Hi, On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 2:09 AM, Peter von Kaehne <ref...@gmx.net> wrote: > Hi Tonny, > > To be honest the best set up for you would not be OSIS at this stage. > There are not the right tools available yet. Bible translators use > usually USFM which is where all the really good tools are available for. > > Large parts of the difficulty of translation in general and Bible > translation in particular is to be consistent - and this is where the > tools will help you to stay right. > > The most commonly used tool appears to be Paratext, but it works only > soso on Linux and is anyway not easily available. > > So the one right for you would be Bibledit, which is an excellent USFM > editor, fully open source, running on Linux, very light weight (runs on > those kiddies' computers from OLPC) and with an excellent collection of > tools - making use that all verses are translated, keeping all your > notes etc under version control, allowing you to have word lists etc for > consistency etc. > > After the translation is completed, as long as your USFM use is clean a > transfer into OSIS is simple. >
Thanks for the informations it is very appreciated. I just realized there are specialized tools eg: bibledit for this kind of things. Previously I thought it is only need good xml editor with xml-schema or dtd. I just installing bibledit on my ubuntu :) note: since I am not profesional translator (only software developer), I guess the output will be awful in term of grammar and language structure. It is more like a personal project rather than official/authoritative translation. But at least there will be Indonesian Bible Text later (if ever finish) which is freely available :) Since this is my first time to do translation, any tips/trick. guidelines, etc is very appreciated. If I am correctly interpret your suggestion, the project must be USFM, and later on it converted to OSIS/Sword, right ? Cheers Tonny Kohar -- Alkitab Bible Study imagine, design, create ... http://www.kiyut.com _______________________________________________ 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
