Re: [Tyndale STEP - Programming] History Widget and Tables

For some reason, I'm not getting the replies.

The example of Solomon, was just to prove the point that the scripture reference needs to be stored in  a way other than textual form, as you can just compare two pieces of text and work out if there is overlap between one scripture reference and the other.

That's all.

Chris

2009/10/27 Tyndale STEP Project <TyndaleSTEP@gmail.com>

Colin and Chris - are you hearing each other's replies? Although I'm sending this discussion about tables to both the HIST list and the PROG list, I think replies from you two are sometimes missing each other, cos Colin is on the HIST list and Chris is on the PROG list.

Colin, I'm adding you onto the "PROG" (Programming) list, so that discussions like this will go to you automatically.
You'll also get a load of stuff you aren't interested in, but you can ignore that. And you'll prob get two copies of this post.

David IB

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The CSV files can be kept simple as is. We'll just need to do some parsing to get them into our own format. For example I expect the scripture referencing to end up in different tables, which would make mainting lots of CSV files clumsy if we're going to try and replicate that!
Chris

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At 14:47 27/10/2009, Tyndale STEP Project wrote:

My assumption all along has been that we're going to be working with two
formats - a human-friendly one for editting, and a computer-friendly one
for processing, with an automatic conversion script to get the former
into the latter. So, for instance, the uncertainty field would probably
be expanded into two fields, one for start, one for end, and the text
into some number.

Also that we'll have a derived database which contains the
"verse->whatever" connections. (I've got scripts to do this from the
data I've generated, more to help with cross-checking than anything
else.) I've done this by numbering the verses in the Bible from 1 to
31000-odd (hence the table of verse counts) but there may be a better way.

I'm happy to write the scripts to do these conversions, but I don't
think they should be particularly difficult.

I don't get the problem with the Solomon example though: wouldn't it be
clear that this is the overall story that the passage is part of,
particularly given 2Chr 1:1a? (There are going to be places where we
want to change the references, almost certainly, in the light of what it
looks like on the screen, but I don't think this is one of them.)

Colin

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