Re: [sword-devel] Chinese PinYin, OSIS, SWORD and front-ends

2010-10-20 Thread Peter von Kaehne
> Von: DM Smith > My guess is that we can add a transliterator that would go from oikos to > οικοσ. That way, the transliteration would not need to be stored. > > I don't know enough about Chinese and PinYin to know if this would work. I think the biggest problem with Chinese -> PinYin is that

Re: [sword-devel] Chinese PinYin, OSIS, SWORD and front-ends

2010-10-19 Thread DM Smith
On Oct 19, 2010, at 5:20 PM, Chris Little wrote: > On 10/19/2010 1:54 PM, Matthew Talbert wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:19 AM, David Haslam >> wrote: >>> >>> Something to ponder for the future then, maybe? >>> >>> See �http://crosswire.org/wiki/Talk:Transliteration >>> http://crosswire.

Re: [sword-devel] Chinese PinYin, OSIS, SWORD and front-ends

2010-10-19 Thread Matthew Talbert
> I'm really about as ignorant of (C)Lucene as a person can be, so someone > please correct me if I'm wrong. I believe our indexing just indexes at the > record level (verses or dictionary entries). So, upon creation of the index, > you could just concatenate the text and the transliterated text

Re: [sword-devel] Chinese PinYin, OSIS, SWORD and front-ends

2010-10-19 Thread Chris Little
On 10/19/2010 1:54 PM, Matthew Talbert wrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:19 AM, David Haslam wrote: Something to ponder for the future then, maybe? See �http://crosswire.org/wiki/Talk:Transliteration http://crosswire.org/wiki/Talk:Transliteration Thanks, Chris, for useful comments there. As

Re: [sword-devel] Chinese PinYin, OSIS, SWORD and front-ends

2010-10-19 Thread Matthew Talbert
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:19 AM, David Haslam wrote: > > Something to ponder for the future then, maybe? > > See  http://crosswire.org/wiki/Talk:Transliteration > http://crosswire.org/wiki/Talk:Transliteration > > Thanks, Chris, for useful comments there. As Chris says there, it would require ind

Re: [sword-devel] Chinese PinYin, OSIS, SWORD and front-ends

2010-10-19 Thread David Haslam
Something to ponder for the future then, maybe? See http://crosswire.org/wiki/Talk:Transliteration http://crosswire.org/wiki/Talk:Transliteration Thanks, Chris, for useful comments there. David -- View this message in context: http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/Chinese-PinYin-OSIS-SWORD-

Re: [sword-devel] Chinese PinYin, OSIS, SWORD and front-ends

2010-10-18 Thread Matthew Talbert
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:19 PM, David Haslam wrote: > > Does anyone know whether the PinYin transliteration of a module can be > indexed and searched? > > e.g. In Xiphos, where transliteration is a module option. At this point, no. ___ sword-devel mai

Re: [sword-devel] Chinese PinYin, OSIS, SWORD and front-ends

2010-10-18 Thread David Haslam
Does anyone know whether the PinYin transliteration of a module can be indexed and searched? e.g. In Xiphos, where transliteration is a module option. David -- View this message in context: http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/Chinese-PinYin-OSIS-SWORD-and-front-ends-tp2720727p3000774.html Se

Re: [sword-devel] Chinese PinYin, OSIS, SWORD and front-ends

2010-09-30 Thread Chris Little
Our ICU transliterators include a Pinyin transliterator, allowing the user to switch between Han and Pinyin. It wouldn't be especially difficult to write a filter to put the transliterated text in ruby. The transliterator table is fairly good, I believe, and sometimes looks at context, not jus

Re: [sword-devel] Chinese PinYin, OSIS, SWORD and front-ends

2010-09-30 Thread Peter von Kaehne
I think the answer to your question is Ruby markup Peter -- Neu: GMX De-Mail - Einfach wie E-Mail, sicher wie ein Brief! Jetzt De-Mail-Adresse reservieren: http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/demail ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org htt

[sword-devel] Chinese PinYin, OSIS, SWORD and front-ends

2010-09-30 Thread David Haslam
This question is first addressed to the experts on OSIS markup, though it will also be of interest to front-end & SWORD/JSword developers. Suppose we had a Chinese Bible module and wanted to include inline http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pin_Yin Pinyin pronunciation markup for every ideogram, as a