[xiphos-users] Pericope

[Karl Kleinpaste]

On 5/22/25 8:29 PM, Guy Desautels wrote:
> Downloaded engNET2016eb ; it has the pericope.

I took a fresh look at this module. It's Second Edition content, though 
the module version reflects eBible's module generation habits and 
currently calls itself 35.24. The content is basically OK, but be aware 
that it has a few problems.

- It has Strong's numbers, but the markup is bad now and then. It looks 
like all OT refs to "LORD" are broken. For example, Jeremiah.8.4 renders 
poorly:
« The Lord said|strong="H0559" to me, »
This comes from some broken OSIS source:
« The <seg><divineName>Lord</divineName></seg> said|strong="H0559" <w 
lemma="strong:H0413">to me</w> »
Somebody's convert-to-OSIS script has a bug.

- Its configuration file claims it has footnotes, but no footnotes are 
actually present. To me, the singular, defining, top-tier feature of NET 
is the footnotes because they provide a running commentary from the 
translators' minds about how and why they chose their manner of 
translation. These include text critical notes, translators' notes, and 
study notes, plus map references, and collectively they're a vast 
repository of understanding for how this translation came about.

Errrr... actually, I'm partly wrong about there being no footnotes. Some 
extra analysis just showed me that there are 30 verses in the whole 
module that have footnotes. Half of them are in Isaiah 43, and the rest 
are "[[EMPTY]]" references for the 16 NT verses no longer found in any 
modern translation because textual criticism has determined that they 
were never found in the original autographs, being mostly assimilations 
to related verses elsewhere, esp. in gospels e.g. Matt.17.21 → Mark.9.29.

Isaiah 43:13-15,17-19,21-24,26-28; Matthew 17:21; 18:11; 23:14; Mark 
7:16; 9:44,46; 11:26; 15:28; Luke 17:36; 23:17; John 5:4; Acts 8:37; 
15:34; 24:7; 28:29; Romans 16:24; 2Corinthians 13:14.

- Every single chapter contains some blank introductory material. Now, 
each book's chap.1 has at least the book title as intro material, but I 
find it odd that every chapter shows this, which I see because I play 
some CSS games in ~/.config/xiphos/default-style.css just for the 
purpose of visibly exploiting some of the weirder markup I see in modules.

I would describe this module as acceptable for routine reading, but for 
serious study -- to have the good features -- you will do much better if 
you get the First Ed. modules from the bible.org standard repo.

On that note...

On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM oldschoolcowboy 
<oldschoolcowboy at protonmail.com> wrote:
> she responded and said they were dropping the requirement; she put the key in the email and said this should work; let me know if it does not; and the key was right there in the email; i tried it and it worked;

That being the case, folks might as well know that the key for both 
original NET First Ed. modules, NET + NETnotes, is "8064xdok7473VGUe".
Given Second Ed.'s existence, with a free, key-less Second Ed. module 
being distributed, it seems sure they no longer care about First Ed. as 
evidenced by their willingness to give the key away. And that's fine.
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