[jsword-devel] New Developer

[Joe Walker]

Aleksander Rozman - Andy wrote:
>>>>>>> - Help (this could be done with JavaHelp)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Or even a Book! I think the core job of displaying and searching 
>>>>>> Bible data is very similar to JavaHelp's job.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes it is. We could probably use JavaHelp to display bible (with 
>>>>> some modifications)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I think HTML is a much more broadly understood standard, and it 
>>>> allows us to output to the web rather than a Swing JEditorPane too.
>>>
>>> To Web? I am sorry I didn't understand this...
>>
>>
>> There are servlets that use the jsword engine to produce a website.
>> HTML output is very helpful for this.
>>
>> > Will you use JavaHelp or not?
>>
>> I'm not sure there is a benefit to it at the moment.
> 
> 
> I mean for Help, not for displaying the bible... For standalone version 
> of JSword I think it's quite OK to use JEditorPane, so that you don't 
> need any external dependencies...

To be honest I've not thought much about a help system.
My design criteria would be that help text must be useful to several 
UIs, including Swing and the web.
So if JavaHelp requires input that can't easily be shared then I don't 
like it much.
Though there is a lot of overlap in functionality between JavaHelp and 
JSword, the match may well not be perfect, but I know very little about 
JavaHelp so I don't know.

If you know about JavaHelp then please help us! So long as the help text 
is usable to several UIs then I don't have a problem with it.

Joe.