Re: [sword-devel] emptyvss and Mac binaries of utilities

2008-07-22 Thread Chris Little
It was pointed out to me that emptyvss isn't included in any of the project files (either the Windows project files or the Make system) so it won't be built by default. However, you should be able to add it into the Make system fairly easily. emptyvss is quite useful if you're testing modules,

Re: [sword-devel] engine profiling

2008-07-22 Thread Chris Little
SonWon wrote: where do I find the options for mod2zmod? I tried here, /www.crosswire.org/sword/ALPHAcckswwlkrfre22034820285912/idx.jsp I am wondering if it builds an index that points directly to the chapter? As with all of our utilities, you can get the command line syntax by running the

Re: [sword-devel] Error in AraSVD Vowelized Module/Suggestion for Separate Arabic Modules

2008-07-21 Thread Chris Little
Kamal Abou Mikhael wrote: To Whom it May Concern: Genesis 18:25 only has the first three words of the verse. Thank you for spotting this. The problem affected every verse that crossed a page boundary in the Word files. I corrected the problem and have posted an updated module. By the way,

Re: [sword-devel] Portable apps (was: Purge SwordReader)

2008-07-20 Thread Chris Little
There's also BPBible, which has a portability as a conscious design feature. See: http://bpbible.com/support/bpbible_portable And, yes, this is all summarized in the FAQ:

Re: [sword-devel] GerLuth1545lh : Current status?

2008-07-19 Thread Chris Little
Joachim Ansorg wrote: Hi, I just wanted to upload a fixed version of the GerLuth1545lh module I did some time ago. I noticed there are updated version in the beta area now. Who did update these? What is the current status of those? Joachim Hi Joachim, I just updated GerLut1545lh

Re: [sword-devel] GerNEU

2008-07-19 Thread Chris Little
Manfred Bergmann wrote: Hi Joachim. I just had a quick look. I opened the text on OpenOffice and exported to LaTeX and xhtml which both look promissing to do further conversion. Probably xhtml is better because it is valid XML. Versenumbers are marked in both xhtml and LaTeX (kind

Re: [sword-devel] French Bible Bovet Bonnet module - missin g ligatures œ

2008-07-19 Thread Chris Little
Thanks; it's all fixed now. The problem was that the oe-lig was encoded as #156;, which will appear fine in HTML-based frontends (but can't be searched) and will disappear from view in BibleCS. --Chris David Haslam wrote: In the module called FreBBB, all French words that should contain the

Re: [sword-devel] HNV WEB config glitches

2008-07-19 Thread Chris Little
Karl Kleinpaste wrote: Both of these modules' .conf contain GlobalOptionFilter=OSISMorph yet neither actually contains morph content. Thanks for catching this. They actually do contain some basic morphology content, but it wasn't encoded correctly. I corrected this and a number of other

Re: [sword-devel] Geneva 1599 Bible module - misplaced verses?

2008-07-17 Thread Chris Little
David Haslam wrote: There was a very similar bug in the ISV module, the ItaDio module, the ItaRive module. Probably several other modules too. This *sounds* like its an old bug in an importer or in the drivers that is being exposed because the bug has been fixed. If that's the case, these

Re: [sword-devel] Bibletime or Gnomesword packages for EEEPC ?

2008-07-14 Thread Chris Little
fred smith wrote: As for the suggestion of replacing the OS, I intend to investigate that but do not plan to leap into it without first verifying it is a good idea. I want to be sure that any replacement will work with all the builtin hardware, including the webcam, but most espcailly all

Re: [sword-devel] Indonesian Bibles?

2008-07-14 Thread Chris Little
David Haslam wrote: Has anyone in Crosswire ever thought about distributing these Indonesian translations? Bahasa Indonesia Seharihari Terjemahan Baru Terjemahan Lama These are all available at CCEL, and they state the files were automatically converted from data files supplied by the

Re: [sword-devel] Bibletime or Gnomesword packages for EEEPC ?

2008-07-13 Thread Chris Little
Karl Kleinpaste wrote: DM Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We have a wiki page regarding Eee PC running Linux. The downside of that page's recommendation to use the standard Debian repos is that the version of GnomeSword present there is chronically way out of date. domcox' builds are

Re: [sword-devel] OSIS Commentary Question for multiverse content

2008-07-11 Thread Chris Little
I think DM is planning to do some other work on osis2mod, so we can hope he spots this bug in the course of doing that. The bug could possibly be in the library itself. I would suggest building the module correctly the first time. Fixing this bug /should/ be a priority. How soon a priority

Re: [sword-devel] OSIS Commentary Question for multiverse content

2008-07-11 Thread Chris Little
DM Smith wrote: I think we can use JSword to test if this is a library bug or a module bug. Can you point me to a module that exhibits the problem and a reference in that module? If it is a module bug, then it can be fixed in osis2mod. -- DM Excellent idea. The mir_BL_1988 module

Re: [sword-devel] Arabic Bible

2008-07-10 Thread Chris Little
Peter von Kaehne wrote: Dear Chris, Thanks for putting the AraSVD with vowels already up in Beta. One remark - could you please put it up as an extra module and not simply as an updated/improved version of the old module we had? We can do that, but... 2 reasons: 1) Not everyone

Re: [sword-devel] Arabic Bible

2008-07-10 Thread Chris Little
Peter von Kaehne wrote: 2) The old version is public domain - this one is more restricted. A public domain version has significant advantages for third party distributers. Which sorts of 3rd party distributers do you mean? I think 3rd parties who are taking our content on CD (for example) to

Re: [sword-devel] OSIS Commentary Question for multiverse content

2008-07-09 Thread Chris Little
Diatheke uses the API, which inherently understands linked verses. It's not even possible for a Sword app to not return a value for a linked verse if it exists because there's no difference from the data stored for the primary verse. Besides, I've seen the linking bug myself. I've got a couple

Re: [sword-devel] BSPNG Permissions Update

2008-07-09 Thread Chris Little
If you think it would help your efforts (which we certainly appreciate), you could mention that WBTI gave us permission to distribute 40 Bibles (38 NTs, a full Bible, and an NT+Psalms), primarily in languages of Mexico Guatemala. There may be more, but that's the first batch. Those will show

Re: [sword-devel] JapKougo

2008-07-08 Thread Chris Little
DM Smith wrote: I'm wondering whether it is encoded sufficiently. I see how the module is marked, but it doesn't seem that it maps well to the definition of ruby. I'm not sure of the OSIS semantic that is being used. For those who haven't looked at the markup, the first ruby annotated word

Re: [sword-devel] JapKougo

2008-07-08 Thread Chris Little
DM Smith wrote: Should SWORD directly render the gloss attribute? Or should it treat it the same way as it does a lemma or a morph? And would it be a good time to add xlit also? Gloss is handled fairly similarly to lemma and morph. The render filter should do something to render the

Re: [sword-devel] OSIS validation surprises

2008-07-07 Thread Chris Little
Daniel Owens wrote: I am working on usfm2osis.pl still, and I am trying to validate the output. The foreign element is giving me problems. vbu26.out.xml:65535: element foreign: Schemas validity error : Element '{http://www.bibletechnologies.net/2003/OSIS/namespace}foreign', attribute

Re: [sword-devel] OSIS validation surprises

2008-07-07 Thread Chris Little
I found a nice little RFC 4646 language tag validator (and parser): http://schneegans.de/lv/ --Chris ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your

Re: [sword-devel] osis2mod and container elements

2008-07-02 Thread Chris Little
Sebastien Koechlin wrote: On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 02:07:09PM -0400, DM Smith wrote: There has been an on-going debate as to whether one should have verses be containers. To me it seems that sides are taken depending on ones role. Software developers, using the SWORD engine, nearly always

Re: [sword-devel] Problems with SFMToOSIS

2008-07-02 Thread Chris Little
Daniel Owens wrote: Chris, why do you recommend SFMToOSIS over usfm2osis.pl? If usfm2osis.pl gives you better results, then by all means, use it. But SFMToOSIS was developed in close collaboration with a couple of different Bible societies using the defined mapping between USFM and OSIS.

[sword-devel] WBTI Bibles updated

2008-07-02 Thread Chris Little
The set of 43 WBTI Bibles have been updated. The update affects the .conf files only--don't expect any change in function or appearance within the content. Indeed, the only change may be to the LCSH line. Two modules have been renamed: sco_BL_1986 became cso_BL_1986 xmt_BL_1983 became

Re: [sword-devel] osis2mod and container elements

2008-07-02 Thread Chris Little
Sebastien Koechlin wrote: On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 02:07:09PM -0400, DM Smith wrote: There has been an on-going debate as to whether one should have verses be containers. To me it seems that sides are taken depending on ones role. Software developers, using the SWORD engine, nearly always fall

Re: [sword-devel] osis2mod and container elements

2008-07-02 Thread Chris Little
DM Smith wrote: Chris Little wrote: It looks like I've finally found _one_ thing OSIS can't encode, related to this. OSIS is unable to encode a paragraph that spans consecutive books (because p/ can't contain div/). There is actually a case in which this is needed, across the 1Kings

Re: [sword-devel] MacSword bug?

2008-07-01 Thread Chris Little
They all use TEI. If you use the HTMLHREF filters, then an early version of TEIHTMLHREF is available. If you use the plain HTML filters, it still hasn't been written. (Does anyone still use the plain HTML filters?) --Chris Manfred Bergmann wrote: Hmm. The crash was for NASLex not for

Re: [sword-devel] usfm2osis.pl

2008-07-01 Thread Chris Little
Adrian Korten wrote: Good day, I'm a newbie with OSIS. Could someone say why you would prefer one over the other? Or how this relates to how Crosswire handles the files? ak My interpretation of this question (in contrast to the existing responses) was that it was not a question of why

Re: [sword-devel] Why is OSIS preferred? Was Re: usfm2osis.pl

2008-07-01 Thread Chris Little
** ThML is xml, but is layered upon HTML. It does not separate presentation from content. Cross-references are ad-hoc. ThML is also still (I think) used by the greatest percentage of our modules (though that may be changed in the future). Separating presentation from content is a nice

Re: [sword-devel] Why is OSIS preferred? Was Re: usfm2osis.pl

2008-07-01 Thread Chris Little
Karl Kleinpaste wrote: Jonathan Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ThML is also still (I think) used by the greatest percentage of our modules (though that may be changed in the future). ... Will GBF continue to be supported? I seem to remember that Chris reported lack of GBF support as a

Re: [sword-devel] Why is OSIS preferred? Was Re: usfm2osis.pl

2008-07-01 Thread Chris Little
DM Smith wrote: Of the current ThML module, there are 106 glossaries. (These probably would be best to be encoded in TEI.) If we ignore these, since most people find them useless and ignore them and because most front-ends can't do anything useful with them, the number of ThML modules

Re: [sword-devel] Why is OSIS preferred? Was Re: usfm2osis.pl

2008-07-01 Thread Chris Little
Karl Kleinpaste wrote: David Haslam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are needed some improvements in punctuation - eg. sometimes there's no space after a full-stop in the jvn module. That might be legitimate in those languages; I wouldn't know. But the modules' *.conf mention that one

Re: [sword-devel] Ukrainian Bibles, CCEL and Unbound Bible Project?

2008-07-01 Thread Chris Little
David Haslam wrote: Can anyone shed light on the following? The SWORD module Ukrainian is the whole Bible of 66 books, as derived from the CCEL file (ThML format). No Sword Bible has ever been based on CCEL content. The TextSource line in the module's .conf file will, more often than not,

Re: [sword-devel] Ukrainian module - numerical residues in 1 Chronicles 1 and Isaiah 1

2008-07-01 Thread Chris Little
David Haslam wrote: Although the country code for the Ukraine is ua, CCEL had used the two letter acronym uk for this module. Strange but true. uk is the ISO 639-1 code for Ukrainian (the language). --Chris ___ sword-devel mailing list:

Re: [sword-devel] problems with BibleCS 1.5.11

2008-06-27 Thread Chris Little
There's no regression. Most of these issues have never been features. Karl Kleinpaste wrote: I am experimenting with the just-released 1.5.11 Windows UI. It seems to have problems with some modules with images. - GnomeSword (manual module) displays no images, but there are scrollbars that

Re: [sword-devel] Copyright status of resources

2008-06-24 Thread Chris Little
jonathon wrote: All: I've just been asked about the copyright status of the following resources created by _The Sword Project_ * Hebrew to Greek Dictionary of Septuagint Words * Greek to Hebrew Dictionary of Septuagint Words a) What is the copyright status of those resources; It

Re: [sword-devel] Bible book names Database

2008-06-22 Thread Chris Little
You might also take a look at http://www.crosswire.org/~chrislit/osis/BibleBookNames.html --Chris Wolfgang Schultz wrote: Hi all, i need for my data base with bible references some input. ;-) http://code.google.com/p/truesharpswordapi/source/browse/trunk/usefullFiles/bnames.xml My

[sword-devel] another review of Sword software

2008-06-20 Thread Chris Little
I happened upon another review of free Bible software that I haven't seen mentioned here before. Overall it is quite positive. And unlike other reviews I've seen, it gives a brief examination of not just BibleCS, but The Bible Tool too (in addition to a few pieces of software/webpages not made

Re: [sword-devel] GerAugustinus

2008-06-20 Thread Chris Little
The About field actually has to be RTF (\u?-style). State your case to Troy if you want this to change, but it doesn't make much sense to me that we should want to include RTF markup and UTF-8 character encoding (which isn't permitted in RTF) in the same field. --Chris DM Smith wrote:

Re: [sword-devel] GerAugustinus

2008-06-20 Thread Chris Little
I suppose we'll have to get Troy to clarify our position. DM Smith wrote: I may have misunderstood, but I understood that Troy already spoke on this saying that SWORD allowed UTF-8 in RTF as an extension (I think this was also stated on the old Module Making page) and that the encoding

Re: [sword-devel] Luther1545

2008-06-19 Thread Chris Little
Manfred Bergmann wrote: http://www.bible-researcher.com/luthercomma.jpg I would say even in this ancient german the u is a u and not a v be it at the beginning of a word or within. Compare line 1, word 4, und vnd with line 5, word 10, vor vor. The same character v appears at the

Re: [sword-devel] Jub oddities

2008-06-19 Thread Chris Little
Karl Kleinpaste wrote: There are a bunch of things that seem peculiar about content at upper-level keys. First, why is there a single top-level key /Jub? If there is no actual division at that level, why does that level exist? Standard references to the book of Jubilees will appear as Jub

Re: [sword-devel] Luther1545

2008-06-18 Thread Chris Little
Peter von Kaehne wrote: It appears there's no ISO 639-3 code for Fnhd. I'll draw up a change request to see if we can get a new code. If not, we should add a subtag to the language of GerLut1545 to separate it from the real Nhd. material. Not sure whether I like this. Luther and his

Re: [sword-devel] Luther1545

2008-06-18 Thread Chris Little
Peter von Kaehne wrote: DM Smith wrote: I have curiosity questions. Is it that it is actually the letter 'V' or is it the letter 'U', but the glyph is looks like the letter 'V'? I think the glyphs are used interchangably - a V shape is often used for an u in the begin of a word, but

Re: [sword-devel] two SummaTheologica modules

2008-06-17 Thread Chris Little
Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Chris Little wrote: AquinasSummaTheologica is a recent submission from Pedro Giffuni, based on CCEL's (ca. 2002) OSIS 1.1 edition, converted to OSIS 2.1.1. Just a quick thought: AquinaSummaTheologica is an awfully long name for a module. I think

Re: [sword-devel] Barnes commentary and BD

2008-06-17 Thread Chris Little
I'm redoing Barnes at the moment. There's no need to test the current beta until a new version is posted. --Chris Peter von Kaehne wrote: I tried to open Barnes in BD on Gen1:1 - the result was the computer crashed. The processor load went up and the computer rapidly heated up while the

Re: [sword-devel] Luther1545

2008-06-17 Thread Chris Little
Manfred Bergmann wrote: Am 17.06.2008 um 22:05 schrieb Peter von Kaehne: Manfred Bergmann wrote: Well, if this text is supposed to be so then I guess no one can read it any more nowadays. Oh, I read it fine:-) Well, it takes some effort. :) This module is more for linguists I guess.

Re: [sword-devel] GerGruenewald and Daniel 3 - apocryphal material incorporated

2008-06-17 Thread Chris Little
I guess your suggestion is that the material from Greek Daniel should be removed from the text. We don't do manual edits to text or manual versification changes. Whatever is in the source goes into the module. The only exception is those books that are not part of the 66-book canon, which

Re: [sword-devel] ABU - red letter markup problem

2008-06-16 Thread Chris Little
did you update? Peter von Kaehne wrote: Also a problem in BD - Matth 5 and 6 are not appearing red, nor anything in Acts 1 Peter Peter von Kaehne wrote: I have a problem in GS, not tried yet BibleCS. problems I found are also e.g. in Matt chapter 6 not red but for verse 1 Also Acts 1

[sword-devel] two SummaTheologica modules

2008-06-16 Thread Chris Little
Please take a look at the two Summa Theologica modules I've just uploaded. I would like an opinion on which seems to be a better module (and should be moved towards the public repository). SummaTheologica is quite an old module (from 2003) and was previously available in the beta repository as

Re: [sword-devel] GerReinhardt

2008-06-16 Thread Chris Little
If you would like to help with this, you can download the source document in Zefania XML, make the corrections, and submit it to them and to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=89078package_id=93533release_id=339281 --Chris Peter von Kaehne wrote: This

[sword-devel] LXXM DRCgb modules in beta

2008-06-15 Thread Chris Little
The LXXM DRCgb modules are TreeKey-based Bibles. Troy committed some basic VerseTreeKey code yesterday, so I put the two existing VerseTreeKey Bibles in beta with the correct KeyType value to trigger the new code. The modules themselves are fine, but the code is still preliminary. These

Re: [sword-devel] Oblique type and italic type (as used in the NKJV)

2008-06-15 Thread Chris Little
David Haslam wrote: a. Words in italic type have been added for clarity. They are not found in the original Greek. This is transChange type=added/. d. Words in oblique type in the New Testament are quoted from the Old Testament. This is seg type=otPassage/. CSS supports both italic and

Re: [sword-devel] ABU - red letter markup problem

2008-06-15 Thread Chris Little
The markup is correct, but there is a rendering error in BibleCS. I see two segments of red-letter text in Acts 1: vv. 4 7, but it should be vv. 4-5 7-8. I'll try it with milestoned q/ elements instead, to see if it simplifies processing. --Chris Peter von Kaehne wrote: The newly to beta

Re: [sword-devel] BibleCS on wine

2008-06-13 Thread Chris Little
Daniel Glassey wrote: 2008/6/13 Chris Little [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Peter von Kaehne wrote: problems I could identify are a) with RtoL - Persian is now RtoL but unligated Can you try another program, such as notepad or wordpad, to see if they show the same behavior. It's possible

Re: [sword-devel] Russian Bible software in zipped HTML repositories

2008-06-13 Thread Chris Little
Here you go: http://www.crosswire.org/sword/modules/ModInfo.jsp?modName=ABUbeta=true I wasn't really convinced that this was a unique Bible, but did find some passages that I couldn't find in identical form elsewhere. (Just the same, I'm not sure that there's much value in yet another 19th to

[sword-devel] update to usfm2osis.pl

2008-06-12 Thread Chris Little
There's an update (version 1.3) to usfm2osis.pl: http://www.crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/sword/utils/perl/usfm2osis.pl I would recommend SFMToOSIS over usfm2osis.pl, but since our util is so much easier to actually use, I thought it would be good to update it nonetheless. The update (in

Re: [sword-devel] BibleCS on wine

2008-06-12 Thread Chris Little
Peter von Kaehne wrote: problems I could identify are a) with RtoL - Persian is now RtoL but unligated Can you try another program, such as notepad or wordpad, to see if they show the same behavior. It's possible that Uniscribe isn't functioning under Wine. Does Arabic work correctly in

[sword-devel] new module releases

2008-06-11 Thread Chris Little
Unfortunately the sword module RSS feeds appear not to be working, so I'll identify some new releases from the last few days here. Brian's latest update to the Book of Concord is up in beta. There are 4 new Japanese Bibles in testing. They include ruby annotation in the gloss attribute of

Re: [sword-devel] Sword for Windows 1.5.11

2008-06-11 Thread Chris Little
I think BibleCS 1.5.11 is in a more or less final state. There remain a few known bugs, but at this point it would be better to just release it rather than continue providing nothing over 1.5.9. --Chris Peter von Kaehne wrote: Hi, everyone is gearing up for a major release across board (all

Re: [sword-devel] Eastern Armenian Bible - was testing modules in beta

2008-06-10 Thread Chris Little
Peter von Kaehne wrote: Chris Little wrote: I think © ... 1994 makes it pretty clear. Not by necessity. Sometimes very modern stuff is freely available. Your previous email made a comment about not being able to ascertain the copyright status. The copyright status is clear. How

Re: [sword-devel] Burmese rendering, was Portable Bible prototype

2008-06-08 Thread Chris Little
Burmese/Myanmar has been in Unicode since 3.0, but it got a major overhaul in version 5.1, which just came out a couple months ago. (And apparently there are still felt to be some shortcomings in the new encoding model.) The Burmese Bible we have most likely uses the Unicode 3.0 model, while

Re: [sword-devel] Burmese rendering, was Portable Bible prototype

2008-06-08 Thread Chris Little
Karl Kleinpaste wrote: Chris Little [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The suggested best course of action for today is to use the Eclipse SWT framework since it will use pango on linux uniscribe on windows. GS already uses pango, and has the same mistakes (relative to WorldPad) as seen in BT

Re: [sword-devel] BPBible 0.3

2008-06-07 Thread Chris Little
DM Smith wrote: On Jun 6, 2008, at 7:13 PM, Ben Morgan wrote: Just a question - do you think that the GUI controls, such as text boxes and lists and what not (everything but the actual text of the module), should be able to have a different font from the actual text? Currently under

Re: [sword-devel] Some new modules

2008-06-07 Thread Chris Little
Daniel Glassey wrote: 2008/6/6 Karl Kleinpaste [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Activity of the last couple weeks, at ftp.kleinpaste.org in /pub/sword: 3. EarlyFathers, from public domain content, distributed as freeware in WinHelp format; a monstrous genbook collection (37 volumes when in print) of

Re: [sword-devel] InstallSize was Re: Some new modules

2008-06-07 Thread Chris Little
DM Smith wrote: Chris/Troy, Can we please actually add this to the conf's. I think it becomes important for larger modules, so perhaps, we say that the default for the entry is 2M? (or whatever would be about 15 minutes on dialup) I don't see any reason that it needs to be highly

Re: [sword-devel] BPBible 0.3

2008-06-07 Thread Chris Little
DM Smith wrote: On Jun 7, 2008, at 12:05 AM, jonathon wrote: On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 8:34 PM, DM Smith wrote: (Such as ISO-639 for languages). I'm not sure that even if such a notion existed whether we could make it understandable to users.) What about using ISO 15924?

Re: [sword-devel] usfm2osis.pl

2008-06-05 Thread Chris Little
Daniel Owens wrote: I will watch that page, but thanks for helping me with the syntax. I will see how it goes with the Perl script and decide what to do next. I expect to need to transform a few USFM Bibles in the next year or so. Where do I find USFMToOSIS? Google didn't list any hits.

[sword-devel] new Webster1913 test module

2008-06-05 Thread Chris Little
New in beta is a complete re-do of the WebstersDict module, now called Webster1913. This is mostly intended for developers and module makers. Nothing is necessarily final. I'm open to suggestions about anything. The module uses TEI, so expect no decoration or extremely poor/incorrect

Re: [sword-devel] Beta modules

2008-06-05 Thread Chris Little
Peter von Kaehne wrote: I just had a look at the beta module section on the server. There are many modules now in there for over a year or so. What exactly is keeping them back to join the ordinary repositories? Many modules are simply waiting for a version of BibleCS 1.5.9 to be

Re: [sword-devel] BPBible 0.3

2008-06-04 Thread Chris Little
Ben Morgan wrote: I've just released BPBible 0.3, which adds many more features. It also has a new website, with forums and screenshots at http://bpbible.com Congrats on a new release. It looks nice. BPBible also uses a new locale, which gives nicer references than the traditional ones I

Re: [sword-devel] usfm2osis.pl

2008-06-04 Thread Chris Little
I'm currently working on a recommended process for converting (U)SFM to OSIS. So keep an eye on http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/index.php/Converting_SFM_Bibles_to_OSIS in the coming days. Truthfully, I don't think I can recommend using usfm2osis.pl. I think Snowfall Software's USFMToOSIS will

Re: [sword-devel] Saturday's thread about copyright (was: something about the Arabic Life Appl. Bible)

2008-06-03 Thread Chris Little
Glen Pfeiffer wrote: jonathon wrote: Well, a verse, presuming non-commercial usage would be fair use. But what we're really talking about is I am breaking to law if I copy and paste EVERY verse from e-Sword to wordpad on the same computer. And that's definitely copyright infringement.

Re: [sword-devel] module updates

2008-06-03 Thread Chris Little
Just send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (My mention of the other was in error, and it should bounce back to you.) But you should submit it again, because I haven't received anything from you in roughly a year. --Chris Brian J. Dumont wrote: Hi all, What is the correct way to submit module

Re: [sword-devel] Some questions...

2008-06-01 Thread Chris Little
JECompton wrote: Well I've spent some time becoming more familiar with the community and the SWORD api. Reading the to-do list on the crosswire website confirmed my decision to commit to helping in what ways I can. The api overview reminded me of how weak my C++ knowledge is. I will continue

[sword-devel] latest utils for Win32 (1.5.11 final + ICU 4.0 d02)

2008-06-01 Thread Chris Little
There's a very insignificant update to the utils again. (Only the compiled sword utils. And all of the DLLs are still up to date.) This includes ICU 4.0 d02 code. (Draft 2 of 3 scheduled.) The next draft of 4.0 is coming in a couple weeks, and the final will be in about a month. So, unless you

Re: [sword-devel] http://karl.kleinpaste.org/sword/scripts/ do not work with arabic life application bible

2008-05-31 Thread Chris Little
CrossWire does not condone or support the use of scraper scripts. Their use is abusive to content hosts because of the traffic it causes. And in no way is their use with copyrighted texts anything but illegal--this isn't fair use. It's copyright violation. If you are still intent on breaking

Re: [sword-devel] http://karl.kleinpaste.org/sword/scripts/ do not work with arabic life application bible

2008-05-31 Thread Chris Little
John H. wrote: Not breaking the law. As it has been made clear on this list, none of you guys are lawyers, and as a lawyer myself, I am not quite sure where the idea came from on here that if you download a bible it is any more illegal than using miro for youtube, or cbs.com. This has

Re: [sword-devel] http://karl.kleinpaste.org/sword/scripts/ do not work with arabic life application bible

2008-05-31 Thread Chris Little
jonathon wrote: On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 2:41 PM, John H. wrote: You're also saying that having a legal electronic license of a translation of the bible, for use in esword, otherwise, means that I am breaking the law if I copy and paste a verse from esword to wordpad on the same computer.

Re: [sword-devel] http://karl.kleinpaste.org/sword/scripts/ do not work with arabic life application bible

2008-05-31 Thread Chris Little
John H. wrote: On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 15:14 -0700, Chris Little wrote: jonathon wrote: On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 2:41 PM, John H. wrote: You're also saying that having a legal electronic license of a translation of the bible, for use in esword, otherwise, means that I am breaking

Re: [sword-devel] http://karl.kleinpaste.org/sword/scripts/ do not work with arabic life application bible

2008-05-31 Thread Chris Little
John H. wrote: Chris, this is interesting coming from you, the same person who referred to me as both hitler and I just found out while I wasn't even in the channel on irc that you said I had mental problem. I think you're not in any place to say what is and is not christian. Yet you

Re: [sword-devel] Portable Bible prototype

2008-05-29 Thread Chris Little
Sounds great. I'm willing to bet that none of the frontends can render the Myanmar script correctly, but the existence of such content would help to underscore the importance of improving Unicode complex script support across the board (via integration of ICU, Graphite, etc.). --Chris David

Re: [sword-devel] latest utils for Win32 (1.5.11 final + ICU 4.0 d01)

2008-05-25 Thread Chris Little
for Unicode 5.1, so if you are using utilities that perform normalization, make sure to grab the new utilities. --Chris Chris Little wrote: The utilities are updated once again, this time to 1.5.11 final: http://crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/sword/utils/win32/ There are individual zips for each

Re: [sword-devel] OpenScriptureFormats.org

2008-05-20 Thread Chris Little
Bear in mind that this is the work of an individual, with a fairly specific purpose in mind. And the page is also a bit out of date and fairly inaccurate with respect to OSIS. The fact that Paratext figures into the evaluation makes fairly clear that this is a discussion specifically intended

[sword-devel] latest utils for Win32 (1.5.11 final)

2008-05-20 Thread Chris Little
The utilities are updated once again, this time to 1.5.11 final: http://crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/sword/utils/win32/ There are individual zips for each utility as well as an allutilities.zip with everything in a big bundle. They need icudt38.dll. Separately, but in the same location, I've

Re: [sword-devel] TEI dictionaries and front-ends: a suggestion for formatting entries

2008-05-19 Thread Chris Little
Daniel Owens wrote: Like I said, for what it's worth... Perhaps Lexique will give you some food for thought. It's a nice program for producing a nicely typeset dictionary quickly and with minimal expertise. I might create Perl scripts to go between TEI and their format if I ever have the

[sword-devel] latest utils for Win32 (1.5.11RC1)

2008-05-14 Thread Chris Little
http://crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/sword/utils/win32/ There are individual zips for each utility as well as an allutilities.zip with everything in a big bundle. They need icudt38.dll. --Chris ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org

[sword-devel] latest BibleCS build (1.5.11RC1)

2008-05-14 Thread Chris Little
BibleCS InstallManager: http://crosswire.org/sword/ALPHAcckswwlkrfre22034820285912/alpha/BibleCS-1.5.11RC1.zip Also requires icudt38.dll if you don't have it: http://crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/sword/utils/win32/icudt38.zip ___ sword-devel mailing

Re: [sword-devel] Diaspora source, mod2pbp?

2008-05-14 Thread Chris Little
Diaspora is no longer under development or supported. We no longer distribute Diaspora, either. And anyone who IS distributing Diaspora is probably doing so in violation of the license, because they aren't including or offering the source. Source is still available via SVN, but requires BCB to

Re: [sword-devel] TEI markup support

2008-05-13 Thread Chris Little
DM Smith wrote: On May 12, 2008, at 7:10 PM, Chris Little wrote: Our plans are to use TEI for dictionary encoding from here forth. Chris has started a wiki for how to encode a TEI dictionary. See: http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/index.php/TEI_Dictionaries In Sword's svn you can find

Re: [sword-devel] GenBook osisID and URIs

2008-05-13 Thread Chris Little
The original private protocol syntax for Sword (which is what is implemented in BibleCS) is: sword://{module}/{key(list)} Our test page is: http://www.crosswire.org/~chrislit/testlinks.html BibleCS configures the private protocol handler in Windows when it loads. There's also a Libronix-style

Re: [sword-devel] GenBook osisID and URIs

2008-05-13 Thread Chris Little
Karl Kleinpaste wrote: (As it happens, GnomeSword understands sword:// and bible:// equivalently, but I suspect we should do away with the latter.) I had thought that BibleCS handled bible:// too, but when I checked earlier, it didn't. I'm open to adding bible://. It's certainly an easy

Re: [sword-devel] GenBook osisID and URIs

2008-05-13 Thread Chris Little
DM Smith wrote: Chris Little wrote: I think simply sword://Josephus/The War of the Jews/Book 1/Chapter 2/Section 3 should work, or sword://Josephus/The%20War%20of%20the%20Jews/Book%201/Chapter%202/Section%203 encoded as an URL. This does not answer the osisID question. If one had

Re: [sword-devel] GenBook osisID and URIs

2008-05-13 Thread Chris Little
Manfred Bergmann wrote: MacSword uses the following schema for URLs: sword://[FilterOption[[EMAIL PROTECTED]ModuleShortName/Key|KeyRange This is how I found it. I'm open to implement a standard if this has been besided. What would you think of putting filter options in the query segment

[sword-devel] TEI markup support

2008-05-12 Thread Chris Little
Our plans are to use TEI for dictionary encoding from here forth. At the moment we have some support for both P4 and P5 conversion to RTF (used by BibleCS), plain, and HTMLHREF (used by GnomeSword, BPBible?, others?). So... Issue 1: Which filters remain necessary before we can declare that

Re: [sword-devel] RSS Feed Down?

2008-05-10 Thread Chris Little
There's a database problem (again). News the news feed are down, though the forums are still up. --Chris Greg Hellings wrote: My RSS feed reader (Mail 3.2 for Leopard), complains that the Sword RSS feed isn't active. Has the URL changed of late and I missed the notification, or is

Re: [sword-devel] lucene indexing failing on some modules

2008-05-09 Thread Chris Little
BosworthToller has an error, either due to encoding or to an import error, which causes it to loop on the entry for 1. Any frontend or utility that iterates through all keys should hang at the same point. --Chris Karl Kleinpaste wrote: I have found that indexing is not working on some

Re: [sword-devel] lucene indexing failing on some modules

2008-05-09 Thread Chris Little
Steven P. Ulrick wrote: I will be more than glad to test the BosworthToller module if you can help me with the following: 1. If I really do need Sword 1.5.11 to use this module, how do I get if if the most recent version in SVN is 1.5.10? BosworthToller does require 1.5.11 in that it

Re: [sword-devel] Unicode questions

2008-05-08 Thread Chris Little
DM Smith wrote: On May 7, 2008, at 1:42 AM, Ben Morgan wrote: Hi, Just a few questions about unicode things. Are VerseKeys and TKs UTF-8? I'm not sure how to answer the question with respect to VerseKeys. They're not tied to specific modules, and whether they are UTF-8 or not depends

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