[sword-devel] Module Display Names

[Ben Morgan]

What I've used in BPBible in a few places is Name - Description (i.e. ESV -
English Standard Version). The abbreviation at the start (hopefully) means
that if the rest is cut of it shouldn't matter too much.

God Bless,
Ben
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Multitudes, multitudes,
    in the valley of decision!
For the day of the LORD is near
    in the valley of decision.

Giôên 3:14 (ESV)



On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Karl Kleinpaste <karl at kleinpaste.org>wrote:

> Actually, there's a module with an even longer Description.  "Practice"
> has:
>
> The Practice of the Presence of God: The Best Rule of Holy Life by Brother
> Lawrence (Nicholas Herman, 1605-1691)
>
> Gosh, that's annoyingly long.
>
> Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com> writes:
> > One of my modules is [CONNOT] which is a decent abbreviation
> > and it fits in the limits of SWORD.  Currently I have the About field
> > set to"Consultant Notes" and the About field set to "<p>Consultant
> > Notes for Translators.</p>".
>
> About and About?  I think you meant Description and About.
>
> Contents of About aren't supposed to contain HTML, notwithstanding that
> it happens to work.  That content is formally RTF.  You'll see a lot of
> \par and so forth in *.conf About fields.
>
> > Perhaps you can shed some light on why you use the
> > value of the name instead of the Description in your widget?
>
> Because that's the way it's been since The Dawn Of Net.Time, which was
> way back when Terry first did it. :-D
>
> Seriously, no one's ever asked about it before.
>
> It could certainly be reasonable to update module selection widgets to
> use Description instead of the [BracketedName]; but I wonder about
> possible confusion because [BracketedName] is guaranteed to be unique
> but Description is not, and considering the selection of Description
> used at e.g. bible.org...
>
>   Free version of NET Bible Footnotes with limited notes
>   Free version of New English Translation with limited notes
>   NET Bible Footnotes presented in the form of a commentary.
>   New English Translation text only with footnote markers
>    New English Translation with over 60,000 translator, study and text
> critical notes
>
> ...with so much similarity from one to another, I worry that the user
> won't get the connection, and especially that he won't grasp the
> difference when tabs have [BracketedNames] (for minimal length purposes)
> that would then be seen pretty much nowhere else.  Also, at the moment,
> I've got DM's (old) beta "NASB" and Troy's (new) beta "NASBnew"...
>
>   New American Standard Bible
>   New American Standard Bible (NEW)
>
> ...whose minor change is almost unnoticeable and could lose the "(NEW)"
> the next time Troy puts out an update.
>
> I'm open to opinion about the problem, of course.
>
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