Re: [sword-devel] New filter suggestion

2013-08-18 Thread Kahunapule Michael Johnson
On 08/17/2013 11:33 PM, Peter von Kaehne wrote: > Sometimes I want to rapidly find a story or passage for which I have > nothing but the vaguest recollection. > > Most modern Bible translations we have now use titles. > > I would like to be able to look only at the titles of passages, instead > o

[sword-devel] SWORD 1.7.0RC3

2013-08-18 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
OK, all latest fixes, updates, and make system changes are in. ChangeLog all cleaned up. Please give us a thumbs up or down as you try this release candidate with your project http://crosswire.org/sword/alpha/alpha/sword-1.7.0RC3.tar.gz Thanks for all the contributions and testing on this rel

Re: [sword-devel] New filter suggestion

2013-08-18 Thread Pola Edward
Not searching in titles only, but view titles only, sometimes you want to search for something but don't have keywords or can't guess suitable ones . So you can view the books but titles only > Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 07:20:01 -0700 > From: dfh...@googlemail.com > To: sword-devel@crosswire.org >

Re: [sword-devel] New filter suggestion

2013-08-18 Thread Chris Burrell
We're going to use this more to give an overview of a book... not so much (although helpful) for finding a passage. On 18 August 2013 15:20, David Haslam wrote: > Although there is certainly some merit in the concept of searching only > within section titles. I do wonder how much the typical us

Re: [sword-devel] New filter suggestion

2013-08-18 Thread David Haslam
Although there is certainly some merit in the concept of searching only within section titles. I do wonder how much the typical user would gain? After all, if one only has a vague idea of the details in the text of the passage, how much more likely would it be that entering a search field for head

Re: [sword-devel] New filter suggestion

2013-08-18 Thread Chris Burrell
STEP will be doing something very similar soon too. (although based on JSword). On 18 August 2013 14:29, Pola Edward <5...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Like the idea, Would give an overview about chapters and will help in many > things > > > From: ref...@gmx.net > > To: sword-devel@crosswire.org > > Da

Re: [sword-devel] New filter suggestion

2013-08-18 Thread Pola Edward
Like the idea, Would give an overview about chapters and will help in many things > From: ref...@gmx.net > To: sword-devel@crosswire.org > Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 10:33:23 +0100 > Subject: [sword-devel] New filter suggestion > > Sometimes I want to rapidly find a story or passage for which I have

[sword-devel] Lexical fields

2013-08-18 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
Has anyone suggested the following fields in conf files for lexica/dictionaries/etc? Fields=Strongs,LexForm,Pronunciation,Etymology,Definition LexLang=Greek My idea is that the "Fields" entry would consist of a comma-separated list of fields in the lexicon, and that the "LexLang" item would

Re: [sword-devel] New filter suggestion

2013-08-18 Thread Nic Carter
It was my desire to create a new way of navigating through a book of the Bible using titles, so instead of book->chapter->verse & the app would jump to that verse, you'd go book->title & when you tapped on the title, it would jump to the b/c/v that that title corresponds to. Sounds like we have

[sword-devel] New filter suggestion

2013-08-18 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Sometimes I want to rapidly find a story or passage for which I have nothing but the vaguest recollection. Most modern Bible translations we have now use titles. I would like to be able to look only at the titles of passages, instead of any text, but maybe of more than one chapter. I know that