Chris, I think your suggestion is ok. Joachim
> Something that Troy & I discussed after he finished GBS, but that we never > agreed on a solution to, is how general books should be displayed. > > For some books, it should be obvious. If the lowest level of division is > something large, like a chapter, then the lowest level is what should be > shown. > > For other books, it may not be desirable to display at the finest > granularity. Take, for example, versified material like pseudepigrapha or > the Book of Mormon. We will want to key entries to the finest granularity > (book chapter:verse) but we would probably want to display text at one > level above that (book chapter). This is the same as we currently have > for Bibles in most frontends. > > The problem is complicated by books such as Josephus' works, where the > lowest level varies from 2 to 4 levels into the hierarchy. (e.g. > Josephus' Discourse on Hades has only 2 levels, but his Antiquities has > 4 -- this is similar to the Bible, which has 3 levels except for books > like Philemon, which only have 2 levels). > > If anyone has a good suggestion for how we should handle this, please > speak up. > > The only idea I've had is to add an entry to the module's config > indicating that it should be displayed at the nth level, counting from the > lowest. So a sample config entry of: > DisplayLevel=2 > would indicate you want to display whole chapters at a time in a book > organized like the Bible. > > ----- > > Other news, I believe I have two general books compiled now. The first > book is the Enuma Elish (because I felt it an appropriately symbolic first > book--after all, you should begin at the beginning). The second is the > complete works of Josephus (because... well, because this is what everyone > actually wanted). I will try to get them packaged up for testing and post > them or give them to Troy to post later today. > > --Chris
