Dear Brian, Thank you for your work– it's an encouragement to the rest of us. I would be interested in seeing your OSIS document, to see what a well-crafted commentary looks like in its pre-module state.
Grace be with you, Ted Janiszewski On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Brian J. Dumont <bdum...@ameritech.net>wrote: > Now available at the Xiphos repo are two new modules: Kretzmann (a > commentary) and KretzmannMaps. These come from the 4-Volume "Popular > Commentary" by Paul Kretzmann completed in 1921 through 1923. The source of > the electronic text is the Kretzmann Project, www.kretzmannproject.org > > The commentary module includes more OSIS features than are currently > supported by SWORD software, in the hopes of being a catalyst to feature > addition. > > The primary feature is to make external, non-scriptural references into > links. It includes links to a number of SWORD modules (references were > checked against print editions): > > - [Clarke] (Bible Commentary by Adam Clarke) > - [Concord] (The Book of Concord - Genbook) > - [Josephus] (The Works of Josephus - Genbook) > - [LifeTimes] (The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah by Alfred > Edersheim - Genbook) > > I'd like to give an example of why we should support this type of > inter-book linking. For the module "LifeTimes", the SWORD module is > organized by Book/Chapter. The original print edition is organized by > Volume/Book/Chapter. References to the book in "Kretzmann" are by > Volume/Page. This means that if someone wants to follow the reference given > by Kretzmann using the SWORD module "LifeTimes", that he needs to first go > to a print edition in order to find what book and chapter correspond to a > specific volume/page. I think that it is obvious that that is downright > silliness. > > Later we could add links to modules on our "wish list": > > - Schaff Commentary > - Keil/Delitzsch Commentary > - Expositor's Greek Testament > - "In the Days of Christ" by Alfred Edersheim > - "The Temple" by Alfred Edersheim > - ... and a bunch of others > > The "elephant in the room" when one gets into this commentary are the links > to Luther's writings. All Luther references are made to an > original-language collection of Luther's Works (German and Latin mixture). > To date I'm told that about half of Luther's writings have been translated > into English and about half of that is in the public domain. I don't know > either German or Latin, so I can't really set these links to point to the > module "LuthersWorks" without an enormous amount of pain. > > Other OSIS features in Kretzmann that I hope are one day supported: > > - better handling of OSIS <q> tags - these are in the OSIS file, but I > strip them out before building the module in order to get proper right and > left double quotes ... If <q> handling is improved, I'd love to see some > sort of front-end support to assist the reader with long quotes. Maybe the > start and end of the quote is highlighted when the mouse is over the quote > or something. Maybe a baloon window showing the contents of the "who" > attribute. > - better <hi> support for things like smallcaps, subscripts, and > superscripts > - support for OSIS tables > > I will very gladly make the original OSIS document available to anyone, > especially to developers who might be looking to add support for some of > these features :) > > Enjoy, > Brian > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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