[sword-devel] How to deal with weird versifications

[pinoaffe]

Thanks for your response,

Peter von Kaehne <refdoc at gmx.net> writes:

> One simple option is to run each versification and check how much
> misery you see.
Yup, that's what I've been doing, but since osis2mod goes in an infinite
loop when faced with extra chapters (that are in the bible but not in
the versification), that is sometimes quite annoying

> our versifications are meant to be good , approximate guesses, not
> exact fits.
Yeah, these just tend to be 

> But that said German Lutheran would be a likely fit, no?
Sadly no, so far i've managed to find a workable match for three of the
four bibles (two Vulg, one NRSVA), and they pass preliminary inspection
on my phone using AndBible.

But even then there are large problems such as entire books (AddDan and
AddEsth) that are in the bible but not in the versification - and using
the Lutheran versification causes osis to go in an infinite loop, as
described above.

The fourth bible ("Dutch Lutheran" from 1648) is by far the weirdest, it
has a 30-chapter version of 1Chr (unlike any of the sword
versifications), and it includes Bel, Dragon, PrAzar, and S3Y each as
separate books, so I think that will need restructuring before it can be
used as a SWORD bible.

Kind regards,
pinoaffe