[B-Greek] Transliteration (Was RE: Is there a downloadable file of all B-Greek emails, etc?)

Curtis Hinson curtis at curtishinson.com
Wed Apr 28 11:25:58 EDT 2004


It would be really nice if B-Greek or another website had an entire GNT in
B-Greek transliteration.  Like the online bibles, where one can put in a
verse and get the text, which could be pasted into messages.  I think a
fairly simple Perlscript or shellscript could parse the widely available
NA26 texts into the BGreek transliteration scheme, then any of a number of
free online bible CGIs could serve up the results.  I have a server if
anyone is willing to help me with the scripting.

I have the Sword bible program in addition to Bibleworks and Gramcord for
the reason that Sword claims to have a B-Greek transliteration.  However, in
my experience with it, it is not the "usual" B-Greek scheme.

The actual B-Greek guidelines state "This is just one way to transliterate
Greek, and members of this list use several different schemes, but we always
manage to figure out what is meant."  However I have noticed that some folks
feel a need to apologize if they use another scheme than the usual or
suggested one, and that occasionally someone else will express discontent if
another scheme is used.

It would seem helpful if one way or the other was made clear.  Either the
"usual" scheme has become the unwritten dogma, so the rules need to be
clarified, or else there should be tolerance for different transliteration
schemes. 

Bless the Name
Curtis Hinson
http://curtishinson.com

Abilene Christian University

-----Original Message-----
From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Carl W. Conrad
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 7:52 AM
To: Oun Kwon
Cc: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Is there a downloadable file of all B-Greek emails,
etc?


At 8:30 AM -0400 4/27/04, Oun Kwon wrote:
>Thanks for info.
>
>What format is this downloadable file?  HTML?
>How I can read it once downloaded?  Through a web browser?

No, it is not HTML; it is a text file compressed--GZipped; when uncompressed
it contains all the messages (with headers) of an entire month or the
current month-to-date. I use Eudora as my mail program and have found it a
snap to convert the expanded text file into a Eudora mailbox allowing me to
see dates, senders, sizes, subject-headers of all the individual messages of
the archive file.

Perhaps it may be useful to know that the archives of B-Greek are maintained
as ASCII-text files, not HTML; even if you send a message to the list in
HTML, as many mail programs do, it is converted by our list-software into
ASCII plain-text, which is why attempts to paste Greek fonts into messages
sent to the list regularly fail and result in gobbledygook and why we urge
people (a) not to paste Greek text from a Bible program into messages but
rather to use our conventional transliteration scheme, and (b) not to paste
text from a word-processor into messages--because diacritical marks and
punctuation marks generally come out garbled in the resultant text of
messages distributed to list-members.
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/
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