RE: [sword-devel] Sword bot for mIRC?

2001-08-30 Thread Chris Little
I guess no one has. I've added a mIRC bot to the sourceforge wishlist & hope someone will be interested in working on this. Public IRC is a surprisingly good place for fellowship and witnessing and these kind of scripts are a great tool for that. --Chris > -Original Message- > From: [E

Re: [sword-devel] HELP! Need your feedback on XML Markup Language

2001-08-30 Thread Bobby Nations
Kirt Christensen wrote: > Being only slightly familiar with XML or Sword, I'll offer some limited > thoughts. > > > XML doesn't allow more than one hierarchy in a document. Here's an > >example of logical XML markup. > > > >In the > >beginning. > > > >This is all fine and dandy, bu

Re: [sword-devel] XML idea: modular spec

2001-08-30 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
Thank you again! You and Patrick (http://www.sbl-site2.org/Extreme2001/Concur.html) seem to be on the same page. This facet of the implementation seems to benefit in many aspects with your approach. The other facet of WHAT, to which your approach beneficially facilitates dynamic change, is prob

[sword-devel] XML idea: modular spec

2001-08-30 Thread David Burry
okey dokey... I kind of already mentioned this idea before, but here're some more detailed thoughts and explanations on it: XML is ideally suited to represent hierarchical slices of very complex data for exchange with other programs or display engines etc, but not necessarily to efficiently

Re: [sword-devel] HELP! Need your feedback on XML Markup Language

2001-08-30 Thread Alan Jackson
I haven't been following his too closely, so forgive me if this has already been posted, but it looks terribly relevant... August 29, 2001 2001-235 'Free trade zone' for electronic Bible texts takes major step forward by Jan Nunley (ENS) Commercial and non-profit groups, spearheaded by

[sword-devel] Daily Devotionals Dialog

2001-08-30 Thread David Guest
Hi People, Is it possible to have the daily devotional dialog output thML ie not in plain text format. I think it would just require that the text box be changed to a rtf control but I might be wrong. I have created a module based on www.blueletterbible.org/daybyday/ that uses thML for formattin

Re: [sword-devel] Copyrighting The Bible? / OSIS

2001-08-30 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
Hey David, thanks for the . I agree and think this should close this thread. But, since you seem to be so xml proper :) ... WE NEED YOUR (everyone's) FEEDBACK as to what tags should go into an XML markup standard. We are meeting in Atlanta this weekend to go over the u

RE: [sword-devel] Copyrighting The Bible?

2001-08-30 Thread David Burry
Regarding this supposed lesbian NIV translator thing... Has anyone played the game called "telephone" as a kid? By the time this kind of thing gets to me and I pass it on, it's "I (1st hand) read that a person's (2nd hand, since that person actually wrote it) father's (3th hand) friend's (4t

RE: [sword-devel] Copyrighting The Bible?

2001-08-30 Thread Nathan Gundlach
At 08:33 PM 8/29/2001, you wrote: > > >those involved in translation, has lost the vision of trying to > > get the word > > >out, and has become simply a quest to make money. Then the > > tendency will be > > >to make "acceptable" translations that make money rather than > > accurate ones. > > >W

Re: [sword-devel] HELP! Need your feedback on XML Markup Language

2001-08-30 Thread Kirt Christensen
Being only slightly familiar with XML or Sword, I'll offer some limited thoughts. > XML doesn't allow more than one hierarchy in a document. Here's an >example of logical XML markup. > >In the >beginning. > >This is all fine and dandy, but what about , Intro, >Paragraph, Red, Bol