1900 Cambridge KJV formatting fixed... yet now many capitalization errors!

A Reformed · 2024-12-18T16:05:57+00:00

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The KJV resource "The Holy Bible: King James Version (Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version.)" finally fixed the idiosyncratic formatting it applied to "poetry" (despite the 1900 Cambridge edition not actually doing that)…
and yet now there are thousands of capitalization errors, mostly in the Psalms.

This shows a complete lack of proof-reading. If this were in print it would be recalled immediately for it's absolutely butchered quality, and yet why do we have to settle for it here? Some consider this work to be "holy", and it would be nice to see the right amount of care given to it that it deserves.

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A Reformed

And here is an example of the now corrected formatting, yet with the capitalization errors, in Revelation.
Notice that the capitalization will correctly happen at the start of the verse numbers, yet there are capitalization errors all throughout the Text.

Joe McCune (Faithlife)

@A Reformed This change has been made deliberately, not accidentally. In poetic passages, capitalization indicates the beginning of a new line.

Jan Krohn

Shouldn't the Logos edition reflect the print edition?

MJ. Smith

Is this from the same publisher and edition as the Logos which is Norton, David, ed. The New Cambridge Paragraph Bible with the Apocrypha: King James Version. Revised edition. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Jan Krohn

Good question. I thought so, since I bought it in England. However, it is Pilot Books, Athens, Georgia, 1996.

A Reformed

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1349765#Comment_1349765

Why talk past me and address something I am clearly not bringing up?
Are we looking at the same error-ridden screenshots, or not? It is even the default view.

Logos claims to provide a Cambridge KJV Bible, yet it is not formatted like any print edition which Cambridge has published (NOT counting the "Cambridge Paragraph Bible", which is not the traditional Cambridge KJV Text). As a result, their "poetic" formatting now has many capitalized words that are present in zero print editions despite selling people falsely on that.
Logos then decides to take away that poetic formatting and now cram their falsely capitalized words into the traditional verse/paragraph formatting.
These inappropriately capitalized words now make NEW proper nouns; which not only introduces many errors in comprehending the Bible Text, but also introduces the potential for theological errors.

Stop selling a false product, and a Bible that now has severe corruptions in it.
Just get the official Cambridge Bible from Cambridge University Press, that even BibleGateway has official access to under the title of "Authorized (King James) Version".

A Reformed

@Jan Krohn

Thank-you for that comment and photo.

Logos is supposed to be this "scholarly standard", and yet free programs (such as "e-Sword" and "theWord") offer more reliable editions of the Cambridge KJV… and they are free.

MJ. Smith

https://kjvpce.com/bible/revelation/18/9-20 seems to confirm your point assuming the site is reliable. @Joe McCune (Faithlife) It appears the caps are used in the paragraph version but not the verse version of the text - but that is based on the text online on the site given above.

Joe McCune (Faithlife)

@A Reformed We are rolling back this change. Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention.

DMB

Joe … you're a good man. Appreciate you working the issues.