The next release of Bible Desktop supports/displays book and chapter introductions. It is available now as a nightly build. How well the nightly build works on any given day is possibly broken.
AndBible will probably support it once JSword is released. -- DM On Mar 4, 2012, at 4:08 PM, Daniel Owens wrote: > I did some testing of several of the major front-ends (sorry, I do not have a > Mac or iPhone). I posted the results at > http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/OSIS_Bibles/BSPExample#Level_of_Support_by_Front-ends. > > > Overall feature support is strongest in BPBible, followed by BibleTime and > Xiphos tied for second. Then comes BibleCS, BibleDesktop, and AndBible. > > That can partly be explained by the fact that BibleDesktop and AndBible do > not display book introductions (that is a reasonable choice for > AndBible). However, both support parallel titles (for synoptic passages in > the Gospels) and canonical psalm titles (as does BPBible). But BibleTime, > Xiphos, and BibleCS simply do not display the text of Canonical psalm titles. > That is a severe bug. > > As a novice module creator several years ago, this diversity almost drove me > crazy. I guess now at least module creators can know what features are likely > to work well, but it would be nice if front-ends worked on supporting some of > these features, even if the text is passed through as plain text, such as > canonical psalm titles. Nothing like that should be omitted, even if the > display is not anything special. > > One last note, variants do not work correctly in any front-end, which tells > me the markup is not right. If anyone can provide a correction to the markup, > please let me know. > > Daniel > > On 03/04/2012 01:18 PM, Patrick Zimmermann wrote: >> >> Hey, >> >> this is great news. Thank you. >> >> If the rendering produced by xiphos or bibletime is at least some sort of >> acceptable I'll change the module I'm developing at the moment to use the >> syntax. Mostly additions, removals and alternatives are affected. >> >> Thanks again, >> Patrick >> >> On Sunday, 4. March 2012 01:59:15 Daniel Owens wrote: >>> Based on varied sources, including Patrick's helpful example OSIS Bible, >>> I put together an example OSIS "Bible" that validates and is consistent >>> with the wiki page on OSIS Bibles ( >>> http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/OSIS_Bibles). The text itself is mostly >>> KJV text, with a little Hebrew to illustrate more than what the KJV can >>> by itself. I chose to use the BSP structure because the KJV illustrates >>> the BCV structure well already, and I have no idea idea how to deal with >>> paragraphs and poetry in the BCV structure. >>> >>> You can find the example file and the following list of features at >>> http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/OSIS_Bibles/BSPExample: >>> >>> - BookGroup and section titles, including parallel passages: <title> >>> - Book introduction >>> - List: <list>, <item> >>> - Table: <table>, <row>, <cell> >>> - Bold and italic text: <hi> >>> - Strong's numbers, lemma, and morphology: <w>, @lemma, @morph >>> - Notes, including study notes and cross-references: <note>, <reference> >>> - Marked additions: <transChange> >>> - Canonical title (Psalms): <title type="psalm" canonical="true"> >>> - Poetry markup: <lg>, <l> >>> - Divine Name: <seg>, <divineName> >>> - Variants: <seg type="x-variant" subType="x-1"> >>> - Abbreviations: <abbr> >>> >>> I compiled and tested the module, and I will send a separate email when >>> I have a chance to record the results systematically. Suffice it to say, >>> no one front-end supports all of the markup well, and some features >>> (such as variants and tables) are conspicuously poorly supported. Since >>> it is not a complete text of the KJV, some odd display issues should be >>> ignored, but most front-ends displayed the "New Testament" title at the >>> bottom of Psalm 3. It would be lovely if front-end developers would see >>> how their front-end handles it (or doesn't). I can send a compiled >>> module to those who are interested. >>> >>> Feedback is welcome. If I have missed something or used less-than-ideal >>> markup, please let me know, and we can change it. >>> >>> Daniel >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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
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