If one applies a bit of lateral thinking to the phenomenon of publishing variant editions of the same Bible translation, it should in theory be feasible to combine all such common source editions into a single module with OSIS filter support to switch between the variant editions.
Example: The New Heart English Bible This exists as three separate editions: NHEB = the "standard" Edition NHEB:JE = the Jehovah Edition NHEB:ME = the Messianic Edition As I understand these, the JE is the "standard" one with the Divine name "the LORD" replaced by "Jehovah" the ME is the "standard" one with all instances of "Jesus" replaced by "Yeshua", and "Christ" by "Messiah", plus using Anglicized Hebrew spellings instead of Western spellings for many other proper names and place names. (e.g. "Miriam" instead of "Mary"). I'm thinking that were OSIS to be suitably extended, these variants could be made switchable by suitable module options. One could apply the same concept to the World English Bible, which also has the Hebrew Names Version of the World English Bible, also known as the World English Bible: Messianic Edition. It may be a bit late in the day to make this suggestion, but those CrossWire volunteers who were active in defining the OSIS standard might like to consider this. David -- View this message in context: http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/OSIS-and-variant-editions-of-the-same-Bible-translation-tp3529316p3529316.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
