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

[Jaak Ristioja]

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On 09.12.2010 08:04, Greg Hellings wrote:
> 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!

I agree. However, even good ideas need somebody to work on them. I'd be
delighted to see someone implementing this.

Another idea would be to implement a feature, which would allow users to
add/edit entries to their personal commentary inline from Bible windows etc.


Blessings!
Jaak
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