I agree with Chris.
It will take a lot of work in the SWORD and JSword engine to implement it.
If anything we should develop a v11n that can be read in from a resource file.
But before that I'd like to see support for mapping from one v11n to another.
In Him,
DM
On Jan 6, 2012, at 6:31 PM, Chris Little wrote:
> On 1/6/2012 1:29 AM, David Haslam wrote:
>> Extending Peter's concept, might we also make the book order something that
>> can be worked with by front-end developers?
>>
>> e.g. For the NT in Eastern Canonical order we might have:
>>
>> Scope=Matt-Acts James-Jude Rom-Heb Rev
>>
>> i.e. with the General Epistles ordered prior to the Pauline Epistles.
>
> I am very much against this idea. (I have no problem with different book
> orders, and would happily add a new v11n system if the need can be proven to
> me and the data can be provided to me.)
>
> Scope/Coverage is very strongly dependent on the reference system (v11n)
> used. And other aspects of the library, such as verse reference resolution,
> are very dependent on the reference system as well. An osisRef such as
> "Matt-Jude" has to mean something within the context of a particular
> reference system. In the KJV v11n, this means all of the text of the NT
> except Revelation. If we were to support use of Scope/Coverage to re-order
> books, we would be creating new de facto v11ns. Under the above Scope, the
> osisRef "Matt-Jude" has a very different meaning from what would be expected,
> assuming the KJV v11n were still employed.
>
> Fundamentally, I think we should avoid adding new, complex methods of solving
> problems for which we already have solutions. In particular, the
> book-ordering issue can already be addressed by addition of new v11ns. The
> number of cases where two v11ns differ only in the ordering of their books is
> probably quite minimal and better served by adding a new v11n.
>
>> This would be a further step towards "canon neutrality" as expounded by Neil
>> Rees ("Studge") at BibleTech 2010.
>
> I'm also not clear on how this would achieve canon neutrality.
>
> --Chris
>
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