[sword-devel] Catholic versification

[Fr Cyrille]

Hi, @Troy,
Someone in charge could tell me if it's possible to add new 
versification, I think it's worth it. As for the other proposals, they 
seem interesting to me personally, but I have the impression that they 
would require a lot more work.

Le 20/01/2024 à 16:51, Michael Johnson a écrit :
>
> Even better than per-book versification, I think that per-translation 
> versification makes more sense. That way, no change to the code would 
> need to be made to tweak the versification yet again. No matter how 
> many versifications we define, someone will find or invent another one.
>
> On 1/20/24 06:06, Michael H wrote:
>> In my limited study of 'Fixing' versification (meaning parallel 
>> display across versification...)
>>
>> Can I recommend revamp to support an additional 'BOOK' level 
>> versification.  This would pretty much eliminate the need for (yet) 
>> another versification system, if each book rather than module could 
>> name its own versification.
>>
>> So for Cyrille's example the module is 'catholic' (for all 70ish) 
>> books, but Esther is book versified to 'cath2' or whatever already 
>> matches it.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 7:00 AM Fr Cyrille <fr.cyrille at tiberiade.be> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hello,
>>     Recently a person interested in the Catholic bible in French told me
>>     about the mapping problems between Catholic versification and the
>>     kjva
>>     concerning Esther. So I'm bringing up the question of a new Catholic
>>     versification that could better deal with this kind of problem
>>     and at
>>     the same time incorporate some of the errors in current Catholic
>>     versifications. I should mention that two versifications for French
>>     Bibles have been added since my proposal for a new Catholic
>>     versification, which was made long before these versifications were
>>     added, and which was not favorably received at the time. In our
>>     case,
>>     the number of Bibles that follow this versification is simply
>>     enormous,
>>     since the majority of Catholic Bibles do. I would also add that
>>     the LXX
>>     versification is not entirely correct. There are no LXX today
>>     that put
>>     16 chapters to Esther. Ralph's already uses letters to integrate
>>     Greek
>>     passages into the text.
>>     In fact, Catholic versification simply follows Ralph's. So I suggest
>>     that we seriously reopen this question with concrete suggestions.
>>     For my part, the suggestion is simple: convert the numbers in the
>>     Greek
>>     passages into verses and offset the numbered verses in the same
>>     chapters. I'll copy you on what that might look like.
>>
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