Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Doug Rintoul and I am with Wycliffe/SIL. I have recently joined a team dedicated to bringing a good translation environment to Linux. Part of that task is making the material in Translators Workplace available under Linux. For those you who may not know...Translator's Workplace (TW) is a software package containing such resources for translators as Bible versions, commentaries, translation resources, and dictionaries and lexicons. It was originally developed for Windows-based computer systems using Folio Views. We have many in house documents as well as material that we have licensed from other publishers.
Over the past couple of weeks I have perusing through the sword-devel email list to get me up to speed on the issues of using Sword. This brings me to my first question. Is there an easy way to search the list? I always like to research an area before I make suggestions/ask questions. Being able to search the list would sure make it a lot easier. Now for my first technical question. Some of our commentaries have book and chapter introductions. The Sword API does allow for this by specifying chapter and verse 0 as the verse key for book introductions and verse 0 as the verse key for chapter introductions. Unfortunately there appears to be a limitation as to the amount of material that can be retrieved by calls such as GetRawEntry. I believe this is due to the choice of unsigned short for various size variables. I was wondering what the ramifications would be of changing unsigned short to some other more accommodating data type or if there are other ways of getting around this limitation? Many of our introductions far exceed the theoretical limit of 65536 that unsigned short allows for. Thanks for listening. Doug Rintoul SIL _______________________________________________ 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
