[bt-devel] Howto translation...

[Joachim Ansorg]

Hi!

> Today's status is roughly 60% done with the HowTo... and hopefully, I
> should be able to have some help on sunday with our pastor who is Irish
> and from my girlfriend (wedding project 50% completed.... in progress
> ... please wait).

:)
Let me know when the project is finished so I can congratulate you and your 
girlfriend.

> > What feature are you missing in BibleTime? I'd be glad to implement a
> > cool feature for you as a return service if the feature fits into our
> > design decissions. Don't hesitate to post a feature idea!

> That's nice of you... what would you think about "random verse ref.
> generator" ? You could push a button and it would randomly open the
> default Bible... could be usefull for a "verse of the day" feature...

What about a commandline option which will do this task? Putting an icon on 
the desktop with the correct commandline will open the bible with a random 
verse so you can start to read. What do you think?
Or maybe support for the daily devotional modules which are available on 
Crosswire?

> I've got also a question: everybody is talking about some "commentary
> editor", but I've never seen it before... It is supposed to be included
> into the version I'm using (1.1), but I've never seen that editor. Is it
> some secret feature ?! Is it a developper only feature !?

No, it's not a hidden feature.
Please install the module "Personal commentary" and make the files of it 
read-write for the user. Then open the commentary as you normally do and 
press the button with the red pencil on it. The window will switch into edit 
mode and show some edit toolbars, etc. Now you can edit the text and save the 
changed things to disk. Does this work?

1.2 has better slightly edit capatibilities because it uses Qt 3, but they 
should be roughly the same.

Editing will be improved in 1.3, on which we're working on at the moment. 1.3 
will have an own edit window for the modules, it will save in the right 
format and allow more things.

But I have to admit that the editor in 1.1 is not very well implemented. I'd 
suggest to use a standalone editor until we offer better edit functionality. 
Using the tools provided with Sword 1.5.3 creating a module from your own 
commentaries will be easy (I'd suggest the tool imp2vs). If you have 
questions about the format of the file please ask me.

Joachim