Re: [sword-devel] Proposition concerning module names

2009-12-02 Thread Mark Trompell
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:23 AM, Nic Carter niccar...@mac.com wrote: Hi all.  :) Given I'm an English speaker I can only speak and read English, this may seem like a strange proposition, but . . .  :) As I'm going through the i18n process for PocketSword I'm eliminating everything that

Re: [sword-devel] Proposition concerning module names

2009-12-02 Thread Ben Morgan
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Mark Trompell m...@foresightlinux.orgwrote: I wonder if it wouldn't make sense to always display the name of the bible/book in the language it is written in. You wouldn't read a chinese bible if you can't read it anyway. We've been over this before both for

Re: [sword-devel] Proposition concerning module names

2009-12-02 Thread Nic Carter
I agree with what Mark said. I think that the end user should come first, and that us as developers should come second. Sure, it makes it harder for us to keep an eye on all the modules, but we also have very easy access to the mods.d folder (in svn or our own install of SWORD). Or, as

Re: [sword-devel] Proposition concerning module names

2009-12-02 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Carter niccar...@mac.com An: SWORD Developers\' Collaboration Forum sword-devel@crosswire.org Betreff: Re: [sword-devel] Proposition concerning module names I agree with what Mark said. I think that the end user should come first, and that us as developers should come second. Sure, it makes

Re: [sword-devel] Proposition concerning module names

2009-12-01 Thread DM Smith
Nic, Regarding names, there are two things that can be called the module's name. 1) The text between the [initials] on the first line. 2) Description=title -- the actual name of the work. While there is no current support in SWORD, we have agreed that any field can be suffixed with a language

Re: [sword-devel] Proposition concerning module names

2009-12-01 Thread Nic Carter
Hi there DM, thanks for the reply :) What has been proposed ( accepted, it seems?) sounds excellent. :) Sorry about bring it up again, I saw there was nothing in the API (that I could see) but forgot to check the mailing list archives :( One thought about that, tho, is that the _en bits

Re: [sword-devel] Proposition concerning module names

2009-12-01 Thread DM Smith
On Dec 1, 2009, at 10:25 PM, Nic Carter wrote: Hi there DM, thanks for the reply :) What has been proposed ( accepted, it seems?) sounds excellent. :) Sorry about bring it up again, I saw there was nothing in the API (that I could see) but forgot to check the mailing list archives :(

Re: [sword-devel] Proposition concerning module names

2009-12-01 Thread Chris Little
DM Smith wrote: We didn't discuss dialects, but it would be represented by the two letter uppercase country code. Not sure whether it would be prefixed by a - or a _ (e.g. en-GB or en_GB). FWIW, BCP 47/RFC 4646 says to use - between all subtags, as in en-GB. --Chris