[jsword-devel] Bible Desktop Notes Just need to add support for the personal commentary. Interface: [Main Window] I would like to be able to maintain the look of the desktop once I set it. For instance, the reference pane has a tendency to sl

[DM Smith]

Some works will lend themselves readily to a drill down approach. Others 
will not. For example, I don't think that it is appropriate for Strongs' 
Numbers. Whenever we see one we should replace it with a hyperlink and 
perhaps the word to which it refers. Same is true for any work that uses 
an arbitrary numbering scheme. The arbitrariness should be hidden by 
software.

Joe Walker wrote:

>Thanks,
>
>I need to think more about quite a few of your points, first this:
>
>I was half way through coding a new ReferencePane but I stopped until
>we are done with 1.0 - I'll explain the idea.
>Rather than have 3 areas, one for book, the second for the "key"
>within the book and the 3rd for the text, I planned just 1 - a tree.
>At the top level it lists all the books, the "keys" come beneith there
>and when you open up a key you get the text.
>That way you can see several reference items at the same time, and we
>could have neat feature like when you double click on a word in the
>Bible pane, it searches for that word and open all the relevant
>reference works at the right place.
>
>The big issue stopping it is that Concordances (and some dictionaries)
>have a vast number of "keys" - for a Concordance there will often be
>something like 31000 (one for each verse in the Bible). and this make
>performance appalling and scrolling impossible.
>Keys are currently hierachical in theory, but not in practice so we
>need to make Bibles split into section and then books and then
>chapters (or in the case of Psalms books 1-5 and then chapters) and
>finally verses.
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