[sword-devel] Module release: LXX

[Fr Cyrille]

Le 24/01/2025 à 00:40, Arnaud Vié a écrit :
>
>     Le jeu. 23 janv. 2025 à 22:18, Fr Cyrille
>     <fr.cyrille at tiberiade.be> a écrit :
>
>         So I think that for versifications, catholic catholic2 and LXX
>         there is no mapping (which would explain some of the problems
>         I've had displaying in parallel?).
>         In the other v11n files I see an entry by instance in vulg:
>         unsigned char mappings_vulg[] = {
>
>         If someone can explain or give me a documentation to
>         understand how it works, and if this is where the mapping
>         takes place, I'd like to work on it. Especially as it should
>         be possible to use Arnaud's work?
>
>
> You're correct Cyrille, the mapping data is in this char array defined 
> with the versifications in the canon_*.h files.
> This array is injected (for the versifications which have one) and 
> decoded within versificationmgr.cpp.
>
> The format of this char array is really obscure though, and it's 
> completely different from the format of mappings used in jsword (which 
> is a lot clearer and a lot easier to edit and maintain).
> From what I understand in the code ("// parse mappings" section of the 
> loadFromSBook method in versificationmgr.cpp) and the canon_vulg.h 
> example :
>
> 1.
> The array starts with a sequence of book names, which are the books 
> present in this bible and absent from KJV.
> Each such name is a sequence of letters followed by a null character 
> serving as delimiter.
> In canon_vulg, thoses are the
> 'E', 'p', 'J', 'e', 'r', 0,
> 'P', 'r', 'A', 'z', 'a', 'r', 0,
> 'S', 'u', 's', 0,
> 'B', 'e', 'l', 0,
>
> 2. Then, you have an additional null character indicating the end of 
> that first section - the rest of the array is encoded completely 
> differently.
>
> 3. The rest of the array is meant to be split in sequences of 7 
> numbers, each such 7-number sequence corresponding to a mapping rule.
> For example, this is a mapping rule :
> 21,  4,   9,   10,  4,   8,   0,
>
> First digit indicates the book (index in the sequence of books, 
> starting at 1). In vulg, book 21 is Psalms.
> The next 3 digits indicate the destination of the mapping. "4,9,10" 
> corresponds to chapter 4, verses 9 to 10.
> The final 3 digits are the source of the mapping. "4,8,0" corresponds 
> to chapter 4, verse 8 alone.
> So this rule I used as example denotes that verses Ps 4:9-10 of KJV 
> are mapped to Ps 4:8 in Vulg.
> Which corresponds indeed to one rule that is present in the jsword 
> mapping file.
>
>
> I guess I could try to build a converter to export the jsword mapping 
> properties files into this format, so that we could indeed add the 
> Catholic and Catholic2 mappings that I spent hours building for the 
> AndBible jsword fork.
>
Ok Then I'll way for this.
> But going forward, for maintaining versifications, it would be a lot 
> better to have a central way of defining all our versifications and 
> all their mappings in an easily readable and editable format (maybe 
> the one defined by the Copenhagen Alliance, cf 
> https://github.com/Copenhagen-Alliance/versification-specification/blob/master/versification-mappings/json-schema/versification_schema.json 
> ), serving as a source of truth for both sword and jsword. Because 
> even just looking at this Vulg versifications, the mapping have vastly 
> diverged between sword and jsword...
>
I agree...
> Even if we don't go as far as implementing the full modular 
> versification system that I would like to build, if at the very least 
> we could have a central, easy-to-maintain place to manage all our 
> versifications, and then could easily export them to both sword and 
> jsword, that would be a huge step forward.
>
> Regards,
>
> Arnaud

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