[jsword-devel] New Release of Bible Desktop

[DM Smith]

I do agree with you that the way Strong's is done can be improved and 
made more useful.

There is some new work going on with the Strong's lexicons. Chris Little 
is working on upgrading the existing ones to show accented text in the 
original languages, merging the two into one and doing this in TEI (the 
markup that has been agreed in principle to be used in OSIS). I'm 
working on something similar for Lockman.

The way the data is being marked up, it will be easy to pull the 
transliteration and the actual Greek and Hebrew out.

Once those are in place, we will have more opportunities.

We tried making the words that it referred be links, but the problem is 
that some <w> elements are of the form <w lemma="G1234 G2345" morph="a 
b">translated text</w>. That is, two or more words in Greek are 
translated into a phrase in English. Not sure how to represent that as a 
link. Also, when we have morphology turned on, it describes the phrase 
too and there can be more than one. We can't have two different links 
surrounding the same phrase. So if we can figure out how to represent 
that as a link (perhaps a popup?) we could go there.

The other problem we had with making the words to be the links was that 
performance was horrible. I don't know if that has improved any.

I like the idea of an unchanging symbol. And making it an option to show 
the actual number in a link. Likewise for morph.

-- DM

Joe Walker wrote:
>
>
> On 6/25/07, *DM Smith* <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com 
> <mailto:dmsmith555 at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>     With regard to Strong's numbers actually showing up, I presume
>     that you mean as the text of the link? Would you want the same for
>     morphology? (This is just a change to simple.xsl.)
>
>     When you move your mouse over them, they show the actual value in
>     the status bar. I was hoping that was sufficient to make it
>     visible. IMHO, I find that the larger links make the text almost
>     unreadable. I think that having a popup with the actual definition
>     would be cool. It would be like a tooltip in that it would
>     automatically dismiss after a bit of time, that only one would be
>     visible at a time, ....
>
>
> It's just that the status bar can be turned off, and having S10 could 
> easily trick people into thinking that this is strongs number 10. 
> Better would be a letter since that would not be confused with a real 
> strongs number, although it would be confused with notes. With strongs 
> numbers however they are not referring to anything visible, so some 
> magic unchanging symbol would be just as useful - in fact would having 
> the words be links themselves be the same?
>
> Personally I tend to read from an ESV, and use the KJV as a reference 
> for Strong's numbers, so readability isn't paramount, and for me, the 
> actual numbers are useful sometimes - e.g. when looking at 'love' you 
> can tell if it's agapeo or phileo at a glance.
>
> Joe.
>
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