Re: [sword-devel] New SWORD website - update

2008-12-30 Thread Greg Hellings
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Peter von Kaehne wrote: > Or >> removing our portfolio of apps and subdividing them into a nice useful >> software finder, as you have done. This is why I preferred the old site >> style: basically CrossWire had only 1 main "brochure" page that tried to >> catch t

Re: [sword-devel] OSIS questions ?

2008-12-30 Thread Greg Hellings
I can answer one of your questions: On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Tonny Kohar wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know the usage of attribute type="x-split" subType="x-33" > from element for tagging eg: > > the > Holy > subType="x-33">Ghost > > so what is > - type attribute type="x-split" refers

[sword-devel] OSIS questions ?

2008-12-30 Thread Tonny Kohar
Hi, Does anyone know the usage of attribute type="x-split" subType="x-33" from element for tagging eg: the Holy Ghost so what is - type attribute - subType attribute Cheers Tonny Kohar -- Alkitab Bible Study imagine, design, create ... http://www.kiyut.com

Re: [sword-devel] New SWORD website - update

2008-12-30 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > Thanks for hearing feedback Peter and your willingness to please. :) > > I like the new CrossWire menu bar much better. Not sure of the wording. > I feel "Publishers" might miss the folks we want to draw to that link, > which includes: Publishers, Outreach Ministries,

Re: [sword-devel] New SWORD website - update

2008-12-30 Thread Chris Little
Peter von Kaehne wrote: Peter von Kaehne wrote: As I said, I have found a solution with a a inline list which works better on all kinds of screen designs. This is now implemented on www.crosswire.org. The design is a inline unordered list with   in all spaces between words which should not wr

Re: [sword-devel] Open source German Volxbibel

2008-12-30 Thread Chris Little
Wolfgang Schultz wrote: BTW the step VolxbibelWiki >>Zefania XML is already finished here you find the Volxbibel 3.0 with header and footnotes http://downloads.sourceforge.net/zefania-sharp/volxbibel_v3_rev1.zip?use_mirror=heanet This looks quite faithful, actually. I still wouldn't use an

Re: [sword-devel] New SWORD website - update

2008-12-30 Thread Chris Little
Peter von Kaehne wrote: Chris Little wrote: re styling and coloring. This remains a contentious issue clearly. I do not expect anyone to like my design choices - though some seem to do so. The color scheme and overall design are another thing that were not broken, but got "fixed". Actually

Re: [sword-devel] New SWORD website - update

2008-12-30 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
Thanks for hearing feedback Peter and your willingness to please. :) I like the new CrossWire menu bar much better. Not sure of the wording. I feel "Publishers" might miss the folks we want to draw to that link, which includes: Publishers, Outreach Ministries, and Bible Societies. In fact, I

Re: [sword-devel] New SWORD website - update

2008-12-30 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: > I agree. The SWORD Project is a special case. But I think, as has also > been suggested by some, that we could move most of the developer section > to the wiki. It doesn't necessarily have to have similar design to the > CrossWire pages which are meant for outsiders. We ha

Re: [sword-devel] New SWORD website - update

2008-12-30 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Peter von Kaehne wrote: > > As I said, I have found a solution with a a inline list which works > better on all kinds of screen designs. > This is now implemented on www.crosswire.org. The design is a inline unordered list with   in all spaces between words which should not wrap - like "the SWO

Re: [sword-devel] Open source German Volxbibel

2008-12-30 Thread Martin Gruner
Thank you Wolfgang, looking forward to an improved text. Please let us know. mg Am Dienstag 30 Dezember 2008 19:31:00 schrieb Wolfgang Schultz: > [..] > > > Except for the same lossiness as one finds in Jan's ThML, I haven't seen > > any evidence of lossiness in this case. Converting escaped hex

Re: [sword-devel] Vanishing news item

2008-12-30 Thread Peter von Kaehne
I have re-released the Lcdbible item after the matters of concern which Chris highlighted were rectified or are in the process of getting rectified by Lynn. I have also released a news item on bpBible's release of a the 0.4 release as portaple app on the 19th December. Slowly but surely we will r

Re: [sword-devel] New SWORD website - update

2008-12-30 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
Peter von Kaehne wrote: Volunteers and Developers, Bible Societies, Outreach ministries and Publishers. A good rule for all top links is that they should be short and sweet. Lengthy descriptions do not work well and are a turn off. I agree. It's difficult to find good ones, but not impossib

Re: [sword-devel] Open source German Volxbibel

2008-12-30 Thread Wolfgang Schultz
[..] > Except for the same lossiness as one finds in Jan's ThML, I haven't seen any > evidence of lossiness in this case. Converting escaped hex to UTF-8 takes > one call to pack() in Perl (or your favorite correlate). > > That's not to say that I would use the Zefania text in this case, but their

Re: [sword-devel] New SWORD website - update

2008-12-30 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > I feel the project site has lost its identity, subsumed within a corner > of the CrossWire site. I think this is because of the large CrossWire > logo at the top instead of The SWORD Project logo :) This is not completely intentional. I struggle with the SWORD logo. I

Re: [sword-devel] Vanishing news item

2008-12-30 Thread David Haslam
Peter, It would have been nice to have had a news item in September 2008, that CrossWire was adopting Go Bible, and to combine this with a "call for volunteers". While you are working on the site in general, is it too late to ask for this? News items don't all have to be of the kind, "Such and

Re: [sword-devel] New SWORD website - update

2008-12-30 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Chris Little wrote: >> My last solution of a single table row works well on shallow and normal >> screens, but causes scrolling on very narrow screens. > > I checked the crosswire.org site on a desktop with a nice large screen > resolution, an iPhone (320x480), the same iPhone in landscape (480x32

Re: [sword-devel] Wiki

2008-12-30 Thread Ray Ellerd
I appreciate the timely response. Thanx, Ray On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Chris Little wrote: > Yes, the Wiki will be down until DM has an opportunity to restore it, early > next year. > > --Chris > > Ray Ellerd wrote: > >> Is the WIKI down? >> >> Thanx, >> >> >> Ray >> >> >> ---

Re: [sword-devel] Wiki

2008-12-30 Thread Chris Little
Yes, the Wiki will be down until DM has an opportunity to restore it, early next year. --Chris Ray Ellerd wrote: Is the WIKI down? Thanx, Ray ___ sword-devel mailing list:

[sword-devel] Wiki

2008-12-30 Thread Ray Ellerd
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Re: [sword-devel] New SWORD website - update

2008-12-30 Thread Chris Little
Peter von Kaehne wrote: re 1 line vs 2 line menu bar. I have been given some grief regarding my choice of a single menu bar. I think I have an acceptable solution - the real problem is to have narrow screens and shallow screens (wide screens or even worse netbooks) equally well accommodated.

Re: [sword-devel] Vanishing news item

2008-12-30 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Chris Little wrote: > It's fine to list LcdBible news if an actual new release is made. But, > the most recent release on Lynn's site is still from 2006. The news release was based on an email from Lynn, which I will forward to you. I will ask him to clarify where he has the updated package and

Re: [sword-devel] Vanishing news item

2008-12-30 Thread Chris Little
Peter von Kaehne wrote: Sorry, Chris, this is not the correct stand of affairs. The news item was new and fresh from the press. i.e. from yesterday. LCDbible has been undeveloped until recently, but was recompiled yesterday to work with 1.5.11. Lynn also wrote to me that he plans to port the GU

Re: [sword-devel] Vanishing news item

2008-12-30 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Sorry, Chris, this is not the correct stand of affairs. The news item was new and fresh from the press. i.e. from yesterday. LCDbible has been undeveloped until recently, but was recompiled yesterday to work with 1.5.11. Lynn also wrote to me that he plans to port the GUI of his other project Be

Re: [sword-devel] Vanishing news item

2008-12-30 Thread Chris Little
Peter von Kaehne wrote: I put up yesterday a news item on a new release of a minor frontend , bringing it in line with current modules. Within a short while the item had vanished without trace. ... If this was a deletion by someone else who did not care to tell me that s/he did not agree with

[sword-devel] Vanishing news item

2008-12-30 Thread Peter von Kaehne
I put up yesterday a news item on a new release of a minor frontend , bringing it in line with current modules. Within a short while the item had vanished without trace. If this is caused by a bug, then I would like to report it. There is already another bug with that system which makes editing o