Re: [be] versification - non-Bibledit user

[Eric]

Thank you so much, Teus! I do hope to use Bibledit in the future. I tried once 
to install it on my Mac, but I'm not a power user and don't really understand 
how to install things when there are several programs that BE is dependent on. 
Maybe someday there'll be a .dmg to install it and let us dummies use it. In 
the mean time, you're constantly improving it, so by the time I get to use it, 
it'll be simply wonderful.

Blessings,
Eric


On Mar 6, 2010, at 4:44 PM, Teus Benschop wrote:

> Most likely it would be enough to provide the programmer with the file
> "mapping_english.xml", since that would have the mapping in a form as
> shown below:
> 
> <map>
>  <book>Genesis</book>
>  <id>1</id>
>  <chapter>31</chapter>
>  <verse>55</verse>
>  <original-book>Genesis</original-book>
>  <original-id>1</original-id>
>  <original-chapter>32</original-chapter>
>  <original-verse>1</original-verse>
> </map>
> 
> The above says that Gen.31.55 in the English versification is equal to
> Gen.32.1 in the original versification, that is, the Hebrew one.
> 
> Teus.
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 15:14 +0200, Eric Chapman wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> I'm not a Bibedit user (I sometime hope to be). I have been lurking on the 
>> BE lists for quite a while. I'm wondering if you might help me with 
>> versification. I have manually changed versification in the past and am 
>> looking for a quicker way to do it. I have a USFM Bible file that I believe 
>> follows something close to what would be considered the "original" verse 
>> mapping in Bibledit. I am planning to have a small program made that will 
>> "harvest" the verse text data in the USFM file and reformat it for a module 
>> in a desktop Bible program. That is rather straightforward. However, the 
>> versification will be wrong, since the target program only uses the English 
>> versification (specifically that of the AV/KJV). Is there any way I could 
>> gain some leverage from work previously done with verse mapping in Bibledit? 
>> Could I provide the programmer with the "original" and "English" mapping 
>> files from Bibledit and save myself the time involved in manually checking a 
>> long list of divergent versifications? Any input would be appreciated!
>> Eric 
>> 
>> 
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