Re: [sword-devel] Fwd: New Public Domain Portuguese Translation of the Bible

2012-08-27 Thread David Haslam
I just did a character frequency analysis using BabelPad. The text still contains several (?numerous?) OCR errors. Here's an example containing the ampersand. Gen 022:013 Então levantou Abrahão o& seus olhos , e olhou ; e eis um carneiro detraz d'elle , travado pelas suas pontas n'um matto ; e fo

Re: [sword-devel] Fwd: New Public Domain Portuguese Translation of the Bible

2012-08-27 Thread David Haslam
Good find. Contains 66 books. The text file format is simple enough - it's verse per line from line 42 onwards. Reference style is like this: Chapter and verse numbers each have 3 digits with leading zeros. Apo 022:021 A graça de nosso Senhor Jesus Christo seja com todos vós . Amen . Conversio

Re: [sword-devel] OSIS book abbreviations for Sword updated

2012-08-27 Thread Andrew Thule
Chris, good work. Can I recommend names of the Greek form, such as the following: Esias Jeremias Osee Obdias Michaeas Naum Ambacum Sophonias Aggaeus Since they are associated with the LXX and appear Anglicized in English versions. ~A On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 7:53 AM, DM Smith wrote: > Thanks fo

[sword-devel] Fwd: New Public Domain Portuguese Translation of the Bible

2012-08-27 Thread Joachim Ansorg
Hi, I received this email some dazs ago and think that it might be interesting to some of you. Regards, Joachim -- <>< Re: deemed! > There is another Portuguese Bible on Public Domain. It is the translation of > João Ferreira de Almeida published in 1911. > > It was scanned, made OCR and rea

[sword-devel] Status of av11n?

2012-08-27 Thread Matěj Cepl
Hi, could somebody enlighten me on the current status of av11n in JSword? Owners of the original text got information about page referring to my module CzeCSP on http://pns.tode.cz/preklady.html and they wonder what's the current status of it. I am especially interested in And Bibile. Thank

Re: [sword-devel] Speech synthesis voices?

2012-08-27 Thread David Haslam
When I mentioned "/Wired For Sound/", it hardly occurred to me to recall that it was released as long ago as 1981. The Sony Walkman was first marketed in Japan during 1979. So this is not new! We're more accurately thinking of the "old generation". Younger than I am of course, but not by any stre

Re: [sword-devel] OSIS book abbreviations for Sword updated

2012-08-27 Thread DM Smith
Thanks for the heads up. I'll update JSword accordingly. Let me know if you think I should wait a bit for greater stability. I'm guessing that the Paratext abbreviations are reasonable abbreviations for user input? Regarding the possibility of objections of inclusion: To me an osisID is of valu

Re: [sword-devel] Speech synthesis voices?

2012-08-27 Thread David Haslam
Thanks Peter, Yep - the primary context for starting this thread was the long established TTS feature in *And Bible*. As Martin highlighted earlier, for front-ends designed for mobile devices to which ear-phones are a common accessory, the feature can be of real benefit, facilitating as it does t