIS.
>> Autographa: https://www.autographa.com/
>> Translation Studio: https://unfoldingword.org/ts/
>>
>> About USFM: http://ubsicap.github.io/usfm/
>> About USX: https://ubsicap.github.io/usx/
>>
>> USFM2OSIS : https://github.com/adyeths/u2o (Is this the current one?)
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 8:09 PM, Vince LaRue
><vinsulation117 at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:vinsulation117 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hello, and thank you for accepting my request to join the mailing
>>     list. My name is Vince LaRue and I'm a missionary in Southern
>>     Chile. I use Eloquent almost exclusively, despite the frequent
>>     crashes, and I'd like to do whatever is in my limited
>>     (non-programmer) capacity to help the SWORD project.
>>
>>     I'm also the tech guy for what used to be the Valera Bible
>Society
>>     (Sociedad Bíblica Valera) before it was put on ice, and now the
>>     website, www.valera1865.org <http://www.valera1865.org/>, which I
>>     run, is a source for information about the RV1865. We've had the
>>     Bible itself back in print for 17 years now, but the various
>>     digital versions have been plagued with sundry typographical
>>     issues. I'm fixing that.
>>
>>     We're basically done with a complete, verse-by-verse overhaul of
>>     the text, and I have it in a cleaned-up verse-per-line format in
>>     basic HTML (each verse enclosed in <p> tags) broken down into 23
>>     text files. I would like to produce a high-quality OSIS version
>>     that I can continue to work on, adding various tags throughout
>the
>>     text, but the goal is to get it ready for distribution
>immediately.
>>
>>     What are the steps that I need to take to make this happen? Are
>>     there utilities that can convert what I have to OSIS-compatible
>>     XML? Here's a sample:
>>
>>     <p>EL EVANGELIO DE NUESTRO SEÑOR JESU CRISTO SEGÚN</p>
>>
>>     <h1 align="left" >SAN MATEO</h1>
>>
>>     <p> CAPITULO 1</p>
>>
>>     <p>1 Libro de la generación de Jesu Cristo, hijo de David, hijo
>de
>>     Abraham.</p>
>>
>>     <p>2 Abraham engendró a Isaac; e Isaac engendró a Jacob; y Jacob
>>     engendró a Júdas, y a sus hermanos;</p>
>>
>>     <p>3 Y Júdas engendró de Tamar a Fares y a Zara; y Fares engendró
>>     a Esrom; y Esrom engendró a Aram;</p>
>>
>>     Thank you again for your time, and I look forward to working with
>>     you all.
>>
>>     In Christ,
>>
>>     Vince LaRue
>>
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