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

[Gary Holmlund]

I don't think so. I was not planning any work on the rendering code.

Gary

On 12/08/2010 11:47 PM, patrick at zakweb.de wrote:
>
> 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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