[sword-devel] How to deal with weird versifications

[Fr Cyrille]

Le 31/05/2025 à 14:37, pinoaffe a écrit :
> 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.
Do you know that andbible puts aside the deuterocanonical books, you 
have to open them via the sign + in the list of biblical books. 
Personally, I respect this choice, but I think it's a shame that it's 
imposed on everyone.
>
> 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
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