Some really weird stuff going on here in the nightly build of BD. I found Gen 1 
in Matt 1, Mark 1 in Genesis chapter 36. Looked through the entire module and 
didn't find Psalms.

Looks like JSword nightly flipped the two testaments.

I have something to look forward to this week.

-- DM 

On Mar 4, 2012, at 6:15 PM, Daniel Owens wrote:

> That is wonderful news. I have not been updating to the nightly build for 
> awhile, so I downloaded the latest, but the test module does not display at 
> all. I am not sure what to make of that, but it is a rather unorthodox module 
> in that it only has a little bit of content.
> 
> Daniel
> 
> On 03/04/2012 04:32 PM, DM Smith wrote:
>> The next release of Bible Desktop supports/displays book and chapter 
>> introductions. It is available now as a nightly build. How well the nightly 
>> build works on any given day is possibly broken.
>> 
>> AndBible will probably support it once JSword is released.
>> 
>> -- DM
>> 
>> On Mar 4, 2012, at 4:08 PM, Daniel Owens wrote:
>> 
>>> I did some testing of several of the major front-ends (sorry, I do not have 
>>> a Mac or iPhone). I posted the results at 
>>> http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/OSIS_Bibles/BSPExample#Level_of_Support_by_Front-ends.
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Overall feature support is strongest in BPBible, followed by BibleTime and 
>>> Xiphos tied for second. Then comes BibleCS, BibleDesktop, and AndBible.
>>> 
>>> That can partly be explained by the fact that BibleDesktop and AndBible do 
>>> not display book introductions (that is a reasonable choice for AndBible). 
>>> However, both support parallel titles (for synoptic passages in the 
>>> Gospels) and canonical psalm titles (as does BPBible). But BibleTime, 
>>> Xiphos, and BibleCS simply do not display the text of Canonical psalm 
>>> titles. That is a severe bug.
>>> 
>>> As a novice module creator several years ago, this diversity almost drove 
>>> me crazy. I guess now at least module creators can know what features are 
>>> likely to work well, but it would be nice if front-ends worked on 
>>> supporting some of these features, even if the text is passed through as 
>>> plain text, such as canonical psalm titles. Nothing like that should be 
>>> omitted, even if the display is not anything special.
>>> 
>>> One last note, variants do not work correctly in any front-end, which tells 
>>> me the markup is not right. If anyone can provide a correction to the 
>>> markup, please let me know.
>>> 
>>> Daniel
>>> 
>>> On 03/04/2012 01:18 PM, Patrick Zimmermann wrote:
>>>> Hey,
>>>> 
>>>> this is great news. Thank you.
>>>> 
>>>> If the rendering produced by xiphos or bibletime is at least some sort of
>>>> acceptable I'll change the module I'm developing at the moment to use the
>>>> syntax. Mostly additions, removals and alternatives are affected.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks again,
>>>> Patrick
>>>> 
>>>> On Sunday, 4. March 2012 01:59:15 Daniel Owens wrote:
>>>>> Based on varied sources, including Patrick's helpful example OSIS Bible,
>>>>> I put together an example OSIS "Bible" that validates and is consistent
>>>>> with the wiki page on OSIS Bibles (
>>>>> http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/OSIS_Bibles). The text itself is mostly
>>>>> KJV text, with a little Hebrew to illustrate more than what the KJV can
>>>>> by itself. I chose to use the BSP structure because the KJV illustrates
>>>>> the BCV structure well already, and I have no idea idea how to deal with
>>>>> paragraphs and poetry in the BCV structure.
>>>>> 
>>>>> You can find the example file and the following list of features at
>>>>> http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/OSIS_Bibles/BSPExample:
>>>>> 
>>>>> - BookGroup and section titles, including parallel passages:<title>
>>>>> - Book introduction
>>>>> - List:<list>,<item>
>>>>> - Table:<table>,<row>,<cell>
>>>>> - Bold and italic text:<hi>
>>>>> - Strong's numbers, lemma, and morphology:<w>, @lemma, @morph
>>>>> - Notes, including study notes and cross-references:<note>,<reference>
>>>>> - Marked additions:<transChange>
>>>>> - Canonical title (Psalms):<title type="psalm" canonical="true">
>>>>> - Poetry markup:<lg>,<l>
>>>>> - Divine Name:<seg>,<divineName>
>>>>> - Variants:<seg type="x-variant" subType="x-1">
>>>>> - Abbreviations:<abbr>
>>>>> 
>>>>> I compiled and tested the module, and I will send a separate email when
>>>>> I have a chance to record the results systematically. Suffice it to say,
>>>>> no one front-end supports all of the markup well, and some features
>>>>> (such as variants and tables) are conspicuously poorly supported. Since
>>>>> it is not a complete text of the KJV, some odd display issues should be
>>>>> ignored, but most front-ends displayed the "New Testament" title at the
>>>>> bottom of Psalm 3. It would be lovely if front-end developers would see
>>>>> how their front-end handles it (or doesn't). I can send a compiled
>>>>> module to those who are interested.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Feedback is welcome. If I have missed something or used less-than-ideal
>>>>> markup, please let me know, and we can change it.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Daniel
>>>>> 
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> 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
>>>> 
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org 
>>> <mailto: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
> 
> _______________________________________________
> 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

Reply via email to