[sword-devel] Is anybody else having problems accessing crosswire.org

2025-04-22 Thread Martin Denham
Hi, I seem to be having problems accessing crosswire.org again. I thought it might just be my connection again but a restart has not helped and isitdownrightnow also seemed to show a problem so it made me wonder: [image: image.png] Cheers Martin ___ s

Re: [sword-devel] Is there a reason module download is very slow today

2025-03-12 Thread Martin Denham
fferent IPs. > It was hit or miss if the module would even finish downloading. > > Might not be your issue, just sharing my similar experience from the past. > > God bless, > > > *--Timmy Braun* > > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM Martin Denham wrote: > >>

[sword-devel] Is there a reason module download is very slow today

2025-03-11 Thread Martin Denham
Hi, Downloading JFB is taking minutes instead of seconds: https://www.crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/sword/packages/rawzip/JFB.zip Cheers Martin ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instr

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword

2025-01-14 Thread Martin Denham
Hi Aaron, Thanks for copying me in. The app is not deleted, just made private, I am still working on the app and initially targeting Android and iOS. I made it private because there is a lot to do and don't plan to release it for a while, so I wanted to avoid the possibility of people ripping i

[sword-devel] Kotlin Multiplatform

2024-11-08 Thread Martin Denham
Hi, I have been investigating Kotlin Multiplatform recently and started creating a Kotlin Multiplatform Bible app based on Sword. You can see the current state of it here: https://github.com/mjdenham/kmp-compose-bible-app There is a video so you don't need to be able to build it. Cheers Martin

[sword-devel] Svenska Folkbibeln

2018-09-15 Thread Martin Denham
An And Bible user has commented that "there is a later version of the Swedish Bible "Svenska Folkbibeln" available" and is asking why we are not distributing it. Cheers Martin ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.o

Re: [sword-devel] Berean Bible

2018-06-05 Thread Martin Denham
I have been told by the same And Bible user that the Berean Bible OT is now available and it does seem to be here and here although I am not sure if everything you require is there yet. Martin On 27 May 2018 at 21:39, Ka

[sword-devel] Berean Bible

2018-05-26 Thread Martin Denham
I just received this suggestion from an And Bible user: Are there any future plans to add the Berean Study Bible? It is a free to distribute translation that is very well done. Here is the website http://bereanbible.com/ Have we ever looked into distributing the Berean Bible as a Sword module? M

Re: [sword-devel] Android common module storage location

2018-04-23 Thread Martin Denham
You could try putting the modules in the jsword folder as described here . Martin On 23 April 2018 at 12:36, Karl Kleinpaste wrote: > I'm trying to figure out why I can't get Bishop and AndBible to

Re: [sword-devel] Japanese Bibles in Beta and some other stuff

2017-08-28 Thread Martin Denham
I took this photograph of a page from an acquaintance's Japanese Bible. As it reads down from the top right you can most easily see the Ruby characters by looking at the right most column. Martin On 22 August 2017 at 14:18, Karl Kleinpaste wrote: > On

[sword-devel] Strongs in German Luther Bible

2017-06-21 Thread Martin Denham
Could somebody tell me if Strongs has been removed from the German Luther Bible. There is an AB user who insists Strongs numbers have been removed and he wants them back. Martin ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswir

Re: [sword-devel] French versification schemes

2017-06-18 Thread Martin Denham
Should we consider introducing a new, fabricated translation (IIRC this may have originally been your idea DM), containing all potential books and used for mapping between different v11n? I was recently struggling to sort bookmarks from multiple different v11n and wrote the following at the time:

Re: [sword-devel] ERV issues in And Bible

2017-05-27 Thread Martin Denham
Regarding the original issue in And Bible - I released a work-around in the last release so now ERV displays fine in And Bible. Martin On 15 March 2017 at 15:25, Karl Kleinpaste wrote: > On 03/15/2017 10:16 AM, Martin Denham wrote: > > The bullet points are on empty lines, but I don&#

[sword-devel] Is the eBible repo down?

2017-05-27 Thread Martin Denham
I seem to be having problems accessing the eBible repo. However I seem to be having problems accessing one or 2 things atm. Regards Martin ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Inst

[sword-devel] Is the main crosswire site down

2017-04-02 Thread Martin Denham
It seems to be down, or at least i cant access it. Martin ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page

Re: [sword-devel] ERV issues in And Bible

2017-03-15 Thread Martin Denham
The bullet points are on empty lines, but I don't have the latest Xiphos so maybe this does not happen with the latest version. On 14 March 2017 at 21:22, Karl Kleinpaste wrote: > On 03/14/2017 04:48 PM, Martin Denham wrote: > > There also seems to be unusual formatting in 1 Chron

Re: [sword-devel] ERV issues in And Bible

2017-03-14 Thread Martin Denham
There also seems to be unusual formatting in 1 Chronicles 1 of ERV which even Xiphos struggles with. 1 Chronicles 1 issues were first reported to me as affecting the HIN2010 module but not the HindiERV module although they 'appear' to have the same source text. If we know how these 2 similar modu

[sword-devel] ERV issues in And Bible

2017-03-07 Thread Martin Denham
Would somebody mind checking the OSIS of the ERV in the eBible repository because it is breaking the And Bible OSIS processor in verses at the end of some chapters. Example problem verses are Psalm 2:12 and Psalm 3:8 but there are many more. The problem is that many verses at the end of chapters

[sword-devel] TS1998

2017-01-18 Thread Martin Denham
Has TS1998 disappeared from the Crosswire repository? Martin ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page

[sword-devel] Is the main Crosswire web site down?

2016-12-28 Thread Martin Denham
I can't connect to http://www.crosswire.org/ and users can't download any modules. Regards Martin ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settin

Re: [sword-devel] Android apps and Chromebook ?

2016-08-16 Thread Martin Denham
One And Bible user reported that AB is working correctly on chromebooks, but was not sure about chrome browser. Martin On 16 August 2016 at 09:59, David Haslam wrote: > Since it was announced that Chromebook will support Android apps, has > anyone > tried either AndBible or BibleTime Mini with

Re: [sword-devel] SWORD Meet

2016-08-12 Thread Martin Denham
Sorry, Scotland is a bit far for me but if anybody is passing through London it would be great to say hi. Martin On 12 Aug 2016 7:56 pm, "Konstantin Maslyuk" wrote: > I believe I would have such pleasure next summer. But my faith seems to me > bigger than my opportunities. > > Blessings. >

Re: [sword-devel] CzeBKR has unusual language code

2016-04-23 Thread Martin Denham
>From an And Bible perspective. The difficulty Czech users are having is that the default locale is cs so CzeBKR does not appear in the default list of Bibles presented to the user. It is true they could select a different language - ces - and download CzeBKR but that is not very obvious so I get

[sword-devel] CzeBKR has unusual language code

2016-04-16 Thread Martin Denham
All of the Czech modules have language code 'cs'. However, CzeBKR in the Crosswire repo has language code 'ces'. Martin ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubsc

[sword-devel] Song of Solomon missing from ChiNCVt

2016-03-08 Thread Martin Denham
The Song of Solomon is missing from ChiNCVt - New Chinese Version Traditional - and I was wondering if that was intentional or a mistake. Regards Martin ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/s

Re: [sword-devel] Wiki Maintenance

2016-02-13 Thread Martin Denham
I think the whole site is down. Martin On 13 February 2016 at 19:29, David Haslam wrote: > My connection to the wiki has become unresponsive - several hours later. > > Any ideas what might be causing this? > > Connection to other sites is OK, but a browser refresh on crosswire.org is > also sti

[sword-devel] Xiphos http server down

2016-01-15 Thread Martin Denham
I just noticed the Xiphos http server is down. Martin ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above pa

[sword-devel] Crosswire site down

2016-01-03 Thread Martin Denham
It looks like the main web site, repo, etc are down. Martin ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page

[sword-devel] Czech Issue

2015-12-09 Thread Martin Denham
I had an issue reported to me in Czech. I am not sure how helpful the report is. The following is all I know and auto-translate is not very helpful: Dobrý den, používám v mobilu aplikaci And-bible. Děkuji za tuto aplikaci, je výborná! Zdá se mi, že v Iz 41,7 je malá chybička: " ... Pak upevní mo

[sword-devel] eBible repo - zip errors

2015-09-14 Thread Martin Denham
I don't know what has changed since I last tested installation of zips from eBible repo but now java.util.zip.ZipFile does not recognise the zip files as valid zips. java.util.zip.ZipException: Not a zip archive at java.util.zip.ZipFile.readCentralDir(ZipFile.java:385) at java.util.zip.ZipFile.(Zi

Re: [sword-devel] eBible.org repository minor tweak

2015-09-02 Thread Martin Denham
And Bible/JSword is reporting errors in some conf files: 1. In cta1981.conf and many others the extra trailing '*' obstructs line continuation: \* You must give Attribution to the work. \ \* You do not sell this work for a profit. \ \* 2. Many modules have no description e.g. kdc20

Re: [sword-devel] eBible.org repository minor tweak

2015-09-02 Thread Martin Denham
The http link is missed from the first post but works fine with JSword. And Bible is using http to access the repo. Martin On 2 September 2015 at 06:04, Chris Burrell wrote: > It's the only supported protocol for jsword (step, and bible, ...) though > I believe dm may have implemented ftp recen

Re: [sword-devel] eBible.org repository refresh done

2015-08-17 Thread Martin Denham
Apologies for taking a long time to look at the new eBible repo. Here are a couple of comments/questions. Firstly I have tried adding the new eBible repo to And Bible and downloaded a few modules without any problems but there were a few things I noticed while testing. 1. Some of the language pr

Re: [sword-devel] eBible.org repository refresh complete

2015-08-11 Thread Martin Denham
Does the new repo include all the modules that are in the Crosswire Wycliffe repo ? Martin On 11 August 2015 at 16:58, David Haslam wrote: > Thanks Michael, > > I have just added the details to > http://crosswire.org/wiki/Module_

Re: [sword-devel] heads up - languages/repo frontend problem

2015-08-08 Thread Martin Denham
Hi, Does the new repo support access via http, which would be required by all JSword apps? Martin On 8 August 2015 at 14:54, David Haslam wrote: > Karl wrote, "An alternative would be to keep IPV6, but change the access > method to http." > > PocketSword does not support HTTP access to module

Re: [sword-devel] New Turkish module

2015-07-09 Thread Martin Denham
Present and working. Thanks Martin On 9 July 2015 at 22:31, DM Smith wrote: > Oops. I thought I took -n off of the program’s execution. -n just tells me > what it is going to do. Try it now. > > On Jul 9, 2015, at 5:26 PM, Martin Denham wrote: > > Hi DM, > > Is it sup

Re: [sword-devel] New Turkish module

2015-07-09 Thread Martin Denham
Hi DM, Is it supposed to be done already? The zip file does not seem to exist yet. Martin On 9 July 2015 at 21:13, DM Smith wrote: > Done. > > On Jul 9, 2015, at 3:52 PM, Martin Denham wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > Could you upload the zip for JSword based apps? Attempti

Re: [sword-devel] New Turkish module

2015-07-09 Thread Martin Denham
Hi Peter, Could you upload the zip for JSword based apps? Attempting to automatically create it by clicking the 'download ' link in the modules list throws an error, it used to auto-create the zip so there may be an issue there. Thanks Martin On 9 July 2015 at 20:25, Peter von Kaehne wrote: >

Re: [sword-devel] Universal Windows Platform

2015-06-24 Thread Martin Denham
There is also Cross Connect . On 24 June 2015 at 16:48, Konstantin Maslyuk wrote: > Hi. > > I'm programming hobbyist too and developer of BibleTime Mini, it is Bible > reading app, based on Sword and desktop BibleTime code. It is available for > at least six mobile

Re: [sword-devel] Romanian text released, also Catena Aurea

2015-02-08 Thread Martin Denham
Could somebody run the rawzip file generator to create zips for the new and updated modules for JSword front ends. I have manually triggered zip creation of RomCor.zip. Thanks for updating the Romanian module Peter, I have had a lot of queries. Cheers Martin On 7 February 2015 at 23:25, Peter v

[sword-devel] Romanian modules have disappeared from Crosswire repo

2015-01-02 Thread Martin Denham
I am receiving reports from users that the Romanian Bible modules are no longer available for download from the Crosswire repo. I can't remember the names of the Romanian modules but one was called RomCor and that has definitely disappeared. Thanks Martin _

Re: [sword-devel] Alternate Versifications

2014-12-29 Thread Martin Denham
Based on user feedback it appears that the Psalms read out in the user's church and in their printed Bibles have a different number to the Psalms in FreSegond and FreCrampon. I find that few, if any, Christians I communicate with, outside of the Sword lists, are familiar with the different versifi

Re: [sword-devel] Alternate Versifications

2014-12-29 Thread Martin Denham
The biggest problem constantly reported to me is the offset Psalms in French Bibles. One e-mail from yesterday: There some mistakes in the numbering of french version for ex the psam 135 is supposed to be psalm 136.you could check the psalms for mistake like that. Check the FreSegond version for

Re: [sword-devel] New modules

2014-12-29 Thread Martin Denham
Hi, Regarding: 'JSword frontends will be able to download these modules only once the Cron had its nightly run re permission update and zip making.' See the thread on this list entitled 'Missing ZIP files' I don't think this cron job is running automatically yet and I can see that atleast recver.

[sword-devel] Best versification for FreSegond and FreCrampon

2014-03-11 Thread Martin Denham
I have received a number of e-mails from French users asking why the Psalms in FreSegond and FreCrampon are 'incorrect'. Of course they only appear to be incorrect to some users because they are unaccustomed to the Vulgate versification used by these Bibles. Could I ask for confirmation that we a

Re: [sword-devel] Main download url problems

2014-02-17 Thread Martin Denham
Here is further clarification regarding the start time of the issue in case it helps to analyse the problem: the first e-mail I received regarding the problem was at 8am GMT this morning. Martin On 17 February 2014 19:10, Martin Denham wrote: > Hi, > > Are there any issues wi

[sword-devel] Main download url problems

2014-02-17 Thread Martin Denham
Hi, Are there any issues with http://www.crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/sword/packages/rawzip/? I can't get to this url via a browser or And Bible. It is the first url And Bible (and possibly JSword) uses but seems to have been inaccessible since Sunday. I am getting a lot of e-mails form users.

Re: [sword-devel] merge raw & avraw repos?

2013-10-31 Thread Martin Denham
Will the migration be done in such a way that front ends with a cached mods.d.tar.gz will not generate errors? So something like: 1. remove modules from avraw mods.tar.gz 2. add modules to raw mods.tar.gz 3. copy modules from avraw folders to raw folders 4. a month or so later remove modules from

Re: [sword-devel] Audio Bibles

2013-10-21 Thread Martin Denham
gine. > For some or all of these products, to install Ivona may be of no avail, > because the user settings do not have a section which would enable it to be > selected. > > And yes - And Bible's developer Martin Denham) is a member of sword-devel. > But see also the mailing li

Re: [sword-devel] Missing ZIP files

2013-07-20 Thread Martin Denham
They should be there again now. And Bible depends on the av repository. See this thread for more info: http://svn.crosswire.org/pipermail/jsword-devel/2013-April/004639.html It is a real shame the av zips are not created automatically. Cheers Martin On 20 July 2013 06:08, Chris Little wrote:

Re: [sword-devel] ESV module updated to current version possible?

2013-02-18 Thread Martin Denham
I had a query regarding an ESV version update from an AB user recently: "... I have to admit some surprise when I found the text that pastor was using was different in places. For example, Isa. “he was wounded for our transgressions” in the app, but “pierced for our transgressions” in the church B

Re: [sword-devel] Personal Commentary and Dropbox.

2013-02-12 Thread Martin Denham
Currently And Bible notes and bookmarks are stored locally but I have had a lot of requests to be able to sync them with other Sword apps. It would be good to have an architecture such as Dropbox that allowed sync between different platforms. Somebody suggested EverNote to me but Dropbox looks go

Re: [sword-devel] Location of prebuilt lucene indexes.

2013-01-24 Thread Martin Denham
Hi David, To delete an index in And Bible you long-press the desired module in the Documents list to reveal module and index delete actions in the context menu. Martin On 24 January 2013 12:36, David Haslam wrote: > *And Bible* allows the user to create the search index for a module if it > do

Re: [sword-devel] How to compile And Bible from jsword from the upstream repo?

2012-10-29 Thread Martin Denham
Hi Matej, There is a jsword-tweaksproject in the And Bible github account. I also create a jsword-all-tweaked.jar and jsword-all-tweaked-src.jar in the And Bible github project under libs

Re: [sword-devel] AndBible

2012-09-19 Thread Martin Denham
Hi Greg, All the above advice is correct and I regularly install modules to sdcard/jsword as in the FAQ that Matěj pointed you to, but you do need to restart And Bible in order to pick up the modules. Which module are you trying and failing to load? Could you make it available for us to try to

Re: [sword-devel] Speech synthesis voices?

2012-08-20 Thread Martin Denham
Hi David, Each TTS voice is specific to a language and country(accent). And Bible requests a voice for the language of the module and also tries to work out the best country (accent). So, you could load an English bible and press Speak which will use Amy, then switch to a German bible and press

Re: [sword-devel] Speech synthesis voices?

2012-08-20 Thread Martin Denham
Hi, I integrated TTS into And Bible a long time ago and, for me, it has transformed my bible study, book reading, and devotions. I initially got the idea from Troy's Bishop, which also integrates TTS. However, TTS is probably more useful on a device which normally has earphones attached than, sa

Re: [sword-devel] [jsword-devel] Arabic bible book names

2012-06-15 Thread Martin Denham
:06, DM Smith wrote: > > On 06/13/2012 04:38 PM, Martin Denham wrote: > >> Is there any reason the Arabic bible book names resource is > >> restricted to Egypt: BibleNames_ar_EG.properties > >> > >> There does not seem to be a generic Arabic bible book name

Re: [sword-devel] Portuguese Biblia Livre (PorLivre) updates

2012-04-28 Thread Martin Denham
It is about a year since this thread and I notice the PorLivre project (Biblia Livre) has been making good progress and now includes 22 books of the Old Testament (was 5.5 last year). Would it be a good time to update the Sword module in the Cros

Re: [sword-devel] HunUj Bible (New Translation Hungarian Bible) module has disappeared

2012-04-07 Thread Martin Denham
e available in degraded versions for front ends that > don't support av11n, those front ends will never support av11n. > > --Chris > > > On 4/7/2012 2:51 AM, Martin Denham wrote: > >> Hi Chris, >> >> Could we put the old version back in the standard repo,

Re: [sword-devel] HunUj Bible (New Translation Hungarian Bible) module has disappeared

2012-04-07 Thread Martin Denham
Hi Chris, Could we put the old version back in the standard repo, at least until most front ends start using the av11n repo? Martin On 7 April 2012 10:44, Chris Little wrote: > New version in the av11n repo, old version in the attic repo. > > --Chris > > > > On 4/7/2012 2

[sword-devel] HunUj Bible (New Translation Hungarian Bible) module has disappeared

2012-04-07 Thread Martin Denham
The HunUj Bible (New Translation Hungarian Bible) has disappeared from the download list. You can see it has disappeared from the modules list here: http://www.crosswire.org/sword/modules/ModDisp.jsp?modType=Bibles Martin ___ sword-devel mailing list: s

Re: [sword-devel] ISV Old Testament

2012-02-03 Thread Martin Denham
I thought I would mention that I have made a start on this. I haven't created a bible module before but hopefully it will go okay. I am no authority but the ISV seems quite good to me, somewhere between ESV and GodsWord in it's approach. Martin On 30 December 2011 18:08, Martin Den

[sword-devel] Problems in new WEBBE and WEBME but not WEB

2012-01-24 Thread Martin Denham
Hi, In the new WEBBE and WEBME using Bible Desktop and And Bible there are a lot of \wj* and \wj strings. The following example is taken from Matthew 24 verse 1 buildings of the temple. \wj* 2But he answered them and there are 1 or 2 of the above strings in every verse of Matt 24. I have not n

Re: [sword-devel] ISV Old Testament

2011-12-30 Thread Martin Denham
I managed to find the ISV 2.0 Word docs - docm, docx, and doc - on an archived version of isv.org. If anybody would like them I can send a link. The docs are about a year old, include the OT, NT, footnotes, introductory text, and appendixes. Best regards Martin On 17 September 2011 13:38, Chri

[sword-devel] RomCor - missing chapters in 1 Peter

2011-11-22 Thread Martin Denham
I often receive e-mails from Rumanian users asking about the missing chapters in 1 Peter in the RomCor module. Is there anything I can tell them? I am sure some would be willing to help if there was anything they could do. The bug relating to this issue is MOD-129

Re: [sword-devel] New Latvian NT looks weird

2011-11-11 Thread Martin Denham
tvian users would be great, but this should be identical > to the module that appeared in the beta repository, so if that was > satisfactory, this should be too. > > --Chris > > > On 11/1/2011 12:51 PM, Martin Denham wrote: > >> Thanks for the input everybody however for

[sword-devel] David Guzik's Commentary

2011-11-07 Thread Martin Denham
I have had a request for David Guzik's Commentary as a Sword module. This seems to be available via e-Sword by permission and I wondered if this has been explored in the past. Thanks Martin ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://

Re: [sword-devel] New Latvian NT looks weird

2011-11-01 Thread Martin Denham
an NT. Thanks Martin On 1 November 2011 07:23, Chris Little wrote: > No. What is in attic was formerly in public. What is in public was > formerly in beta. 1.3 was a version that appeared only in beta and was > updated to 1.4 as a result of bug reports. > > --Chris > > > &

Re: [sword-devel] New Latvian NT looks weird

2011-10-31 Thread Martin Denham
Is there a copy of 1.3 anywhere? Only 1.1 is in the attic. Martin On 30 October 2011 05:40, Jonathan Marsden wrote: > On 10/29/2011 01:36 PM, David Haslam wrote: > > > Jonathan - why the reference to Latvian version 1.1 ? > > > No specific version or specific repository was stated. So, I (per

Re: [sword-devel] New Latvian NT looks weird

2011-10-29 Thread Martin Denham
Here is a link to a screen-print so you can see what it looks like: https://github.com/mjdenham/and-bible/raw/master/IgnoreAndBibleExperiments/temp/LatvianNT.png I checked the conf file and it is version 1.4. Martin On 29 October 2011 21:36, David Haslam wrote: > Jonathan - why the reference t

Re: [sword-devel] New Latvian NT looks weird

2011-10-29 Thread Martin Denham
The previous version worked fine on And Bible. Martin On 29 October 2011 21:08, David Haslam wrote: > The character frequencies in my earlier reply were based on the output of > diatheke.exe > > Are we sure this is not just a fonts issue on your platforms? > > David > > > > -- > View this messa

[sword-devel] New Latvian NT looks weird

2011-10-29 Thread Martin Denham
Hi, The new version of the Latvian NT seems very unusual with lots of unexpected characters when displayed in And Bible. Could somebody check it? Thanks Martin ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/lis

Re: [sword-devel] Pathway, SIL, GoBible and CrossWire

2011-10-20 Thread Martin Denham
Hi Greg, AndBible has always been able to display Psalm 119, even on low powered devices, and many people say that, far from being slow, it is very responsive. I can only think that Greg was getting confused with some other bible software. Martin On 19 October 2011 19:29, Greg Hellings wrote:

[sword-devel] Fwd: incorrect characters in Latvian module

2011-10-14 Thread Martin Denham
message -- From: Martins Donga Date: 14 October 2011 04:20 Subject: Re: incorrect characters in Latvian module To: Martin Denham Hi Martin, looks and works perfect!!! Letters are correct and even search engine is working! Would be great if this version could be activated for AndBible app

[sword-devel] Strongs and Real Strongs

2011-10-07 Thread Martin Denham
Is one of Strongs or Real Strongs to be preferred or do they both have advantages or does Real Strongs supersede Strongs? Unfortunately I am no linguist. Thanks Martin ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mail

[sword-devel] How to represent special characters in osisID attributes in a gen book

2011-10-04 Thread Martin Denham
In gen books it seems that the osisID is normally used as the chapter title e.g. However some chapter titles can contain special characters e.g. contains an apostrophe. I thought that, being an xml attribute, it should be: but that gives the error: The value 'God's Sovereignty'

[sword-devel] Request for feedback on new General Book module

2011-09-21 Thread Martin Denham
I have tentatively started to create a "Jonathan Edwards' Sermons" General Book module but I would appreciate some feedback on this, both on the general requirement for this module, the legal aspect, and the xml itself? I took the original text from ccel, converted it to xml, and ran xml2gbs. I h

Re: [sword-devel] Difficult Greek question

2011-09-17 Thread Martin Denham
2 laos lah-os' apparently a primary word; a people (in general; thus differing from 1218, which denotes one's own populace):--people. see GREEK for 1218 Regards Martin On 6 September 2011 09:41, Martin Denham wrote: > Thanks Karl, > > I believe the user was using StrongsGree

[sword-devel] ISV Old Testament

2011-09-16 Thread Martin Denham
A user has asked regarding the ISV Old Testament. The ISV Sword Module only contains the NT but it seems many other apps like e-Sword and Cadre Bible distribute the full bible for free. Are there any plans to distribute the whole ISV bible? Thanks Martin _

Re: [sword-devel] Chinese Pinyin bible

2011-09-10 Thread Martin Denham
Hi, There is one in the Xiphos repo: ftp://ftp.xiphos.org/zip/chipinyin.zip Martin On 10 September 2011 04:24, 1stmac wrote: > My apologies, that was probably *not* exactly what you we're looking for > ... > > On Sep 10, 2011, at 11:13 AM, 1stmac wrote: > > Is this what you're looking for? > h

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword for iPad

2011-09-09 Thread Martin Denham
Congratulations Nic, Could I ask for more information on a couple of changes? The release notes include "more fonts for displaying more Asian language scripts" but which fonts did you use for which languages - I have been doing some work on fonts in AB too. Also, what ui changes did you make for

Re: [sword-devel] Difficult Greek question

2011-09-06 Thread Martin Denham
Thanks Karl, I believe the user was using StrongsGreek from the default repo rather than StrongsRealGreek from the Xiphos repo so I will also raise a bug report for the StrongsGreek module. Martin On 5 September 2011 13:41, Karl Kleinpaste wrote: > FYI, StrongsRealGreek in the Xiphos repo has

[sword-devel] Difficult Greek question

2011-09-05 Thread Martin Denham
This question came in via the And Bible help e-mail address but it is too difficult for me to answer. Can somebody help? Here is the relevant part of the e-mail: ...I think I've found a mistake within Strong's Greek Dictionary itself, which - I assume - must be in the original? It is this: Acts

Re: [sword-devel] Looking for Calvin's Institutes xml source

2011-08-30 Thread Martin Denham
Hi Mario, I have never created a module, but there is a page on Module Making that might get you started and here is another link to the OSIS manual . Regards Martin On 27 August 2011 17:24, Mario Bertrand wrote: > Hi, > > I'm interested in making Calvin's In

Re: [sword-devel] Russian russynodal

2011-07-11 Thread Martin Denham
stalled on mobiles and mobiles upgraded fairly frequently compared to pcs. Martin On 10 July 2011 06:07, Chris Little wrote: > On 7/9/2011 1:46 PM, Martin Denham wrote: > >> I loaded the new russynodal module from >> ftp://ftp.crosswire.org/pub/**sword/avraw<ftp://ftp.cro

[sword-devel] Russian russynodal

2011-07-09 Thread Martin Denham
I loaded the new russynodal module from ftp://ftp.crosswire.org/pub/sword/avraw into And Bible recently and it seems to look fine. I was wondering if this module should work well enough with existing apps to make it available to users. Most Russian users stopped using And Bible when the original

[sword-devel] Puritan GenBooks?

2011-06-17 Thread Martin Denham
Are there any Sword GenBook modules planned or available by people like John Owen, Jonathan Edwards, J C Ryle or other Puritans? I can't see any in the normal repo. Thanks Martin ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswi

[sword-devel] Should osmhb.conf contain Feature=StrongsNumbers

2011-06-06 Thread Martin Denham
I was using the conf file property Feature=StrongsNumbers to determine if a book contains Strong's numbers, but I have noticed that OSMHB does not contain the above property but does contain Strong's numbers and does have the following property: GlobalOptionFilter=OSISStrongs Is this a mista

[sword-devel] Portuguese Biblia Livre (PorLivre) updates

2011-05-02 Thread Martin Denham
Hi, I have had a question from a user regarding PorLivre OT and notice that it is based on http://sites.google.com/site/biblialivre and that Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song, and Isaiah have been added to that site since the Sword module was created. Are there any plans to add the newly translated bo

[sword-devel] Is it possible to change Gill to a block type of CHAPTER instead of BOOK

2011-04-01 Thread Martin Denham
Hi, I recently included Gill from the Xiphos repo in the And Bible download list. When trying to view Gill's commentary for large books like Isaiah And Bible throws an out of memory error because mobiles have limited memory. I believe this memory error might disappear if the block type of Gill c

[sword-devel] Has the Russian Synodal Translation been removed?

2011-03-25 Thread Martin Denham
Hi, The Russian Synodal Translation has disappeared from the And Bible download list but I am wondering if there is a general problem because it also seems to be missing from the CrossWire module list here: http://www.crosswire.org/sword/modules/ModDisp.jsp?modType=Bibles unless I am looking in th

Re: [sword-devel] Installing new/updated locales like we do for modules?

2011-03-02 Thread Martin Denham
>From an Android perspective this would be tricky because the Android framework specifies that locale specific directories are integrated in a specific structure within each Android application and Android App Market also analyses the application structure to highlight which languages an app has be

Re: [sword-devel] [jsword-devel] Missing short bible book names for most languages

2011-01-13 Thread Martin Denham
Hi David, Yes we have the full book names in BibleNames_*.propertiesso somebody could possibly guesstimate reasonable abbreviated book names from the full book names. There is the possibility

Re: [sword-devel] [jsword-devel] Missing short bible book names for most languages

2011-01-12 Thread Martin Denham
Hi, So it looks like we can get a couple more sets of abbreviated book names from BPBible and I think if I ask a couple of recent contributors they may be able to translate cs, fi, ru but there will still be a lot of languages without short names. I wouldn't like to disable grid navigation for th

[sword-devel] Is Delitzsch Hebrew NT available?

2011-01-01 Thread Martin Denham
While working on Hebrew bible display in And Bible an Israeli contact asked if the Delitzsch Hebrew NT is available. I can't see anything in the CrossWire Sword modules nor in the Xiphos module list so I thought I would ask. These are the links I was given regarding the Delitzsch Hebrew NT: http

Re: [sword-devel] XSLT vs. C++

2010-12-01 Thread Martin Denham
Excuse me for being pure Java and not knowing Sword C++ at all but can I add (perhaps obviously) that an XSLT framework will perform noticeably slower than a SAX-like framework. Here are some performance comparisons. They

[sword-devel] Holman Christian Standard Bible

2010-11-06 Thread Martin Denham
Hi, I was wondering if CrossWire had any plans to make a Holman Christian Standard Bible module available. Olive Treeare making a version available free. Kind regards Martin ___

[sword-devel] Missing Lang=en in tdavid.conf

2010-09-30 Thread Martin Denham
Hi, I am not sure what the process of fixing or amending modules is but I thought I would mention that tdavid.conf has no language specified i.e. there is a missing: Lang=en The affect of this is that Treasury of David may possibly not be shown for download by programs that filter downloads

Re: [sword-devel] Android SWORD

2010-09-30 Thread Martin Denham
Hi, I must confess that to make JSword perform a little better and due to lack of xslt support on early versions of Android I tweaked jsword OSIS processing so as to use OSIS XML -> SAX processor -> HTML. I thus removed jdom and xslt. I realise there are various arguments for using jdom and xslt

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