Re: [sword-devel] Testament/Book/Chapter Introduction

2009-03-09 Thread Daniel Owens
In Xiphos and BibleTime the VietNVB module displays book introductions. Just go to the first chapter of a book and scroll up. Daniel mmital wrote: Hi,   Which front-end and bible module can I use to to see a working example of a book or chapter introduction?   Thanks.

Re: [sword-devel] Poetry and indented lines

2009-03-09 Thread Daniel Owens
Yes, I considered that means of markup, but it didn't produce the result I was looking for in the front-ends I was targeting, which is why I went for the level="4" attribute. This is one of the tensions with XML--function is favored over form, leaving the form up to the engine's filters or fron

[sword-devel] Testament/Book/Chapter Introduction

2009-03-09 Thread mmital
Hi, Which front-end and bible module can I use to to see a working example of a book or chapter introduction? Thanks. ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscri

Re: [sword-devel] Poetry and indented lines

2009-03-09 Thread Chris Little
Daniel Owens wrote: One more thing to consider is poetic elements that are right-justified. One of the translations I have worked on preparing for SWORD had "Selah" right justified (VietNVB, in case you're interested). I just encoded it like so: Sê-la. It isn't right-justified, but I think

Re: [sword-devel] Poetry and indented lines

2009-03-09 Thread Daniel Owens
One more thing to consider is poetic elements that are right-justified. One of the translations I have worked on preparing for SWORD had "Selah" right justified (VietNVB, in case you're interested). I just encoded it like so: Sê-la. It isn't right-justified, but I think level 3 was the highes

Re: [sword-devel] Poetry and indented lines

2009-03-09 Thread SonWon
Ben Morgan wrote: But SonWon's admonishing that might not be appropriate for portable devices should be listened to. I don't know of the osishtmlhref or osisrtf filters are used there. I think this is important to display, though the size of indent might be negotiable. Well, I

Re: [sword-devel] Poetry and indented lines

2009-03-09 Thread Ben Morgan
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:03 PM, DM Smith wrote: > On Mar 9, 2009, at 6:22 PM, Ben Morgan wrote: > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 5:43 AM, DM Smith wrote: > > Thanks Chris. Based on that I've updated >> http://crosswire.org/wiki/OSIS_Bibles#Marking_poetic_material. >> >> I checked the SWORD and JSwor

Re: [sword-devel] Poetry and indented lines

2009-03-09 Thread DM Smith
On Mar 9, 2009, at 6:22 PM, Ben Morgan wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 5:43 AM, DM Smith wrote: Thanks Chris. Based on that I've updated http://crosswire.org/wiki/OSIS_Bibles#Marking_poetic_material . I checked the SWORD and JSword renderers and they don't do indentation based upon level.

Re: [sword-devel] Tagging verses and verse lists

2009-03-09 Thread SonWon
A good bookmarking system that would allow for Bible studies should also allow for Bible study specific notes . Just tossing ideas out as they pop into my head. Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: DM Smith wrote: Topic tagging and sub tagging: Several users have asked for a way of creating a topical Bible

Re: [sword-devel] Poetry and indented lines

2009-03-09 Thread Ben Morgan
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 5:43 AM, DM Smith wrote: > Thanks Chris. Based on that I've updated > http://crosswire.org/wiki/OSIS_Bibles#Marking_poetic_material. > > I checked the SWORD and JSword renderers and they don't do indentation > based upon level. I think it would be simple to add. I'll do it

Re: [sword-devel] Tagging verses and verse lists

2009-03-09 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
DM Smith wrote: Topic tagging and sub tagging: Several users have asked for a way of creating a topical Bible. To them a topic is ultimately a named list of Bible keys. If the topic is large, it might have sub-topics. This is what I understand by basic "bookmarks". Shutdown/Startup: Severa

Re: [sword-devel] Poetry and indented lines

2009-03-09 Thread SonWon
Hey, just wanted to throw out my two sense worth. This needs to be selectable since small screens may not benefit from indentation. Going back to lurking now. DM Smith wrote: Chris Little wrote: DM Smith wrote: With regard to OSIS, if there are short-comings, we should try to influence t

Re: [sword-devel] Poetry and indented lines

2009-03-09 Thread DM Smith
Chris Little wrote: DM Smith wrote: With regard to OSIS, if there are short-comings, we should try to influence the standard. This is a proper venue for how we at CrossWire would like to work with OSIS. Regarding the element and indents here is what the manual has to say: *l: The l elemen

[sword-devel] Welsh Bible

2009-03-09 Thread Peter von Kaehne
I approached last week the UK Bible Society regarding their Welsh translation - thinking this would be a nice addition following us having Beibl.net's translation but was told that they are already discussing with one of us and have decided to publish their next revision as CrossWire module. Gr

Re: [sword-devel] Poetry and indented lines

2009-03-09 Thread Chris Little
DM Smith wrote: With regard to OSIS, if there are short-comings, we should try to influence the standard. This is a proper venue for how we at CrossWire would like to work with OSIS. Regarding the element and indents here is what the manual has to say: *l: The l element is used to mark sepa

Re: [sword-devel] Tagging verses and verse lists

2009-03-09 Thread DM Smith
This has come at a good time. I am working on implementing a book mark facility for JSword. See below for more... Peter von Kaehne wrote: The thread I pull up here has some relevance 1) it was never concluded in theory and certainly no conclusions ever put into practice 2) With more and more

Re: [sword-devel] Tagging verses and verse lists

2009-03-09 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
Quoting Jonathan Morgan : I'll add to this: f) Should support passages, not just individual verses (the definition of a passage is interesting - after looking at my notes that I take, I'm inclined to extend it to any collection of verses, not just a continuous passage, and will probably change i

Re: [sword-devel] Tagging verses and verse lists

2009-03-09 Thread Jonathan Morgan
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Peter von Kaehne wrote: > The thread I pull up here has some relevance > > 1) it was never concluded in theory and certainly no conclusions ever > put into practice > 2) With more and more applications becoming crossplatform there will be > a growing and quite reaso

[sword-devel] Hebrew characters in footnotes ......

2009-03-09 Thread Barry Drake
Hi there .. Am I the only one who can't get the Hebrew characters to appear in a BibleCS footnote popup? Example: NET (or NETfree) Gen 1:2 note 3. I've tried everything including a clean install of the latest Windows binary, but only see the Hebrew in the 'popout' note and not in the 'po