User talk:IndependentSkeptic

Proposal for your Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version): to boldface emphasize the words "the Lord", and make an audio-compatible "read aloud" edit of the text

(I posted this proposal a few days ago at Talk:Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version).)

I have been listening to the "shorter version" of your Harmony of the Gospel with a "Read aloud" tool on Windows 10. I would really like to go through both the "longer" and "shorter" forms of this Harmony from beginning to end, and make "Lord" and "the Lord" in every instance boldfaced, since Jesus is Lord and God (John 20:28). That would correspond to the Greek text Kyrios.

After that, I would really like to do a third edit form of this Harmony to stand alone, connected by link to the main article. It would simply be a minor punctuation edit, a version of the "shorter form" of the redacted text, just the text alone, without the marginal listings of the Bible texts at every chapter, for continuous listening, each chapter, without interruption. I have already listened to 2 of the pages, 1-7 and 8-14, and found this Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) really helpful. I already have several complete audio Bibles, but the automated "Read aloud" function of Windows 10 stumbles over some of the punctuation here and weirdly mispronounces some of the names and even some of the ordinary words. If you like, I could copy and edit the text alone (a third "audio edition - Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version)") so that "Read aloud" reads it more naturally as a kind of "radio narrative" for people with bad vision or who are blind. I used to help as a volunteer at my state's Commission for the Blind, and I think this would be a good thing for them on Conservapedia. --IndependentSkeptic (talk) 14:08, 23 February 2020 (EST)

(Feb 25) There seems to be no objection. I'll happily go ahead with my first suggestion, and simply go through and edit a boldface emphasis of all occurrences of "the Lord" and "Lord" corresponding to Kyrios in New Testament to emphasize that Jesus is Lord and God as testified in John 20:21.

--IndependentSkeptic (talk) 11:45, 28 February 2020 (EST)

About the "audio" edit proposal. I just finished listening to "Read aloud" of the "shorter form" of chapters 15-42, and it really seems like it badly needs an edit to make it a smoother narrative for listening, especially for people with impaired vision or blind. I'd like permission to take this on.

--IndependentSkeptic (talk) 11:45, 28 February 2020 (EST)

I have been able to create a User:IndependentSkeptic/draft page to work on developing the proposed "narrative form" of Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version). I set up links for pages to be created, including an Introduction page and an Index page. I also nearly finished the Introduction page, including an example of the difference in a computer reading of the existing Harmony text of the Chapter Five genealogy and its reading of the same text with phonetic adaptation of spellings and punctuation proposed for the narrative form of Harmony of the Gospel. But a few moments ago the Read aloud function I've been using just stopped. Apparently a glitch. I don't know. But until it comes back, I won't be able to do any more with it in this project. I'll keep checking. --IndependentSkeptic (talk) 00:10, 7 March 2020 (EST)

I'm going to go ahead and copy and paste and edit the texts of some of the chapters from the Harmony pages to two or three of my draft page headings. Afterward, whenever the Read aloud function comes back, I'll adapt the phonetic forms needed in the chapter texts for smooth computer Read aloud narration of them. --IndependentSkeptic (talk) 00:18, 7 March 2020 (EST)