[sword-devel] Second versions, Scottish Metric Psalter

[Tom Sullivan]

Peter:

Suggestion: Make 2 modules, one for each translation. Most front ends 
will do parallel display.

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On 1/12/19 5:09 AM, Peter von Kaehne wrote:
> The Scottish Metric Psalter is a curious translation - on the one side
> famously literal, on the other side deliberately in a poem form. It has
> now been used for hundreds of years in public worship, in some churches
> as an additional source of hymns, in others exclusively so as the only
> permitted source of worship songs (again, another Scottish curiosity).
> 
> I have reformatted the 1650 version into USFM. This version is
> underlying much of more modern editions and is really quite
> understandable already, despite its age.
> 
> https://github.com/refdoc/The-Scottish-Metric-Psalter-1650
> 
> But before I make a module from it I need to solve one conundrum - 11
> or 12 psalms have two translations. I could cut the second versions out
> - but that feels wrong. I could banish them into a footnote each - but
> the footnote would be enormously long and it would loose its poetic
> formatting. I have thought of the variant reading mark up - but this is
> currently quite underdeveloped in the engine and certainly does not
> seem to be up to whole chapters of variant readings.
> 
> I finally have thought of reversifying the second version and make
> those psalms essentially double length - but our handling of such
> overlong chapters is not grand either.
> 
> Any other options I have not thought of?
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
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