[sword-devel] help with step2vpl

2002-01-21 Thread Anthony & Kylie Kerr
Hi I have just discovered this fantastic project, my thanks to you all for your work in the Lord. I am a newish Linux user (not developer) and have abandoned Microsoft completely. On discovering the Sword project I was overjoyed because the one hole in my Linux system was no bible software. I a

RE: [sword-devel] NET Bible: why don't we have it?

2002-01-21 Thread Don A. Elbourne Jr.
I met the guy behind the NET Bible several years ago. I was excited about the project because the main selling point was that it was going to be a solid translation that was FREELY distributed. I do not know what changed or why. by grace alone, Don A. Elbourne Jr. http://elbourne.org > -

RE: [sword-devel] NET Bible: why don't we have it?

2002-01-21 Thread Darren DeMeulenaere
Has anyone approached them about our project. I believe I sent an email to them a couple of years ago, but never heard back. Is there anyone willing to approach them? Darren -Original Message- From: Chris Little [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 3:05 PM To: [EMA

RE: [sword-devel] NET Bible: why don't we have it?

2002-01-21 Thread Chris Little
> I don't believe that the net bible is gnu, or public domain. > I believe there is a copywrite on it. Yup. NET is not PD. It's not available for non-commercial distribution. As far as licensing goes, it's at least as restrictive as any other text I know of. There are I believe only two

Re: [sword-devel] NET Bible: why don't we have it?

2002-01-21 Thread Jonathan Hughes
Hey Everyone, > I don't believe that the net bible is gnu, or public domain. I believe > there is a copywrite on it. Yeah, I believe it is copyrighted however if they are willing to provide it for anyone to download for free in HTML format as well as some other useful formats, then I believe

RE: [sword-devel] NET Bible: why don't we have it?

2002-01-21 Thread Darren DeMeulenaere
I don't believe that the net bible is gnu, or public domain. I believe there is a copywrite on it. -Original Message- From: Jonathan Hughes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 10:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [sword-devel] NET Bible: why don't we have it? H

[sword-devel] NET Bible: why don't we have it?

2002-01-21 Thread Jonathan Hughes
Hey Everyone, I recieved a e-mail message from someone asking about why we don't have the NET Bible as a module. It is distributed for free from www.netbible.org in html format. Is it just the fact that it would take too much time to format the text from HTML? The guy that contacted me

Re: [sword-devel] OT: Announcing ChristianSource FSLUG

2002-01-21 Thread Leon Brooks
On Monday 21 January 2002 08:53, Lloyd N. Landers, Jr. wrote: > When you talk about > "Free Software," are you referring to software that only runs on Linux or > are you referring to software that runs on Windows? Straight from the horses' (er, gnus') mouths: http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/fr

Re: [sword-devel] locales.d/fi.conf with some questions

2002-01-21 Thread Tero Favorin
I've made a simple Finnish 1992 bible module. I simply split the multi-verses to single verses and indicated with special tag the different verse numbering since SWORD cannot handle these yet and I didn't bother to do anything with poetic lines and headings, although I've seen headings atleast

[sword-devel] locales.d/fi.conf with some questions

2002-01-21 Thread Markus Peuhkuri
Here is attached locale for Finnish; but I have some questions. The book names are according 1992 version of Finnish Bible and there are some differences to 1933,1938 version of "Pyhä Raamattu" (yes, there is some 8bit>7bit conversion error at list: in 7bit HTML it should read "Pyhä Raamattu"; th