INFOSTORM FOR BIBLE TRANSLATION AND SWORD MODULE PACKAGING
I seek information and experienced counsel to create a package for sword readers, and secondarily after that for step Bible readers eSword and legacy readers.
I am researching different markup languages and tool chains for Bible translation, Bible preservation, commentaries, lexicons, etc. as well as for creating sword modules and step modules. I will be working with Hebrew, Greek, and English.
I wish to convert hundreds of pages of outlines and notes into a commentary. Then I wish to package said commentary for step readers and sword-based bible readers like Xiphos and Bibletime. The commentary will be authored in English with copious notes about the original languages, culture, and idioms relevant to some passages.
I hope to find experienced people who can give me information to point the way.
Keep in mind that I can only use Linux and not Windows or Mac. No Windows or Mac software is any good to me.
I am trying to get information and links for:
- markup schemes (OSIS, USFM, ThML, and anything else, including niche or obscure schemes)
- markup converters
- indexers
- lexers
- module converters / packagers
- repository software
- collaboration software
- step readers
- bible module readers
- citation / reference / bibtex management
- license management
- fonts
- grammars
- translator notes collections and compendiums
- repositories of scanned texts, parchments, scrolls, papyri
- existing public domain or copyleft texts in English, Greek, Hebrew languages, especially plaintext ASCII and UTF8 files
- modern Greek and Hebrew analytical grammars covering especially the more contested and difficult passages of text
- Biblical cultural, ethnology, and philology resources
... and anything else considered relevant by experienced Bible translators, preservationists, publishers and sword module packagers.
If anyone here in the electronic ether is doing any work along these lines please give me links to the resources, tools and schemes you use so I can investigate and start piecing together a machine for the task.
Thank you, and God bless you!
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#lexicons
I just had to use a #translation #dictionary for "partir du principe" not because I don't know what it means in #French but because I couldn't remember how to say the same thing in #English. Anyone else experience this sort of thing?
(Note for relevance, I didn't start learning French from until I was an adult.)
I had occasion to refer to this page online today, so I took a quick photo.
"Gore, and Hazards of the Course" from Barbara Ninde Byfield's _The Glass Harmonica_. (Also reprinted as _The Book of Weird_.)
This is a strange literary treasure which really deserves to be available online somewhere.
Spotted #Hawkeye saying "black as pitch" in #Avengers c1965. I never even realized "pitch" was a substance despite using the phrase "pitch black" all my life. There has been a shift in #literature of the former becoming somewhat less frequent and the latter more (https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=black+as+pitch%2Cpitch+black&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-US-2019&smoothing=3).
#Marvel #comics #linguistics #lexicons #syntax #languagechange
Our #brain does not process #information and it is not a #computer.
Here is what we are not born with: information, #data, #rules, #software, #knowledge, #lexicons, #representations, #algorithms, #programs, #models, #memories, #images, #processors, #subroutines, #encoders, #decoders, #symbols, or buffers - design elements that allow #digital computers to behave somewhat intelligently. Not only are we not born with such things, we also don't develop them - ever.
I love #MMO #lingo. "Toon" was used to refer to your character in the early 2000s but has since mostly gone out of use, so now it has social meaning in signaling that you've been playing since the early days.
#linguistics #sociolinguistics #languagechange #lexicons #MMORPG #MMORPGs
Nice to see a #linguist like Lev-Ari given space on #NPR.
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