For sometime now, the SWORD VerseKey class has had a method to obtain a biblical book's "preferred abbreviation":
VerseKey::getBookAbbrev Since inception, this has been implemented to return simply the OSIS abbreviation, but has always been intended to return a localized preferred abbreviation. (we already have a method to get the OSIS book name: VerseKey::getOSISBookName) There is now a new section in locales.d/*.conf files supported which allows these preferred abbreviations for a locale to be supplied. For testing, I have added the section to the de-ut8.conf, with my feeble attempt to choose a German abbreviation for each book. Please, could a German native speaker update these to the most common preferred abbreviation for each book by checking a few printed sources? Anyway, I would love to have this section supported for each SWORD locale. Please submit for any language you feel qualified to update. Please check printed sources to confirm your chosen abbreviations are in common use. Also, be sure your chosen abbreviation also parseable by the locale! i.e., it should also have an entry in [Book Abbrevs] which allows it to parse. Reminder: the entry in Book Abbrevs only needs to be a superset for the abbreviation, e.g., a single entry in Book Abbrevs: "Genesis", will allow parsing of "Genesis", "Genesi", "Genes", "Gene", "Gen", "Ge", and "G" to all be parsed as "Genesis", provided another, more exact entry doesn't exist. The format is: OSISID=PreferredAbbrevForLocale and the de-utf8.conf locale can be used as an example, by looking at its [Pref Abbrev] section. http://crosswire.org/svn/sword/trunk/locales.d/de-utf8.conf Thank you in advance for your locale contributions, Troy _______________________________________________ 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
