[sword-devel] Diaspora update for PalmBible+

Nic Carter sword-devel@crosswire.org
Tue, 13 May 2003 16:54:53 +0800


Oh, if people are going to work on this, a command line version would 
be awesome!  hopefully then us on *NIX (or Mac, as the case may be) 
could use it too!  :)


nic...  :)

On Tuesday, May 13, 2003, at 16:46 Asia/Hong_Kong, Andrew Craig wrote:

> Yih-Chun Hu has enhanced the original version of the PalmBible which 
> was written by Poetry H.C. Poon. His new version is available at 
> http://palmbibleplus.sourceforge.net.
>
> Yih-Chun Hu has built in foot note support which relies on the fact 
> that any text contained in {} can be revealed/hidden with a keystroke. 
> This would be valuable for footnotes and also Strongs numbers etc. 
> Diaspora currently outputs footnotes and Strongs numbers with a 
> combination of () and <>. It would be nice if Diaspora could be 
> updated to output PBR with {} when footnotes or Strongs options are 
> selected.
>
> I am a Delphi programmer but if no one was willing I might be able to 
> update the source though it would probably be a hack. I also couldn't 
> find the source on the Crosswire site. I am able to do a sophisticated 
> search and replace to convert the existing PBR format into what I need 
> but then this will only assist me.
>
> This conversion will allow me to lookup Strongs words using a Strongs 
> dictionary from Beiks or to make my own from Sword dictionaries for 
> use in RoadLingua so that I have all the power of Sword on my Palm. 
> RoadLingua has a utility to convert a CSV file into a dictionary. If 
> someone was updating the source then a Sword dictionary to CSV option 
> would also be nice.
>
> Andrew.
>
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