[jsword-devel] InstallMgr / Bibles View

Joe Walker jsword-devel@crosswire.org
Mon, 05 Jan 2004 18:33:46 +0000


Aleksander Rozman - Andy wrote:
> It might be nice to underline strong numbers, but readability of text is 
> very bad (unreadable). It would be better if links would just show in 
> status bar, but text would be displayed normally.

I agree the blue underline isn't good.
It would be nice to have some sort of visual queue that there was 
something to click on though.

I've tried various ideas in my mind but not come up with an ideal 
solution. Maybe a simple light grey underline would work well?

The good news is that we can have several stylesheets and let the user 
pick the view they like best. For example we could have a layout for 
printing that looked like normal Bible pages, and views optimized for 
study, for reading, etc, etc.

>> One of the problems that we have is that the JDK 1.4 HTML renderer 
>> isn't too hot. I tried the JDK 1.5 renderer the other day and it is 
>> much better, but 1.5 is a way off.
> 
> Mhm. Where did you get 1.5 renderer?

javalobby.org had a special deal with Sun a few weeks ago and they did a 
preview download. I think it is still available. theserverside.com gave 
me the link to it.

>> So one of the jobs that I need to do is to spend some time hacking on 
>> the stylesheet to create a better view of the OSIS files.
> 
> Where is this code (package?)? I would like to take a look to see how 
> you will do that. I am more concerned that there are no spaces between 
> certaian words? (you can see it in the picture)

The stylesheet is in resource/xsl/cswing/simple.xsl
Even if you don't know XSL some of it should make sense.

If I recall correctly there are some options in the tools menu for 
picking which view you get, so you can copy simple.xsl to andy.xsl or 
something.

Joe.