Re: [sword-devel] Taming Wild Threads (was: Getting stuff done (Re: External links))

2008-11-26 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Peter von Kaehne wrote: > Daniel Owens wrote: > >> This discussion (despite the occasional vitriolic accusation or personal >> attack) is really important. There are two issues at stake--one is technical >> (and this discussion is producing collaboration on that), but the other is >> administ

Re: [sword-devel] Taming Wild Threads (was: Getting stuff done (Re: External links))

2008-11-27 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Chris Little wrote: > I'm happy to post some examples. > > We have tutorials at: > http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/index.php/OSIS_Bibles > and > http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/index.php/OSIS_Commentaries > > And some very poor documentation (my apologies) at: > http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/index.php/

Re: [sword-devel] linking syntax

2008-11-29 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Chris Little wrote: > A second issue you raised, concerning standard meta workID values: What > should we go with? > > You mention: > bible: > strong: > self: > If I understand you right, these would give the ability to like to Scripture verses, Strong's numbers, and within the current module.

Re: [sword-devel] Authoritative Module Sources

2008-11-29 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Troy, I have to state, as a (fairly new) module developer, that I agree 100% with Matthew. Quite frankly, your response makes me feel like the contributions of those putting together modules is not *really* valued by the project. CCEL is not really a good option, in my opinion. Over the years t

Re: [sword-devel] OSIS introductions

2008-11-30 Thread Brian J. Dumont
DM Smith wrote: > I'd like to suggest a change in how osis2mod handles introductory > material. > > SWORD only stores verses and has a concept of verse 0 holding > introductory material. > > Given a tuple, (testament, book, chapter, verse) we have the following > introductions > (testament, b

Re: [sword-devel] Website: "help" direction + improved blurbs

2008-12-04 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Good point, David. I know that I'm coming late into this discussion, but I'd note that this applies not only to help files and the program menus (as Peter correctly points out), but also to the web page itself. Do we have translators who would be willing to translate the web page? If someone on

[sword-devel] SwordWeb for Beta modules down?

2008-12-12 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Hi all, In trying to do some beta testing, the link to SwordWeb for beta modules: http://www.crosswire.org/~dmsmith/swordweb/webapp seems down. Any ideas? Thanks ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailm

[sword-devel] wiki?

2008-12-18 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Any idea when the wiki might be back? Thanks, Brian ___ 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] SwordReader.org

2009-02-04 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Does SwordReader handle genbooks? I don't have a Windows Mobile device, but an acquaintance has asked me if I know of a Windows Mobile program which can handle both Bibles and the new module "concord". I see the screen capture has tabs for "bible", "Comm" and "Dict", but no "Book" Thanks Brian

Re: [sword-devel] frontend comparison

2009-03-01 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Ben Morgan wrote: > I don't think book level introductions are usually particularly > important - definitely not a serious bug. Chapter level ones may be > important. They are usually suplementary material which isn't all that > important. If the user gets it, fine. If they don't, they are unlikely

Re: [sword-devel] Tags in modules

2009-04-04 Thread Brian J. Dumont
The "Concord" module has a number of "foreign" tags throughout, whenever phrases in Latin, German, Greek, or Hebrew are given. You can see an example of Hebrew on the title page (the Divine Name, per the title page of the original). I have planned on adding "quotation" tags to a number of modules

[sword-devel] osis2mod commentary linking doesn't work in 1.6.0RC1

2009-04-14 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Hi there, I have a few commentaries that I've started preparing. They use linked verses heavily. Two methods are given for linking on the wiki, only one works. References like: annotateRef="Matt.21.1 Matt.21.2 Matt.21.3 Matt.21.4 Matt.21.5 Matt.21.6 Matt.21.7 Matt.21.8 Matt.21.9" are fine. On

Re: [sword-devel] 1.6.0RC

2009-04-20 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > This weekend, as I was ready to release our RC candidate with a few > very minor patches ... Just wanted to check ... last week I gave a bug report for osis2mod and linked verses. I haven't heard of any patches, and the bug is a roadblock for a few modules that I'm work

Re: [sword-devel] linking / testsuite

2009-04-22 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > Dima, see below... > > Brian and DM, > > I've made some recent updates around link code. > > Can someone please check current SVN and if things still fail, update > our testsuite to add a simple failure case so I can have a look, and > so we don't break things unnoticed i

Re: [sword-devel] RC2

2009-04-27 Thread Brian J. Dumont
DM Smith wrote: > I fixed a linking bug in osis2mod. > > There is a re-versification bug that I need to fix. Thanks DM! ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscr

[sword-devel] KJV Beta issue

2009-06-10 Thread Brian J. Dumont
I'm using KJV Beta (2.4), and have noticed quite a few paragraph markers (¶) which show up. See Num 16:12 for one example. Shouldn't these be replaced with osis markup to denote paragraphs? ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http:

Re: [sword-devel] KJV Beta issue

2009-06-11 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Wow ... I had no idea; I just thought the markers (now I know to call them Pilcrows) looked odd. My wife uses the KJV, and sure enough, they are there too. I sort of think that it would be nice if front-ends had an option to replace a Pilcrow with a new paragraph for modern readers, but it seems

[sword-devel] KJV red-letter markup bug

2009-06-15 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Matt 8:13 And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour. should not be red-letter, but is (version 2.4) ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change yo

Re: [sword-devel] Often-requested yet never-available Bibles

2009-07-27 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Barry Drake wrote: > > Now - a rant - I see it as a great pity that so many people want the > NIV. As a theologian, I never recommend this translation to my > students as it has a party bias. The entire translation team is from > the evangelical school. The Good News (TEV) and the NRSV are two

[sword-devel] OSIS feature support and questions

2009-10-01 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Hi all, I'm preparing a commentary in OSIS, and have some feature requests : * OSIS tables * additional hi types: small-caps, underline, super, sub (small-caps is most important of these, but I'd appreciate all four) * markers. When processed, these currently add a generic dou

Re: [sword-devel] OSIS feature support and questions

2009-10-02 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Jonathan Morgan wrote: > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Brian J. Dumont wrote: > >> Additionally, I have a question about tags. I'd like to put down >> markers for other modules to later link to. Is it true that OSIS tags >> only support "href"

[sword-devel] Linking to General Books

2009-10-18 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Not so long ago, Matthew Talbert mentioned the use of sword:// to link to items from a dictionary. I am trying to prepare an OSIS commentary which references a number of other commentaries as well as a number of General Book modules. I've been trying to use Matthew's methodology and extend it to

Re: [sword-devel] Linking to General Books

2009-10-19 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Chris Little wrote: > > Character escaping was taken into consideration when writing the > osisID/osisRef format. The relevant bit of the regex is: > (\p{L}|\p{N}|_|(\\[^\s]))+ > > The last option permits escaping any non-space character with a > leading \. Further to that, NBSP (0xA0), by conventi

Re: [sword-devel] Linking to General Books

2009-10-19 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Thanks for your help Chris, I've got some work ahead of me. BTW, I'll look into whether I should re-encode the Book of Concord. Thanks, Brian ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-de

Re: [sword-devel] Linking to General Books

2009-10-20 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Jonathan Morgan wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Chris Little wrote: > >> Ideally, osisRefs should point at references using a standard reference >> scheme. Obviously that won't exist for every work, but I suspect there is a >> standard reference scheme for the Book of Concord. I find

Re: [sword-devel] 1.6.1 outstanding items? - bug report

2009-12-05 Thread Brian J. Dumont
problem. I > didn't write the z drivers, so I'm unaware where the limits are, but > this might give us a clue if you get different results. Then we can > take our clues to a look into the code to figure it out. > > Troy > > > On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 20:48 -0500, Brian J. D

[sword-devel] Two new modules available

2009-12-15 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Now available at the Xiphos repo are two new modules: Kretzmann (a commentary) and KretzmannMaps. These come from the 4-Volume "Popular Commentary" by Paul Kretzmann completed in 1921 through 1923. The source of the electronic text is the Kretzmann Project, www.kretzmannproject.org The commentar

Re: [sword-devel] Two new modules available

2009-12-15 Thread Brian J. Dumont
On 12/15/2009 03:51 PM, Matthew Talbert wrote: >> The commentary module includes more OSIS features than are currently >> supported by SWORD software, in the hopes of being a catalyst to feature >> addition. >> >> The primary feature is to make external, non-scriptural references into >> links. It

Re: [sword-devel] Bela module in CrossWire Experimental

2010-02-25 Thread Brian J. Dumont
On 02/25/2010 10:25 AM, Matthew Talbert wrote: >> I had forgotten to click the Refresh button in the Xiphos Install Manager. >> >> This behaviour is not intuitive for users who are learning their way about >> the program. >> > So you'd rather it connect automatically without even telling you i

Re: [sword-devel] Improvements to osis2mod to handle XML comments and correctly

2010-04-05 Thread Brian J. Dumont
I would be concerned about this and how it might be implemented. I have packaged a number of very large modules and regularly compile (osis2mod or xml2mod as the case may be) updates to see how it's changing as I update. I have a relatively slow broadband connection. It would be painful as a we

Re: [sword-devel] frontend features, their applicability -- consistency?

2010-04-14 Thread Brian J. Dumont
On 04/14/2010 12:50 PM, Nic Carter wrote: > But perhaps this is the time for me to say I'm considering cutting > support for the GenBook format? The iPhone has the kindle app, has a > very cool CCEL app & is about to get the iBooks app (from Apple), so I > can't see much point. I would be very sad

Re: [sword-devel] Linked in audio files

2010-08-24 Thread Brian J. Dumont
On 08/24/2010 10:27 AM, Peter von Kaehne wrote: > A thread a few days ago we talked about linking to audio files. > ... > Any opinions on this? Any better suggestions? I really would like to go ahead > and encode such a module, even on an experimental base. > > Peter > I'd like to see this a

[sword-devel] Android App "... and God Said"

2010-09-19 Thread Brian J. Dumont
As a new owner of an Android phone (HTC Evo), I recently downloaded "and God Said" (0.0.6). First of all, thanks to Martin for all the work and thanks to everyone else showing interest. Until now, I've casually read much of (but not all of) the discussion. Now that I've used it, I thought I'd o

[sword-devel] ESV (2007 revision)

2010-10-05 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Has anyone from Crosswire ever asked Crossway Bibles if we could distribute the 2007 revision of the ESV instead of the 2001 revision? In casual use, I've noticed a number of the changes, and they seem to be thoughtful improvements. I'd be glad to do so, but it seems like it would be best if whoe

[sword-devel] New Genbook Module Available

2010-10-20 Thread Brian J. Dumont
"Sacred Meditations" by Johann Gerhard, a small devotional book, is now available in the Xiphos repo. ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your

Re: [sword-devel] [mobile-devel] Bishop (Android C++ SWORD)

2010-10-27 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Troy, Search times for an HTC Evo running standard HTC-version of Android 2.2: God love world: 4.576s God: 12.111s As a side note, if we're looking for speed it seems like it would make the most sense to focus on indexed searches. "And-Bible", which uses Java but indexed searches, seems to get

Re: [sword-devel] [mobile-devel] Bishop (Android C++ SWORD)

2010-10-27 Thread Brian J. Dumont
On 10/27/2010 03:34 PM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > Thanks Brian, > > I am currently of the persuasion that indexed searching is not the way to go > on Android. 4 seconds is quite an acceptable speed to wait for a search and > no index creation time or versioning headaches. Searches can also be mo

Re: [sword-devel] What is a Sword module?

2010-11-05 Thread Brian J. Dumont
On 11/04/2010 08:47 PM, Robert Hunt wrote: > Looking at http://crosswire.org/wiki/Main_Page (and elsewhere), I > don't see any documentation for the Sword module format. Is it > documented anywhere other than in the code or by dissecting a module? > > Robert. Robert, I've read your post differentl

Re: [sword-devel] What is a Sword module?

2010-11-07 Thread Brian J. Dumont
. It is not commented very > well. That is not deliberate;) All the code is readily available." > > As a way of learning, I have tried to make a module from a USFM > source but haven't got it working yet. > > I guess I haven't really grasped the "Crosswi

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website showing all known modules available

2010-11-08 Thread Brian J. Dumont
On 11/08/2010 09:50 AM, Peter von Kaehne wrote: > 1) Some of our Genbooks could easily be formatted as a commentary. > Probably it also should be done and that would remove one reason to look > somewhere else. But right now the distinction is not totally a sharp > one. Maybe it would be worthwhile

[sword-devel] Genbook: Book of Concord

2007-05-07 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Hi all, I have put together a genbook module that I think would be of sufficiently general interest to warrant inclusion to sword's repository. It's an english translation of the Book of Concord (a series of documents written by Martin Luther and others which give the basic exposition of Lutheran

Re: [sword-devel] sword-devel Digest, Vol 38, Issue 9

2007-05-07 Thread Brian J. Dumont
My bad; I somehow missed that line. Thanks, Dave Brian > Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 14:38:30 EDT > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Genbook: Book of Concord > To: sword-devel@crosswire.org > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Re: [sword-devel] Genbook: Book of Concord

2007-05-08 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Thanks for the update, Chris ... that's very helpful. > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 15:01:25 -0700 > From: Chris Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Genbook: Book of Concord > To: SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: te

[sword-devel] Gnomesword announcement on sword web site?

2007-10-22 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Is it possible to get an announcement of the gnomesword 2.3.1 release added to the main sword web page? What could I do to facilitate this? Thanks much, Brian ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/li

[sword-devel] Feature request: audio from modules

2007-10-31 Thread Brian J. Dumont
I'd like to request the ability to handle links to audio files from genbook modules. I edit a public-domain electronic hymnal (http://openhymnal.org/), and am putting together a sword genbook module of sheet music. Each hymn is linked to relevant Scripture, etc. It would be great to have link

[sword-devel] someone please verify bug in Sword 1.5.10

2007-11-27 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Hi all, It seems that whenever I do a search using bounds, I get garbage search results. For instance: diatheke -b KJV -s multiword -r Philemon -k Paul gives every verse in the book once for every hit: [EMAIL PROTECTED] diatheke -b KJV -s multiword -r Philemon -k Paul Verses containing

Re: [sword-devel] someone please verify bug in Sword 1.5.10

2007-11-27 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Good to know ... my bug report is likely fixed before it's filed, now that's efficiency! :) Thanks Karl Kleinpaste wrote: > "Brian J. Dumont" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> It seems that whenever I do a search using bounds, I get garbage >> sea

Re: [sword-devel] Versification

2008-01-28 Thread Brian J. Dumont
> > BTW how many variants are there? > > There is obviously teh RC and Greek Orthodox way of including the > apogrypohae into their canon with a whole range of resulting chnages. > But any other important schemes? > > There are some very heavily-used Bibles that have *extremely* different numbe

Re: [sword-devel] bounded searches and new sword

2008-02-27 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Hi John, I use bounded searches often, and have been using svn -r 2129 for some time now, quite successfully. Maybe one of the newer changes to svn might be causing a problem. I might suggest that you back off to 2129 and give it a shot. That might help you out for right now. I assume that the

Re: [sword-devel] bounded searches and new sword

2008-03-08 Thread Brian J. Dumont
I don't know if you've tried this, but I'd suggest (as root): * uninstall gs and sword * cd / * find | grep -i sword if you find something other than /usr/share/sword, then that's likely your culprit. Note that the last command will take quite a while. Brian John H. wrote: > I ju

Re: [sword-devel] Bible Software Review

2008-05-01 Thread Brian J. Dumont
> I'll try it again via a clean install, but when I tried 2 weeks ago it > completely failed. > Install everything, and it should work. I have been able to do an "everything install" and then cut out some things that were clearly not needed to reduce the size a bit, but you'd need to do so at

[sword-devel] module updates

2008-06-03 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Hi all, What is the correct way to submit module updates? A few weeks ago (16 May) I submitted an update to the "concord" module (genbook in beta). I sent it to both [EMAIL PROTECTED] (per the wiki) and to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (per a comment on the sword mailing lists). The old module is still ava

Re: [sword-devel] GenBook key issues

2008-06-06 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Can't a random person submit a module update for Crosswire? Crosswire (Chris I think) could choose to use the updated version or to ignore it, but unless there is a downside, I don't see why they wouldn't use the update ... at least put it in Beta. Karl Kleinpaste wrote: >

[sword-devel] EarlyFathers Genbook

2008-06-07 Thread Brian J. Dumont
We should really be careful here. These volumes seem to contain both orthodox and non-orthodox documents; including a number of heretical texts: see in particular volume 8. I haven't delved into these texts, but a number of them are certainly questionable. Should the document have some sort of d

Re: [sword-devel] EarlyFathers Genbook

2008-06-08 Thread Brian J. Dumont
> If this is one huge module it's not a big problem because casual readers > will avoid it and people can see what it is. It's also easy to add a > notice in the About section. However, if the module is chopped in pieces > it's harder to say whether some module is part of this compilation or a > r

Re: [sword-devel] EarlyFathers Genbook

2008-06-08 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Karl Kleinpaste wrote: > "Brian J. Dumont" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'd strongly be in favor of a notice in the About section that this >> module contains a wide swath of texts of interest to Biblical scholars, >> including documents that h

Re: [sword-devel] EarlyFathers Genbook and the ability to search genbooks

2008-06-09 Thread Brian J. Dumont
>> Would it be too hard to create a "verse list" so that one could save >> the search results and view them later. That way you could make full >> use of cross references, dictionaries, and such when viewing search >> results. >> > > Our feature taxonomy is not quite orthogonally complete: In

[sword-devel] OSIS Commentary Question for multiverse content

2008-07-09 Thread Brian J. Dumont
hi all, I'm trying to prepare an OSIS commentary module (just in the preliminary stage really), and am having trouble with multi-verse content. In my case, trouble means that I don't get any. I'm trying to follow the wiki. This is my sample file: --

Re: [sword-devel] OSIS Commentary Question for multiverse content

2008-07-10 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Hi Chris, So what would you suggest that I do? I know we all have more ideas than time, and I suspect that you also have quite a number of other things on your plate. If you expect this fix to be in place in, say, less than 6 months, then I'd go ahead building my module. If you suspect that

Re: [sword-devel] Beta module testing update

2008-10-07 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Hi all, So what is the status of moving the 36 good modules into the main repository? Doesn't it seem silly that we went through a big push to test them all and then we haven't taken the final step of moving them out of beta? Maybe there's something that I don't know... Thanks, Brian Peter von

Re: [sword-devel] Beta module testing update

2008-10-08 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Chris Little wrote: > Brian J. Dumont wrote: > >> So what is the status of moving the 36 good modules into the main >> repository? Doesn't it seem silly that we went through a big push to >> test them all and then we haven't taken the final step of movin

[sword-devel] what to do about citation tags in ThML?

2008-11-07 Thread Brian J. Dumont
So I've been updating some genbooks modules per comments from the beta tests. I think I've come across an error in either the DTD or the documentation for ThML. The problem has to do with citation tags. The docs I've been using are directly from CCEL: http://www.ccel.org/ThML/ThML1.04.htm

Re: [sword-devel] what to do about citation tags in ThML?

2008-11-07 Thread Brian J. Dumont
David Troidl wrote: > Brian J. Dumont wrote: >> So I've been updating some genbooks modules per comments from the >> beta tests. I think I've come across an error in either the DTD or >> the documentation for ThML. The problem has to do with citation >>

Re: [sword-devel] what to do about citation tags in ThML?

2008-11-10 Thread Brian J. Dumont
David Troidl wrote: > 1) I don't know if being in bible.mod actually restricts the > element to bibles. > > 2) You could always use the element defined in the main DTD. > > 3) You could contact CCEL: http://www.ccel.org/info/email.html > Harry Plantinga, who runs CCEL, created ThML originally.

[sword-devel] Updated beta module and new module

2008-11-13 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Just thought that I'd send a quick message to let people know of two module updates: "Concord" has been updated to reflect the findings of the Beta test program. Chris has been so kind as to install the updated version in the Beta area. A new module "LuthersWorks" is available at ftp.kleinpaste.

[sword-devel] ThML definition update - citation tag eliminated

2008-11-13 Thread Brian J. Dumont
FYI, I got an email from CCEL: Brian, Harry reports that, "The 'citation' element has been eliminated in favor of HTML's cite element." I hope this answers your question! Let me know if you have additional questions. Blessings, Ken Verhulst CCEL Brian __

Re: [sword-devel] Getting stuff done (Re: External links)

2008-11-26 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Matthew Talbert wrote: > I would just like to add that some short examples of how to use OSIS > and TEI for dictionaries would be very helpful. By examples I just > mean a few entire entries done with different options with comments > explaining what was going on. Linking to the TEI page doesn't he

Re: [sword-devel] Taming Wild Threads

2008-11-26 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Matthew Talbert wrote: >> Karl and others already CAN release modules in their own repo and are >> doing so. It is only proper for the official CrossWire repo to shoot >> for very high standard-- even if we haven't always met them. If people >> would just TRY to help us meet them, then we might r

Re: [sword-devel] Config file for thml module

2010-11-26 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Hi mmfmarin, If I understand correctly from the fact that you're using xml2gbs, you're working on a ThML Genbook, right? (As opposed to a Bible, Commentary, or Dictionary) I'd suggest you start by looking in two places. Firstly, look at the conf file for another ThML Genbook. I would suggest "S

Re: [sword-devel] Config file for thml module

2010-11-29 Thread Brian J. Dumont
On 11/29/2010 11:17 AM, Mario Marín wrote: > >> If I understand correctly from the fact that you're using xml2gbs, >> you're working on a ThML Genbook, right? (As opposed to a Bible, >> Commentary, or Dictionary) >> > No, it's a bible. > Aha! That's why. For starters, you should ignore a

Re: [sword-devel] Config file for thml module

2010-11-29 Thread Brian J. Dumont
On 11/29/2010 05:18 PM, David Haslam wrote: > Though this enquiry has generated a number of "asides", mmfmarin is still > awaiting help on using this. > To summarize: it seems to me, that we've presented mmfmarin with two options: 1. Make a ThML-ish IMP file. This is probably the fastest wa

Re: [sword-devel] Config file for thml module

2010-11-29 Thread Brian J. Dumont
On 11/29/2010 04:48 PM, Kahunapule Michael Johnson wrote: > On 11/29/2010 11:57 AM, Trevor Jenkins wrote: >> Um, strictly speaking a markup scheme (such as ThML) is divorced from >> presentational issues. Markup should identify document structure it >> shouldn't deal with display at all. But then h

Re: [sword-devel] The Dutch Annotations upon the Whole Bible 1657

2010-12-14 Thread Brian J. Dumont
On 12/14/2010 11:17 AM, Teus Benschop wrote: > Hi, > > The Dutch Annotations upon the Whole Bible 1657 has been completed as of > today. In the previous release about 10 books were missing. Today's > release is complete. It is at > http://sites.google.com/site/dutchannotations1657/. Released under

Re: [sword-devel] Is Delitzsch Hebrew NT available?

2011-01-04 Thread Brian J. Dumont
On 01/04/2011 01:32 AM, Chris Little wrote: > > Our current "HebModern" text is not the Delitzsch NT. Conceivably it's > some other edition, but its text differs considerably from the > Delitzsch NT I have. It also includes an OT translation, which > Delitzsch didn't do, so it should be pretty obvi

Re: [sword-devel] Lightfoot

2011-01-31 Thread Brian J. Dumont
On 01/25/2011 06:09 PM, Peter von Kaehne wrote: > While I enjoy this, I find it also a bit distressing - that there is > this abundance of English language material but so little on other > languages. Even in German I found it practically impossible to find > useful PD texts of significance. > P

Re: [sword-devel] 1828 Webster's module? (was KJVD (King James Dictionary) Module)

2011-05-27 Thread Brian J Dumont
This text is not ready for import. The PDFs and DjVu files are scans, not ascii data. The text files aren't yet proofed, as witnessed by the text on the title page: "AND A CONCISE ^JtAMMAR ENGLISH LANGUAGE. " Brian On 05/27/2011 12:42 AM, Nic Carter wrote: Hi guys, I received this email f

Re: [sword-devel] Looking for vpl reference

2011-06-10 Thread Brian J Dumont
Angel, The link that you reference is not VPL, it is OSIS. That's why vpl2mod fails. Sorry, I don't have any example vpl files. Brian On 06/10/2011 06:48 AM, Angel Candelaria wrote: Hi all. I'm new in this list, as you can tell. Please excuse me if my questions shout out "NOOB" all ove

Re: [sword-devel] FireBible 1.2 Released

2011-06-21 Thread Brian J Dumont
Doesn't seem to run for me. I have a working BibleDesktop installation, the java test passes, I've pointed the jsword folder and module folders correctly, but when I try to pick a Bible in FireBible, I get a dialog box: JSword could not be loaded from the specified directory. Please correct th

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

2011-08-30 Thread Brian J Dumont
For whatever it means, that module is ThML, not OSIS. It also looks like it might be straight from CCEL, I suppose before they started claiming copyrights on markup. If you're reduced to simply looking for general ThML genbook module examples, you can find a number of them at: https://sites.

Re: [sword-devel] Virus in Luther's Works?

2011-09-27 Thread Brian J Dumont
Sorry for the slow response; I've been out of commission for a few days here. An updated clamscan does not find any problem with this or any other image in the package. Not sure what to do. Can anyone reproduce the positive virus test with any other scanner? Brian On 09/26/2011 05:00 PM, M

Re: [sword-devel] Virus in Luther's Works?

2011-09-28 Thread Brian J Dumont
to me. Brian On 09/27/2011 11:18 AM, Spurgeon wrote: Hi, you may try uploading the suspect file to meta-AV scanning sites - http://www.virustotal.com and http://virscan.org ... Regards spurgeon On 27 September 2011 19:12, Brian J Dumont <mailto:brian.j.dum...@gmail.com>> wr

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

2011-10-04 Thread Brian J Dumont
Per Chris Little (circa 2009 when I asked the same question: The relevant bit of the regex is: (\p{L}|\p{N}|_|(\\[^\s]))+ The last option permits escaping any non-space character with a leading \. Further to that, NBSP (0xA0), by convention, represents space (0x20) in osisID/osisRef.

Re: [sword-devel] OSIS tables?

2011-10-15 Thread Brian J Dumont
On 10/15/2011 05:48 AM, David Haslam wrote: Does SWORD support in modules built from OSIS? If so, which front-ends render tables properly? The wiki page about http://crosswire.org/wiki/OSIS_Bibles OSIS Bibles makes no mention of such. David I looked into this in 2009. The support was very,

Re: [sword-devel] OSIS tables?

2011-10-15 Thread Brian J Dumont
On 10/15/2011 11:11 AM, Karl Kleinpaste wrote: Brian J Dumont writes: You could sort of make one in Xiphos, but it was so ugly as to be totally unusable. Considering that Xiphos really doesn't care what the engine feeds it, the entirety of whether tables work in Xiphos is bound up in wh

Re: [sword-devel] Osis2mod fail to convert my OSIS file to Sword module

2011-11-09 Thread Brian J Dumont
An OSIS file does not require every verse. By removing verses and trying to process the file with osis2mod, I'd try to narrow the problem down a bit. Try to make a single-verse file that works ... osis2mod might not like the syntax ... valid or not. That might give folks a smaller, bite-siz

Re: [sword-devel] proposed patch: adding n=X marker content to footnotes and xrefs

2012-02-05 Thread Brian J Dumont
I'd suggest that it should be consistent. When one references a footnote in a printed work, it is common to reference the page and bookmark number. If (or more accurately because) we don't have a consistent marker for each footnote between front-ends, we lose the common "language" to referenc

Re: [sword-devel] osis2mod bug - PLEASE HELP

2012-03-02 Thread Brian J Dumont
On 03/02/2012 08:06 AM, Greg Hellings wrote: On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Brian J Dumont wrote: Hi all, I've struggled with large commentaries before. It always seemed that once commentary sections get too big, then random sections of text start disappearing. I'm currently a

Re: [sword-devel] osis2mod bug - PLEASE HELP

2012-03-02 Thread Brian J Dumont
Cent from my fone so theer mite be tipos. ;) On Mar 2, 2012, at 8:06 AM, Greg Hellings wrote: On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Brian J Dumont wrote: Hi all, I've struggled with large commentaries before. It always seemed that once commentary sections get too big, then random sections o

Re: [sword-devel] osis2mod bug - PLEASE HELP

2012-03-02 Thread Brian J Dumont
t it also happens with zipped modules. Thanks for looking at it, Brian On 03/02/2012 08:38 AM, Matej Cepl wrote: On 2.3.2012 14:02, Brian J Dumont wrote: I'm not compiling it into a compressed format. My command/output is: [bjdasc@ascpc5] osis2mod mod debug.osis.xml You are running osis2

Re: [sword-devel] osis2mod bug - PLEASE HELP

2012-03-02 Thread Brian J Dumont
On 03/02/2012 09:13 AM, Greg Hellings wrote: 2012/3/2 Brian J Dumont: Hi Matej, The difference is that you compiled it as a compressed module. This makes the limit to be 64kb per section after it is zipped. If you triple the contents of the then you'd have the same trouble. I avoided

Re: [sword-devel] Happy Easter

2012-04-08 Thread Brian J Dumont
On Apr 8, 2012 8:20 AM, "Peter von Kaehne" wrote: > > > > Von: "scribe...@gmail.com" > > > Happy Easter my friends and co-laborers in the Lord. He is risen! > > He is risen, indeed! Alleluia! Brian ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.or

Re: [sword-devel] Spanish Bible Module: Reina-Valera 1960

2012-04-12 Thread Brian J Dumont
On 04/12/2012 12:18 PM, ajguns wrote: Hello to everyone; I just registered to this site (Sword Devs) because I want this version (RV60) module, so I can add it to my BibleZ webOS app by Zhephanjas. I have requested him for this but he says I need to have a "legal" copy of it and make my own swo

Re: [sword-devel] Ubuntu 12.04 ....

2012-04-23 Thread Brian J Dumont
On 04/23/2012 03:51 PM, Barry Drake wrote: On 23/04/12 16:17, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: The information Dmitrijs asked me for did give me the information I needed to sort the problem. I'm glad you got sorted it out = Mixing development repositories, can lead to all sort of weird stuff. Ye

[sword-devel] Versification scheme for a new Bible translation

2012-04-30 Thread Brian J Dumont
Hi all, I'm working with a Bible translator who has recently completed a Bible translation into the Tandroy language. I'm almost done converting his basic source into osis, and will soon be working on getting it into SWORD. The versification looks so far to be MT verses in KJV book order in

Re: [sword-devel] Versification scheme for a new Bible translation

2012-04-30 Thread Brian J Dumont
On 04/30/2012 12:10 PM, David Haslam wrote: PS. Isn't the OT of the KJV based on the MT? If so, what's the real problem? I had thought so as well; but compare KJV to JPS. There are a number of OT chapters where the JPS has many more verses (for example, Lev 5, Num 17) -- ---

Re: [sword-devel] Versification scheme for a new Bible translation

2012-04-30 Thread Brian J Dumont
On 04/30/2012 12:37 PM, Greg Hellings wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:10 AM, David Haslam wrote: Didn't Greg Hellings write a Perl script to check which of our defined v11ns would be the most suitable for a new module? Python. How dare you suggest I would sully myself with Perl?! :P http://

Re: [sword-devel] Versification scheme for a new Bible translation

2012-04-30 Thread Brian J Dumont
On 04/30/2012 12:47 PM, Chris Little wrote: On 04/30/2012 07:44 AM, Brian J Dumont wrote: Hi all, I'm working with a Bible translator who has recently completed a Bible translation into the Tandroy language. I'm almost done converting his basic source into osis, and will soon be

Re: [sword-devel] Legitimate FTP Mirrors & Module Distribution Rights Question

2012-07-30 Thread Brian J Dumont
On 07/30/2012 07:16 PM, Karl Kleinpaste wrote: We've discussed a better format than image modules for maps and some century might get around to implementing something, but Xiphos just goes out and releases something. That's not a bad thing. I think you claim that characterization with your head

Re: [sword-devel] No errors. Valid OSIS. Not working. Looking for suggestions.

2012-08-02 Thread Brian J Dumont
... or maybe file permissions on the module or conf file? On 08/02/2012 12:35 PM, Peter von Kaehne wrote: Usually path or driver errors. Wrong path to module or mismatch between driver and conf entry re driver. Peter On 02/08/12 15:29, Andrew Thule wrote: I'm working on a 'commentary' for

Re: [sword-devel] ESV: Red Letter Edition Errors in [Matt 18:10][Matt 18:15][Matt 20:1] - Xiphos and Bibletime both show this error

2012-08-16 Thread Brian J Dumont
It's working fine for me on Linux Mint 13. I am right now still using the stock 3.1.5 on the Mint repos. On 08/16/2012 09:33 AM, Andrew Thule wrote: Yes, I just tested in Windows, and it works for me in windows, but not in Linux. The difference being that I'm running the stock package in W

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