[sword-devel] Versifications and verse order

Chris Little chrislit at crosswire.org
Thu Jul 4 06:01:14 MST 2013


Book ordering differences are a trivial case, already handled by 
versification system definitions. E.g. the German and Luther 
versification systems differ, in the NT, only in book order. If you 
query Heb-Rev in German, you'll get the contents of 9 books. In Luther, 
you would get only 4 books.

If you care about out-of-order verses, put some time into implementing 
GenBook Bibles.

--Chris


On 7/4/2013 5:18 AM, Chris Burrell wrote:
> Hi David
>
> Book order isn't such an issue because you don't tend to line up
> passages across book boundaries.But I guess that's an interesting
> question, since it would mean that Gen-Ex could mean different things in
> different versifications. Presumably we're never going to support book
> ordering being different to the extent that addressing things in
> different Books means the OSIS IDs/Refs have completely different meanings.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> On 4 July 2013 10:39, David Haslam <dfhmch at googlemail.com
> <mailto:dfhmch at googlemail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Maybe the title should have included the phrase "book order".
>
>     As is fairly well known, the book order for the Epistles is different in
>     Eastern Canon than in the Western Canon.
>     This is just one such peculiarity for the NT.
>
>     There is also that odd move of some verses to a different chapter in
>     Romans
>     in the NRSV when compared to the KJV.
>
>     When it comes to the OT & DC books, things can be considerably more
>     complicated, as others have already noted.
>
>     French Bibles are among those in which the descriptive canonical
>     titles are
>     numbered as verse 1.
>     Yet we do not have a separate av11n for French Bibles.
>
>     The combining of Psalms 9 & 10 into a single Psalm, with subsequent
>     knock on
>     effects is also worth noting.
>     See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psalms#Numbering
>
>     btw. This is one of the 13 acrostic poems found in the OT.
>     We are all aware of Psalm 119 being the chief example,
>     yet Proverbs 31 & Lamentations also have acrostics,
>     and there are other Psalms which are acrostic too.
>
>     David
>
>
>
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