> 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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