[sword-devel] HELP WANTED

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Hey guys.  We have a number of new and exciting opportunities on the 
table that I'd love to get on some individual plates! :)  I'll try to 
list them below.  If you are interested in any of these, just speak up 
and we can talk in more detail about the individual tasks.

General:

Copyright Coordination.  We need someone to organize the individuals 
seeking distribution permission, and maintain the current status for 
different works.  Jonathan did a great job getting an easy to maintain 
system in place, and now we need someone to continue in his steps.


Data Manipulation:

We have data files for the following and are in need of getting them
turned into SWORD modules.

NCV simplified
NCV traditional
source is currently 73 unicode html files (apocrypha is included

ESV
source is custom XML and includes footnotes and crossrefs in external
files that need to be sync'd to base text file.

TMB (Third Millennium Bible, 21st Century KJV)
VPL files that should import with very minor file manipulation with vpl
tools


BibleCS:

Search results: add highlight of the search term in the text like
BibleTime and GnomeSword.

Experiment linking a Borland test app to the gecko library.


Engine Work:

We need a new include file: apocrypha.h in the same line as canon.h  The
table data is really the bulk of the work, so if you have a printed
Bible with the apocrypha and can add the Book, Chapter, Verse data into
the table format, as it is in canon.h, please consider this task.  It
need not even compile.  I'll incorporate it into the engine once the
data is in place.

CORBA: we have a bindings/corba/sword.idl that needs to be turned into
an ORBit service and a simple java client for an example.  Actually, I
can't even get any of the examples on the ORBit webpage to download and
compile, so that would be a great help if anyone can figure that one out.