[sword-devel] More help with qpsword, please. :)

[Dan Williams]

On Saturday 27 August 2005 18:31, Philip Schielke wrote:
> --- Dan Williams <drw at handhelds.org> wrote:
> > In theory, you should be able to run Dagger on the
> > Sharp ROM
> >
> > So to make a long story a little shorter, if you are
> > using the stock Sharp
> > ROM, I would recommend using the qpsword and
> > libsword packages found on
> > crosswire.org.
>
> So, for the time being, anyway, we need both qpsword
> and dagger binaries around.
>
> I reflashed to OZ 3.5.3 last night and installed
> dagger.  It seems pretty robust and clean.  One
> problem I had though... I think I have several unicode
> fonts installed, but when looking at Greek texts I
> just she jiberish.  Do I need a different font, or
> does dagger not support unicode?  I hope it's an easy
> answer, as without support for Greek, I guess I'd have
> to reflash back to a sharp based ROM so I can use
> qpsword...

Yeah, I need to look into the foreign language support, as well as improving 
the search performance.  Those are the top 2 items on my to-do list.

> > > Could someone please educate me on Qtopia vs.
> >
> > OPIE.
> >
> > > Is OPIE just an alternate GUI to Qtopia?  Do
> > > programs
> > > designed for one run on the other?  Do we need
> >
> > both
> >
> > > qpsword and dagger?
> >
> > Qtopia came first and was developed by TrollTech,
> > the creators of Qt.
> >  [...]
> > As for needing both qpsword and Dagger, I don't
> > know.  I wrote Dagger for fun
> > and my own personal use, and just decided to make it
> > available for anyone
> > else who wants to use it.
>
> Thanks for the info Dan.  Very interesting.
>
> To ask another question; does anyone regularly build
> qpsword with a toolchain compatible with OZ?  I see
> I'm unable to just run qpsword as is under openzaurus.
>  I assume because of the toolchain issue.

I am not aware of anyone who is building qpsword for OZ or Familiar.

> Regards,
> -Phil
>
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