While there is no support for module-supplied v11n in engine, no sense to
making and testing modules. Test module for this task could be any
incomplete module (without NT or OT).
As for me this task is not very difficult and well discussed to start
working over implementation. But two things, implementation of av11n
mappings affects on storage format for module-supplied v11n. Policy for
custom v11ns should be strict because we can't allow countless amount of
very similar v11ns.
Returning to the subject, BibleTime do coverage calculation on testament
level, but book coverage can be useful too. BibleTime Mini have continuous
display and display stops if there is absent significant part of text like
chapter or book, coverage ranges could solve this.
Greg Hellings <greg.helli...@gmail.com> писал(а) в своём письме Thu, 05
Jan 2012 21:45:26 +0400:
There are abortive attempts to provide this functionality, but at
present there has been no push on the part of the engine or
applications to complete the task, since there are no modules at
present people are hoping to provide which require it. There is one
sample test module which tests the functionality, but it currently
crashes all the applications I tried it in because the library support
was never completed so no application has yet bothered to implement
it.
This is sort of a chicken-egg problem. No one produces modules which
leverage module-supplied v11ns because the library doesn't support it.
The library doesn't have support because no one has a module file
ready for creation which would require a completely custom v11n. And,
of course, no application has support because the library
implementation isn't finished yet.
If you have an OSIS file that requires a custom v11n in SWORD and you
provide it to the list, then it might start the boulder rolling on
this topic. I'm interested in it, because the mechanism that would be
used is the first step towards being able to represent modern
commentaries properly in SWORD, which presently I am unable to do. I
have many dozen such modules I'm working on for a Bible translation
organization. They are not well suited to SWORD's commentary style and
would benefit greatly from being rendered into a general book, which
is the mechanism that module-supplied v11ns will use. But again, it's
a chicken-egg problem. I can't use that mechanism until the Bibles are
implemented (unless I want to write custom code into one of the front
ends) and I can't supply the files to other developers because of
copyright restrictions. If you have distributable material that needs
custom v11ns, then you could be the first step in solving the impasse.
--Greg
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