[mobile-devel] future ideas for And-Bible

[Martin Denham]

btw Matthew,

Do you know if this app is accessible in China?  I understand that many apps
on App Market are blocked.  Even if the app isn't blocked I suppose users
might not be able to download from CrossWire if it is blocked.

Martin

On 1 February 2011 14:57, Martin Denham <mjdenham at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
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