On Mar 30, 2008, at 4:07 PM, peter wrote: > Couple of points: > > 1) I am seriously impressed. Installation on Ubuntu was a doodle - > installed the extension and advised it where to find jsword and > modules > > 2) re module location - is this really necessary - it seems to me that > a) jword is very good in identifying where the modules are (or is the > BD?) and > b) educated guessing should be 99% successful (/usr/share/sword and > ~/.sword are normal on Linux while C://Program Files/Crosswire/The > Sword > Project/ and C://User and Settings/$user/.sword on Windows is usually > correct.
It is not necessary. It is only useful for non-standard locations. > > > 3) It worked with all modules I had, including RtoL ones. So that is > pretty good. With 1.0.8 it should also do number shaping for Farsi when the locale is set to "fa". > > > Peter > > > > Brian Fernandes wrote: >> Hey Guys, >> >> The last time I wrote to this list about my Firefox front end, it was >> way back in November 07. It has been a long journey since with a >> ton of >> fundamental issues to deal with, but I believe I finally have >> something >> worth releasing. >> >> I'm calling it FireBible (I know not really creative; another >> unrelated >> Firefox extension I write is called DataFox... :) ) >> >> You can get FireBible 0.5.1 here - http://thegoan.com/firebible >> >> FireBible is based on JSword, since JSword is both cross platform and >> easy to integrate with Firefox. You need to download and install >> JSword >> separately, I have tested / developed this with JSword 1.0.7. >> FireBible >> should work with Firefox 1.5 - 3.0 (including all the 3.0 betas). >> >> The installation process is probably a tad too complex for people not >> used to anything other than double click installers, especially >> because >> of the separate JSword download; but that makes the difference >> between a >> download 2.6MB or a mere 60KB which is how big the extension actually >> is. I'd like to make it simpler in the future, with perhaps an all >> inclusive download later. >> >> I've tried to keep scope down by supporting only Bible text modules >> for >> now, but can expand to support all modules rather quickly, >> depending on >> feedback received. Since most of the fundamental issues have been >> dealt >> with, I should now be able to concentrate on feature additions. >> >> FireBible does not have an interface for module management, nor >> does it >> have any display preferences yet, but these are the easier bits to >> handle. I did add search and indexing capabilities though, so you can >> search installed modules. >> >> The site should explain everything. I would really appreciate any >> critique and suggestions you may have on everything ranging from the >> site and the installation procedure to the actual extension itself. >> >> DM Smith, especially looking for critique from you; would this be the >> first non BibleDeskto use of JSword? >> >> Best regards, >> Brian. >> >> P.S. Minor bandwidth shortages at my host are currently being >> attended >> to, if the site is not responding, please try again at a later time. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 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 mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
