Re: [sword-devel] New Install Manager Features

2008-12-23 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: Peter von Kaehne wrote: I am right now in the process of updating the Doxygen documentation on the website. I am sure this could be run in a scripted fashion eventually and I will investigate this if it is considered helpful. Peter Martin Gruner has maintained

Re: [sword-devel] New Server

2008-12-23 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Troy A. Griffitts wrote: Dear Greg, My apologies. I missed copying your shadow entry, which made your password invalid. You should be set now. For those with accounts on CrossWire, you will find your old stuff under /backup/oldserver/space/home/your_user_name IMAP folders have

Re: [sword-devel] OSIS Bible Name guidelines ?

2008-12-23 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Tonny Kohar wrote: I just installing bibledit on my ubuntu :) Try to get bibledit from source and compile it. The releases are very much ahead of what Ubuntu has to offer. ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org

[sword-devel] Happy christmas to all of you

2008-12-24 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Happy Christmas to all of you! 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

[sword-devel] The outer reaches....

2008-12-25 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Just had a look through sourceforge and found that there is a world of less commonly referenced front ends and utilities http://www.scripture-guide.org/ (for BeOS, ZETA and Haiku) http://sourceforge.net/projects/kjvwithbrotherv/ - a daily devotional module

[sword-devel] Thai modules

2008-12-26 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Was anyone aware of these SWORD modules? http://www.thaipope.org/modules Several Thai language modules - a Bible, a dictionary and some GenBooks. I think we have the Bible, but none of the rest. At least one module is explcietly marked as public domain. Peter

Re: [sword-devel] Open source German Volxbibel

2008-12-27 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Manfred Bergmann wrote: AFAIK it is only NewTestament The OT appears under work. ... and the transaltion is very, very modern. Odd is probably the best description. But, the print version is selling like ice cream on a hot summer day, appears theologically correct (endorsements by a wide

Re: [sword-devel] Open source German Volxbibel

2008-12-27 Thread Peter von Kaehne
David Haslam wrote: Peter, (in your opinion) why is the Volxbibel selling like hot cakes ? Is it just good marketing? Honestly can't tell you. I was not even aware of it until today, but found to my utter astonishment that it made the Der Spiegel bestseller list. Peter

[sword-devel] New SWORD website - update

2008-12-27 Thread Peter von Kaehne
After hitting an impasse caused by my jsp limits I finally managed to get the module list to work in my draft version of the new website for SWORD. Problems left are hopefully minor and will be eliminated before the website will become live. (* known problems listed below) You can use it already

Re: [sword-devel] New SWORD website - update

2008-12-27 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Peter von Kaehne wrote: *) List of current problems: 1) It displays empty lists when no module is available in a chosen category Improved in looks but not resolved. Probably can remain so. 2) Some texts are repetitive and need to get put at the right place and shown only once Done 3

Re: [sword-devel] New SWORD website - update

2008-12-27 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: Limiting the possibilities is probably a good decision. The list should be carefully crafted. I think it should be based on the amount of modules and amount of users. Most languages have only one or two modules. How about giving only 4 languages: English, German, Ancient

Re: [sword-devel] New SWORD website - update

2008-12-27 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: Limiting the possibilities is probably a good decision. The list should be carefully crafted. I think it should be based on the amount of modules and amount of users. Most languages have only one or two modules. How about giving only 4 languages: English, German, Ancient

Re: [sword-devel] Open source German Volxbibel

2008-12-28 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Eeli describes well how I understand paraphrase and how I see the Volxbibel (or what I have read of it). The Cottonpatch bible quoted by Eeli is in concept pretty close to what the VolxBibel does - finding not words or phrases fitting the original, but images and symbols which give (hopefully) a

Re: [sword-devel] New SWORD website - update

2008-12-28 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Thanks for the comments received on and off the mailing list. This was all very constructive. I realise there is still a fair amount of work to do and will go back to it. It is hard to see where the shortcomings are when too closely involved and too familiar with the product. A couple of

Re: [sword-devel] New SWORD website - update

2008-12-28 Thread Peter von Kaehne
re module stats I have been searching widely tonight again through the website with regard to the module stats but remain without answers. How are the module stats produced? At the moment it appears that the script is not working - the stats have not changed since ages, the file is untouched

Re: [sword-devel] module statistics

2008-12-29 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Ok, Thanks to mwtalbert who made me aware of the exchange attached below. The script is still in ghellings files. It does not work as it requires some Perl modules which appears not to be available. I would be extremely grateful if someone could look into what is needed to make it work. I

Re: [sword-devel] New SWORD website - update

2008-12-29 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Peter von Kaehne wrote: re module stats I have been searching widely tonight again through the website with regard to the module stats but remain without answers. ok. Got the answer, Thanks Mwtalbert. The original perl scripts were defunct since March 2008 (?) Ghellings has written

Re: [sword-devel] module statistics

2008-12-29 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Joachim Ansorg wrote: Hi Peter, I did the first version of that script years ago. DM did some fixes not too long ago, I think. The error message says that the perl module readbackwards is not yet installed. I think that it should be available in Fedora. Troy has to install the package.

Re: [sword-devel] Open source German Volxbibel

2008-12-29 Thread Peter von Kaehne
David Haslam wrote: There are lots of undecoded codepoints in the text! Here are some examples from Matthew ch 1. http://www.nabble.com/file/p21209279/vlx3_codepoints.png -- David It is a lot better to go directly from the Wiki to OSIS. I can not see any good reason to use Xephania as a

Re: [sword-devel] Open source German Volxbibel

2008-12-29 Thread Peter von Kaehne
David Haslam wrote: ... in their complicated (and almost unreadable) SED-based scripts. Sed scripts can be cool. Ask Karl for some of his specials. Peter ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org

Re: [sword-devel] Open source German Volxbibel

2008-12-29 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Chris Little wrote: Neither Wolfgang's module nor Jan's ThML include any of the footnotes or section headings, so neither of them are particularly representative of the VolxBibel or of particular utility to us. The point being that Jan's ThML is meant for a frontend which does not do foot

[sword-devel] Vanishing news item

2008-12-30 Thread Peter von Kaehne
I put up yesterday a news item on a new release of a minor frontend , bringing it in line with current modules. Within a short while the item had vanished without trace. If this is caused by a bug, then I would like to report it. There is already another bug with that system which makes editing

Re: [sword-devel] Vanishing news item

2008-12-30 Thread Peter von Kaehne
was the lack of appropriate category to put it in, so I put it into General. I do think we should create a general frontend category for minor frontends which might get a news release once in a while. in Him Peter Chris Little wrote: Peter von Kaehne wrote: I put up yesterday a news item on a new release

Re: [sword-devel] Vanishing news item

2008-12-30 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Chris Little wrote: It's fine to list LcdBible news if an actual new release is made. But, the most recent release on Lynn's site is still from 2006. The news release was based on an email from Lynn, which I will forward to you. I will ask him to clarify where he has the updated package and

Re: [sword-devel] New SWORD website - update

2008-12-30 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Chris Little wrote: My last solution of a single table row works well on shallow and normal screens, but causes scrolling on very narrow screens. I checked the crosswire.org site on a desktop with a nice large screen resolution, an iPhone (320x480), the same iPhone in landscape (480x320),

Re: [sword-devel] New SWORD website - update

2008-12-30 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Troy A. Griffitts wrote: I feel the project site has lost its identity, subsumed within a corner of the CrossWire site. I think this is because of the large CrossWire logo at the top instead of The SWORD Project logo :) This is not completely intentional. I struggle with the SWORD logo. It

Re: [sword-devel] Vanishing news item

2008-12-30 Thread Peter von Kaehne
I have re-released the Lcdbible item after the matters of concern which Chris highlighted were rectified or are in the process of getting rectified by Lynn. I have also released a news item on bpBible's release of a the 0.4 release as portaple app on the 19th December. Slowly but surely we will

Re: [sword-devel] New SWORD website - update

2008-12-30 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Peter von Kaehne wrote: As I said, I have found a solution with a a inline list which works better on all kinds of screen designs. This is now implemented on www.crosswire.org. The design is a inline unordered list with nbsp in all spaces between words which should not wrap - like

Re: [sword-devel] New SWORD website - update

2008-12-30 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: I agree. The SWORD Project is a special case. But I think, as has also been suggested by some, that we could move most of the developer section to the wiki. It doesn't necessarily have to have similar design to the CrossWire pages which are meant for outsiders. We have

Re: [sword-devel] New SWORD website - update

2008-12-30 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Troy A. Griffitts wrote: Thanks for hearing feedback Peter and your willingness to please. :) I like the new CrossWire menu bar much better. Not sure of the wording. I feel Publishers might miss the folks we want to draw to that link, which includes: Publishers, Outreach Ministries, and

Re: [sword-devel] New SWORD website - update

2008-12-31 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Greg Hellings wrote: I don't know where you the claim that The SWORD Project site is dead from - I can tell you exactly one time when I looked at the wiki: when someone else made a FAQ entry about an iPhone front-end and asked anyone who might try to tackle it to edit the info there. Hard

Re: [sword-devel] New SWORD website - update

2008-12-31 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Chris, My suggestion is that you do following ssh chris...@crosswire.org cd ~crosswire/html svn co -r10 You will get the old site in its whole glory. Alternatively we might want to start working again constructively. i would genuinely prefer that. I feel that at the moment you are out to find

Re: [sword-devel] New SWORD website - update

2008-12-31 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Peter von Kaehne wrote: There is always the option of getting stuff which has become static out of the wiki and back into the site (as I have done with the FAQ) but the problem with this is that it easily becomes a maintenance nightmare. It would make sense though for stuff like the texts

[sword-devel] Swordbible updated and presenable portfolio.

2008-12-31 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Manu just emailed me that he has returned to work at SwordBible. As you probably know he has created a simple and straightforeward Windows frontend a while back, but then went to help Lynn on his LCDBible and Berean Bible projects. He has now returned to SwordBible work, brought it in line with

[sword-devel] Presentable portfolio

2008-12-31 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Sorry this section got lost in my last email. I am thinking after some discussion with Troy last night we would benefit from having a shorter list of presentable portfolio of stuff we do. At the moment the closest we have to this is www.crosswire.org/applications.jsp The difficulty is that a lot

Re: [sword-devel] Presentable portfolio

2008-12-31 Thread Peter von Kaehne
owners (i.e. for CrossWire in general). I think this is right and has been my experience too. Peter This fits in with the Lord's saying, Give, and it shall be given unto you. (Luke 6:38). -- David Peter von Kaehne wrote: What is it that you show to people when you try and get them

[sword-devel] CrossWire website

2009-01-02 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Chris, I do think that this discussion should be on the list. Hence I take it back there. Peter von Kaehne said I do not experiment with live sites. Chris Little said My comments pertained to the CrossWire site, which has seen various experiments over the last few days, relating

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website

2009-01-02 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Chris Little wrote: Peter von Kaehne wrote: With regard to browser inconsistencies I am trying to keep the two stylesheets in sync, but if I missed something, please tell me. I also do think there should be ways of making it work with a single sheet, making IE fail gracefully rather than

Re: [sword-devel] Presentable portfolio

2009-01-02 Thread Peter von Kaehne
DM Smith wrote: I agree with Troy that the http://www.crosswire.org is our first impression and needs to be a great one. I think that much of what you have done has moved that direction. I think that our audience is multi-faceted: (IMHO) - Our biggest target audience is the front-end

[sword-devel] RTOL - an aside to Re: Concerns about Alternate Versification

2009-01-07 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Jonathan Morgan wrote: What I would probably do would be as close as possible to use the versification of the module on the left, assuming that is the primary work (maybe allowing changing which one is primary, and I suppose to keep Peter happy the first one should be the right one in an RtoL

Re: [sword-devel] Concerns about Alternate Versification

2009-01-07 Thread Peter von Kaehne
As an aside - the simplest way to deal with alternate versification and parallel display would be to decouple (at least potentially) parallel column displays. Poeple who deal regularly with translations which use diverging versificatins are probably well aware of the versification differences and

[sword-devel] engine filters vs CSS

2009-01-07 Thread Peter von Kaehne
One of the sore points from last autumn was a discussion about TEI encoded dictionaries and how poorly they display in absence of good filters - etc. You all remember. A couple of days ago I played a bit around with CSS, trying to see what it could/would do to a TEI entry. I used abash from

Re: [sword-devel] Versification/Encoding Issues

2009-01-07 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Mike Hart wrote: I'm working on several bibles to get them into Sword Format (ultimately into public domain, or as close to PD as possible), and I've got a few unresolved issues. Can someone point me to the how-to that covers these topics? Please have a look at our wiki, which now is

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire wiki vandalism?

2009-01-08 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: Quoting DM Smith dmsmith...@yahoo.com: If necessary I can add captcha to every edit and to every page creation. Please, never! I'll stop using wiki at that phase. I second Eeli here. I wonder further whether it might simply make more sense to restrict account

Re: [sword-devel] Spelling (was Versification/Encoding issues)

2009-01-08 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Mike Hart wrote: That's interesting, because ancle is one of the words I corrected in JSFB -- the OCR had ancle, but the PDF itself, my paper KJV copy, and my JPS complete Tanach (individual volumes) had ankle... I can't say what verse it was, at the time I was hunting for e's that had been

Re: [sword-devel] Sword Library on Windows Without Requiring Cygwin

2009-01-09 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Jeremy Erickson wrote: I have never really compiled anything on Windows not using Visual Studio, unless I was using Cygwin and didn't care if it linked the DLL. (The vast majority of my experience is on Linux, and the rest on Mac OS X which is similar.) However, for distribution,

[sword-devel] Module validation error on xmllint - what now?

2009-01-10 Thread Peter von Kaehne
I am working on a new whole Bible module (Dari). I produced it from USFM source which was clean enough from USFM point of view - the only things I needed to do was removing some backup info and exchanging a deprecated usfm marker \ph with \li. So far so good. usfm2osis.pl and then osis2mod

Re: [sword-devel] Module validation error on xmllint - what now?

2009-01-11 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Thanks to all. It validates now. I am not entirely sure what I have done different. Peter ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at

[sword-devel] XSL sheets for SVN

2009-01-17 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Over the last year or so a fair bunch of XSL sheets loosely connected to module making have come about or were mentioned here on the list, often partially completed and published via attachments on the mailing list. Right now I am aware of 1) a XSL sheet for exporting OSIS Genbooks from ODF 2) a

[sword-devel] Wycliffe modules and beta testing

2009-01-18 Thread Peter von Kaehne
My understanding of a discussion with Troy was that we are not supposed to do beta testing on the Wycliffe modules as they are kind a separate category - supplied and maintained by the organisation - and we only host them If this understanding is correct could we either move them in bulk into the

Re: [sword-devel] Wycliffe modules and beta testing

2009-01-18 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Chris Little wrote: Peter von Kaehne wrote: We set aside the Wycliffe modules from testing (both literally and figuratively) at your request and that occurred significantly prior to the cessation of testing. Then you have a significantly better memory than I, though I do admit feeling

[sword-devel] OSIS Commentaries

2009-01-18 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Looking finally on a long neglected pile of files for an Persian commentary I stumbled over a few things which bug me dt lack of knowledge 1) If material is not meant to refer to any particular verse, but only to the whole chapter - content summaries etc does it go into verse 0 or is it simply

Re: [sword-devel] FireBible 0.8 Released

2009-01-19 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Brian Fernandes wrote: First impression: Wonderful! It seems to me that this is an excellent frontend. It even displays the NET bible as it should and that is quite Thanks for the quick review, I'm glad you like it! Serious credit to JSword which gives me the HTML required for rendering.

Re: [sword-devel] OSIS Commentaries

2009-01-20 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Dan Blake wrote: This may not be possible, but it might help. If someone has the Zarnegar word processor they could: The few people I know who have it have a crippled free version which can not print. The joys of proprietary software. Universities etc distributed that en masse at a time when

[sword-devel] German dictionaries

2009-01-21 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Brother Robert Sandrock OSB, the author of T'Nach, http://www.koenigsmuenster.de/rsk/install.jar a German freely distributable Bible study programme has kindly allowed us to import his extensive dictionaries (Greek, Hebrew and Latin) into CrossWire. These dictionaries have been created by

[sword-devel] Normalising on the commandline

2009-01-21 Thread Peter von Kaehne
As a side issue of the other debate - how can I achieve NFC for a text I am working on via commandline utilities? All I can find in ICU documentation is about programming methods available, but I have seen no command line utilities. Peter ___

Re: [sword-devel] Wycliffe modules and beta testing

2009-01-21 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Daniel Glassey wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Chris Little chris...@crosswire.org wrote: Peter von Kaehne wrote: If this understanding is correct could we either move them in bulk into the main repository or- in my view vastly preferable - create a vendor repository for Wycliffe

Re: [sword-devel] Greek dictionary - input needed

2009-01-21 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Matthew Talbert wrote: My bias against ICU is that I have never been able to successfully compile against it, either on Windows or Linux. That has been quite a while ago, so I should try again. Also, I believe for a while, ICU wasn't included in many distros (this is just based off of comments

Re: [sword-devel] Normalising on the commandline

2009-01-21 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Chris Little wrote: uconv -f utf-8 -t utf-8 -x NFC -o output input Thanks a lot! ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above

Re: [sword-devel] Normalising on the commandline

2009-01-21 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Peter von Kaehne wrote: Chris Little wrote: uconv -f utf-8 -t utf-8 -x NFC -o output input Thanks a lot! Unfortunately learned in the process that my problems with search are not caused by lack of normalisation, but by inconsistent encoding - there are three different Arabic/Farsi Unicode

[sword-devel] Debian and Ubuntu packages

2009-01-23 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Dear All, As all of you know the Debian and Ubuntu packages are way out of date, and are falling behind more and more. To a degree this is mitigated by DomCox's packages, but in the end it hurts the project as it gives exposre to old stuff. I have therefore tried to get to the bottom of this and

Re: [sword-devel] Debian and Ubuntu packages

2009-01-23 Thread Peter von Kaehne
A first reponse on #ubuntu-=motu for resolving this on Ubuntu: refdoc: The short version if you have packages prepared is to file a bug against the package in Launchpad, attach the .diff.gz of the package to the bug, tag the bug upgrade, and subscribe the ubuntu-universe-sponsors team to

Re: [sword-devel] Debian and Ubuntu packages

2009-01-23 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Peter von Kaehne wrote: A first reponse on #ubuntu-=motu for resolving this on Ubuntu: refdoc: The short version if you have packages prepared is to file a bug against the package in Launchpad, attach the .diff.gz of the package to the bug, tag the bug upgrade, and subscribe the ubuntu

[sword-devel] Debian packaging modules

2009-01-26 Thread Peter von Kaehne
There is a discussion on pkg-crosswire-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org about packaging of modules. I guess it would be useful if some of the developers could come there and participate. Peter ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org

Re: [sword-devel] [sword-support] Translating in french

2009-01-26 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Simon Baconnais wrote: Ok, i can translate it because these works are in the public domain. But how do can I do it ? I can't open the .czs, .czz or .czv ... What do I have to do, to create new modules based on the original ones ? 1) the best approach is to obtain the original files which

[sword-devel] osis2mod and ICU

2009-01-26 Thread Peter von Kaehne
I tried several times compiling sword with ICU. I have ICU and relevant devs installed. I do not seem to attract any error messages if I run osis2mod I get following message: You are running osis2mod: $Rev: 2213 $ osis2mod is not compiled with support for ICU. Ignoring -n flag. Note, that I

Re: [sword-devel] osis2mod and ICU

2009-01-26 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Peter von Kaehne wrote: I tried several times compiling sword with ICU. I have ICU and relevant devs installed. I do not seem to attract any error messages if I run osis2mod I get following message: You are running osis2mod: $Rev: 2213 $ osis2mod is not compiled with support for ICU

Re: [sword-devel] Fwd: Other libraries

2009-01-27 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Martin Gruner wrote: Andrew, I'm forwarding your question to the Sword developer's mailing list. This is the right place to ask. BibleTime works with modules provided by the Sword library. AFAICT, there is no way to import from e-Sword. God bless, Martin In general we do not

[sword-devel] OSIS Commantaries sub chapter sections

2009-01-27 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Looking at the Wiki the correct way to encode a verse(group) by verse(group) commentary in OSIS goes like this chapter . div type=section annotateType=commentary annotateRef=... ... /div div type=section annotateType=commentary annotateRef=... /div ... /chapter fine so far. Each div

[sword-devel] bindings

2009-01-29 Thread Peter von Kaehne
I tried to build Corba and Python bindings today against current svn but failed on both counts quite miserably. writing python/setup.py cd python /usr/bin/python setup.py build_ext -L/usr/local/lib -lsword running build_ext building '_Sword' extension gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing

Re: [sword-devel] FreCrampon module: versification problem for Malachi 4

2009-01-29 Thread Peter von Kaehne
David Haslam wrote: Selecting Malachi 4 in FreCrampon gives an empty text display. Selecting Malachi 3 shows that the text for Mal 4:1-6 is included within Mal 3:18. Why is this? Can this be corrected? btw. It causes errors when tools such as MOD2IMP are used. -- David This is one

[sword-devel] Bugs reporting and packaging

2009-01-30 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Looking at the bugs database it is quite clear that the bulk of open bugs in sword is not open at all, but long ago dealt with. Does anyone close bugs? I am asking as the bugs database is now a lot more exposed to the general public. 1) it is linked to from our frontpages 2) it is used by the

Re: [sword-devel] Mac (was Locale and text retrieval code)

2009-02-01 Thread Peter von Kaehne
David Trotz wrote: Kahunapule Michael Johnson wrote: Troy A. Griffitts wrote: ... I need a new laptop and considering buying a Mac! :) Good choice. My MacBook is the best notebook computer I have ever used. You should definitely seriously consider a new MacBook or MacBook Pro. You can

Re: [sword-devel] Welsh Bible from beibl.net

2009-02-11 Thread Peter von Kaehne
xiphos is getting translated into Welsh. Peter Original-Nachricht Datum: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:38:55 +0100 Von: Daniel Glassey dglas...@gmail.com An: SWORD Developers\' Collaboration Forum sword-devel@crosswire.org Betreff: Re: [sword-devel] Welsh Bible from beibl.net On

[sword-devel] morphem separation

2009-02-16 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Can someone enlighten me regarding morphem separation support? What exactly is it, why is it useful to have in a Bible study programme? And yes, is it something done by the engine? To what extent and which languages. Does it require specially marked up modules or is it simply there? Do we have

Re: [sword-devel] [sword-support] The Bible Tool and Open Scriptures

2009-02-18 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Weston Ruter wrote: Dear Crosswire, Thank you for all you guys are doing to further open source Bible software. I am writing inquiring about The Bible Tool. It appears to me that development on it has slowed down, is that right? Kind of. Troy and I have some definitive plans what should

[sword-devel] encoding acrostic titles (Ps 119)

2009-02-19 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Am trying to clean up a new module but stumble over the Ps 119 acrostic titles. In USFM they are encoded \qa [Letter] I tried lg type=acrostic [Letter] /lg but it appears that xmllint does not like it. I get a message inside lg with attribute there may not be anything but white space. What is

[sword-devel] bug in sword-svn

2009-02-20 Thread Peter von Kaehne
I think there is a bug in sword-svn related to GenBook bibles: I get following error messaqe both from xiphos and from diatheke when i try to access a GenBook bible. pure virtual method called terminate called without an active exception Aborted The diatheke command I used was following:

Re: [sword-devel] OSIS editor

2009-02-26 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Adrian Korten wrote: Good day, I'm advising a team of Thai people who would like to prepare a Bible and book for import to Sword. They currently have both texts in Word with in-line mark-up (no styles). I assume that they would need to save as raw text and then start adding the markup. Could

[sword-devel] Reality check (was: Getting rid of BibleCS (was Re: [bt-devel] Eureka!!))

2009-02-26 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Jonathan Morgan wrote: This is now the time to consider again removing the unsupported Sword for Windows, which is condemned by many and misleads many about the potential of the Sword platform because it appears to be the official (and thus the best) one to casual onlookers. I think this is

Re: [sword-devel] Getting rid of BibleCS (was Re: [bt-devel] Eureka!!)

2009-02-26 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Jonathan Morgan wrote: I applaud Xiphos and BibleTime for coming to Windows. Each provides a different way at approaching God's Word. Now we have 5 major, supported frontends for Windows that people can choose from! (I'm including AlKitab) But not, it appears, including BPBible, which is a

Re: [sword-devel] Getting rid of BibleCS (was Re: [bt-devel] Eureka!!)

2009-02-26 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Daniel Owens wrote: This discussion about deprecating BibleCS is no doubt fueled by the fact that it's name suggests it is THE flagship program for Windows. To be sure, for English (and other ascii-friendly languages) users, it is a feature rich alternative. However, given that it has

Re: [sword-devel] Getting rid of BibleCS

2009-02-28 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Karl Kleinpaste wrote: My difficulty with the table layout is that it relegates special features to just a column on the right that will be very easy to overfill, to the point of making it unusable, unreadable. But it is exactly per-app special features that can determine which app has the

[sword-devel] [Wiki Frontend comparison] Proximity searches

2009-02-28 Thread Peter von Kaehne
It appears that all clucene/lucene capable frontends can do proximity searches. BpBible exposes this via its GUI, others rely on the clucene/lucene syntax. Q: Is there anything particular about bpbible's proximity searches or do I simply use the wrong syntax? I get on the ABU in xiphos for

Re: [sword-devel] [Wiki Frontend comparison] Proximity searches

2009-02-28 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Matthew Talbert wrote: I do not know about the others, but cross-verse search is not possible in Xiphos. Are you sure? The whole clucene stuff in xiphos is not really documented at the moment. I found a lot via going into Jakarta's documentation. I do vaguely though remember that there is

[sword-devel] [frontend comparison] was Re: Getting rid of BibleCS

2009-02-28 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Karl Kleinpaste wrote: - The format has been mangled a bit, because you've put Read Aloud in but it shows up under Portable :-) Fixed - Dom will be annoyed that you left French off the GUI languages list. Ouch. Fixed I have taken out the maintained column - it is clearly useless if all

Re: [sword-devel] Getting rid of BibleCS (was Re: [bt-devel] Eureka!!)

2009-02-28 Thread Peter von Kaehne
and MacSword I know so little that I haven't really added much. Daniel DM Smith wrote: On Feb 27, 2009, at 2:46 AM, Manfred Bergmann wrote: Am 27.02.2009 um 02:02 schrieb Peter von Kaehne: 2. Add a comparison table for desktop front-ends called Which SWORD application is right for me

Re: [sword-devel] frontend comparison

2009-02-28 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Chris Little wrote: Karl Kleinpaste wrote: Manfred Bergmann bergman...@web.de writes: What is meant by Ancillary texts and Verse Lists? Many modules, both Bibles and commentaries, have additional introductory material at the fictitious n:0 and 0:0 references. Some apps are able to

[sword-devel] Wiki front end comparison - a intermediate summary

2009-02-28 Thread Peter von Kaehne
I have worked now several hours on the wiki comparison page. What I tried to achieve is reduction of as many as possible entries into simple yes/no entries (+/- short comment) to make it as easy as possible to actually compare. This meant obviously that the number of list columns has gone up

Re: [sword-devel] frontend comparison

2009-03-01 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Ben Morgan wrote: I don't think book level introductions are usually particularly important - definitely not a serious bug. I think this is a decision for the module maker and not for the tool maker. As long as the sword engine supports a feature, module makers will make use of it - if they

Re: [sword-devel] Wiki front end comparison

2009-03-01 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Barry Drake wrote: Hi there . I've only just had chance to take a proper look at the Wiki page. It seems good as far as it goes, but I'm very concerned about the things it doesn't compare. why are you concerned? Fix it please. The bulk of the table was produced by myself last night in

Re: [sword-devel] Wiki front end comparison - a intermediate summary

2009-03-01 Thread Peter von Kaehne
DM Smith wrote: Peter, (and others) A couple of thoughts regarding this wiki. First, I think it is going very well. Kudos to all that have helped. I can see a lot of effort has gone into this! Thanks I think it would be good to have an explanation of the column headings under each

Re: [sword-devel] frontend comparison

2009-03-01 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Dan Blake wrote: Eeli mentioned using graphics for some of the items to conserve space. Here are very small graphics for supported operating systems. Thanks Dan! You know what I really would like to have is a minimalistic graphic for yes/no/partial or some such. Peter

Re: [sword-devel] Wiki front end comparison - a intermediate summary

2009-03-01 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Thanks Brian, Brian Fernandes wrote: Peter, Truly a great effort and a good list of features for frontend authors to refer to and improve. It started as a way for users to compare, but I think ultimatrely it will be much more useful to developers etc. I want to edit the FireBible rows

Re: [sword-devel] Wiki front end comparison

2009-03-02 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: Quoting Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org: I suggest an additional column (or more). 'Footnote Handling' marked as 'complete' or 'limited' (or somesuch). Another point that we might want to consider is navigation on a scale of 0 to 5. BibleCS might be around 2, and

Re: [sword-devel] Wiki front end comparison

2009-03-02 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Brian Fernandes wrote: DM, Just a few notes on the layout; these changes look great, and the table is definitely easier to read. I do agree that the columns are too narrow. Seconded. I was recently looking at this wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_browsers The

Re: [sword-devel] Wiki front end comparison

2009-03-02 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Brian Fernandes wrote: Unfortunately I could not figure out how to easily import the {{yes}} / {{no}} templates into our Wiki, perhaps best left to someone with more experience. I can try again later tomorrow if nobody gets to it by then - if you think this is a good idea. I have created a

Re: [sword-devel] Wiki front end comparison

2009-03-02 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Chris Little wrote: Peter von Kaehne wrote: The OS support I would simply do as previous - one row only, but maybe with icons to make faster to read. Win95+ or WinXP+ is adequate instead of a whole list of variants (unless newer Wins do not work). This may seem a minor matter, but I'm

Re: [sword-devel] Wiki front end comparison

2009-03-02 Thread Peter von Kaehne
DM Smith wrote: I have a Windows 98 laptop Could you for curiosity sake test xiphos on it? Peter ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your

Re: [sword-devel] Wiki front end comparison

2009-03-03 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Matthew Talbert wrote: I could, but I think it is a low priority for me and for the Xiphos folk. (Who may not want to know if it works there ;) If it works, would that mean we would have to support it? (desperately praying it won't!!) I have made for the wiki an executive decision and a

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