[sword-devel] ESV Study Bible

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Dear all,

My initial comments on this.

I'm not so sure the programming interface would be much different than 
accessing the parts of the study Bible as 5 different modules.  Our 
installers already allow datapaths to be grouped however we want; we 
just use a standard directory path like:

modules/texts/ztext/esvstudy/

I wonder if we had 5 modules with config something like:

esvstudy.conf
[ESVStudy]
ModDrv=zText
DataPath=modules/texts/ztext/esvstudy/
Compantion=ESVStudy.ShortCommentary
Compantion=ESVStudy.MediumCommentary
Compantion=ESVStudy.LongCommentary

[ESVStudy.ShortCommentary]
ModDrv=zCom
DataPath=modules/texts/ztext/esvstudy/commentary1
[ESVStudy.MediumCommentary]
ModDrv=zCom
DataPath=modules/texts/ztext/esvstudy/commentary2
[ESVStudy.LongCommentary]
ModDrv=zCom
DataPath=modules/texts/ztext/esvstudy/commentary3


InstallMgr will already install everything is [ESVStudy] is installed 
because it installs DataPath and all subdirs.

The only issue I see is:
Frontends need to impl the Companion concept
InstalMgr needs some marker that these companion modules should not be 
offered by themselves. (probably)

Thoughts?

	-Troy.




Ben Morgan wrote:
> Even if we got permission (which would be great), there is still the 
> question of how to encode it. As I noted in a previous email (on 
> companion modules), we would currently need at least 5 modules if we 
> weren't duplicating data throughout. And that wouldn't be nice for the user.
> 
> It would be nice to have a module type which allows multiple entries per 
> key - with ranges (i.e. an entry for Matthew 1, one for Matthew 1:1-17, 
> one for Matthew 1:2-6, and one for Matthew 1:3. Currently, if using 1 
> module, the entry for Matthew 1 would need to be duplicated in lots of 
> places - as linked verses can't link part of the content.
> 
> These concerns apply in part to many study bibles, I think, so it is 
> worth thinking about.
> 
> God Bless,
> Ben
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
> Philippians 4:23 (ESV)
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> 
> 
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:30 AM, Karl Kleinpaste <karl at kleinpaste.org 
> <mailto:karl at kleinpaste.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Seen in bsreview.org <http://bsreview.org>:
> 
>     | The electronic edition of the English Standard Version Study Bible
>     | will soon become available for a number of Bible software
>     | applications.  To that effect,
> 
>     || Crossway has partnered with the leading digital software providers,
>     || including Accordance, Biblesoft, Laridian, Olive Tree, and
>     || WORDsearch, to make the ESV Study Bible available with all of its
>     || notes, articles, and features.
> 
>     Sword already has the basic ESV module.  Would it be possible for us to
>     get this as well?
> 
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