<div>Is this the same work that will allow study of the deuterocanonical books using SWORD?</div>
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<div>If so, I am interested in helping with this development effort.</div>
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<div>Thanks.<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/03/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Greg Hellings</b> <<a href="mailto:greg.hellings@gmail.com">greg.hellings@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I agree with Jeremy. This seems like an ideal time to surge forward<br>in the alternate versification planning. Last I had heard there were
<br>already significant plans/work in place already on this, is that true?<br>I thought the plan was to use a TreeKey with an interface that<br>allowed existing use of the VerseKey interface to automatically map to<br>the proper portion of the tree for selected verses to allow current
<br>clients to continue working with the library. Is that approximately<br>right?<br><br>How much work has been done on it? What remains to tackle?<br><br>--Greg<br><br>On 3/10/07, Jeremy Brown <<a href="mailto:jeremy.brown@biola.edu">
jeremy.brown@biola.edu</a>> wrote:<br>> That is really great. I don't post here much (ever?) but I am appreciative<br>> of the work Crosswire does.<br>><br>> I have a question, in the face of the coming onslaught of Bible
<br>> translations. It regards the versification schemes. I know people always<br>> ask about that, and it is on the to-do list. But I wonder if now would be<br>> a great time to do something about the problem. Right now (if I'm wrong,
<br>> forgive me), Sword seems to take non-KJV versification schemes and squish<br>> them into KJV chapter/verse format. I have tried to work up an alternate<br>> solution and basically I know that there is no perfect answer - every
<br>> solution has its trade offs. However, since has an enormous number of<br>> translations, and probably many of those don't fit the KJV versification<br>> model (they may follow the model of the national language where they were
<br>> translated, or merge multiple verses together e.g. verse 1-7), it seems<br>> like if you can plan a strategy and deal with the issue now, you won't<br>> have to code all those translations once, and then recode them again when
<br>> you do make the change.<br>><br>> I currently have about 30-40 Bibles/testaments that are mapped/partially<br>> mapped to the verse system in the NRSVA. The original versification is<br>> preserved in the database, but also the matching verse number in the
<br>> NRSVA. There are some things I would have done differently, that I now<br>> know about. If you are interested in hearing more from me about this, I'd<br>> be happy to share. You may already have some ideas in the works, I don't
<br>> know.<br>><br>> Keep up the good work!<br>><br>> Jeremy<br>><br>> <a href="mailto:sword-devel@crosswire.org">sword-devel@crosswire.org</a> on Saturday, March 10, 2007 at 11:00 AM -0800<br>> wrote:
<br>> >With great joy, I would like to officially announce that CrossWire and<br>> >SIL have entered into an agreement which allows us to distribute,<br>> >royalty free, SIL Bible translations, anywhere in the world, for an
<br>> >initial 5 year trial period.<br>> ><br>> >This is huge answer to prayer.<br>> ><br>> >A number of years ago, when we first started working with SIL/Wycliffe,<br>> >we had talks about publishing their Scripture translations. They
<br>> >proceeded to tell us of the internal struggles between those who wished<br>> >to release their work for free, and others who held that the<br>> >organization needed to continue to charge royalties for their work to
<br>> >allow them to continue work into the future.<br>> ><br>> >About a year ago Wycliffe started a project to use our software to<br>> >publish their Bibles online, themselves.<br>> ><br>> >This contract allows CrossWire to distribute all of their Bibles freely
<br>> >in all of our software!<br>> ><br>> >The papers came officially signed in the mail today. We are hoping to<br>> >have data files start coming in over the next couple weeks. We could<br>> >really use help in many new areas as we start to bring these great
<br>> >resources online.<br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> sword-devel mailing list: <a href="mailto:sword-devel@crosswire.org">sword-devel@crosswire.org</a><br>> <a href="http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel">
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