[sword-devel] Short/Long Bible & Commentary Modules

[David Haslam]

FYI.

The Wycliffe module has Versification=Vulg but 2 books of the Vulgate OT are not included because they were never part of the translation.

David

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On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 18:22, DM Smith <dmsmith at crosswire.org> wrote:

> I’ve found an oddness in some Bible and commentary modules. (They share the same storage mechanism).
>
> For each module there’s an index file for the OT and for the NT. Even many single testament modules have an index file for the other testament.
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> The index file has a slot for every verse in the testament. Intros for the Bible, Testaments, books and chapters are treated as verses and have slots in the index.
>
> When the module is created, the indexes are initialized to all zeros, indicating that there is no data. When a verse is written to the module, the verse’s slot in the index is updated to point to the verse.
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> So for a versification, each index has a fixed size.
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> For years, I’ve noticed a debug statement from JSword indicating that some indexes have a different size than expected.
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> So for the last couple of days, I’ve been debugging the problem. Quite a few OT are a verse short. For the most part these modules are NT only, but a few are missing Malachi 4:6. Some NT have two more slots in the index.
>
> The Bible modules that have a visible OT problem, not having the last verse of the OT:
> DanDetteBiblen (Xiphos)
> FarFLB (Xiphos)
> JapMeiji (CrossWire)
> Mg1865 (CrossWire) Looks like all of Malachi 4 is appended to 3:18
> PolBibTysia (Xiphos)
>
> The CrossWire Bible modules that have a visible NT problem having 2 extra verses: (All are KJV, but maybe should be NRSV av11n)
> HebDelitzsch
> PorAlmeida1911
> PolUGdanska
> Shona
> TurHADI
>
> The CrossWire commentary module DTN seems to be really bad. The NT index file is way too long. Looking at the module content,  I find lots of verses that are present but w empty content. I find verse 0 for many chapters is filled with wrong content.
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> The CrossWire Bibles that have the short OT index, but it isn’t really a problem because the module doesn’t have the OT or only has part of the OT:
> ArmEastern
> Chamorro
> Cro
> CzeB21
> Est
> GerAlbrecht
> GerGruenewald
> GerTafel
> GerTextbibel
> Leeser
> ManxGaelic
> SweKarlXII
> Tyndale
> VietLCCMN
> Vulgate_HebPs
> Wulfila
> Wycliffe
>
> The following CrossWire commentaries also have a non-problematic short OT index:
> MAK
> Spurious
> VietLCCMNCT
>
> In Him,
> DM
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