Am 09.09.2007 um 01:35 schrieb Michael Zappe:
In thinking, pretty far. In implementing, not quite so far.
My dream is to have a nice Mac application which would handle
interlinear/parallel display, and have some parsing functionality to
help with original language study. (I'm a big fan of Greek and
Hebrew.)
MacSword did that although the strong numbers were integrated between
the text and made reading quite difficult.
I thought about a small floating window/panel that shows footnotes/
strongs/any other things that the text is tagged with a bit like
GnomeSword or Accordance does it.
A lot of what I've played with is in indexing the back end,
so that users could find stems, etc. in the Greek text.
Unfortunately I never quite got to a level where anything was
cohesive.
The search engine of MacSword did that quite well I think. The
Hesychius GenBook or strong lexicons were searchable.
Note taking is also big with me.
Yep. Not only notes, also commentaries and genbooks.
I also started playing with integrating the SWORD library with the
Cocoa text system. The text system in Cocoa is very nice, and it
would be nice to be able to use it natively using the attribute
system to reference back into the database.
The Cocoa text system is strong, right.
But I think I did not fully understand what you have in mind.
I would like to see text rendering much easier than in MacSword. No
tables, no css.
Simple but effective. Using WebKit, words that are tagged in some way
throw events when the mouse curser moves over them (like links).
Using Cocoa text system the mouse possition would need to be tracked
to have the same functionality.
Spotlight integration would also /rock/.
We will have Spotlight integration. We have SearchKit indexing
already. We just need to create a Spotlight plugin.
I think this is not that difficult.
Regards,
Manfred
Mike
On Sep 8, 2007, at 4:07 PM, Manfred Bergmann wrote:
Hi Mike.
How far have you been in thinking about a new application?
Manfred
Am 08.09.2007 um 20:21 schrieb Michael Zappe:
I'm a programmer, I know Cocoa decently well, and was thinking of
doing something similar myself. I'm strapped for time, but I'd love
to help in any way I can given that constraint.
Mike
On Sep 8, 2007, at 8:14 AM, Manfred Bergmann wrote:
Hi.
I want to starting a new frontend on the Mac platform and would
like
to invite everyone who is willing to help.
From UI developers to icon designers everyone is welcome to
participate.
Please write to my email address if you are interested.
The MacSword application has gotten quite old by the time. It still
has Jaguar support which is fine but now that Leopard is coming,
the
time is right to start something new with new features and new
technologies.
Some things like the Sword backend and the SearchKit search/
indexing
stuff can be taken from MacSword.
The backend has been cleaned up to make it KVO kompliant.
Additionally a new backend wrapper to Sword InstallMgr has been
created and is working.
Best regards,
Manfred
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