[sword-devel] MacSword 2.1RC

[David Bell]

Good to hear from you again!

El Jan 4, 2010, a las 8:39 PM, Manfred Bergmann escribió:

> 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.

If that were possible, this new feature would be huge!!!
>
>> 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".

Sounds good!
>
>
> 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.

I understand what you are saying about localization. But if you get to  
a point where you are ready to do it (2.2) just let me know!

Take care!

David
>>
>> 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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