Re: [sword-devel] Bishop 1.4.0 and SWORD Utility Modules

2020-03-19 Thread Daniel Owens 
Not sure if I love it, but Google's Noto fonts are designed to handle 
many different languages. Noto Serif would not be a bad choice. We use 
it to publish books in Vietnamese. It is published under the SIL Open 
Font License. See https://www.google.com/get/noto/. I believe it is also 
converted to a web font 
already:https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Noto+Serif?selection.family=Noto+Serif. 



Daniel

On 3/20/20 9:41 AM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:

Dear all,

I'm wrapping up the next release of Bishop and would like to possibly
change the default reading font.

Does anyone have a special place in their heart for a favorite font they
would recommend?  It should be freely usable, have a good coverage of
Unicode and preferably already converted to a web font.

For other frontend developers, this next release of Bishop uses a new
feature of the upcoming SWORD release called "Utility" modules.  These
are modules which frontends can download, update, and remove with
InstallMgr, like any other module, but they are not intended to be shown
to end users.  They contain utility data for implementing frontend
features.  The specific utility modules used by this new release of
Bishop are the two Eusebian Canon modules which provide data for
creating parallel Gospel displays.  SWORD will eventually hide these
modules from the normal modules list, so they won't show in existing
frontends when installed, but for now trunk still shows them under a
category "Utility".

To see what you can do with this Eusebian utility module set, a
pre-release of Bishop can be installed from here:

http://crosswire.org/~scribe/bishop-1.3.901.apk
bishop-1.3.901.apk size: 8858668 md5: 8eaf67ad5eb7d205178638dcbef418b7

You'll need to turn on the "Show Parallel Gospels" setting.

Or you can have a look at SWORDWeb here:

http://www2.crosswire.org/study/passagestudy.jsp?key=Matt.3

You'll notice the Eusebian numbers in the left margin.  Click on one to
see the Gospel parallels for that passage using the currently selected
Bible.

You'll also see a slider at the top of the parallel Gospels page which
allows adjusting context before and after.

The Utility Modules concept brings a solution to the common problem
we've had when we'd like to include a dataset with SWORD for
implementing features in a frontend, but not have the module displayed
to the end user.  We've never had a standard way to include these,
update these, etc.  We've hacked a few datasets into the engine (e.g.,
the "locales" locale for looking up internationalized locale names), but
none of these are good implementations nor were standardized ways to
include or update these datasets.  I am hoping this Eusebian module set
will be just the first of many "Utility" modules we make available in
the coming months and years.  We should start a wiki page where
developers can learn about Utility modules which are available.  I'll be
sure to include a "how to use" primer in the "About" section of these
first two.

Hope everyone is staying healthy.  God's blessings,

Troy


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Re: [sword-devel] Bishop 1.4.0 and SWORD Utility Modules

2020-03-19 Thread Michael H 
I like PT Serif and PT Sans because they have a wide coverage in Latin, and
Cyrillic, including many minority languages. These fonts also have
complimentary narrow and caption faces that are handy for proper
typesetting, and a pretty well done kerning table, which really helps for
extended reading and pushing the font as small as possible.

The Font with the best unicode coverage in Latin that I like the best is
EBGaramond. (mated with Ysabeau for Sans.) But this is a tall font, and for
screens that's not the most accepted way to view. (Phone screens today can
(almost always) handle it, but the low res has created an expectation of
short and fat letters, not tall letters.)

Another very good unicode coverage font for latin text is Garava (
http://www.softerviews.org/Fonts.html ) It's shaped better for screens.
I've wanted to use the included illuminated capitals, but I don't get as
much time for development as I'd like. It's a good choice to include as an
alternative, but I wouldn't recommend it for an ONLY choice.

On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 10:13 PM Michael Johnson  wrote:

> On 3/19/20 4:41 PM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> > Does anyone have a special place in their heart for a favorite font they
> > would recommend?  It should be freely usable, have a good coverage of
> > Unicode and preferably already converted to a web font.
>
> I have been using DejaVu Serif a lot. It is plain, very readable, and has
> good Unicode coverage for several writing systems. It is also free.
>
> https://eBible.org/fonts/dejavuserif.ttf
>
> https://eBible.org/fonts/dejavuserif.woff
>
> https://eBible.org/fonts/dejavuserif.woff2
>
>
>
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Re: [sword-devel] Bishop 1.4.0 and SWORD Utility Modules

2020-03-19 Thread Michael Johnson 
On 3/19/20 4:41 PM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> Does anyone have a special place in their heart for a favorite font they
> would recommend?  It should be freely usable, have a good coverage of
> Unicode and preferably already converted to a web font.

I have been using DejaVu Serif a lot. It is plain, very readable, and has good 
Unicode coverage for several writing systems. It is also free.

https://eBible.org/fonts/dejavuserif.ttf

https://eBible.org/fonts/dejavuserif.woff

https://eBible.org/fonts/dejavuserif.woff2




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[sword-devel] Bishop 1.4.0 and SWORD Utility Modules

2020-03-19 Thread Troy A. Griffitts 
Dear all,

I'm wrapping up the next release of Bishop and would like to possibly
change the default reading font.

Does anyone have a special place in their heart for a favorite font they
would recommend?  It should be freely usable, have a good coverage of
Unicode and preferably already converted to a web font.

For other frontend developers, this next release of Bishop uses a new
feature of the upcoming SWORD release called "Utility" modules.  These
are modules which frontends can download, update, and remove with
InstallMgr, like any other module, but they are not intended to be shown
to end users.  They contain utility data for implementing frontend
features.  The specific utility modules used by this new release of
Bishop are the two Eusebian Canon modules which provide data for
creating parallel Gospel displays.  SWORD will eventually hide these
modules from the normal modules list, so they won't show in existing
frontends when installed, but for now trunk still shows them under a
category "Utility".

To see what you can do with this Eusebian utility module set, a
pre-release of Bishop can be installed from here:

http://crosswire.org/~scribe/bishop-1.3.901.apk
bishop-1.3.901.apk size: 8858668 md5: 8eaf67ad5eb7d205178638dcbef418b7

You'll need to turn on the "Show Parallel Gospels" setting.

Or you can have a look at SWORDWeb here:

http://www2.crosswire.org/study/passagestudy.jsp?key=Matt.3

You'll notice the Eusebian numbers in the left margin.  Click on one to
see the Gospel parallels for that passage using the currently selected
Bible.

You'll also see a slider at the top of the parallel Gospels page which
allows adjusting context before and after.

The Utility Modules concept brings a solution to the common problem
we've had when we'd like to include a dataset with SWORD for
implementing features in a frontend, but not have the module displayed
to the end user.  We've never had a standard way to include these,
update these, etc.  We've hacked a few datasets into the engine (e.g.,
the "locales" locale for looking up internationalized locale names), but
none of these are good implementations nor were standardized ways to
include or update these datasets.  I am hoping this Eusebian module set
will be just the first of many "Utility" modules we make available in
the coming months and years.  We should start a wiki page where
developers can learn about Utility modules which are available.  I'll be
sure to include a "how to use" primer in the "About" section of these
first two.

Hope everyone is staying healthy.  God's blessings,

Troy


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Re: [sword-devel] Fwd: [pkg-crosswire-devel] xiphos is marked for autoremoval from testing

2020-03-19 Thread Cyrille 
I understand  very well  Thank you for the communication, and already
for the work in progress.

Le 19/03/2020 à 00:01, Karl Kleinpaste a écrit :
> I should note that I am aware of the furious activity in the Xiphos
> issue tracker. I am ignoring it for the moment out of sheer necessity.
> I am up against a hard catch-22 on motivation vs. obligation.
>
> I will catch up on many things over the weekend.
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Re: [sword-devel] Ezra Project 0.12.0 released

2020-03-19 Thread Tobias Klein 

Thanks, Troy!

It takes a little while to load an entire book, but it's only a few 
seconds.


Performance could probably still be improved a bit. You've probably been 
browsing on NA28, huh? That's a module with a lot of markup, so the 
amount of data to be processed is much higher than with other modules.


There is a disabled button [Export to text file], which I would 
strongly discourage to implement.


This button is actually enabled once you open a tagged verse list (all 
the verses associated with a tag).
If it's only selected verses - would you still consider that a potential 
issue? I realize that you're thinking of copyright rules.


Best regards,
Tobias

On 3/19/20 5:53 AM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:


Hi Tobias,

I've had a try of your latest 0.12.0 release.  It works well on Fedora 
31.  It takes a little while to load an entire book, but it's only a 
few seconds.  It found all my SWORD modules on my system, which is 
great.  It works fine with the NA28 with an unlock code, awesome.  
There is a disabled button [Export to text file], which I would 
strongly discourage to implement. :) Great work!


Troy



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