I'll try to get it from msword to VPL. If you are concerned about paragraph formatting, WOC, etc. and someone with more experience volunteers, go with them. I would be stripping everything but scripture, chapter headings, and verse numbers. (i.e. no footnotes, etc.)
My wife and her sister are Visaya (Misamis Occidental) and will be able to do cursory proofreading of my work. Bisaya, Pisaya, Visaya, and Cebuano are sub-dialects or just spelling variations, right? --- On Sat, 7/25/09, David Haslam <d.has...@ukonline.co.uk> wrote: > From: David Haslam <d.has...@ukonline.co.uk> > Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Bisaya-Inunhan New Testament (Philippines) > To: sword-devel@crosswire.org > Date: Saturday, July 25, 2009, 1:45 PM > > Jonathan was unable to complete the task of building a > module. > > Would someone else like to pick up this baton and run with > it? > > -- David Haslam > > David Haslam wrote: > > > > Thanks Jonathan, > > > > Just to inform other mailing list recipients that you > are assisting, and > > have made considerable progress already. > > > > -- David > > > > Jonathan Marsden wrote: > >> > >> David Haslam wrote: > >> > >>> The translator has supplied me with up-to-date > copies of his > >>> Bisaya-Inunhan > >>> translation of the NT in MS Word format. > >>> Who would like to volunteer and help make a > SWORD module? > >> > >> Hmmm! I lived in the Philippines for 8 years > as a missionary, married > >> there, and both my kids were born there... my wife > speaks some Bisayan, > >> although not that exact dialect. > >> > >> This sounds like a good way to test out the module > development tools in > >> RC2 / RC3 :) > >> > >> So I'll help. Can you email me (or make > available on a > >> password-protected web site, or whatever) the > original text; I'm no > >> Bible translator (although SIL wanted me to become > one, years ago!), but > >> with your help I can probably get this done. > I'm very Unix/Linux > >> fluent, so sed scripting doesn't scare me :) > >> > >> Jonathan > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Bisaya-Inunhan-New-Testament-%28Philippines%29-tp23258810p24660522.html > Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at > Nabble.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 > _______________________________________________ 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
