Why not offer all the options below for the user to choose either per module or globally. For modules where there is a .conf entry Feature=Paragraphs then module specific paragraph and poetry display could be enabled/offered. Where this is not present, users could have the choice of either vpl or static paragraphing. It may even be possible to offer these options in the frontends without having to change the .conf files, by simply ignoring or replacing the module paragraphing where vpl or static options are selected - I'm not sure. If the user isn't to be offered the choice, then I would agree with your final suggestion below, as I'm not sure that by default KJV paragraphing would suit other translations/languages well. John Duffy
-----Original Message----- From: Chris Little [mailto:chris...@crosswire.org] Sent: 07 November 2009 03:06 To: SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum Subject: [sword-devel] Bibles without paragraphing We have many many Bibles that lack any kind of paragraphing markup. These will tend to be rendered as a single big block of text per chapter, which is rather ugly. Some front ends offer a verse-per-line option where every verse gets its own newline, regardless of whether the Bible has paragraphing. I think this is a good option for the case of non-paragraphed Bibles but undesirable for those that do have paragraph indication. I would like to propose that we add a new Feature to .confs (e.g. Feature=Paragraphs). If the feature is absent, a front end can know that it should output newlines at the end of each verse. Alternately, we could tag unparagraphed Bibles with Feature=NoParagraphs. There will be many more Bibles that need to be checked, updated, and re-downloaded by users. But if a user fails to update his content, in this case there wouldn't be the incorrect behavior of rendering paragraphed Bibles as verse-per-line. A third alternative (probably less attractive now that we're releasing quite a few non-KJV v11n Bibles) is to do one of the above and then offer static paragraphing like OLB does. OLB starts new paragraphs at set verses, regardless of the Bible. We could grab the paragraph data from the KJV, for example, and then insert paragraph marks in the render filters. I think my preference is to add Feature=Paragraphs and just do verse-per-line in the absence of that feature. Thoughts? --Chris _______________________________________________ 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
