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[Jogirl]

I see this referenced when there is discussion about working on a resource before it is ready to be converted to the right format to make a module. What does clean text mean, exactly? Thanks!

[Josh Bond]

I see this referenced when there is discussion about working on a resource before it is ready to be converted to the right format to make a module. What does clean text mean, exactly? Thanks!

It's when you use windex on the words and scrub them so they're nice and shiny!

Clean text is when the text is as error free as possible. No misspellings, bold and italics are proper, verses are Arabic digits, punctuation is accurate, headers are bold or larger font, page numbers/page headers are not mixed with the text, etc. When text is scanned and a computer guesses at the characters, the text will have errors.

Unclean text might look like this excerpt from William Nicoll's Expositor's Greek NT. There's a few issues with the text below. How would that look as a module? Not very good.

Too

0cov,

cf.

i. 20. The use of nouns instead of verbs is characteristic of this Epistle. The same idea is expressed more elaborately by St. Paul in Rom. viii. 29

{q.v.). Cf.

Origen,

Philocalia,

xxv. Oecumenius infers that the Apostle is thus the equal of the prophets, especially Jeremiah

(v.

Jer. i. 5).—

iv

ayioo-fiy irvtvjiaToti subjective genitive like 8«oC, being elect they are within the sphere of the proper work of the Holy Spirit. The context excludes the rendering

hallowing of the (human) spirit.

Peter uses the stereotyped phrase;

cf.

2 Thess. ii. 13 (which corresponds exactly to the whole context) clXaro vuas 6 flcAs air" apxrjs

(koto

irp. 0. «.)

. . . iv ayi

atrutp irvcvuaToc Kal irCarci

4xtj

6cias (els vir.).—els viraKor|v . . . I. XpiiTToS, the goal or purpose of their election.

Obedience

is a technical term: sc.

to

God;

cf.

i. t4, where it is contrasted with the ignorant disobedience of their past lives (i. 22). As Christians, they obeyed God and not men (Acts iv. 19, v. 29) ; God gives His Holy Spirit to them that obey Him (Acts v. 32). Compare the Pauline

obedience of faith.

This obedience implies a change of mind in Jew and in Gentile, which is effected by the

sprinkling of blood of Jesus Christ.

They are now cleansed from sin, which is disobedience in Jew or Gentile. Jesus Christ, the mediator of the

new

covenant, sprinkles those whom God selected with His own blood, as Moses sprinkled the children of Israel who had promised obedience with the blood of oxen (Exod. xxiv. 7 f.;

cf.

Heb. ix. ig).

[BaptizedBeliever]

But Josh, I've SEEN modules uploaded that look just like that! Are you saying there is a quality standard here??? lol

[APsit190]

But Josh, I've SEEN modules uploaded that look just like that! Are you saying there is a quality standard here??? lol

Hi Brad,
Absolutely and and totally! Fact is, bro, as a High Quality module creator, you get your names up in lights. In other words, you get mentioned and being recognized as one who creates quality modules/resources for e-Sword. That makes your work as something that ought to be downloaded.

I praise God for blokes like you, Josh, and others (names escape my mind) who've created quality modules have actually lifted the bar of what is acceptable and required for modules. the days of "mass production and push it through" type resource creation are over, and I tend to think those that are of poor quality will no longer be accepted. But that's a guess.

Blessings,

[Jogirl]

Thanks for the explanation and example, Josh.

[jonathon]

Clean text is when the text is as error free as possible. No misspellings, bold and italics are proper, verses are Arabic digits, punctuation is accurate, headers are bold or larger font, page numbers/page headers are not mixed with the text, etc.

I'd go one step further, and say that clean text uses a human readable file format, with the specific text file having been tested for validity against the standard tools to verifying the file format is "correct".

jonathon