[sword-devel] Several-verses Bible comments

[Simon]

Why not dynamically 'create' the available tabs each time the current
bibletext is changed, so, if for the current bibletext no commentary is
available, no tab is shown for that commentary?

Simon

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: sword-devel-admin@crosswire.org [mailto:sword-devel-
> admin@crosswire.org] Namens Victor Porton
> Verzonden: zaterdag 21 juni 2003 16:32
> Aan: sword-devel@crosswire.org
> Onderwerp: [sword-devel] Several-verses Bible comments
> 
> Suppose we have a little Bible commentary for a small range of verses.
> (E.g. for Rev. 8:1-8).
> 
> If we would put it into a Sword module (It may be a useful thing as such
> small commentaries (probably from somebody's Sunday preaching) may fill
> gaps in bigger commentaries.), then many such small commentary modules
> would pollute UI (to many tabs when we will have many commentaries).
> 
> Note that putting these into a General Book is not a solution, because
> when
> somebody studies a range of Bible verses he may easily overlook a General
> Book (which not so easily overlooking a commentary).
> 
> I propose the solution for this problem which will some day appear:
> 
> Add to MODULE.conf file for commentaries the following:
> 
> SmallRange=true
> 
> to mark a commentary as a commentary for small range of verses (to not be
> displayed among other comments in tabs). It would be displyed in a
> spearate
> tabs which would list references to small commentaries (but only these of
> them which are used for the current verse.)
> 
> Also we would mark a General Book which only comments just a little range
> of verses with (just in ,conf file) like:
> 
> VersesRange=Rev 8:1-8
> 
> So this general book would also be included in the list of small
> commentaries (in that list in the tab for small commentaries). It would
> eliminate the need to have a very little commentary which would only
> reference this general book.
> 
> Well, it is more for UI software than for libSword itself. So, let's us
> just standartise these ideas (probably without including support in
> libSword) for the future. Then every preacher would make many new
> modules...
> 
> Is my notion for additional .conf file fields good in your opinions?
> 
> --
> Victor Porton (porton@ex-code.com)
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