This a tentative question mostly re the doquery method of our diatheke. I think it would be really useful if we could have this method somehow be more part of our offerings, including e.g. in the bindings etc.
Reason: We are currently very much geared towards interactive continuous Bible reading/study, but the doquery method represents an option which is underutilised - a one-off static request for some text. No follow up. This could e.g. be used very well for various word processor plugins etc - something we do not offer at all, but would be well placed to offer. The only current option for getting text from a sword text into e.g. an OpenOffice document is by way of cutting and pasting from a frontend. Similarly the various existing church projection software packages. Insofar as they are sword-aware they seem to go through great contortions of exporting texts into databases etc instead of actually using the library I am obviously aware that the doquery effect could be easily reached with a few lines of code, but why not offer an extremely simple to use and very comprehensive one-off output method which requires absolutely zero knowledge of the engine? I would be happy to run with this once I got my LaTeX filters where I want them. I probably would require some assistance dt my lack of knowledge and experience, but would do the bulk lifting. Opinions? Peter _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page