Re: [Tyndale STEP - Programming] Re: [Tyndale STEP - Programming] Re: [Tyndale ST...

Heya

I can probably get you a text version of all the bible versions you're interested through JSword fairly easily... All I'd do is plug into JSword, get all the text out I need and concatenate it all into one big text file per bible version (or if you prefer I could do one file per book). Or if you want to be clever, i could do excel spreadsheets, perhaps per chapter or per book, where each column is a version of the bible....

I don't think that would take too long to do... Depending on how many versions you want, it may take a few hours to run though... It'd be a sort of performance test against JSword!

(Not sure how copyright is affected though. I know KJV doesn't have a copyright for example...)

Chirs

2009/11/12 Tyndale STEP Project <TyndaleSTEP@gmail.com>

Tyndale STEP Project wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I was thinking of cross-referencing names and such things against the
> verse. Then having a table which would store all the variants for a word
> (not sure if we'd want that to be by verse, or variants across the whole
> bible?).

Chris,

Glad to see you've thought this through already. This looks good to me.

There's one complication where we have two or more people of the same
name (and want to link to different articles), but that's handlable with
cross-references. In this case we'll want to link Ramathaim to the Ramah
article.

The worst case I've found is Luke 6:16 where Judas the brother of James
and Judas Iscariot appear in the same verse. We'll have to be careful there.

Not sure about variants per verse or over the entire Bible. Maybe best
to assume we can do it over the whole Bible unless we find a counterexample.

> We could easily write something that parses biblical texts looking in
> particular for verses, and then automatically (maybe with a SOUNDEX or
> similar functions) tries to match different variations of the words.
> Then a manual check would have to be done to ensure the automated
> process is correct...

Do we have electronic copies of the texts available for this? (Obviously
you can do it by downloading it a bit at a time, or via the jsword
interface, but if we have text files it'll be easier.) It's looking like
this is probably something I should attack soon, because I'm going to
want a "list of articles we want".

Colin

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