[bt-devel] Bt 2.9 Feature - Parallel Bible and Commentary

[patrick at zakweb.de]

Hi,
I thought about such a feature too. I really like it.
 
I have been told that the code to do the rendering of the HTML content is messy
(eg.
the depenency on the first bible) and should be rewritten. This is something I
wanted to look into in the next weeks.
Do you think this could collide with your work?
 
Patrick



 

Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com> hat am 9. Dezember 2010 um 07:04
geschrieben:

> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Gary Holmlund <gary.holmlund at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Since we won't have a meeting immediately, I will suggest a feature I have
> > been looking into.
> >
> > Now in our Bible window we can have parallel Bible versions, but the
> > commentary can only be in another window and we use the sync icon to have
> > that window track any verse change in the Bible window.
> >
> > I have prototyped selecting a commentary as a parallel item in a Bible
> > window. Both use the same verse key references and I found little problem
> > with this. The main issue I found was that various places use the first
> > module and its type (Bible versus commentary) to determine what to do. So
> > the restriction would be that there must always be a Bible module as the
> > first module. The seems to make sense in a Bible window so I don't feel bad
> > about that. This can be enforced by designing the UI in the module choosers
> > such that you can't remove the last Bible module.
> >
> > The module choosers (toolbar icons and the parallel text headers) are the
> > main items that I would need to finish changing. For the Bible window they
> > will need to deal with multiple languages and two categories of modules.
> >
> > Here is a picture of what it would look like.
> > http://sourcearchives.com/downloads/parallel.png
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> I think this is a highly useful and very desirable feature.  In fact,
> I thought it was already implemented!  Both Commentaries and Bibles
> are treated almost identically inside of SWORD, so this shouldn't be
> terribly much different on the interating-with-the-library side of
> things.
>
> I definitely think this is a great idea!
>
> --Greg
>
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