Charlie
10-06-2006, 11:07 AM
I am sorry to write in English, but I do not know German. I am writing to address an issue recently brought to my attention from a BibleWorks user in Germany.
It is possible in BibleWorks to change the book names used to display the names of books and used to call up passages on the command line. Several years ago a BibleWorks user translated our book name file into German and we have included it in BibleWorks as a book name file (german books.bna), but apparently this book name file still needs work.
I am posting this message to see if any of you are able and willing to help your fellow German-speaking users by translating some of these book names.
You can read details of how BilbeWorks handles book names by clicking Tools>Options, going to the Book Names tab and clicking Help.
Once you have read the help file mentioned above, open the zipped DEUTSCH BUCHT.TXT file that is attached and you will notice a line for each book in the following format:
Gen,Genesis,Gen.,Gen,Genesis,Gn,1mo
Exo,Exodus,Exod.,Exo,Exodus,Ex,2mo
Lev,Leviticus,Lev.,Lev,Leviticus,Lv,3mo
Num,Numbers,Num.,Num,Numbers,Nu,4mo
Deu,Deuteronomy,Deut.,Deu,Deuteronomy,Dt,5mo
Essentially all we need to do is translate every item other than the first item of each line.
The second item in each line is the book name that is printed with references in the Browse Window (the Results Window in BW6 and earlier).
The third item in each line is the book name that is used when the list of search hits is exported without the text of the verses.
Even if you can only translate 10 lines it would be very helpful. You can just post your translated lines in your message or you can attach a text file as I have done here.
To use the attached TXT file as a book name file in BibleWorks just change the file extention from TXT to BNA and then copy the file to your BibleWorks\Init folder. Then click Tools>Options>Book Names and Open the file.
It is possible in BibleWorks to change the book names used to display the names of books and used to call up passages on the command line. Several years ago a BibleWorks user translated our book name file into German and we have included it in BibleWorks as a book name file (german books.bna), but apparently this book name file still needs work.
I am posting this message to see if any of you are able and willing to help your fellow German-speaking users by translating some of these book names.
You can read details of how BilbeWorks handles book names by clicking Tools>Options, going to the Book Names tab and clicking Help.
Once you have read the help file mentioned above, open the zipped DEUTSCH BUCHT.TXT file that is attached and you will notice a line for each book in the following format:
Gen,Genesis,Gen.,Gen,Genesis,Gn,1mo
Exo,Exodus,Exod.,Exo,Exodus,Ex,2mo
Lev,Leviticus,Lev.,Lev,Leviticus,Lv,3mo
Num,Numbers,Num.,Num,Numbers,Nu,4mo
Deu,Deuteronomy,Deut.,Deu,Deuteronomy,Dt,5mo
Essentially all we need to do is translate every item other than the first item of each line.
The second item in each line is the book name that is printed with references in the Browse Window (the Results Window in BW6 and earlier).
The third item in each line is the book name that is used when the list of search hits is exported without the text of the verses.
Even if you can only translate 10 lines it would be very helpful. You can just post your translated lines in your message or you can attach a text file as I have done here.
To use the attached TXT file as a book name file in BibleWorks just change the file extention from TXT to BNA and then copy the file to your BibleWorks\Init folder. Then click Tools>Options>Book Names and Open the file.