Raphael wrote: > How is it possible to keep the numbering scheme with 2.11 verse and no 1.17 > in Sword modules, given that osis2mod automatically removes 2.11?
Welcome to the wonderful world of v11n schemes. v11n: Versification. [Name comes from v then 11 letters, then N.] [If a word has four letters, with the middle two being numbers, then it is an abbrevation for word that starts with the first letter, ends with the last letter, and the number is the number of letters between the first and last letter. Of course, sometimes people make spelling mistakes such as l18n instead of either i18n, or l10n. ] The WLC uses one versifiction scheme. The KJV uses a different versification scheme. [This is especially noticable in Psalms. (The Psalter used by the Anglican Church ues the Hebrew v11n scheme for Pslams, whilst the "official" Bible is/was the KJV with deuterocanonical books. ) ] Louis Segard, and, I _think_ , most French Bibles use a v11n scheme that is different from both the WLC & KJV. Up until roughly 1980, there were around twenty different v11n schemes in common usage. Since then, it seems like every "major" new translation of the Bible into English has resulted in a new v11n scheme. I'm not sure if the same thing has been happening in other languages, or not. In an ideal world, the Sword Project front end would be able to recognize, and adjust the Bible versions/translations, according to the v11n scheme that is used. Until that happens, you are more or less stuck with recasting the Bible into the v11n scheme that The Sword Project uses. [ I don't remember if it uses the KJV, AV, or ASV v11n scheme.] I had --- probably still have somewhere --- a spreadsheet that shows how the KJV maps to some of the other v11n schemes. It is not complete. It does not map verse sections to the "correct" verese ( EG: 0 to 1a 1 to 1b. for most Psalms, when going from Hebrew to KJV v11n.] Once a mapping of verse sections to verse sections is made, then one can implement a function in various front ends, that will enable it to correctly recognize the various v11n schemes. Note: The process of mapping one v11n scheme to another, gets very messy, once one runs into the deuterocanonical books. [ Baruch 6 and EpJer 1 are the same text in all v11n schemes. 2 Esdras in one v11n scheme may be 1 Esdras, 2 Esdras, 3 Esdras, or 4 Esdras in another v11n scheme. To know which verse maps to which verse, you have to know both the canon and v11n scheme of the text that one is looking at.] xan jonathon -- Ethical conduct is a vice. Corrupt conduct is a virtue. Motto of Nacarima. _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page