[mobile-devel] applying and BUG reports

[Martin Denham]

Hi Michael,

I hope you don't feel I am bombarding you but I suddenly realised you may be
able to help with a need for abbreviated bible book names in the Hebrew
language.  JSword provides, among many other things, book names in local
languages and And Bible makes a greater use of abbreviated book names in the
next release.  Unfortunately some languages do not have the abbreviated book
names available in JSword and Hebrew is one of the languages without
abbreviations.

If you have time it would help a lot if you could fill in the *.Short lines
in this Hebrew properties<https://crosswire.org/svn/jsword/trunk/jsword/src/main/resources/org/crosswire/jsword/versification/BibleNames_he.properties>file.
 You can see an English version for comparison
here<https://crosswire.org/svn/jsword/trunk/jsword/src/main/resources/org/crosswire/jsword/versification/BibleNames.properties>.
 I don't know if you are familiar with the escape codes used in Java
properties files.  If not you can ask or I did start putting together a ui
translation wiki
page<http://code.google.com/p/and-bible/wiki/UserInterfaceTranslation>
and
you will see a reference to this JSword properties file at the end.  Ideally
abbreviated names will be between 3 and 5 characters long with no spaces or
full stops.

Best regards
Martin

2011/1/15 מיכאל בר-דוד <michael at mail.org.il>

>  Hello List
>
> My name is Michael and I'm a software developer from Israel. I wrote a
> basic version of android bible app in the past (as well as other bible
> software: PHP, JS, python, maemo version, etc.), but that was before I
> discovered And Bible. I started to use it 3 weeks ago, and it's very nice,
> and so I use it as primary bible app.
>
> I would like to participate the dev team, if that's fine with you. I'm not
> experienced with android development too much, but I know a little, and I
> have some knowledge about UI design. I also can help in Hebrew translation
> and other Hebrew-related issues. I have Motorola Milestone (AKA Droid in the
> states) with 2.1, and a chinese device called SmartQ V5 which has android
> 2.1.
> I also have a web server, so I can offer forums, bug-reports system or
> other web systems that might be useful for the project.
>
> BUG report:
> A serious bug that started from v 0.14 and still on 0.15, is about hebrew
> text direction. As you probably know, Hebrew is written from right to left,
> AKA RTL, and also right aligned as default. Versions before 0.14 were in RTL
> direction and right aligned, but from 0.14 the text is left aligned (I can't
> determinate if it's RTL or LTR). My guess is that the text size change that
> was added, is responsible for that, in some way. BTW, have you considered
> using pinch-to-zoom? I used it in my app, and it's was very comfortable.
>
>   I want to strengthen your hands with that important work.
>
>
> Regards,
> --
>  מיכאל בר-דוד Michael Bar-David michael at mail.org.il
>
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