Welcome Doug! Doug Rintoul wrote: > 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. >
Hopefully, it will run on the Mac as well. That is a variant of Unix. > 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. > Personally, I use google, putting sword-devel as the first word in the search. This list is public and various sites index it. You might find one of them easier. For example: http://www.opensubscriber.com/messages/sword-devel@crosswire.org/topic.html > 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. > I'll leave this one to one of the other developers. > 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
