Re: [be] versification - non-Bibledit user

[Teus Benschop]

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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