On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 08:06:49AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I browsed the posts at > [https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-crosswire-devel/] > for the last year. I don't think my initial questions would be suitably on > topic. > Understood. Still, the offer stands.
> > > > As the name would suggest, the primary purpose of the list is > > development-related discussions (bug reports, package maintenance, > > etc.). But if you have a look at the archives, the list goes long > > periods without any discussion, which is to say that the traffic is > > quite low. If you are not able to find another list, feel free to ask > > your questions there. As far as a I know, all of us on the list are > > active users of these tools in addition to maintaining them. We should > > be able to help you out with what you need there if you decide that your > > questions are off-topic here on debian-user. > > > > Regards, > > > > -Roberto > > > > My immediate BibleTime related questions include: > 1. When display the Strong's entry for a word there is a field titled > "Morphology:". I find no references to the meaning of the abbreviations used > there. I personally don't use the morphology information and my knowledge of linguistics is sadly lacking. A quick skim of the "Morphology (linguistics)" article on Wikipedia indicates that it is a way of describing the origins and relationships of various parts of a word or phrase. > 2. Discussion of how to best use the "Personal commentary" tool. > This doesn't make sense to me. Are you referring to the mechanics for using the personal commentary tool or principles for developing a personal commentarty? > Another issue is difference(s) (if any) in the target audience of BibleTime > and Xiphos. > Personally, I use Gnome and Xiphos, being built with GTK, integrates a bit better. Bibletime is built with Qt and so it feels more like a KDE application. That said, I have encountered some annoying UI bugs with Xiphos and have not made the time to report/fix them. > I know I don't have the latest release as this particular machine is still > at Debian 9.8. I'll be installing Debian 10 soon but have some housekeeping > issues to resolve first. > One thing that I found with Xiphos (again, which I've not yet formally reported) is that drop-down selections for book/chapter/verse no longer scroll. That is, if their contents extend past the top/bottom of the screen, the widget no longer has the ability to scroll. That means either getting as close as possible then navigating with up/down arrows, or directly typing in the particular location in the adjacent text field. I am not aware if Bibletime has any similarly annoying bugs. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
