[jsword-devel] JSword devel

[webmedic]

On 4/10/06, DM Smith <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> If you can pitch in that would be greatly appreciated. I am posting a
> general overview of JSword that you might find useful.



Sorry about the spelling above I'm typing on my laptop in the dark and
didn't proof reed before hitting send.

I'm mostly quite happy with bibledesktop and am very interested in it.

Does it use svn or cvs and how do I access it. I grabbed eclipsed but have
never used it before.



webmedic wrote:
> >
> >



> On 4/10/06, *DM Smith* <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com
> > <mailto:dmsmith555 at yahoo.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     webmedic wrote:
> >     > I'm kind of curious if you plan to impliment support for genbook?
> >     Supporting genbook is on our list of things todo.
> >     We are also planning to support OSIS encoded files directly as a
> >     reader
> >     and possibly with search capabilities (especially for Bibles)
> >     I think that we may do the latter before the former.
> >     If we do the latter, we would convert the former to OSIS to make
> >     GenBooks available.
> >
> >     This may change because Sword is planning to use GenBook format to
> >     solve
> >     the general alternate versification problem (i.e. Bibles that number
> >     verses differently than the King James) and we prioritize support
> >     of all
> >     Sword Bibles very high.
> >
> >     >
> >     > Also what are teh limits for a module size? I notice that you have
> >     > disabled the websters dictionary. Is that becasue of siz?
> >
> >     BibleDesktop (and JSword, which BibleDesktop is built upon) imposes
> no
> >     limits to a modules size. Limits are imposed by your operating
> system.
> >     We don't support webster's dictionary because we haven't implemented
> a
> >     decoder for it (same as for GenBook). Webster's is the only book
> that
> >     uses that particular encoding.
> >
> >     Supporting that encoding is on our list of things to do. But it is
> >     not
> >     very high on my prioritization of the things to do.
> >
> >     You can see the entire list at www.crosswire.org/bugs
> >     <http://www.crosswire.org/bugs> under jsword,
> >     common and bibledesktop.
> >
> >     Did you have a particular interest in a particular GenBook or
> >     Webster's
> >     dictionary?
> >
> >
> > Sorry I have been helping and around the sword project for years but
> > have never really
> > done much with modules before. I find now that i have quite a few
> > genbook type modules I need to support but so far it looks like
> > bibletime is going to be the only viable alternative.
> >
> > I have considered working with jsword but to be honest I have not done
> > any real java programming. It is not to different from the other
> > languages I know though and I am not looking forward to taking a stab
> > at c or c++ so that leaves me working with possibly jsword to get the
> > functionality I want.
> >
> > This would also mean that that jsword would need to support waht I
> > need since I would mostly be focusing on wqorking on bibledesktop. I
> > do understnad the differences. as in jsword being more like the libs
> > and bibledesktop being the front end gui.
> >
> > I wanted ot change the handeling of texts texts though and also load
> > genbook more or less as a bible for reading. By this I mean into the
> > same reading area not how jsword handels genbook. I also need the
> > ability to search multiple items at once.  Since I noticed that you
> > had laready implimted lucene I figured that bibledesktop would be a
> > good candidate for this.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
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