Re: [sword-devel] (ought to be) required reading

2008-11-28 Thread David Haslam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month Now 33 years old, but still very much to the point, even in today's advanced & connected world --David David Overcash wrote: > > lol > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 7:21 AM, Karl Kleinpas

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

2008-11-28 Thread David Haslam
As a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:David_Haslam Wikipedian , I definitely second that. -- David Peter von Kaehne wrote: > > > > If Wikipedia would rigidly enforce its increasingly arcane standards on > how a good article should look like by simply deleting valid, but less > then perfect

Re: [sword-devel] Module Errors

2008-11-28 Thread David Haslam
And even some not so dodgy ones, too! -- David Peter von Kaehne wrote: > > > And then there are the multitude of dodgy PD texts where we are able to > make OSIS shine, quite irrespective of original source text etc. Markup > of WoJ, insertion of strongs, etc. You have it done once for KJV2003

Re: [sword-devel] translator-serbian

2008-11-30 Thread David Haslam
the ThML to OSIS and make the SWORD modules using OSIS2MOD. -- David PS. I am grateful to Jozsef K., who supplied the UI translations. David Haslam wrote: > > I have added the requests for both Serbian Danicic Karadzic Bibles to the > wiki page for > http://www.crosswire.or

Re: [sword-devel] OSIS introductions

2008-12-01 Thread David Haslam
Whoever addresses this issue should also give attention to why the ALEPH for [the acrostic poem] Psalm 119 is not treated in the same manner as the remaining Hebrew letter stanza headings BETH to TAU. "Aleph" is treated as the Psalm title, rather than as the first stanza heading for a Psalm that

[sword-devel] Why Zondervan bought Biblegateway.com

2008-12-01 Thread David Haslam
Everyone interested in the wider scene should read this article in Christianity Today. (Nov 6, 2008). http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/article_print.html?id=61403 http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/article_print.html?id=61403 -- David btw. Zondervan is part of the HarperCollins group, whi

Re: [sword-devel] osis2mod warnings

2008-12-01 Thread David Haslam
Hi Adrian, I too found loads of warnings and some errors when I tried to use the Win32 build of osis2mod. I was making an attempt in converting the Tedim Bible (from Myanmar Bibles) to make a Sword module. The list of outputs is too long to include here. Using http://xml-copy-editor.sourceforge

Re: [sword-devel] New front page CrossWire

2008-12-02 Thread David Haslam
Go Bible scores highly on the number of UI translations. yet we still need more. See http://jolon.org/vanillaforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=116 http://jolon.org/vanillaforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=116 NB. Forum registration and login needed for direct access to that topic. Go here first ot

[sword-devel] Go Bible at CrossWire - a call for volunteers

2008-12-02 Thread David Haslam
Go Bible vision than the technical implementation. Please keep me in the loop. Yours in Christ's service, David Haslam, Cheshire, UK -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Go-Bible-at-CrossWire---a-call-for-volunteers-tp20792040p20792040.html Sent from the SWORD Dev ma

Re: [sword-devel] osis2mod warnings

2008-12-03 Thread David Haslam
source-text format. This revision makes it very attractive to Bible translators, such as those in Wycliffe. -- David Haslam Adrian Korten wrote: > > Original Message - > *From:* DM Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > *To:* "SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum"

Re: [sword-devel] [GnomeSword-developers] videos

2008-12-03 Thread David Haslam
Anyone contemplating making Presentations or Tutorials about Windows [or Linux] programs should take a look at http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ Wink . Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel

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

2008-12-04 Thread David Haslam
Revolution - The History of OM. Esteeming other Christians as more important in the Lord than ourselves is one of the great lessons that I learned from my early involvement with OM in the period 1967-1970. -- David Haslam Peter von Kaehne wrote: > > That is what I am trying to challeng

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire frontpage

2008-12-05 Thread David Haslam
Hi Peter, Please visit http://www.grc.com/menudemo.htm http://www.grc.com/menudemo.htm and read about GRC's Script-Free Pure-CSS Menuing System designed by Steve Gibson. "All of this work has been placed into the Public Domain. We hope that it will be of use and benefit to anyone wishing to ad

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire frontpage

2008-12-05 Thread David Haslam
We should consider those security-conscious visitors who have the Firefox addon http://noscript.net/ NoScript enabled. -- David DM Smith-2 wrote: > > > On Dec 5, 2008, at 6:53 AM, Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: > >> Quoting David Haslam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> &g

[sword-devel] CrossWire server status?

2008-12-07 Thread David Haslam
http://crosswire.org/ http://crosswire.org/ currently times out, though I was using the wiki about an hour ago. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/CrossWire-server-status--tp20883737p20883737.html Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __

[sword-devel] Paratext USFM stylesheet, version 2.2

2008-12-08 Thread David Haslam
the http://groups.google.com/group/go-bible-dev Go Bible Dev Google group. -- David Haslam -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Paratext-USFM-stylesheet%2C-version-2.2-tp20899303p20899303.html Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire server status?

2008-12-08 Thread David Haslam
It is OK again today. David Haslam wrote: > > http://crosswire.org/ http://crosswire.org/ currently times out, though > I was using the wiki about an hour ago. > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/CrossWire-server-status--tp20883737p20899333.

Re: [sword-devel] update to usfm2osis.pl

2008-12-08 Thread David Haslam
Chris, The USFM Paratext style sheet was updated in October to version 2.2 See http://confluence.ubs-icap.org/display/USFM/Home http://confluence.ubs-icap.org/display/USFM/Home There is a link to the changelog. What impact might this have on (a) CrossWire's utility USFM2OSIS.PL (b) Snowfall

[sword-devel] Entire Wycliffe Bible available at Wesley Center Online

2008-12-08 Thread David Haslam
Please see my update to the http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/index.php/Module_Requests Module Requests wiki page. The entire Wycliffe Bible is available in ~ VPL format. That's 77 books' worth (including the deuterocanonical books). -- David Haslam -- View this message in cont

Re: [sword-devel] Entire Wycliffe Bible available at Wesley Center Online

2008-12-09 Thread David Haslam
. I too have made a few scripts (or rather TextPipe filters) that are adept at format shifting. btw. Modern orthography is used, but that's not a surprise to anyone. David Haslam Chris Little-2 wrote: > > Neat. I've got some scripts that are adept at sorting through Bibles in &g

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-10 Thread David Haslam
Hi Peter, First impressions are all positive. Here's some feedback. Suggestion: add a site search feature, it probably doesn't need to use Javascript, just adapt Google to be a site specific search. It's free! After an FAQ, most site visitors use a site search, even to find stuff "staring t

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-10 Thread David Haslam
s Mountbatten Memorial Lecture. -- David David Haslam wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > First impressions are all positive. Here's some feedback. > > Suggestion: add a site search feature, it probably doesn't need to use > Javascript, just adapt Google to be a site sp

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-11 Thread David Haslam
Why do we have things like this in the middle of sentences? " Bible Technologies Conference (http://www.bibletechnologies.org) " rather than a properly named external link with a hidden URL? " http://www.bibletechnologies.org/ Bible Technologies Conference " The URL would show in the browser

Re: [sword-devel] [GnomeSword-developers] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-12 Thread David Haslam
Clicking on http://crosswire.org/applications.jsp http://crosswire.org/applications.jsp just caused HTTP Status 500 - type Exception report message description The server encountered an internal error () t

[sword-devel] Broken link

2008-12-13 Thread David Haslam
There are two links for Bibleedit in this page. http://crosswire.org/index.jsp?section=Others One of them is broken due to a missing / It points to http://www.nongnu.org/bibledit rather than http://www.nongnu.org/bibledit/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Broken-link-tp2

Re: [sword-devel] Website error in Firefox

2008-12-16 Thread David Haslam
<%@ include file="pages/faq.jsp" %> <% } %> <% if ("News".equals((String)request.getParameter("section"))) { %> <%@ include file="pages/news.jsp" %> <% } %> <% if ("Volunteers".equals((String)request.getParameter("section"))

Re: [sword-devel] Website error in Firefox

2008-12-16 Thread David Haslam
hrough to Tomcat, but tried to > read and make sense of JSP pages. > > It is working now though. > > Peter > > David Haslam wrote: > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Website-error-in-Firefox-tp21032624p21034922.html Sent from the SWORD Dev m

[sword-devel] News: Serious security flaw found in Internet Explorer

2008-12-16 Thread David Haslam
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7784908.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7784908.stm Users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer are being urged by experts to switch to a rival until a serious security flaw has been fixed. The flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer could allow criminal

[sword-devel] Website error in Firefox

2008-12-16 Thread David Haslam
The top of the main page has this today, as viewed in Firefox 3.0.4 <%@ page import="java.util.Vector" %> <% String ua = request.getHeader( "User-Agent" ); boolean isMSIE = ( ua != null && ua.indexOf( "MSIE" ) != -1 ); response.setHeader( "Vary", "User-Agent" ); %> <% if( isMSIE ){ %> <% } else

Re: [sword-devel] server upgrades status

2008-12-16 Thread David Haslam
Is this why CrossWire Developers wiki is currently unreachable? -- David Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > > We had some troubles getting into our NOC this past weekend and had to > do the upgrades last night. The major work is done, but we still have > services to bring back online. > > For th

[sword-devel] Bible booknames in many languages?

2008-12-17 Thread David Haslam
usefully share. What's the best format for these lists? -- David Haslam -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Bible-booknames-in-many-languages--tp21059084p21059084.html Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabbl

Re: [sword-devel] Entire Wycliffe Bible available at Wesley Center Online

2008-12-17 Thread David Haslam
, Josiah, 1795-1863., Madden, Frederic, 1801-1873. Oxford: University press, 1850. -- David David Haslam wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > The wikisource project is a derivative of the Wycliffe text provided by > Wesley Center Online. > Best to go straight to the Wesley Center Online site,

Re: [sword-devel] Bible booknames in many languages?

2008-12-18 Thread David Haslam
; > http://crosswire.org/svn/sword/trunk/locales.d/ > > > > Peter von Kaehne wrote: >> David Haslam wrote: >>> Where on the CrossWire site might I find well-attested lists of the 66 >>> booknames (or more if we include deuterocanonical works) in many >>>

Re: [sword-devel] New website - installation instructions

2008-12-19 Thread David Haslam
Everyone, Please consider the situations for shared machines, such as a Windows PC shared in a home where one of the family is a believer and another isn't. e.g. Christian married (prior to his/her conversion) to a non-Christian. In this case having the application modules in shared directories

[sword-devel] PDAs icon - tooltip = Handhelds and Mobile Phones

2008-12-19 Thread David Haslam
Thanks for all the stirling work that Peter has been doing to improve the website, and to everyone who has submitted helpful feedback and comments. I have a minor gripe about the PDAs icon, from the viewpoint of someone from the Mobile Phone community. The icon being one for a PDA does not imme

Re: [sword-devel] wiki?

2008-12-20 Thread David Haslam
I too am wondering when the wiki will be restored, and I wonder why there was no response either. -- David Brian J. Dumont wrote: > > Any idea when the wiki might be back? > > Thanks, > Brian > > > ___ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crossw

Re: [sword-devel] What language is the Q'eqchi' module?

2008-12-22 Thread David Haslam
Contact Bibles International. One of their goals is to translate the NT into Quechua. See http://www.biblesint.org/news/archived-news/prayer-guide-6.html http://www.biblesint.org/news/archived-news/prayer-guide-6.html After eventual completion, there would be a requirement to obtain permissions

Re: [sword-devel] What language is the Q'eqchi' module?

2008-12-22 Thread David Haslam
their Bibles on the mobile phone platform. I have just added a link to BI in the http://jolon.org/vanillaforum/ Go Bible Forum . With warmest Christian greetings, David Haslam fred smith-5 wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 02:19:01AM -0800, David Haslam wrote: >> >> Cont

Re: [sword-devel] SWORD project website - old files

2008-12-22 Thread David Haslam
Peter, The KJV2003 stuff is closely related to the KJV2006 project. http://www.crosswire.org/~dmsmith/kjv2006/ http://www.crosswire.org/~dmsmith/kjv2006/ I'm sure you are right - all the old stuff you found in the unlinked page http://crosswire.org/sword/kjv2003/ http://crosswire.org/sword/kjv

Re: [sword-devel] What language is the Q'eqchi' module?

2008-12-23 Thread David Haslam
See also http://www.virtualstorehouse.org/buyBibles.htm http://www.virtualstorehouse.org/buyBibles.htm . The table of minority languages includes: Peru Quechua, Huamalíes-Dos de Mayo Huánuco Quechua, Huaylas Ancash Quechua, Margos-Yarowilca-Lauricocha Quechua, North Junín Quechua, Northern Conc

[sword-devel] Complete Bible Genealogy (useful website)

2008-12-25 Thread David Haslam
I just came across a very interesting Bible study resource. http://www.complete-bible-genealogy.com/ Complete Bible Genealogy • The site contains 3087 biblical characters with details such as who were their parents, brothers, sisters, spouses, concubines and children. • Family Tree of Jesus Chr

Re: [sword-devel] Update on KJV2006

2008-12-25 Thread David Haslam
mportant to pinpoint these differences when you use the Bible as a basis for a reference work, they do not alter the original message of the Bible. more.... -- David Haslam DM Smith-2 wrote: > > I have made a beta module for kjv2006. > You can read about it and obtain it at www.c

Re: [sword-devel] The outer reaches....

2008-12-26 Thread David Haslam
Peter, When the wiki is back online, please record such findings there too. Thanks. -- David Peter von Kaehne wrote: > > Just had a look through sourceforge and found that there is a world of > less commonly referenced front ends and utilities > > > http://www.scripture-guide.org/ (for Be

[sword-devel] The Oxford Text Archive

2008-12-26 Thread David Haslam
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/ The Oxford Text Archive The Oxford Text Archive develops, collects, catalogues and preserves electronic literary and linguistic resources. We also give advice on the creation and use of these resources, and are involved in the development of standards and infrastructure fo

Re: [sword-devel] The Oxford Text Archive

2008-12-26 Thread David Haslam
1.xml http://ota.oucs.ox.ac.uk/headers/1691.xml I also found a few more Bible texts, including German & Swedish Bibles, English NT (Rheims) and the Book of Job in Aramaic. -- David David Haslam wrote: > > http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/ The Oxford Text Archive > > The Oxford Text Archive deve

Re: [sword-devel] Thai modules

2008-12-26 Thread David Haslam
://www.box.net/shared/c9f1iqbmsc http://www.box.net/shared/c9f1iqbmsc -- David Haslam Ben Morgan-2 wrote: > > The ThaiKJV module at crosswire comes from a different part of this same > site, according to the conf file. > > G

[sword-devel] Open source German Volxbibel

2008-12-27 Thread David Haslam
Has anyone at CrossWire visited the German http://www.volxbibel.de/ Volxbibel website? "The Volxbibel is the first translation of the Bible in the world, in which every person on the Internet can be involved. This is the wiki Volxibel available under a Creative Commons open-source license on th

Re: [sword-devel] Open source German Volxbibel

2008-12-27 Thread David Haslam
Do our .conf files identify any other SWORD modules as actually being paraphrases? btw. I was alerted to this site because Jan Krohn has made http://heidoc.net/joomla/content/view/17/1/ Go Bible applications of the Volxbibel . Peter, (in your opinion) why is the Volxbibel "selling like hot cak

Re: [sword-devel] Open source German Volxbibel

2008-12-27 Thread David Haslam
Do they state which Greek text was used for the NT translation? Is it based on the TR or the eclectic text? -- David Peter von Kaehne wrote: > > David Haslam wrote: >> Peter, (in your opinion) why is the Volxbibel "selling like hot cakes" ? >> I

[sword-devel] Progress on "La Bible Pirot et Clamer"

2008-12-27 Thread David Haslam
Just an interim update on what I was doing in the last few days. I have been format shifting "La Bible Pirot et Clamer" with a view to making a Go Bible version. En route, this normally involves making a ThML file as the penultimate step. This translation is listed in the wiki page for Module re

[sword-devel] The Tyndale Society

2008-12-27 Thread David Haslam
http://www.tyndale.org/ The Tyndale Society Aims of the Society The Society exists for all who are interested in the work and influence of William Tyndale. William Tyndale gave us our English Bible. Forbidden to work in England, Tyndale translated and printed in English the New Testament and ha

Re: [sword-devel] Open source German Volxbibel

2008-12-28 Thread David Haslam
grounds. NB. That's merely stated briefly here to keep this discussion from going off on a tangent. Best regards, David Haslam Trevor Jenkins wrote: > > > However, many critics of Bible translations use an entirely different (and > technically specious) definition of "

Re: [sword-devel] Quick question on alternative versification

2008-12-28 Thread David Haslam
lon said it should. I had to replace "&" by "+" before building a Go Bible, and then replace them all back again in the files within the compressed .JAR file, taking care to use a compatible ZIP utility. "Phew!" -- David Haslam Daniel Owens wrote: > > >

Re: [sword-devel] Open source German Volxbibel

2008-12-28 Thread David Haslam
ep up and work on it, I can provide > either the list of Wiki entries needed for the export page or the > exported text itself--ready for conversion to OSIS. > > --Chris > > David Haslam wrote: >> Has anyone at CrossWire visited the German http://www.volxbibel.de/ >&

Re: [sword-devel] Open source German Volxbibel

2008-12-28 Thread David Haslam
Jan used ThML format, and both this and the scripting tool he used to make this from the wiki can also be downloaded from his website. -- David David Haslam wrote: > > > Meanwhile, I can ask whether he used OSIS or ThML format as the > penultimate step. > > -- David > &

Re: [sword-devel] Open source German Volxbibel

2008-12-29 Thread David Haslam
There are lots of undecoded codepoints in the text! Here are some examples from Matthew ch 1. http://www.nabble.com/file/p21209279/vlx3_codepoints.png -- David Wolfgang Schultz-2 wrote: > > the version 3 of the volxbibel is now available for sword :-)) > > http://wiki.volxbibel.com/index.php

Re: [sword-devel] Open source German Volxbibel

2008-12-29 Thread David Haslam
hexadecimal codes and back again. It is an error prone operation. They seem to be wedded to the SED tool, even though there are much more suitable utilities and programs available in the open-source community. -- David Peter von Kaehne wrote: > > David Haslam wrote: >> There

Re: [sword-devel] Vanishing news item

2008-12-30 Thread David Haslam
Peter, It would have been nice to have had a news item in September 2008, that CrossWire was adopting Go Bible, and to combine this with a "call for volunteers". While you are working on the site in general, is it too late to ask for this? News items don't all have to be of the kind, "Such and

Re: [sword-devel] Presentable portfolio

2008-12-31 Thread David Haslam
Peter, Speaking from my own experience, I have found that offering to provide a mobile phone application using Go Bible, and offering this as an unconditional free service, this can be the expression of good faith that can lead to greater co-operation from copyright owners (i.e. for CrossWire in

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword Website

2009-01-01 Thread David Haslam
Ian, Great news! I have just publicised your new site in a new topic just posted in the http://jolon.org/vanillaforum/ Go Bible Forum . If not registered, do so, then sign in and visit this topic. http://jolon.org/vanillaforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=799 -- David Haslam Ian Wagner wrote

[sword-devel] FreCrampon module: versification problem for Malachi 4

2009-01-01 Thread David Haslam
Selecting Malachi 4 in FreCrampon gives an empty text display. Selecting Malachi 3 shows that the text for Mal 4:1-6 is included within Mal 3:18. Why is this? Can this be corrected? btw. It causes errors when tools such as MOD2IMP are used. -- David -- View this message in context: http://w

Re: [sword-devel] FreCrampon module: versification problem for Malachi 4

2009-01-01 Thread David Haslam
le jour de Yahweh, grand et redoutable. 4:6 (3:24) Il ramènera le cœur des pères vers les enfants et le cœur des enfants vers les pères, de peur que je ne vienne et que je ne frappe la terre d’anathème. -- David David Haslam wrote: > > Selecting Malachi 4 in FreCrampon gives an empt

Re: [sword-devel] FreCrampon module: versification problem for Malachi 4

2009-01-01 Thread David Haslam
$$$Malachi 4:5 Error reading ulBuffNum $$$Malachi 4:6 Error reading ulBuffNum Error reading ulBuffNum --- I used MOD2IMP.EXE for Windows (dated 2008-06-01). -- David David Haslam wrote: > > Selecting Malachi 4 in FreCrampon gives an empty text d

[sword-devel] Happy New Year to everyone!

2009-01-01 Thread David Haslam
May I wish everyone in SWORD Dev a "Happy New Year". -- David -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Happy-New-Year-to-everyone%21-tp21241834p21241834.html Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ sword-deve

[sword-devel] Detecting and correcting poor hyphenation in source texts?

2009-01-02 Thread David Haslam
cially for such minor blemishes that can easily occur because of word-wrapping or during OCR. I don't have a generic solution, but I do wish to start a discussion. Any ideas? What can we do to help our "suppliers" when such "proof-reading errors" are found? -- David Haslam -

Re: [sword-devel] "Neue evangelistische Übersetzung " available for Sword

2009-01-04 Thread David Haslam
Wolfgang, Please make a clear statement about the copyright status of this Sword module. -- David Wolfgang Schultz-2 wrote: > > Hello > > and again a brand new sword module (german) it is the "Neue > evangelistische Übersetzung" from http://www.kh-vanheiden.de now > complett with ot and nt fi

[sword-devel] CrossWire wiki vandalism?

2009-01-05 Thread David Haslam
Now that the wiki is back up, I think we may have a problem with vandalism. Take a look at http://www.crosswire.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&days=30&hideminor=0 Recent Changes . The edits by RolcaBasbo and Freeelf look suspect to me. -- David -- View this message in con

Re: [sword-devel] BOM and Osis2Mod

2009-01-07 Thread David Haslam
You can easily remove the BOM from a UTF-8 text file. Windows users can make use of the free version of http://www.unipad.org/ SC Unipad . This application can also convert from UTF-8 to UTF-16 etc and vice versa. http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/ Notepad++ can also do these conversions.

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire wiki vandalism?

2009-01-07 Thread David Haslam
At a guess, VioudRonba was a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sock_puppetry sockpuppet for RolcaBasbo. Can we check the IP addresses too? -- David DM Smith-2 wrote: > > David Haslam wrote: >> Now that the wiki is back up, I think we may have a problem with >> vanda

Re: [sword-devel] Validating ThML and OSIS modules

2009-01-07 Thread David Haslam
Greg, Was it http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-ecxml/ XMLBuddy ? -- David Greg Hellings wrote: > > > I've used an XML editing plugin for Eclipse before and I thoroughly > enjoyed it (this is coming from someone who dislikes both Eclipse and > almost all other help-you-beneath-th

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire wiki vandalism?

2009-01-08 Thread David Haslam
I agree with Eeli and Peter. We should not make the bar too high for genuine CrossWire community members. -- David Peter von Kaehne wrote: > > Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: >> Quoting DM Smith : >> >>> If necessary I can add captcha to every edit and to every page creation. >> >> Please, never! I'l

Re: [sword-devel] Versification/Encoding Issues

2009-01-08 Thread David Haslam
As for spelling, and as a fascinating learning experience, pick up your printed KJV Bible and examine the spelling of the word "ankle[s]" in Ezekiel 47:3 and Acts 3:7. Some editions have "ancle", others have "ankle". Ostensibly both streams are based on the Authorised Version of 1769. So Peter'

Re: [sword-devel] Spelling (was Versification/Encoding issues)

2009-01-09 Thread David Haslam
Using Tessaract to help the Irish New Testament project is suggested. See http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/Non-CrossWire_Text-Development_Projects#Individual_Works http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/Non-CrossWire_Text-Development_Projects#Individual_Works We should try and establish personal contact

Re: [sword-devel] Spelling (was Versification/Encoding issues)

2009-01-09 Thread David Haslam
Please refer to Main author: Norton, David. Title details: A textual history of the King James Bible / David Norton. Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005. Physical desc.: ix, 387 p. ; 26 cm. Identifier: ISBN: 0521771005 Notes: Partially based on F.H.A. Scrivener's Th

Re: [sword-devel] Spelling (was Versification/Encoding issues)

2009-01-09 Thread David Haslam
co.uk page -- David David Haslam wrote: > > Please refer to > > Main author: Norton, David. > > Title details: A textual history of the King James Bible / David Norton. > Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005. > > Physical desc.: ix, 387 p. ; 26

Re: [sword-devel] Paratext USFM stylesheet, version 2.2

2009-01-09 Thread David Haslam
There has been another update to the Paratext USFM stylesheet, version 2.203 Updated January 8, 2009. I'm using changedetection.com to watch this page. -- David Peter von Kaehne wrote: > > Daniel Owens wrote: >> I hadn't noticed the change, but looking at the changelog tells me the >> chang

Re: [sword-devel] Spelling (was Versification/Encoding issues)

2009-01-11 Thread David Haslam
http://www.wipfandstock.com/ WIPF and STOCK Publishers Wipf and Stock publishes new works in theology, biblical studies, church history, philosophy and related disciplines. Our vision is to publish according to the merits of content rather than exclusively to the demands of the marketplace. We c

Re: [sword-devel] FlashCards and Fonts

2009-01-13 Thread David Haslam
Some (free) ZIP utilities can open JAR files for file extraction uses, but don't include the same ZIP format for making them. For example, IZArc is like this. I have a vague recollection that the last time I succeeded in reZIPping a JAR file, I used 7-Zip. However, if anyone has a more definiti

[sword-devel] Daily Devotionals Date Selection in SWORD for Windows?

2009-01-17 Thread David Haslam
to get to 01:01. Looks like a coding bug. I don't understand why Devotionals does not have an option to automatically go to "today" using the current Windows clock setting. Has such a feature been considered? Or is it available already, and I just haven't found it? --

[sword-devel] OSIS2MOD -a (augment) What happens to OSIS headers?

2009-01-27 Thread David Haslam
If you use the -a switch in OSIS2MOD to augment a module, what happens to the OSIS headers? Does the module retain only the original OSIS header, or does it augment it with the new one? Or, worse still, does it replace the original OSIS header with the one from the augmenting OSIS file? The reas

Re: [sword-devel] Fosdem

2009-01-28 Thread David Haslam
"Not I", said the GNU (with apologies to the author of The Little Red Hen) In a similar vein, is anyone planning to attend http://www.iccm-europe.org/ ICCM Europe ? Feb 4 to 7, at De Betteld, The Netherlands. -- David glasseyes wrote: > > I don't suppose anyone else is planning to go to Br

Re: [sword-devel] Announcing BibleTech:2009!

2009-01-28 Thread David Haslam
Is anyone from CrossWire planning to attend ? Seattle, Washington, March 27/28, 2009. -- David Jonathon Blake wrote: > > All: > > I haven't seen this on the Sword Developers list yet. > I attended it last year, and found it worthwhile. > > > > Below is the announcement of BibleTech:20

Re: [sword-devel] GnomeSword is dead. Long live Xiphos.

2009-01-29 Thread David Haslam
This has a link to GnomeSword that will eventually require updating or replacing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_SWORD_Project#External_links http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_SWORD_Project#External_links -- David jhphx wrote: > > Karl wrote: >> ... The name chosen by a >> committee of ab

Re: [sword-devel] SwordReader.org

2009-02-04 Thread David Haslam
lon.org/vanillaforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=840 NB. (Register and) login first to view a topic directly. -- David Haslam David Trotz wrote: > > Thanks to help from David Overcash, I am happy to announce that the > SwordReader site is up and running with updated content reflecing th

Re: [sword-devel] SwordReader.org

2009-02-04 Thread David Haslam
Erratum: typo in the http://swordreader.org/index.php/volunteer/ Volunteering page: " resposibility" -- David David Trotz wrote: > > Thanks to help from David Overcash, I am happy to announce that the > SwordReader site is up and running with updated content reflecing the new > beta release

Re: [sword-devel] SwordReader Screenshot

2009-02-05 Thread David Haslam
I think Peter von Kaehne would be the person to ask. He it is who revamped the CrossWire website recently. -- David David Trotz wrote: > > I am not sure who is in charge of this... but can someone snag the > screenshot off of swordreader.org and put it in place of the one on > crosswire.org?

[sword-devel] SwordReader wiki page

2009-02-05 Thread David Haslam
Attention is now required to revamp the http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/Frontends:SWORDReader SwordReader wiki page . -- David -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/SwordReader-wiki-page-tp21850893p21850893.html Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _

[sword-devel] Welsh Bible from beibl.net

2009-02-11 Thread David Haslam
The http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/Module_Requests module requests wiki page has a recent edit requesting the Welsh Bible from beibl.net. This message is to advise that RefDoc and I are in email contact with the translator Arfon Jones, and working with permission of the http://www.gobaith.org/

Re: [sword-devel] Xiphos 3.0.0 released

2009-02-11 Thread David Haslam
I have installed the Windows version of Xiphos, but found that none of the branches in the sidebar would expand. I previously had installed the recent beta version of GnomeSword for Windows, and did not encounter this bug with that. I uninstalled this prior to installing Xiphos. I have Windows

Re: [sword-devel] Xiphos 3.0.0 released

2009-02-12 Thread David Haslam
I reported the problem only after rebooting and restarting Xiphos more than once. Matthew has emailed me directly for more details about any Gtk stuff I may have installed. -- David Karl Kleinpaste-2 wrote: > > David Haslam writes: >> I have installed the Windows version of Xipho

Re: [sword-devel] Xiphos 3.0.0 released

2009-02-13 Thread David Haslam
These particular accented vowels are part of ANSI, so the reference to UTF8 content was superfluous even through also true. é = ANSI 233 ó = ANSI 243 Does Windows even allow usernames to include UTF8 characters way beyond ANSI 255 ? If so, then is Xiphos 3.0.1 going to be fully compliant with UT

Re: [sword-devel] Welsh Bible from beibl.net

2009-02-17 Thread David Haslam
The module WelBeiblNet is now available for testing from CrossWire beta. Thanks to Chris & Peter. Two related wiki edits. -- David -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Welsh-Bible-from-beibl.net-tp21956134p22066126.html Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabbl

Re: [sword-devel] [sword-support] The Bible Tool and Open Scriptures

2009-02-18 Thread David Haslam
I just observed the http://openscriptures.org/ Open Scriptures webpage states, "This project is being presented at http://bibletechconference.com/ BibleTech:2009 ". Is anyone from CrossWire planning to attend? Seattle is a tad too far from Cheshire, UK. ;>} -- David -- View this message in

Re: [sword-devel] encoding acrostic titles (Ps 119)

2009-02-19 Thread David Haslam
Though Psalm 119 is the most well-known acrostic poem in the Bible, and Psalms 9 & 10 are seen as such too, these are not the only instances of acrostic poems. Here is a full list: courtesy of the http://www.ibecat.org/BIBLIA/ Catalan Bible . Psalms 9 & 10 Psalm 25 Psalm 34 Psalm 37 Psalm 111 P

[sword-devel] Code2000 Unicode font & Xiphos (Windows)

2009-02-23 Thread David Haslam
While I was chatting about Xiphos with Matt Talbert over the weekend, I suggested that Code2000 be appended to the Tahoma line in the pango.alias file, in order to cover font omissions for some module languages. I forgot to mention that this Unicode font is not included in Microsoft Windows insta

Re: [sword-devel] Code2000 Unicode font & Xiphos (Windows)

2009-02-23 Thread David Haslam
If the http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/Module_Requests#African_Languages Module Request for Amharic Bibles comes to fruition, I think this would require a special Ethiopic font to be installed in Windows. I will post details later. There may be other stuff in the pipeline that will need special f

[sword-devel] Frontend UI support for non-Latin numerals?

2009-02-23 Thread David Haslam
Are any Frontend developers thinking about providing UI support for http://www.code2000.net/numbersutf.htm non-Latin numerals for chapter and verse references? -- David -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Frontend-UI-support-for-non-Latin-numerals--tp22157829p22157829.htm

Re: [sword-devel] Frontend UI support for non-Latin numerals?

2009-02-23 Thread David Haslam
No doubt that is due to contribution of our friend refdoc! Is this covered in the Xiphos manual? I suggest the topic should be more generalized, seeing as Farsi is only one such script with non-Latin numerals. Something to add to the Xiphos roadmap, so that similar implementations can be provide

Re: [sword-devel] SwordWeb and Javascript/AJAX

2009-02-23 Thread David Haslam
Having scripting permanently switched on is considered by some security conscious users as a security risk for drive-by malware infections. This has been discussed in some depth in various episodes of the weekly Security Now! podcasts hosted at http://grc.com/ grc.com . One solution that has bee

Re: [sword-devel] OSIS editor

2009-03-03 Thread David Haslam
files are in USFM format, the CrossWire utility USFM2OSIS could be used, or the similar program from Snowfall Software, as mentioned in the http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/Converting_SFM_Bibles_to_OSIS CrossWire wiki . -- David Haslam -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/O

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