[sword-devel] general book display level

[Joachim Ansorg]

Chris, 
I think your suggestion is ok.

Joachim

> Something that Troy & I discussed after he finished GBS, but that we never
> agreed on a solution to, is how general books should be displayed.
>
> For some books, it should be obvious.  If the lowest level of division is
> something large, like a chapter, then the lowest level is what should be
> shown.
>
> For other books, it may not be desirable to display at the finest
> granularity.  Take, for example, versified material like pseudepigrapha or
> the Book of Mormon.  We will want to key entries to the finest granularity
> (book chapter:verse) but we would probably want to display text at one
> level above that (book chapter).  This is the same as we currently have
> for Bibles in most frontends.
>
> The problem is complicated by books such as Josephus' works, where the
> lowest level varies from 2 to 4 levels into the hierarchy.  (e.g.
> Josephus' Discourse on Hades has only 2 levels, but his Antiquities has
> 4 -- this is similar to the Bible, which has 3 levels except for books
> like Philemon, which only have 2 levels).
>
> If anyone has a good suggestion for how we should handle this, please
> speak up.
>
> The only idea I've had is to add an entry to the module's config
> indicating that it should be displayed at the nth level, counting from the
> lowest.  So a sample config entry of:
> DisplayLevel=2
> would indicate you want to display whole chapters at a time in a book
> organized like the Bible.
>
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>
> Other news, I believe I have two general books compiled now.  The first
> book is the Enuma Elish (because I felt it an appropriately symbolic first
> book--after all, you should begin at the beginning).  The second is the
> complete works of Josephus (because... well, because this is what everyone
> actually wanted).  I will try to get them packaged up for testing and post
> them or give them to Troy to post later today.
>
> --Chris