We Need Help Testing the Scriptures

[speatross-p40]

Perhaps this is already included in the bug report you mentioned in your earlier post, but the search box passes text through to HTML directly. For example, on the page http://beta.scriptures.lds.org/fr/contents, if you search for “<FOI>”, it generates HTML that contains:

<input class='textfield' value="<FOI>"…

7.2) When searching for “esperance” on the gospel study page, some interesting text is displayed:

Titres dans les Aides à létude {0,choice,0#matching|1#containing} {1}

The URL for the above page is:

http://beta.scriptures.lds.org/fr/searc ... =esperance

8.a) Near the top of the page there is a reference to “D&C” which should reference “D&A”. It looks like all the rest is translated correctly.

Also, near the bottom of the page there are some characters which show up as boxes under an up-to-date IE7 (although Firefox 2 shows them correctly). In context, it’s the word “vers” in the following sentence:

“Cette option permet de rechercher toutes les références croisées indiquées dans les notes de bas de page et les aides à l'étude pointant “vers” un verset ou groupe de versets d'Écritures.”

(Note: in previewing this, the boxes turn to curly quotes, but I don't see quotes around it in Firefox, so I'm not sure if that's the wiki)

And here’s the URL:

http://beta.scriptures.lds.org/fr/searc ... p=&search=

9.a) I see some of the same character display problems on this page as I do on the other. For example, surrounding “Annuler” in the following sentence:

(il n'y a pas d'option “Annuler” après avoir supprimé la sélection d'une référence d'Écritures).

And here’s the URL:

http://beta.scriptures.lds.org/fr/searc ... p=&search=

9.d) After marking some verses and going to the selected verses page, the following text shows up in English on the top right:

“Clear Marked References”

Also, in your documentation you indicate that 75 verses are supported. The help description says that 50 verses may be marked.

That’s it for tonight.

--Kpederson

Kpederson
The first issue regarding HTML appearing when searching is being looked at. Development is looking at masking html when searching.

Thanks for letting me know about the other issues. I've passed them all along to development.
Your doing great work.
Stewart

[kalebpederson]

14.b) In searching for "foi grande" (for which there shouldn't be any exact matches), a number of results show up that are separated by one or more words. Only verses that have both verses appear. "foi extrême" has a number of hits, but also shows a verse that has other separating words, see "Ét 3:9" (the last hit on the page for me).

19.g) This appears to work, but in the processed I noticed something odd. When I lookup up 1 Ne 3:7, it shows a couple of interesting characters in a couple of places - by "j'irai" and "commandements". The text I'm seeing shows up as the following HTML:

^{&#149 ;}'irai

(less the extra spaces that I inserted so the entity didn't get encoded)

&#149 is rendered as a small circle next to the apostrophe, which
The URL is http://beta.scriptures.lds.org/fr/searc ... =footnotes

I've finished up through 20 now.

--Kpederson

[speatross-p40]

14.b) In searching for "foi grande" (for which there shouldn't be any exact matches), a number of results show up that are separated by one or more words. Only verses that have both verses appear. "foi extrême" has a number of hits, but also shows a verse that has other separating words, see "Ét 3:9" (the last hit on the page for me).

19.g) This appears to work, but in the processed I noticed something odd. When I lookup up 1 Ne 3:7, it shows a couple of interesting characters in a couple of places - by "j'irai" and "commandements". The text I'm seeing shows up as the following HTML:

^{&#149 ;}'irai

(less the extra spaces that I inserted so the entity didn't get encoded)

&#149 is rendered as a small circle next to the apostrophe, which
The URL is http://beta.scriptures.lds.org/fr/searc ... =footnotes

I've finished up through 20 now.

--Kpederson

Thanks KPederson;

Thanks for your work. The first issue is actually working the way it's suppose to. The search engine will find all occurrences of the phrase as well as scriptures that contain all words in the phrase.

The second issue I'm not able to see.

Thanks for your help
Stewart

[KathrynGZ]

I recently found dates that appear incorrect in several chapter headings of the Book of Mormon English version. I haven't checked any other language versions.

The heading for 3 Ne 28 gives the date as Between A.D. 34 and 35. This is correct for the first half of the chapter, but starting in verse 24 the last prophet Mormon begins his commentary. Mormon lived several hundred years later. (According to the chapter headings in Mormon, the prophet Mormon wrote A.D. 322 to 400 or so.)

Mormon's commentary continues in 3 Ne 29 and 30, but both of these chapter headings also specify A.D. 34 and 35 as the date.

Kathryn

[speatross-p40]

I recently found dates that appear incorrect in several chapter headings of the Book of Mormon English version. I haven't checked any other language versions.

The heading for 3 Ne 28 gives the date as Between A.D. 34 and 35. This is correct for the first half of the chapter, but starting in verse 24 the last prophet Mormon begins his commentary. Mormon lived several hundred years later. (According to the chapter headings in Mormon, the prophet Mormon wrote A.D. 322 to 400 or so.)

Mormon's commentary continues in 3 Ne 29 and 30, but both of these chapter headings also specify A.D. 34 and 35 as the date.

Kathryn

Kathryn, thanks for your post. This particular thread in the online scriptures forum is dedicated to testing pre-release languages of the online scriptures. When testing the pre-release version our job is to make sure the online version matches the printed version.

The dates that you mention are also listed in the printed version of 3 Nephi 28, 29 and 30. The online version of the scriptures matches the dates found in the printed versions which means the translation of the online version is correct.

Thanks.
Stewart

[dobrichelovek]

Any chance we could find out a general unofficial timetable for some of the other languages we are waiting for? Russian is my personal interest, as I know the re-translation was being worked more than 10 years ago. Generalities are fine, such as, this decade, within two years, not sooner than x months, etc... Thanks.

[WelchTC]

Any chance we could find out a general unofficial timetable for some of the other languages we are waiting for? Russian is my personal interest, as I know the re-translation was being worked more than 10 years ago. Generalities are fine, such as, this decade, within two years, not sooner than x months, etc... Thanks.

All I can say is that it is on the list of languages to push but it has not been scheduled yet. Sorry for not having a clearer answer.

Tom

[dobrichelovek]

All I can say is that it is on the list of languages to push but it has not been scheduled yet. Sorry for not having a clearer answer.

Tom

I didn't quite mean THAT general! Thanks though.

[dobrichelovek]

I saw that the chinese version of the triple-combination has been posted (according to the lds.org website) and I was curious what was queued up next. I went to the beta.scriptures.lds.org website and noticed that (although it was down over the holidays) it now requires authentication. Is that temporary, or is it going to be invitation-only going forward?

Thanks.

[peatrosssc-p40]

I saw that the chinese version of the triple-combination has been posted (according to the lds.org website) and I was curious what was queued up next. I went to the beta.scriptures.lds.org website and noticed that (although it was down over the holidays) it now requires authentication. Is that temporary, or is it going to be invitation-only going forward?

Thanks.

You can still log onto beta.scriptures.lds.org and participate in beta testing the online scriptures. Send me an E-mail and I will give you the log in credentials. My E-mail is peatrosssc@ldschurch.org.