[sword-devel] 1.5.7 & KJV2003 releases

Troy A. Griffitts sword-devel@crosswire.org
Wed, 14 Jan 2004 11:08:18 -0700


:)  Hope it's helpful.

A good place to start with the new utilities in:

sword/src/mgr/installmgr.cpp

is the basic commandline installer that makes use of most of the calls:

sword/utilities/installmgr.cpp



Will Thimbleby wrote:
> Thanks for the enormous detail.
> 
>> Not sure what filters you are using exactly, but the *HTMLHREF filters 
>> in the engine are probably the most current.  These have been updated 
>> to easily facilitate the EntryAttributes for footnote and crossref 
>> popups in the frontend.  Basically, when there is a footnote, they 
>> remove it from the markup and replace it with something like:
>> <a href="noteID=jn3:16.n.1"><small><sup>*n</sup></small></a>
> 
> 
> I'm using BibleTime's filters slightly modified (they were the most 
> complete last time I looked), I'll have a look at the new features, but 
> I do quite like my footnotes and cross-refs inline. Users might disagree 
> though.
> 
>> Other thing to take advantage of is 'Pre-verse Headings'.  You can see 
>> them in action in BibleCS, GnomeSword, and the WebTool, at:
>>
>> ...
>>
>> a few comments: it takes into account that there may be more than one 
>> preverse heading, which is never the case in any current module that I 
>> know of, but might be in the future-- thus the loop looking for 
>> ["Heading"]["Preverse"]["0"] then ...["1"], etc.  It also runs the 
>> text thru a UnicodeRTF SWFilter, which you probably don't need to do, 
>> as your HTML renderer probably deals with UTF8, but our RTF renderer 
>> needs to deal with it in a special way.
> 
> 
> Cheers. You just reminded me of something. It renders UTF8 now (was html 
> hex chars but UTF8s faster and easier). And I'll see what I can do about 
> Pre-verse Headings.
> 
>> Bibletime takes advantage of the new InstallMgr calls in the engine. 
>> Here is a cool set of screenshots:
>>
>> http://crosswire.org/~scribe/bibletime/
>>
>>
>> Also, not sure what luck you've had with compiling clucene, but 1.5.7 
>> includes an option (unfortunately it went out bundled 'ON' by 
>> default), for linking in support for fast clucene searches.
> 
> 
> I'll have a proper look at clucene after 0.4 is done. Sounds useful and 
> exciting. And I'll look at the InstallMgr it would be useful to have 
> that functionality in MacSword.
> 
> Cheers -Will
> 
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