I am very pleased to announce a new version of the Manuscript
Comparator which features the ability to compare more than two
manuscripts at once:
http://openscriptures.org/prototypes/manuscript-comparator/
(It takes a few seconds to initially serve requests, but once a
specific request has been processed it is then cached so that it can
be served immediately for the same request in the future.)
There are now six manuscripts in the system:
1. MorphGNT with UBS4
2. Westcott/Hort
3. Nestle-Aland 27th/UBS4
4. Tischendorf 8th ed. v2.5 (Qere)
5. Byzantine/Majority Text (2000)
6. Textus Receptus (1551)
As the Introduction on the page explains:
"Select the manuscripts for comparison and place them in either the
(first) preferred list or the (second) deprecated list; each list must
contain at least one manuscript. In the output, unique content from
preferred manuscripts will appear as insertions, whereas unique
content from deprecated manuscripts will appear as deletions. Where
the (combined) manuscripts from either the preferred list or the
deprecated list don't agree among themselves themselves, the words
will appear in bold regardless of whether they also occur in the other
list. Upon hovering over these bold words, their attesting manuscripts
will be highlighted. In the parallel view, hovering over words
attested to by both preferred and deprecated manuscripts will result
in the equivalent words on either side being highlighted.
"You may also reorder the manuscripts in the two lists to indicate
precedence, so that where manuscripts agree, the equivalent content
from the manuscript with a higher precedence will be displayed instead
of content from a manuscript with lower precedence. This matters
because manuscripts have differences in casing, diacritics, and
punctuation. Likewise, the reference system of the manuscript with
higher precedence will be displayed.
"By hovering over a word, all of the available morphosyntactic
information will be displayed in a raw format. In an upcoming edition,
this information will be presented in a better interface."
Much of the credit for the new form interface goes to my wife who
inspired the fundamental design. I don't recall ever having come
across any UI that intuitively displays a comparison of more than two
texts at a time. I think we've come up with a good interface.
Be sure to try both the Parallel and Unified views. The Unified view
will serve as foundation for the manuscript-side of the tool which
will allow us to link the semantic units between manuscripts and
translations.