[mobile-devel] future ideas for And-Bible

[Martin Denham]

Hi Matthew,

*Chinese Search*
The intention is to add Chinese Search.  The LuceneAnalyzer used by JSword
to do Chinese search requires a lot of memory and consequently did not work
on mobile phones so I disabled it but we need to find an alternative Chinese
LuceneAnalyzer with lower memory requirements.

This need keeps slipping down my list partly because of the difficulty I
would have handling anything Chinese characters and being able to tell if a
search was working correctly or not.  It would be great if somebody who
knows a little Chinese and Java were to pick this up with support from
myself and Matthew.

*Strong's ref Search*
I am planning to add a link to the bottom of Strong's ref pages that would
cause a search for all occurrences of that ref in the current bible.

Best regards
Martin

On 1 February 2011 01:47, Matthew Patenaude <mnglfiddle at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Martin,
>
> Great work on and-bible! I have been real busy lately, and so rather silent
> on the list, but have been reading everything.
>
> I second the highlighting; that would be great.
>
> Also, the idea of being able to insert personal notes connected to a verse
> is great, or at least to a chapter. I mentioned this before, but at the time
> you acted like that might be a long way off. The iOS Mantis Bible app does
> this really well, and I would like to be able to do something like this in
> And-Bible, so as not to switch between apps... :)
>
> The new grid is a definite improvement. Thanks.
>
> As to Chinese search, I joined the jsword-devel list as was recommended,
> hoping to catch some chatter on there about Chinese language issues, but it
> seems to have instantly died down. I am wondering what was learned at that
> time. I am still a little curious why Chinese search cannot be done entirely
> on single characters, using "AND"s and what-nots to tie a more complicated
> search together... I don't think there is any real reason to attempt to
> search via pinyin phrase, which of course would be much more complicated (at
> least according to my understanding, which may be goofed) to implement. I
> don't think anyone who uses Chinese seriously would really need to search
> the Chinese text via pinyin.
>
> Also, it would be great to be able to search text according to Strong's ref
> numbers, to compare translation and context of the underlying Greek/Hebrew
> text. I do this all the time in Bibletime/Xiphos. I saw someone else
> mentioned this functionality.
>
> Thanks again for the hard work you've put into this. It is really shaping
> up to be a nice program, and works well.
>
> Matthew Patenaude
>
> _______________________________________________
> mobile-devel mailing list
> mobile-devel at crosswire.org
> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-devel
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.crosswire.org/pipermail/mobile-devel/attachments/20110201/b8a1f9f1/attachment-0001.html>