It seems to me that we need a good way to look up any word, not just Strong's numbers (or eg. OSIS-tagged names). We have
several French Bible dictionaries that we have digitized and put into Sword format. It would be of great value to our target audience
(French-speaking African pastors), if there was a way to define a default dictionary, and do a single-tap/click lookup of any word.
We use AndBible as our front-end. But there is no way that I can find to select a single word and look it up in a dictionary without
opening the dictionary and retyping the word into its search box.
John
Adding a new filter is not a difficult task, the main question is what to do with the outcome.
I always thought of names being useful as links to Bible encyclopedias and , with location names possibly, where known, with map
links. All the ways of creating confusion I can not see being of any real relevance, but for the original language texts. And there it is
often enough a matter of interpretation.
Peter
Sent from my mobile. Please forgive shortness, typos and weird autocorrects.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [sword-devel] Doing something useful with the OSIS name element?
From: David Haslam
To: sword-devel mailing list
CC:
Dear developers,
A few years back, DM Smith and I discussed the possibility to enhance the CrossWire flagship
KJV module by marking all
names therein - each with suitable
attributes.
This is still something I'd like to be involved with when I have more free time for CrossWire activities.
AFAICT, the SWORD API currently doesn't do anything special with the OSIS
name element.
IMHO, we could do something useful here and thereby enhance the understanding of a suitably marked up Biblical text.
Suggestions:
- Provide a new filter to display words wrapped within the name element using (e.g.) bold font style.
- Support a new module configuration key GlobalOptionFilter=OSISNames to allow the front-end to toggle this on and off.
- Add API support to succinctly display attribute values for the name element (e.g. by mouseover tooltip, etc).
Discussion points :
- There are some words that are used as a name in some places but as an ordinary common word in other places.
- Although we capitalise names in English, we also capitalise the first word of every sentence, thus potentially leading to ambiguities for new readers.
- All nouns in German are capitalised, so a learner of the language has an even harder job to know which words are names.
- There are several writing systems in which there is no visual clue at all to indicate which words are names.
- cf. There are even some writing systems in which there is no space between words.
- Not all writing systems have font support for bold style, so perhaps an alternative display method might need to be defined in the .conf file ?
Best regards,
David
John Dudeck
Programmer at Editions Cle Lyon, France
john.dud...@sim.org j...@editionscle.com
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