What I've used in BPBible in a few places is Name - Description (i.e. ESV - English Standard Version). The abbreviation at the start (hopefully) means that if the rest is cut of it shouldn't matter too much.
God Bless, Ben ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. Giôên 3:14 (ESV) On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Karl Kleinpaste <k...@kleinpaste.org>wrote: > Actually, there's a module with an even longer Description. "Practice" > has: > > The Practice of the Presence of God: The Best Rule of Holy Life by Brother > Lawrence (Nicholas Herman, 1605-1691) > > Gosh, that's annoyingly long. > > Greg Hellings <greg.helli...@gmail.com> writes: > > One of my modules is [CONNOT] which is a decent abbreviation > > and it fits in the limits of SWORD. Currently I have the About field > > set to"Consultant Notes" and the About field set to "<p>Consultant > > Notes for Translators.</p>". > > About and About? I think you meant Description and About. > > Contents of About aren't supposed to contain HTML, notwithstanding that > it happens to work. That content is formally RTF. You'll see a lot of > \par and so forth in *.conf About fields. > > > Perhaps you can shed some light on why you use the > > value of the name instead of the Description in your widget? > > Because that's the way it's been since The Dawn Of Net.Time, which was > way back when Terry first did it. :-D > > Seriously, no one's ever asked about it before. > > It could certainly be reasonable to update module selection widgets to > use Description instead of the [BracketedName]; but I wonder about > possible confusion because [BracketedName] is guaranteed to be unique > but Description is not, and considering the selection of Description > used at e.g. bible.org... > > Free version of NET Bible Footnotes with limited notes > Free version of New English Translation with limited notes > NET Bible Footnotes presented in the form of a commentary. > New English Translation text only with footnote markers > New English Translation with over 60,000 translator, study and text > critical notes > > ...with so much similarity from one to another, I worry that the user > won't get the connection, and especially that he won't grasp the > difference when tabs have [BracketedNames] (for minimal length purposes) > that would then be seen pretty much nowhere else. Also, at the moment, > I've got DM's (old) beta "NASB" and Troy's (new) beta "NASBnew"... > > New American Standard Bible > New American Standard Bible (NEW) > > ...whose minor change is almost unnoticeable and could lose the "(NEW)" > the next time Troy puts out an update. > > I'm open to opinion about the problem, of course. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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