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

2008-11-26 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Chris Little wrote: > > Karl Kleinpaste wrote: >> Spare us the "they're not *really* ThML" whining. I don't care that >> they're specifically ThML. When I first started producing Sword modules >> 2 years ago, I was using GBF. > > The issue is you're too lazy to even run tidy on your HTML. I g

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

2008-11-26 Thread Peter von Kaehne
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 > administrative, related to module creation,

Re: [sword-devel] Win version of osis2mod

2008-11-27 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Adrian Korten wrote: > Good day, > > I'd like to test creating some OSIS modules for Sword in SE Asian > languages. I downloaded the osis2mod.exe but it does not work. > Could someone either tell me how to use it or help with fixing the .exe? Never used the windows version, but my Linux versio

Re: [sword-devel] OSISRuby

2008-11-27 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Chris Little wrote: > The OSISRuby filters are in SVN now. Please play with them (and one of > the Japanese Bibles) if you have the ability. there is some serious problem right now with the API vs frontends dt partially implemented but not complete genbook bibles etc. So GS is build against -r21

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

2008-11-27 Thread Peter von Kaehne
LOL Chris!!! I really was not sure whether you were serious about that suggestion or not, but I guess now you were. I will give it a go sometime. ok 2 things. 1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] needs to be received by a much wider group. Who is controlling this? It should be a core group of people, all with r

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

2008-11-27 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Chris Little wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not a discussion list. It's for receipt and > release of content, occasionally with the necessity of providing > feedback regarding errors. I am fully aware of this. My post was clear on that. > I do and will continue to do my best to > manage the inc

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

2008-11-27 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Chris Little wrote: > I think these are Peter's descriptions. I'll try to divine their meaning > and give something a bit more clear. > >> Any eternal loops or other structural problems? (What does this mean?) > > I don't know why this is the label. It sounds like a reference to > problems

Re: [sword-devel] Taming Wild Threads

2008-11-27 Thread Peter von Kaehne
jhphx wrote: > Perhaps there could be a place for authors to submit modules for > validating, or even prevalidating, before they are submit to your queue. > It could be a place for the more neophyte to partner with more skilled > volunteers. This of course assumes that there would be, at least a

Re: [sword-devel] Wiki page for OSIS genbooks

2008-11-27 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Daniel Owens wrote: > Could someone who has the permissions create a wii page for OSIS > genbooks? I will fill it out, but I can't create the page and links. If > you'd rather not put a link to it until it's got content, that's fine, > just send me the url. what do you mean you have no rights t

Re: [sword-devel] linking syntax

2008-11-29 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Brian J. Dumont wrote: > 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,

Re: [sword-devel] Multiple Module Repositories

2008-11-29 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Daniel Owens wrote: > Familie von Kaehne wrote: >> I also suggest that we add some wiki pages on how to create and maintain >> your own repo. >> > > Boy, if you could do this Peter, it would be a great help. I did address > this question yesterday or the day before, but nobody responded to it

Re: [sword-devel] Multiple Module Repositories

2008-11-29 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Further request for details What is the Mac zip directory about? The zip files extract into a director called module_name.swd inside of which is a sword-style structure of mods.d and modules. Peter ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.

Re: [sword-devel] Multiple Module Repositories

2008-11-29 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Greg Hellings wrote: > This format is specific to the MacSword versions of the past. IIRC, > MacSword is moving away from this system and into a system more in > line with the other versions of SWORD front-ends. So should I advise on the wiki still that this should be included or not? Peter ___

Re: [sword-devel] SWORD Remote Module Repository Setup

2008-11-29 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > Peter, > > Thank you so much for starting this. You have lots of great > information. Here are my 2p :) Thanks. this is incorporated. Now, what about the winzip modules - how are they created, what is the non sword content in them? Peter ___

Re: [sword-devel] summary

2008-11-29 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Chris Little wrote: > > DM Smith wrote: >> In an earlier posting I noted that without the ability to get the >> source it can be very difficult to tell where the problem originated. >> Most of our conf's don't give good enough links to the material. IMHO, >> we should give the web page on wh

Re: [sword-devel] Bible.org

2008-11-29 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > Bible.org ... are also very keen to add more of their content into their > SWORD > Remote Module Repository. > > How about the latter of reviewing their content and possibly helping > them decide which would be most easily adaptable for our software? > Off hand they

[sword-devel] Arabic vowel filter

2008-11-30 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Dear all, Attached is a patch to libsword to include an arabic vowel filter. Essentially this is a monkey patch - I aped everything relating to the hebrewpoints filter without by necessity understanding it all. After all I have little or no clue of programming. The filter itself - yes I think I

Re: [sword-devel] Porting Zefania XML to OSIS help needed

2008-11-30 Thread Peter von Kaehne
For x in all_my_files do run transform script on module X. Peter Wolfgang Schultz wrote: > Hello, > > the Zefania XML Bible Markup Language Project on Sourceforge plans to > convert all of their files to OSIS with the Crosswire Script > zef2osis.pl located on > > ftp://ftp.crosswir

[sword-devel] New front page CrossWire

2008-12-01 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Hi, Following previous discussions on the list I have started reworking the front page of the project. I have no ambitions as a web designer, but simply wanted to update the page, remove dead links (micros, diatheke CGI, BibleStudy) and add links to active projects which compile on the current

Re: [sword-devel] New front page CrossWire

2008-12-01 Thread Peter von Kaehne
gt; More broadly, we might want to go with a 2 column (plus the existing > sidebar) layout. As it is, I've got a very long page, but with a lot of > whitespace. I will see what I can do. The current layout is a massive table. I will see whether i can get a basic CSS column design going. Oh

Re: [sword-devel] New front page CrossWire

2008-12-01 Thread Peter von Kaehne
There are two main determinants for choice of programme - platform and translations. My suggestion is that I somehow incorporate the number of languages a particular programmme is translated in. Not sure. Peter ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@

Re: [sword-devel] New front page CrossWire

2008-12-01 Thread Peter von Kaehne
OK, now the frontpage is _really_ unwieldy ;-) I have listened to the various comments and have re-incorporated all sword applications but for the truly and irredeemably dead ones. I will find a solution for the Palm ones. I do think BpBible should stay in. Maybe we can convince them to upgrad

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

2008-12-02 Thread Peter von Kaehne
As you know I am busy to revamp the frontpage. I have added a set of links to obtain help. Options are to post on the fora, email to crosswire-suppport or chat on IRC (using the mibbit client) If you click the actual icon it will take you to the fora. But this is simply prelim and I want to get co

Re: [sword-devel] New front page CrossWire

2008-12-02 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Daniel Owens wrote: > It IS unwieldy. I decided to do two things - 1) get this page uptodate. 2) try and redesign in a separate page My web writing, CSS and JSp skills are minimal, so what I will do will be long winded and hard work before it becomes remotely useful. So what I put up here shoul

[sword-devel] Flashcards

2008-12-02 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Following the various trails to applications I never had looked at before I went to Flashcards. Now where is http://crosswire.org/fc ? I vaguely remember Troy showing it off to DM on IRC, but maybe I am wrong. Is there a way of making this link again active? Peter ___

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

2008-12-03 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Ben Morgan wrote: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 3:16 AM, Peter von Kaehne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So, please do send me something - otherwise I might make it all up >> and then let it all rot for another 5 years... ;-) > I'm not sure whether the winking smile

[sword-devel] CrossWire vs Sword websites and other confusion

2008-12-03 Thread Peter von Kaehne
There is plenty of confusion here. We often use Crosswire and Sword interchangeably on the site, which is fine probably in most contexts, but it becomes confusing for someone new who is hopping through the site cluelessly. I would suggest moving certain pages out of the sword site into the Crosswi

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

2008-12-03 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Ben Morgan wrote: > Anyway, I don't want to start an argument on this. We've had quite enough of > those lately :) Indeed > If you want, you can put my position down to me only knowing one language, > and that English ;) Indeed. And the result of this is that you overestimate the ability of peop

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

2008-12-04 Thread Peter von Kaehne
jhphx wrote: > Brian wrote: >> Should we have a "crosswire.ru" site? > > One of the good things about open source projects is that by nature they > encourage horizontal development instead of only vertical. I think this is the case. And we are seeing it. Daniel Owens, David Haslam and I are -

[sword-devel] LCDBible and SwordBible - was: Website: "help" direction + improved blurbs

2008-12-04 Thread Peter von Kaehne
sponse, solely expressed some upset about his blurb never being updated in the past. I guess though that his focus has shifted and he is disinterested. Thoughts? Peter von Kaehne wrote: > jhphx wrote: >> Brian wrote: >>> Should we have a "crosswire.ru" site? >> O

[sword-devel] CrossWire frontpage

2008-12-05 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Dear all, Last night I ripped a copy of the front page apart and put it back together again, but now with a largely CSS based design instead of a table based one (tables are still used, but are not providing anymore the skeleton. It looks pretty much the same (took a while), but is now I think mo

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire frontpage

2008-12-05 Thread Peter von Kaehne
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 adapt this system for their > own use."

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

2008-12-08 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Daniel Owens wrote: > I hadn't noticed the change, but looking at the changelog tells me the > change isn't drastic, mainly additions of new markers. I will look over > usfm2osis.pl when I get a chance, but it doesn't cover all the markers > available in USFM as it is. I just stumbled with the

[sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-10 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Dear All, After a last late night session with Troy to hammer out wording and some design flaws the new website for CrossWire is up and running. I have incorporated a lot of the ideas etc which were mentioned on the list. I am sure (actually I am aware of some) there are enough problems left wit

[sword-devel] IE6 problem Re: CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-10 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Just had a look with IE6 at the page and got a shock. The margins and the distribution of the content in the right sided menu is totally distorted. I am not sure whether I should be more angry with myself or with MS, but I never use IE6 and it did not even cross my mind that the simple stuff I am

Re: [sword-devel] IE6 problem Re: CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-10 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Ok, the offending items in css for IE6 were threefold: ">" for direct child does not work :first-child does not work and the div borders are something weird which i have not figured yet. So I have introduced browser sniffing on the server and serve a mildly divergent CSS for IE (all of them) It

Re: [sword-devel] IE6 problem Re: CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-10 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Chris Little wrote: > Some other platform notes: > > IE7 looks the same as FF3 to me. IE6 and IE7 are currently filtered out and get a new stylesheet. > Chrome, Safari Mobile, & Safari (all based on WebKit) look okay, but > aren't rendering correctly. There was a mistake in my html. This is n

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

2008-12-11 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Stephen Denne wrote: >> >From http://www.crosswire.org/index.jsp > Clicking on the mobiles icon went to > http://www.crosswire.org/index.jsp?section=Handhelds > But produced a 500 response with this stack trace: > Going instead to the Windows page, then clicking the mobiles page icon, went > to t

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

2008-12-11 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Chris Little wrote: > Just a few quick comments: > > The page is looking nicely improved. I like that it is mostly visible > from within a single screenful, with minimal scrolling necessary. Thanks! > Most of my complaints probably pertain the the icon bar. There's the > strange mouseover grow

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

2008-12-11 Thread Peter von Kaehne
jhphx wrote: > It would probably be a good idea to have > few words to indicate to people like me that the icon bar is a menu for > finding compatible applications. Something simple, "Select an icon to > list compatible applications." Done ___ sword-

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

2008-12-11 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: > It's definetely better, much better! Thanks! > One small graphical glitch: When I hover over the platform icons they > change their shape, namely grow taller. Nothing serious but looks weird > and disturbing because the whole row changes, not just the single icon. > Th

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

2008-12-11 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Manfred Bergmann wrote: > Otherwise very nice. > Short and not overloaded. Texts have the right length. Like it. Thanks! ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubs

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

2008-12-11 Thread Peter von Kaehne
David Haslam wrote: > Hi Peter, > > First impressions are all positive. Here's some feedback. Thanks > > 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 s

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

2008-12-11 Thread Peter von Kaehne
DM Smith wrote: > Love the design! Thanks. It is athe old design, cleaned up. > Some nit-picks. I was waiting for that ;-) > Agree with the OS icons being jittery and needing to be made more obvious. Not jittery anymore, but a nbetter solution which is IE6 firm needs to be found. > IMHO, th

[sword-devel] Icon bar and redirects. (new website)

2008-12-11 Thread Peter von Kaehne
To avoid thread overload.. I have addressed practically all issues mentioned yesterday apart from - those where I disagreed (off site links in the top, no JAVA software link ) - those which are lowish priority (Site search, fixed top and side menu, sliding underneath). All rendering problems (a

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

2008-12-11 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Greg Hellings wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Peter von Kaehne wrote: >>> Agree with the OS icons being jittery and needing to be made more obvious. >> Not jittery anymore, but a nbetter solution which is IE6 firm needs to >> be found. > > Honestly?

Re: [sword-devel] Icon bar and redirects. (new website)

2008-12-11 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Greg Hellings wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Peter von Kaehne wrote: >> redirects - I have inserted HTML driven redirects but think it would be >> better to have this as a server directive like .htacess. Is there a way >> of doing this in Tomcat? > >

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

2008-12-11 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > Peter, > > Thank you again for owning this. Just a few quick comments. > > We have a google site search on the sword page which is really useful > for searching the mailing list archives (among other things on the > site). Maybe we could grab it from there. I notic

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

2008-12-11 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Manfred Bergmann wrote: > Am 11.12.2008 um 21:13 schrieb Peter von Kaehne: > >>> If we have a Java section, I'm not sure all the java programs should >>> also go into all the other groups, as well. I'm not sure what I >>> think >>> is b

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

2008-12-11 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Ben Morgan wrote: > I agree that MacSword should be at the top. It is now > BPBible does run under Mac (with some slight problems), but I didn't > have time to package it up properly before the release of 0.4, so anyone > wanting to use it would have to install python 2.5 and wxPython and > build

[sword-devel] Logos required/requested

2008-12-11 Thread Peter von Kaehne
I am redesigning the SWORD website right now. The SWORD Project has three major parts - Sword Engine, Jsword and modules. JSword and the overarching project have each their logo. Sword Engine and e-Library do not. It would be really useful if someone graphically gifted and with some sense for his

Re: [sword-devel] Icon bar and redirects. (new website)

2008-12-11 Thread Peter von Kaehne
DM Smith wrote: > Peter, > Keeps looking better! > Just a small comment regarding how I work and given that, how the > website looks. I have a 17" wide screen laptop (1440x900) and typically, > I'll make the browser about 1/2 the width of the screen. This has some > adverse impacts: > 1) The ban

Re: [sword-devel] news/crosswire organization

2008-12-11 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Chris Little wrote: > > Peter von Kaehne wrote: >> Chris Little wrote: >>> I don't think >>> the news section belongs within the CrossWire site as opposed to the >>> Sword site (but we can discuss that in IRC). >> Strongly disagree - the news

Re: [sword-devel] news/crosswire organization

2008-12-11 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Chris Little wrote: > > > I'm arguing for the narrow perspective, but I feel like you were arguing > for an even narrower perspective, where The SWORD Project includes only > the API--since you included frontends and modules as a wider set of > topics that the news covers. My perspective is

Re: [sword-devel] Icon bar and redirects. (new website)

2008-12-12 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Jonathan Morgan wrote: > More nitpicking (do what you like with it): > > "Bible Study Software > > We have an abundance of applications, small and large,..." > > If the section is entitled "Bible Study Software", I would expect a > mention of software, rather than talking about applications. >

Re: [sword-devel] Icon bar and redirects. (new website)

2008-12-12 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: > Choose the icon for your platform: [Linux icon] [Windows icon] > BibleTime TSPFW GnomeSword ... ok. I will look into this > BTW, I don't like the Java section - it's needed only if the Java > apps run somewhere which is not already covered by other platforms.

Re: [sword-devel] Icon bar and redirects. (new website)

2008-12-12 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Jonathan Morgan wrote: > Possibly it is worth putting it somewhere, but I don't think it > deserves a front page mention, and it certainly makes it more text to > read (which is what I am trying to avoid). It's worth noting that if > you search for that Crosswire comes up first, but what is highli

Re: [sword-devel] Icon bar and redirects. (new website)

2008-12-12 Thread Peter von Kaehne
DM Smith wrote: > So, I don't think that a top level Java icon is necessary. Maybe a > blurb or link link to a page on the main software page would suffice, > but even that might not be necessary. Ok, I take your word for that. I will remove the top link and see how I can incorporate it other

[sword-devel] [New Website] application page, OS icon bar, news

2008-12-12 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Starting a new thread here, as things become otherwise again to complicated. Complaints with the version yesterday were 1) Java not necessary 2) a page with all applications needed 3) some sensible way of choosing needed (several suggestions, including a mockup gratefully received) 4) on narrow s

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

2008-12-12 Thread Peter von Kaehne
David Haslam wrote: > Clicking on http://crosswire.org/applications.jsp > http://crosswire.org/applications.jsp > > just caused > > > HTTP Status 500 - Sorted ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailma

Re: [sword-devel] [New Website] application page, OS icon bar, news

2008-12-12 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: > You have already succeeded very well. Thanks! > >> News - I would like to have more feedback on that. >> > What would the users want to see? Who they are, why they read our news? > [..] True, it is hard to guess. > Each project would like to have a > bit more visi

Re: [sword-devel] [New Website] application page, OS icon bar, news

2008-12-12 Thread Peter von Kaehne
The icon bar is fixed. I hope so at least. It has captions - thanks to mwtalbert for suggesting this. It works fine in FF, Opera, IE7 and Chrome It fails not too maliciously displaywise in IE6 and can presumably still get improved, but it works well enough on IE6 I replaced some icons which wer

Re: [sword-devel] [New Website] application page, OS icon bar, news

2008-12-12 Thread Peter von Kaehne
DM Smith wrote: > Peter, > You probably know this but the "applications" page is broken. It > throws a "tomcat" error. > DM Sorry about that. Fixed ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword

[sword-devel] SWORD project website - old files

2008-12-13 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Looking through ~sword I found an abundance of directories and pages many of which are unlinked from anywhere, most are out of date, but some contain some important stuff. Maybe others can comment on this list. I have looked through all and put my assessment to it, insofar as I could come to an a

Re: [sword-devel] Broken link

2008-12-13 Thread Peter von Kaehne
David Haslam wrote: > 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 / Close, but wrong ;-) I missed the initial www Sorted. Thanks for keeping checking. Peter ___

Re: [sword-devel] Logos required/requested

2008-12-14 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Mike Hart wrote: > Can we name the library for the bible society? ( i.e. the Crosswire > Bible Society E-library. ) The module library is part of and (one of the) main focus of the SWORD project. So I do not think renaming is the issue. It has a good enough name. Peter

[sword-devel] Website - module lists

2008-12-15 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Some brainstorming and advice please. I am working currently on the module list as it may appear in the new sword website: www.crosswire.org/sword/ModDisp.jsp www.crosswire.org/sword/newpage/library.jsp This is probably (for me) the most complicated part so far. I want it as intuitive and fast

Re: [sword-devel] Website error in Firefox

2008-12-16 Thread Peter von Kaehne
That is because Apache did not proxy through to Tomcat, but tried to read and make sense of JSP pages. It is working now though. Peter David Haslam wrote: > Not the only error! > > The bottom of the page looks like: > > <%@ include file="project-blurbs/glosung.jsp" %> <%@ include > file="proj

Re: [sword-devel] Added Chinese translations

2008-12-16 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Joachim Ansorg wrote: > Please let me know if the locale > format has been changed. > I think it has in the course of the 1.5.11-> (not yet complete) 1.5.12 revision ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailm

Re: [sword-devel] Website - module lists

2008-12-16 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Tom Cornell wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Peter von Kaehne wrote: >> Some brainstorming and advice please. >> >> I never liked the internal module names as a presentation item, i think >> the short description is much more useful for that. I think i would w

Re: [sword-devel] Website - module lists

2008-12-16 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Peter von Kaehne wrote: > Well, I am arguing against that bad habit where ever I encounter it. > > It really should not be a visible name - anywhere. > > Peter Maybe this was too short - explanation as follows: We are working hard at all levels to make this software as w

Re: [sword-devel] Website - module lists

2008-12-16 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Gregory Hellings wrote: > On Dec 16, 2008, at 17:02, Peter von Kaehne wrote: > >> Well, I am arguing against that bad habit where ever I encounter it. >> >> It really should not be a visible name - anywhere. > > I would shy away from that sweeping of a claim. True,

Re: [sword-devel] Adding abbreviated names to the module conf file (was Re: isalnum(3) for i18n)

2008-12-16 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Chris Little wrote: > > In addition to these, I recommend adding enDescription, enAbout, Abbr, > and enAbbr. > > We traditionally include English and localized title/about data within > Description & About entries. The addition of enDescription and enAbout > would simply divide these, so enDescrip

Re: [sword-devel] Adding abbreviated names to the module conf file (was Re: isalnum(3) for i18n)

2008-12-16 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Chris Little wrote: > Could you describe how you think all of these values would be used > practically? You would basically access them via the set locale. The preference would be to get a locale appropriate name and if not the fall back solution which would be English. This is how Gnome does th

Re: [sword-devel] Alkitab Bible Study 2.1-beta2 released

2008-12-17 Thread Peter von Kaehne
> On the side note: does anyone know who are the copyright owner of > other available locales (chinese zh and zh_CN, and german de) from > BibleDekstop, so I could ask permission to include those on Alkitab > Bible Study. The German was done originally by someone else (do not know who) then compl

Re: [sword-devel] Adding abbreviated names to the module conf file (was Re: isalnum(3) for i18n)

2008-12-17 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Chris Little wrote: > Since new module .confs would have module name information in the > module's own locale (provided it is available), I don't believe there's > really a case where the system/user locale would ever be used. I can see many cases - where someone wants to keep a different language

Re: [sword-devel] Alkitab Bible Study 2.1-beta2 released

2008-12-17 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Daniel Owens wrote: > Aren't the translations released under the same license as jsword, which > means you don't need to ask permission? I mean, unless the translators > made some effort to apply a different license the contributed > translation is under the same open source license as the rest of

Re: [sword-devel] Adding abbreviated names to the module conf file (was Re: isalnum(3) for i18n)

2008-12-17 Thread Peter von Kaehne
DM Smith wrote: > > On Dec 17, 2008, at 4:04 AM, Peter von Kaehne wrote: > >> >> I think an argument could be had for following scheme combining both >> proposals into following: >> >> [Config_entry]_original >> >> [Config_entry] [locale] and u

Re: [sword-devel] Adding abbreviated names to the module conf file (was Re: isalnum(3) for i18n)

2008-12-17 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Chris Little wrote: > > > Tom Cornell wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 3:04 AM, Chris Little >> wrote: >>> My recommendation was actually that the default be the language of the >>> module (what I have referred to, perhaps somewhat confusingly, as the >>> localized name). In the absence of that

Re: [sword-devel] Adding abbreviated names to the module conf file (was Re: isalnum(3) for i18n)

2008-12-17 Thread Peter von Kaehne
DM Smith wrote: > Chris, > > I would like to lobby for a separator between the language code and the > field name. I don't much care whether it is a prefix or suffix. While I > understand that you are suggesting that we don't have a deAbbr or > xxAbbr, I could see that it might be added some time

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

2008-12-17 Thread Peter von Kaehne
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 different > languages? > > In the course of my Go Bible activities, I have collected a fair number of > such lists in the past 21 months.

Re: [sword-devel] Adding abbreviated names to the module conf file (was Re: isalnum(3) for i18n)

2008-12-18 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Chris Little wrote: > > > DM Smith wrote: >> Chris, >> >> I would like to lobby for a separator between the language code and >> the field name. I don't much care whether it is a prefix or suffix. >> While I understand that you are suggesting that we don't have a deAbbr >> or xxAbbr, I could see

[sword-devel] New website - installation instructions

2008-12-18 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Despite my silence on the matter I am still working on the SWORD website One of the pages where I would appreciate some collective input is www.crosswire.org/sword/newpage/library?section=Install This is the old installation page taken into my pages without any substantial changes. And it is wro

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

2008-12-18 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Peter von Kaehne wrote: > Despite my silence on the matter I am still working on the SWORD website > > One of the pages where I would appreciate some collective input is > > www.crosswire.org/sword/newpage/library?section=Install > > This is the old installation page taken

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

2008-12-19 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Ouch, what a can of worms I opened here with a question I thought being totally uncontentious. :-) Can I summarise the discussion for the purposes of my webpage: 1) Users should not install modules themselves 2) Users should not install modules themselves .. 10) Users _really_ should *not* inst

[sword-devel] Re New website - installation instructions

2008-12-19 Thread Peter von Kaehne
> The instructions should say to use the built-in app installer, or otherwise > download the Windows > package and install it. Sorry, this is confusing to me right now : Do you mean with "Windows package" the user should install *BibleCS* or the *winzip* from the repository? If form

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

2008-12-19 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Thanks DM for the response. I summarise then further ; The self installing modules do not install to any standard place and are currently unable to work with non BibleCS. They are not self installing as such as they still require an unzip and the 2 stage process is currently undocumented and not u

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

2008-12-19 Thread Peter von Kaehne
David Haslam wrote: > Can this visual weakness be improved somehow? One for Peter, I think. I would love to, but I have not found a good icon to replace that one. The problem is that any icon you use there needs to be free in terms of copyrights etc. If you find one which will somehow convey bet

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

2008-12-19 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Barry Drake wrote: > Hi Troy > > Just wondering: the use of a 'pending' directory into which the new > module is unpacked following opening of a Windows module installer .exe > is very much BibleCS only. It is actually quite weird and totally unexpected. Why was this chosen? > It migh

Re: [sword-devel] Windows Self-Installer Modules

2008-12-19 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > Sorry Barry, yes, I forgot to include the request to cause the windows > installer to not use the InstallScan facility in the SWORD engine. I > had planned to comment on this. > > > The SWORD Engine also supports notification of new modules installed. > This was added

Re: [sword-devel] Windows Self-Installer Modules

2008-12-19 Thread Peter von Kaehne
DM Smith wrote: >> That would satisfy the requirement if it still exists anywhere. > > This is still Windows centric. Realistically I think windows is the only place where large scale non-module installer installation will happen. Peter ___ sword-deve

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

2008-12-20 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: > Greg Hellings wrote: >> >> Personally I see the joy in this, but it also strikes me as somewhat >> anti-Windows. > > If this really is the case for most of the users, this whole > conversation has been meaningless - the applications should store the > modules in app-specif

Re: [sword-devel] wiki?

2008-12-20 Thread Peter von Kaehne
David Haslam wrote: > I too am wondering when the wiki will be restored, and I wonder why there was > no response either. > The person responsible is DM. ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [sword-devel] wiki?

2008-12-20 Thread Peter von Kaehne
DM Smith wrote: > > On Dec 20, 2008, at 7:11 AM, Peter von Kaehne wrote: > >> >> The person responsible is DM. > > While I am responsible for the wiki, I'm not responsible for the > upgrade. How's that for blame shifting? :) I didn't see my s

Re: [sword-devel] news

2008-12-20 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Chris Little wrote: > News updates are great. I see we had two old news items posted today. Well they were the newset stuff we had LOL > > News updates announcing releases without links are not great. > > Please edit your news posts to include links to GS/BD. > will do so ___

Re: [sword-devel] news

2008-12-20 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Chris Little wrote: > > Please edit your news posts to include links to GS/BD. > Ouch. That was a really bad idea. There is some bug in the editor which merged my edit with the other entry on saving Peter ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@cro

Re: [sword-devel] news

2008-12-20 Thread Peter von Kaehne
I could try and delete, but if that is buggy too then I thing smight get worse. I remember now that Troy said something about a bug in the editor, but he ws not sure whether he had fixed it or not. Now we know :-) Ok. Hold your breath ___ sword-devel ma

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

2008-12-21 Thread Peter von Kaehne
fred smith wrote: > I have a friend who is an Inca from Peru who would LOVE a bible in her > native language, which is as I understand it Qechua or something like > that. pronounced sort of "ketch wah". > > I see a Sword module named Q'echi' or Kekchi. I don't know one language > from the next, bu

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

2008-12-22 Thread Peter von Kaehne
This discussion has gone a bit beyond to where I expected it to go. Couple of things: 1) I asserted that the Windows selfextracting Zips are broken. Having listened to Troy's explanation and checked again + thought matters through, I would like to withdraw that assertion. The current self extrac

Re: [sword-devel] OSIS Bible Name guidelines ?

2008-12-23 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Tonny Kohar wrote: > Thanks for the info, it is very appreciated. > What about this name > IPD (Indonesian Public Domain), is this name already taken or used in > some bible ? On an off-tpoic note - did you manage to get hold of an public domain Indonesian text? That is wonderful! Apart from Portu

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