Re: [sword-devel] [osis-editors] Re: The death of OSIS?

2004-08-13 Thread DM Smith
I think that *a* goal of OSIS should be that stylesheet processing should be fast and efficient and it should influence decisions on the schema. To sum up the point I tried to make and I am trying to make. The does not contain enough information to be useful beyond the simple case. It needs a

Re: [sword-devel] [osis-editors] Re: The death of OSIS?

2004-08-13 Thread Patrick Durusau
DM, DM Smith wrote: Yes. It helps for a quote when that quote is continued. But the XSL becomes complicated for quotes continued within quotes. The complication comes that it will be necessary to determine whether the inner quote is being continued or the outer quote. Example, "This is a quot

Re: [sword-devel] [osis-editors] Re: The death of OSIS?

2004-08-13 Thread DM Smith
Patrick Durusau wrote: Michael, Preserving every "jot and tittle" (syn. shred, scintilla, whit, iota, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, smidge) is certainly the goal of manuscript markup (one of my areas of interest), which OSIS has not yet reached. On the issue of quotations, however, I think we alr

Re: [sword-devel] Translation project?

2004-08-13 Thread Chris Little
It looks like someone already submitted an Afrikaans localization of the SWORD Project for Windows, and I think it's in the most recent release even. --Chris Samuel Murray wrote: G'day I'm new on this mailing list and I see on the Sword web site that I must ask on this list about the translation

Re: [sword-devel] Re: [osis-editors] The death of OSIS?

2004-08-13 Thread Chris Little
Will Thimbleby wrote: Agreed. I think the concept of users wanting to change quotes is mostly academic. Has anyone actually wanted to do this? Really? Real world, concrete example: the NASB & NASB95 are printed differently depending on whether they print each verse on a new line or use paragraph

Re: [sword-devel] [osis-editors] Re: The death of OSIS?

2004-08-13 Thread Patrick Durusau
Michael, Preserving every "jot and tittle" (syn. shred, scintilla, whit, iota, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, smidge) is certainly the goal of manuscript markup (one of my areas of interest), which OSIS has not yet reached. On the issue of quotations, however, I think we already have a solution in

Re: [sword-devel] Translation project? [Afrikaans]

2004-08-13 Thread l_d_allan
> I'm new on this mailing list and I see on > the Sword web site that I must ask on this > list about the translation project. > I'd like to translate the Sword GUI into > Afrikaans. Where do I start? > Thanks! > Samuel Murray Hello Samuel, One alternative to consider ... translate the LcdBi

RE: [sword-devel] Biblii romanesti si Sword

2004-08-13 Thread Balean, Cristian
Multumesc Stimate frate Catalin si frate Artemis. Trimit un raspuns scurt aici doarece sunt la lucru si nu am timp, doar ca sa va anunt ca chiar astazi Artemis a dat iarasi de mine. Sper sa reincepem colaborarea noastra. Cat despre cele de mai jos, cred ca trebuie sa le citesc din nou un pic mai a

Re: [sword-devel] Biblii romanesti si Sword

2004-08-13 Thread C. N. R.
Draga Artemis, Iti multumesc pentru incurajare si pentru ca nu te-ai napustit asupra lui Troy A. Griffitts pretinzand ceea ce dealtfel iti apartine de drept, si anume publicarea mai rapida a Bibliei Ortodoxe. Aceasta Biblie isi are povestea ei: a aparut pentru prima oara la Bucuresti in anul 1936

Re: [sword-devel] [osis-editors] Re: The death of OSIS?

2004-08-13 Thread DM Smith
I re-read the thread and it seems to be too argumentative. And the arguments seem to be stretching thin. Let's try to come to closure on the issue at hand. There is a request for quotation marks to be allowed to be text elements (not just markup) and for the standard to be changed to allow for

[sword-devel] Translation project?

2004-08-13 Thread Samuel Murray
G'day I'm new on this mailing list and I see on the Sword web site that I must ask on this list about the translation project. I'd like to translate the Sword GUI into Afrikaans. Where do I start? Thanks! Samuel Murray ___ sword-devel mailing li

Re: [sword-devel] console cf LCD bible

2004-08-13 Thread DM Smith
Lynn Alan wrote: Hi DM, LcdBible has a 'target audience' of obsolete computers (early Pentiums and 486's with 640*480 VGA resolution) such as those donated to missionaries. IMHO, to be usable, software needs to 'launch' relatively quickly (1 sec preferred, 5 sec max) and also perform flexible se

Re: [sword-devel] console cf LCD bible

2004-08-13 Thread l_d_allan
Hi DM, > We chose Webstart for the mechanism of > installation to simplify the > installation. I am a fan of Java (especially compared to hold-your-nose MFC/C++), but it hasn't worked out to be appropriate for the kinds of software I work on ... but that may be a case of "a poor craftsman b

[sword-devel] Re: [osis-editors] The death of OSIS?

2004-08-13 Thread Will Thimbleby
Agreed. I think the concept of users wanting to change quotes is mostly academic. Has anyone actually wanted to do this? Really? I believe (from a position of little knowledge) that the language rules for quotes in complex cases go beyond what style sheets can do. There was a claim quotes are a

[sword-devel] Re: The death of OSIS?

2004-08-13 Thread l_d_allan
Hi Michael, I applaud your passion, especially as reflected in your closing: > Please do what you honestly believe is the > best and most pleasing to God. Hope all is well with your soul as we labor together in the harvest, Lynn Allan ___ sword-deve

Re: [sword-devel] console cf LCD bible

2004-08-13 Thread Davy Mitchell
Thats okay - I tried the JRE on the last Live CD I burned and it ran fine. I've not tested jSword yet but it ran Huckster comfortably on my 128MB laptop. I'm keen on portability (I may package the apps and resources from the LiveCD for Windows). Having Java also means I can include my 80% done

Re: [sword-devel] [osis-editors] Re: The death of OSIS?

2004-08-13 Thread JH
At 06:47 PM 8/12/2004, Kahunapule Michael P. Johnson wrote: I'm not talking about guaranteeing against bad software implementations. I'm talking about a standard that always works when properly implemented. I think that is an important point. I have some thoughts along related lines. I have though