DM Smith wrote: > A good place for this would be: > www.crosswire.org/wiki/Alternate_Versification. > > Just add a section that gives: > The name of the versification, the description of the versification > and the date that it was added to the SWORD engine.
The number of versification schemes that must be supported is at least one greater than the number of pre-defined versification schemes that you come up with. If the versification schemes must each individually be added into the SWORD engine, and not just into the modules, there will be Bibles that you can't properly encode without upgrading the SWORD engine. Hasn't anyone considered a way to put the versification scheme entirely in the module, along with a recommended equivalent display in one or more reference versification schemes? Usually, differences aren't major, but the number of probable permutations is daunting when you consider the thousands of languages spoken on this planet. So, some sort of difference encoding might be an efficient way to do things. For example, in some schemes, the Hebrew Title of a Psalm is verse 1, and the first actual verse of the psalm is 2, etc.-- a constant offset of just one for Psalms with titles. Then there are verse bridges (not technically another versification scheme, but related in the way they are handled), as well as those pesky moved paragraphs, one verse counted as two or vise versa, etc. I'm guessing that if you think you have all of the versification schemes enumerated, a different one will come along, and not because of any heretical work, either. _______________________________________________ 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
