Danny Jones

Any update on this project?

 

 

I am hoping to complete this project this week. It's been a mammoth task, but I'm very close to being done. Most of the coding is finished, and I am mopping up any errors. Genesis - 2 Chronicles and all of the New Testament is complete, tested, and working flawlessly. Ezra - Malachi is complete and is now undergoing final revisions and being double-checked for errors. 

 

 

Hello, I just wanted to know if this Commentary is officially in the public domain? 

 

The Blessed Hope Foundation owns the copyright to the digital version and has given me permission to release it. The board of the foundation will provide a legal written release of the commentary into the public domain before the project is officially released online. 

What is taking me so long are the verse links to the comments. What I mean is that (for instance) a comment is made for Exodus 1:1-6, however, the marked verse that is listed in the file only has:

++Ex1:1

 

I can use the find and replace tool to replace all instances of "++" with the e-Sword mark "÷" and also replace "Ex" with Exodus. That is fairly simple. However, each comment has only one verse listed, though it spans several verses. I am manually typing the "1-6" or whatever the verses are to each comment link. 

 

Also, I am finding that the scripture reference abbreviations are not uniform throughout, and are giving tooltip a hard time. So, I'm manually editing all the bed references -there are many. I have edited the abbreviations external list, and that has helped some, but some of them could be mistaken for another book (i.e. Jud - Judges or Jude?) Mark is sometimes abbreviated Mk, Ma, or Mr. Many other book abbreviations are the same. I could skip them, I suppose, and not worry about tooltipping them, but there are so many that the software is missing, I really want to correct everything before releasing the commentary.

 

My 16 year old daughter helped me today, and she finished the entire New Testament in about five hours (minus the bad references that I will need to manually correct later). I have completed Genesis - Job in the Old Testament completely, and have tested the commentary file in e-Sword. Everything is looking good so far. I think another day or two of work and it will be complete. 

 

One question: How large of a file is too big? Should I break up the commentary into Old and New Testament files? What I have exported to CMTX so far (Genesis-Job) is about 5MB. I guesstimate that the completed whole Bible commentary would be between 20-25 MB. 

Ok, so I think I'm getting the hang of it. I'm using macros to automate some of the work, but there is a lot of manual editing that needs to be done. I've got a new appreciation for everyone who has put so much work into the Bible resources that I use on e-Sword. I've finished Genesis- Deuteronomy. I estimate that it's taking 2-5 hours per book, depending how much manual editing is needed.

I don't think that I would be able to tackle this project by myself, so I would like to solicit a volunteer that would be able to do it, or at least help me with some of it. I don't know if it is allowed, encouraged, discouraged, requested or required, but I would be willing to compensate someone for their time on this project. 

 

I'm getting the hang of the Tool Tip NT program, and I've finished Genesis and Exodus, however I can see that it's going to take quite some time to finish. 

Here is a link to the MS Word Files on OneDrive:

https://1drv.ms/u/s!...l21ftg?e=ftWUJI

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

Thanks,

Danny Jones