A bit off topic.... On Dec 3, 2007, at 6:41 AM, Jonathan Morgan wrote:
> A few additional points about verse lists, thanks to Ben: > 1. BibleDesktop does support saving of verse lists, again in a fairly > simple format. It still doesn't really have good support for topics, > multiple verse lists, and so on. I think that BibleDesktop's Verse list (which also allows passages and uses *.lst for the extension) is weak. It does allow restore from it. Beyond that, it is good for importing into a document via cut&paste. But I don't think that it is used much for that latter purpose. I will be replacing it with a Bookmark facility. The key characteristics of a Bookmark is that it saves state of a single view of a module and the user can name it. As such there are a few pieces of info that a verse list does not contain that a Bookmark needs to contain. 1: One should be able to Bookmark any module, thus the references can to be to any module. So in essence it becomes a key list. 2: A key list requires a module name (e.g. KJV) to reconstruct the data. 3: Since it may be reasonable to use a verse list against any Bible, a word list against any dictionary, .... it may be constructive to cache the category of the module. 4: An important part of the user experience is to restore state, so a Bookmark should hold the flags for the various view options (e.g. Show/ hide Strongs/Notes/Headings...) 5: BD is unique among the Sword applications in that it does not merely show chapters at a time, but also shows arbitrary passages (i.e. the user can do a search or multi-passage lookup) in the same view. In the case of a search, saving the search request instead of the list of verses (or along with the list of verses) would be needed. 6: Finally, the user should be able to name a Bookmark. I'm probably going to implement this using XML to reduce brittleness. Additionally, BD will formalize the notion of a Bookmark Set, which is a named set of Bookmarks. We plan to use this Bookmark facility in various ways. If you are interested in the details you can take a look at: http://www.crosswire.org/bugs/browse/BD-59 Based on Jon's Tagging ideas, I'd add 6: Search Bookmarks - The ability to constrain a search to a Bookmark or Bookmark set. I think this facility will provide a rudimentary Topic Tagging tool. > > 2. As well as Verse Lists, Sword for Windows also supports bookmarks > in a tree view, which has more features (though I think its usability > still leaves something to be desired). > > It appears that support for the rudimentary, simple verse lists in > various Sword applications is much better than I had expected. > However, I think that there is still considerable room for > standardisation and adding of features. > > Jon > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
