[sword-devel] MacSword 2.1RC

[Manfred Bergmann]

Hi David.

Am 25.12.2009 um 09:12 schrieb David Bell:

> Dear Manfred,
> 
> What a Christmas gift! Having the headings back in my modules is wonderful. It has been a while since I have seen those. I think the last version that I had the headings working in was back around 1.2 or so. And the ability to specify a font for a specific module is fantastic. My problem has always been with the Greek and Hebrew modules. It is hard to find a good unicode font with letter styles that are nice in Latin, Greek and Hebrew. That is solved now that I can specify which font I want to use for each document.

Yeah. There is still lots of things to do for better text display customisation.

> The idea of including rtf notes was a surprise, but it is a great idea. I like to write my sermons in RTF, so I can have access to my sermons directly in MacSword without having to make modules out of them. In fooling around with it this morning, I couldn't exactly figure out how to change the name of the file (New Note) unless I went to the Finder and changed it there. The same was true of the folder.

Renaming works with left-click when the item is already selected. I think this is the same as in Finder but Finder additionally accepts CR to rename.

> Then I got an idea. I put aliases of my sermon folders into the MacSword Notes folder, but MacSword couldn't handle the alias. If that were possible, it would be a great way to have access to personal files without having to actually move them to an inconvenient place like the MacSword application sopport folder.

Aliases are not supported right now.
Need to check whether this is a big issue but I think not.

> I have one other question that ocurred to me this morning as I was enjoying all of the good thought and hard work that you and others have put into MacSword. Is there a good way to search for Strongs codes in a module? There used to be a search like "strongs:052", but I don't know if that is still valid. I looked at the Wiki, but it didn't mention anything about it.

Yeah, right, I'll add this to the wiki.
You'll have to enter the Strong's number prefixed by "h" or "g".
For example to search for the Strong's number "07225" for "beginning" in Gen 1:1 you'll search for "h07225".


Regards,
Manfred

> 
> Once again, thank you for the exciting features and Merry Christmas.
> 
> David Bell
> 
> P.S. I've mentioned it before, but I did the Spanish localization of some earlier versions of MacSword and am willing to work on the localization of 2.1. But I need a list of the strings. Estoy a tu disposición.
> 
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Manfred Bergmann <bergmannmd at web.de> wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I just released a release candidate of the upcoming 2.1 version with the following changes:
> 
> - Notes system. Left sidebar has a new category "Notes". Notes basically are RTF text files manageable in MacSword. They can be created, moved and deleted from MacSword and are integrated into MacSword as tabs or windows. Bible references can be added to note's text which will show the reference target as tooltip or in the preview window. This should give a bit of word processing capability without the need of another software like TextEdit.
> - A different font can be chosen for every module.
> - Left sidebar is more iTunes like with new drawer icons.
> - Headings (pre-verse and book/chapter introductions) are now displayed when enabled.
> - The latest version of the SWORD engine (with Luther and German versification) including developer utilities.
> - Two main menu items have been added that create/remove symlinks to the SWORD module utilities in /usr/local/bin folder.
> - Many code cleanups, refactorings and general fixes.
> 
> http://www.macsword.com/macsword2/download/MacSword-2.1.0rc1-440.app.zip
> 
> 
> I'll also be away until 4th January.
> See you then.
> Merry Christmas and God bless,
> Manfred
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