Von: Cyrille <lafricai...@gmail.com>

> Hello,
> Currently the LXX module use the default versification not the lxx! :)
> What to do?

I think our LXX module is ancient and derived from an old OLB module at a time 
when we neither had alternative versifications nor the convictions we have now 
regarding going always back to the source. Which in turn means that we most 
certainly will not have any source OSIS lying around. 

I think the best way forward is an entirely new module. 

Fortunately the conf file of the existing module points at a number of 
potential sources - the likeliest one for free use is CCAT. I looked at it last 
night - it is a clear text, highly marked up text, but using a exceedingly 
ancient and odd format - not Greek unicode but marked up ASCII and worse. There 
are though rules for this kind of thing, to get transformation to a Greek 
accented unicode text. I have seen it before. 

Looking at CrossWire's subversion repositories there is a fair amount of work 
done on LXX related versifications, which Chris clearly had in mind to finish 
but never did. 

Wrt the wider question of keeping source files for collaborative work - we do 
keep source about, since I started doing the module uploads, so currently we 
hold teh source for about 80 or so modules. But this does not apply to older 
things. Sharing this widely for collaborative work is not always possible 
though. The Septuaginta though should be perfectly sharable and indeed best be 
stored on a public git server. I agree. But do check if anyone of the source 
providers has slapped copyrights onto it. Some big source text providers are 
not very friendly wrt open source etc and not entirely adverse to making vague 
and spurious claims. 

Yours

Peter

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