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

[Gary Holmlund]

On 3/4/2011 1:49 PM, Jaak Ristioja wrote:
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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.
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> Blessings!
> Jaak
Just so it is clear. The parallel Bible and commentary feature is fully 
implemented in for Bibletime 2.9.

Gary