I guess this comes down to having a reliable algorithm to calculate lectionary position from current date. And do this presumably for any number of different liturgical calendars.
As far as sword goes, this is not in the library so far and any workaround currently would be an annual reissueing of a devotional, adjusted to the current year.
I guess there is mileage in changing this, but a reliable algorithm is needed first.
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Is it possible to download an osis devotional template (ex DBD)?
Le 08/08/2017 à 02:40, Michael H a
écrit :
Yes, that's an interesting question.. This isn't
about just the Julian calendar, The liturgical calendar is based
on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring
equinox (also known as Easter.) This calendar is used to some
degree by almost all modern daily reading plans, not just
Catholic (it has "holidays" Easter/Christmas, etc. At a minimum
any digital reading plan should be able to detect it's Easter.)
There should be a way to encode these into a daily reading so
front ends deal with the date. There are only about 21 or so
possibilities, but there are that many. (The 3rd set of 7
depends on whether or not the calendar recognizes the 50th year
jubiliee, if I remember right)
There are really only 2 anchors: days before christmas but aware
of the weekday (last sunday before Christmas...) and days after
christmas (anchored on the Julian calendar.). and Separately
some days count days before easter and days after easter (which
are always in sync with the weekday, but vary on the day of the
year.), Full version for catholic has other feast days that
really go with days before Christmas (julian Calendar anchored.)
if the calendar recognizes the Jubilee it's just a bit different
on that year (I don't remember how, just that there was a
component to the math.)
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