[sword-devel] MacSword 0.4 beta

[Joachim Ansorg]

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Hi,

> - The module information is great; I find "=About=" a bit obtrusive,
>   though. Maybe "(About)" as entry for the book list would look
>   better. Also, maybe instead of displaying the language code, you can
>   display the full language name ("Chinese" instead of "zh", for example).

In BibleTime we have a class (backend/clanguagemgr*) which contains all the 
information of the language stuff we use in BibleTime. E.g. the translated 
names for an abbrev, other abbrevs for the same language etc.
Was a lot of work to convert the SIL language codes to this, so I'd suggest to 
make use of it :)

> One thing I'd like to see in MacSword is transliteration (maybe
> similar to the way Strong's numbers are displayed) and dictionary
> pop-ups. Can the bibletime filters be used to display transliteration?
> I'd love to help with coding for these, but I don't quite know where
> to start.

Transliteration is done as a filter option with more than two option values. I 
think in BT some of the transliteration stuff is in CSwrdBackend in 
bibletime/backend/cswordbackend*.
At the moment ICU support is broken in Sword, so it doesn't work (at least in 
BibleTime).

>Anyway, I hope the feedback is helpful! Thanks again for your very
>good work. MacSword is getting better all the time!

That's good to know. Our users asked to port BT to mac (which would be 
possible now with the native KDE to Mac port). But since MacSword is getting 
better we can tell them to use the new MacSword :)

Joachim
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