[sword-devel] BibleCS 1.5.6pre1

[Troy A. Griffitts]

A new release of BibleCS is available and contains all of the tentative 
new functionality for version 1.5.6.  Please test and get your feedback 
in as soon as possible.  Any locales that need updating, please also get 
those in, and if, by my neglect, you did send one in that wasn't added. 
  Please resend and I will get it in for the final release very soon, 
Lord willing.

a few comments and significant things for which to watch:

	Joachim helped out on the new OSIS Footnotes functionality.  The only 
module that has osis footnotes, currently (of which I'm aware), is the 
awesome new ESV module that Chris made, which is on the beta site, so 
you'll need to download the ESV to test these.  They now support hover 
over popups and distinction between a real 'footnote' and a 
type="crossReference" which get's parsed like a linked verseList.

	The other awesome 2 new Bible, the ChiNCVt and ChiNCVs are also 
available on the beta site and contain a new feature for 'preVerse' 
headings.  These modules were already announced on the dev list, but 
still would like feedback if anyone has any issues with these.

	ESV still seems to have odd characters for ', ", and maybe others. 
We'll try to get those taken care of soon (Chris?), so you need not 
report that as a problem.

	A new parallel view has been added.  We couldn't get the RTF control to 
display a nice grid, so we gave up.  If you know how to REALLY make RTF 
display a nice grid (and can actually demonstrate it with microsofts 
cheesy RichEdit32 control, please send me and RTF example (wordpad uses 
this control, so you can test there without programming anything other 
than rtf).  The problem is in word wrap and column height adjustment.

	The verse reference parser and locales have been updated, with the help 
of Martin and Joachim, to handle some of the wacky and inconsistently 
formatted references the ESV has in it's cross-reference notes.  If you 
don't see anything popup when hovering over a note, then the parser 
still can't deal with that text.  Basic osisRef syntax was also added, 
and with these changes there may have been issues introduced with other 
locales.  Please check any locale for which you have any stake, and let 
us know if there are any problems.

	That's all I can think of for now.  Thanks for all your great work and 
feedback.

Here are the links.  Have fun!

Alpha page:
http://www.crosswire.org/sword/ALPHAcckswwlkrfre22034820285912/

Direct link to the beta .exe (needs to overwrite the sword.exe of a 
working install):
http://www.crosswire.org/sword/ALPHAcckswwlkrfre22034820285912/alpha/sword.exe

	In His Grace,
		-Troy.



kkjung@wwbibleusa.org wrote:
> Hi Troy,
> 
> How are you doing? Is the temperature in Az getting above 100 yet?
> 
> We tested the Traditional NCV and found it very stable except a few occasions.
> There was a few incidence that the software was terminated unexpectedly.
> We are trying to reproduce the bugs. We are extremely appreciative for Crosswire's
> help. We are very confident that it is just a minor bug.
> 
> God has opened many doors for us lately. Southern Baptist Church is considering
> to distribute our Bibles to Asia. We are also working with Billy Grahm's
> Oklahoma Mission. We are all very excited on the new release of Chinese-English
> Parallel Bible. Our shippment is currently on hold awaiting for the CD.
> The fast turnaround time by your team is very very impressive. It is beyond
> our expectation. It will be nice to have an estimate on the release date
> of the SW. Is the feature of parallel view the bottle neck? Any idea on
> how much longer it will take to complete the development? Do you recommend
> us to drop that feature? Your guidance and advice will be deeply appreciated.
> Looking forward to hearing from you soon. 
> 
> God Bless you and your team for the wonderful work.
> 
> In Him,
> Kenneth