Peter,
At first thought, I agree with you. We could certainly have maybe a dash
delimited variety of categories for each locale-- whatever someone might want.
We kindof do this already with the numerous _abbrev.conf file. These generally
are for people and purposes which want shorter Bible book names than our
standard locale for that language. And although we've extended our locale
structure to support this specific use case (preferred abbeviations), there are
any number of use cases we haven't thought about, so allowing a -variant suffix
would allow anyone to use it for whatever they see fit. This basically requires
no, or very little code at the engine level but might require a little work at
the UI level to present to optional variants of a locale when a uses chooses
their language. Generally I like the idea.
What are any advantages of doing things differently? Some thoughts...
Generally, I would think that all locale variants would share a merged [Book
Abbrevs] section. This is different from the new [Pref Abbrevs] section. The
former lists all possible abbreviations which might refer to a Bible book to
help our parser figure out what the user might be typing. So, repeating this
merged and shared section might be a maintenance headache. Really only the
primary book names and preferred book abbreviations are variant. I guess an
alternative option requiring a bit more work would be to extend our locale
structure a bit more and have a [Variants] section with something like:
rc=Roman Catholic
Then where there is a an alternative book name, we could have something like:
Genesis=Genesis
Genesis.rc=1st Book of Moses
This would let us keep a shared [Book Abbrevs] section, and also has the
advantage of only requiring entries where there is deviation from the base.
Dunno.
Not suggesting we go this route, but just wanted to throw it out there for
discussion.
Troy
On June 19, 2019 5:24:58 AM MST, "ref...@gmx.net" <ref...@gmx.net> wrote:
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