[sword-devel] Where is the source code for individual SWORD modules?

[Timothy Allen]

On 21/10/23 15:15, Aaron Rainbolt wrote:
> I don't know if I'm just blind or if these aren't public, but I cannot 
> find the OSIS (or whatever format) code for individual SWORD modules 
> in the Crosswire repository. Specifically I'm trying to find the 
> source for the AKJV module.

I get the impression the SWORD project has a lot of different 
contributors with different work-flow preferences, so there's no Central 
Repository of All Modules or anything like that. When I'm looking for 
the source of a module (for example, to find out how some particular 
feature or style was implemented) and the module's description doesn't 
cite a source, I look in the following locations:

  * https://git.crosswire.org/explore
  * https://gitlab.com/crosswire-bible-society/

The AKJV specifically does not appear in either of those locations. Its 
description text mentions the URL http://www.inspiredidea.com/akj.htm 
which no longer exists, but the earliest version on the Wayback Machine 
(2001-02-06) only points to CrossWire as the only official distribution 
source. I suspect that the person who made this version is also the 
person who provided the module to CrossWire and the source might never 
have been publicly accessible. Later revisions of the page (up to about 
2004) do provide a ZIP of the text, but the modification date inside the 
archive is 2001, and the CrossWire module claims to have been made in 
2007 (and be "version 1.4") so it's probably not the actual source text.

mod2imp works, but I don't like to use it to inspect modules because it 
only reports what comes *out* of the osis2mod compiler, not what went 
into it.

If you really want the text of the AKJV specifically, mod2imp may well 
be your best bet at extracting the text.

If you just want the King James Version updated to more modern language, 
you may be interested in the American Standard Version (1901)[1], or the 
World English Bible[2] which is available in many formats from USFM to 
Microsoft Word to XeTeX.


Timothy

[1]: https://gitlab.com/crosswire-bible-society/asv

[2]: https://worldenglish.bible/
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