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Here are described the steps needed to translate the Paramony from english to a new language of Urantiapedia. This is a task accomplish by “Editors-in-Chief”.
The Paramony is a file with cross references between The Bible and The Urantia Book. It has been created in english using a cross-reference relationship developed by Duane L. Faw (Paramony), converted from its original TXT format to a JSON format that is easier to process.
We start from the English version of Paramony found in input/json/footnotes-book-en.json. Make a copy of it and change the name to the target language.
The Paramony file contains footnotes (with references to The Bible) to be included in each Urantia Book document.
You have to translate the sections marked as texts (texts), as well as update the abbreviations of the The Bible books with a replace operation.
The structure of the JSON file is a three column table. For each document in The Urantia Book there is a section in the file that contains the document index (paperIndex) and a subsection (footnotes) that contains three columns:
texts) that appear in the footnote.bible_refs) that correspond to each text.locations). The pattern of these references is x:y.z#n, where x:y.z is the paragraph reference and n indicates the sentence within the paragraph where the note is found, starting with the first sentence ending with a period as sentence 0 and so on.This way of presenting the texts makes it simpler to copy and paste them into a translator like Google Translator and then paste the translation result again.
Example of a snippet:
{
"content": [
{
"paperIndex": 0,
"footnotes": {
"texts" : [
[
"Spirit light"
],
[
"Paradise Trinity",
"Paradise Trinity (Paul's early view)"
]
],
"bible_refs": [
[
"Ezk 7:55; Is 9:2; Mt 4:16; Mt 5:14-16; Lk 1:79; Lk 2:32; Jn 1:4-9; Jn 3:19-21; Jn 8:12; Jn 9:5; Jn 12:46; 1 Jn 1:5; 1 Jn 2:8"
],
[
"Mt 28:19; Acts 2:32-33; 2 Co 13:14; 1 Jn 5:7",
"1 Co 12:4-6"
]
],
"locations": [
"0:6.9#0",
"0:12.2#0"
]
}
}
]
}
Care must be taken to properly copy the quotation marks that may exist in the texts. Check here the valid quotes for each language: Quotation marks.