[sword-devel] New LXX module

[Peter Von Kaehne]

Von: Cyrille <lafricain79 at gmail.com>

> Hello,
> Currently the LXX module use the default versification not the lxx! :)
> What to do?

I think our LXX module is ancient and derived from an old OLB module at a time when we neither had alternative versifications nor the convictions we have now regarding going always back to the source. Which in turn means that we most certainly will not have any source OSIS lying around. 

I think the best way forward is an entirely new module. 

Fortunately the conf file of the existing module points at a number of potential sources - the likeliest one for free use is CCAT. I looked at it last night - it is a clear text, highly marked up text, but using a exceedingly ancient and odd format - not Greek unicode but marked up ASCII and worse. There are though rules for this kind of thing, to get transformation to a Greek accented unicode text. I have seen it before. 

Looking at CrossWire's subversion repositories there is a fair amount of work done on LXX related versifications, which Chris clearly had in mind to finish but never did. 

Wrt the wider question of keeping source files for collaborative work - we do keep source about, since I started doing the module uploads, so currently we hold teh source for about 80 or so modules. But this does not apply to older things. Sharing this widely for collaborative work is not always possible though. The Septuaginta though should be perfectly sharable and indeed best be stored on a public git server. I agree. But do check if anyone of the source providers has slapped copyrights onto it. Some big source text providers are not very friendly wrt open source etc and not entirely adverse to making vague and spurious claims. 

Yours

Peter