[sword-devel] Frontend comparison Wiki page

2009-03-04 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Please have a look at the slowly shaping up page on frontend comparison in our wiki. http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/Choosing_a_SWORD_program DM and I have brought it into a much more easily readable format and have further broken down all narratives etc into questions which can be answered with

Re: [sword-devel] frontend comparison

2009-03-02 Thread Dan Blake
Here you go Peter, Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. I'd fallen and couldn't reach my keyboard :-) Daniel Blake Peter von Kaehne wrote: Dan Blake wrote: Eeli mentioned using graphics for some of the items to conserve space. Here are very small graphics for supported operating

Re: [sword-devel] frontend comparison

2009-03-01 Thread Ben Morgan
On 01/03/2009, Peter von Kaehne ref...@gmx.net wrote: 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

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] frontend comparison

2009-03-01 Thread Dan Blake
Eeli mentioned using graphics for some of the items to conserve space. Here are very small graphics for supported operating systems. I'm not sure if they will work good enough, but here they are. Sorry about attaching them to the message but I didn't have a place to host them right now.

Re: [sword-devel] frontend comparison

2009-03-01 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Ben Morgan wrote: I don't think book level introductions are usually particularly important - definitely not a serious bug. Chapter level ones may be important. They are usually suplementary material which isn't all that important. If the user gets it, fine. If they don't, they are unlikely

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] frontend comparison

2009-03-01 Thread Daniel Owens
Ben, I think the module developer should decide on this. As a module developer I found it frustrating that only two front-ends, both of them compiled only for Linux at the time, supported book level introductions. When one front-end doesn't support a well-discussed feature it is hard to know

Re: [sword-devel] frontend comparison

2009-03-01 Thread Daniel Owens
Ben, I think the module developer should decide on this. As a module developer I found it frustrating that only two front-ends, both of them compiled only for Linux at the time, supported book level introductions. When one front-end doesn't support a well-discussed feature it is hard to know

[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

[sword-devel] frontend comparison

2009-02-28 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
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 display this information; Xiphos does so if headings are

Re: [sword-devel] frontend comparison

2009-02-28 Thread Chris Little
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 display this information;

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

Re: [sword-devel] frontend comparison

2009-02-28 Thread DM Smith
On Feb 28, 2009, at 5:17 PM, 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.