Hi David,<div><br></div><div>Yes we have the full book names in <a href="http://www.crosswire.org/svn/jsword/trunk/jsword/src/main/resources/org/crosswire/jsword/versification/">BibleNames_*.properties</a> so somebody could possibly guesstimate reasonable abbreviated book names from the full book names. There is the possibility of initially merely using the guesstimates in And Bible until they were proven by a public release and then pushing them back up to (J)Sword depending on how confident people felt.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Looking through them again I think it would be possible to guess most abbreviations and it may well be that there is no agreed abbreviation anyway e.g. there are various acceptable abbreviations for Philippians, 2 Corinthians, etc. so our guesstimates might be considered valid. On consideration it would probably make more sense to manually guesstimate abbreviations than to attempt to automate abbreviations in code. Thai and Ukranian could pose challenges but should be doable with a bit of guesswork.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Martin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 January 2011 08:34, David Haslam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dfhmch@googlemail.com">dfhmch@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I've occasionally received source text files (non-English versions) where the<br>
same abbreviation was used for two different books!<br>
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e.g. Jud used for Judges and Jude<br>
e.g. Jo used for Joshua and John, not to mention Jonah and Joel.<br>
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These delinquencies certainly catch out the unwary, and require extra<br>
workarounds.<br>
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Martin,<br>
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For all the listed languages where you don't have the short abbreviations,<br>
do you already have the full book names?<br>
<br>
David<br>
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