On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 08:41:53PM +0000, Chris Burrell wrote: > > Hi everyone > > 200 volunteers to read 5 chapters of the Bible > > I'd like to find 200 volunteers who could spend 5 hours or so helping us > out
I might be able to help, if you can deal with Word files saved in LibreOffice instead of Word (I'm a Linux user). If you think you can, please let me see the rest of the instructions, and we cn plan from there. Fred Smith > do a comparison between the KJV and ESV, in order to help us create the > strong tagging for the ESV. With 200 volunteers we can almost cover the > entire Bible. > > The result of this work will be made available as a Sword module so that > everyone can re-use the work. > > How we're doing it > > What we've done is to do create MS Word documents containing both the KJV > and ESV. The documents have bright yellow words in them where the KJV word > doesn't exactly match the ESV words (which is given in the normal colour). > > So what I'm after is some volunteers to cut & paste the yellow words next > to > the equivalent ESV word. In doing so, you are effectively tagging the ESV > Bible text. Each chapter will then be proofed by Dale (copied), who's a > scholar in the US. > > Why it does the tagging > > The bit I haven't mentioned is that there numbers are attached to each > word, > so by moving the yellow word, you are essentially moving around the strong > number with it. The numbers can be mostly ignored. > > I have a more complete set of instructions, a video, an example file, etc. > for anyone who would be interested in finding out more. > > Please let Dale & myself know if you would like to volunteer a few hours. > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- ---- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- The Lord is like a strong tower. Those who do what is right can run to him for safety. --------------------------- Proverbs 18:10 (niv) ----------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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
