Chris Little wrote:
Daniel Owens wrote:
- The default should not necessarily be English. This is what Chris is
suggesting. The default display ought to be in the language that the
module developer decides (usually the language of that module, except
in the case of ancient texts, in which case probably English should be
the default).
My recommendation was actually that the default be the language of the
module (what I have referred to, perhaps somewhat confusingly, as the
localized name). In the absence of that, I recommended using the
English. For old (all existing) content, the fallback would be the
current combination of localized plus English that is found in most
modules.
For ancient languages, I would recommend simply using the "English" (or
more generally Latin/Latin-script) form.
> One further item I would like to propose is an Author field. This is not
so important for Bibles (and maybe for most dictionaries), but for
most books the author is a major factor in whether one uses it or not
(way more important than title). It could be argued that the author
ought to be in the Description or About, but if front-ends in the
future want to enable users to sort the books in their library by
author, title, subject, etc., then there needs to be a field for that.
It also facilitates bibliographic citation for students and scholars.
The more books are added, the more important this becomes. And it also
ought to be localizable (I'm thinking especially of Chinese authors).
A Publisher field could be useful too, but that usually is given in
the About field, so I wouldn't push for it as long as the full
bibliographic information is there somewhere.
I think an Author field is a great idea. We'll probably also want a
Translator field. I believe Publisher /might/ be covered by one of the
Copyright lines, but I can't check the .conf standard in the Wiki ATM.
I don't think this needs to be localizable. Rather we should just keep
names in a standard form. There are cases where an author's name is
different in different languages, but they are relatively few. More
significant are the case where an author's name is transliterated. We
could do "Author" and "LatnAuthor" fields for the native script form and
Latin transliterated form respectively, but it might be just as sensible
to put the Latin transliteration in parentheses following its native
script form.
I think we should also keep things in standard sorting order of family
name followed by given name.
So, by way of example, considering first a Latin-script name, then a
non-Latin-script name:
Author=Luther, Martin
Author=倪柝聲 (Nee, Watchman)
OR
Author=倪柝聲
LatnAuthor=Nee, Watchman
Sounds good to me!
For multiple authors, we can simply use commas and 'and' (or its
module-locale appropriate translation).
--Chris
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