[sword-devel] Xiphos Repository

[Pola Edward]

BibleTime 2.9.2 see those modules, investigating AndBible i found that 
mods.d.tar.gz have *.conf have files for your modules but them are still
 not visible in frontend.

I've contacted Martin, but i hope to unify the publishing Workflow, So Authors make sure that their modules are available to all frontends once they are published to the repository to avoid contacting each frontend Developer 

I have hasted to implement this but just remembered that localized 
module description is not supported yet (anyone correct me if i wrong). 
So there is no way to determine language of description, by default it 
is English and Crosswire always do so. Other repositories started to 
introduce localized module description but there is still no 
official/stable solution for this.

You can check for characters, Just like Facebook status box, when I write Arabic it aligns texts to right, when i write English it aligns to left etc. just check the first few characters to know the direction (Arabic and Farsi have many similar characters)

I fairly can't read Arabic and it looks like Qt issue, cant you prepare 
text file in utf encoding with possible problem symbols and their 
combinations, screenshot of how it should be rendered is also useful. If
 there really is rendering problem on Android i will report it.
Actually I can't test all Arabic characters but I think it's just Font problem, If you can change the font that would solve the problem
I Recommend "Droid Kufi" and "Droid Naskh" They are made by google, But David Haslam has some comments about them .

To clarify the font problem, The glyphs are represented wrongfully with other glyphs, So (س) Appears (ش) which is another Different Character, It isn't Android problem as other apps display Arabic well .
So we have two problems, Font Issue (Arabic glyphs appear wrongfully everywhere) and Another Issue(Words are displayed in reversed order in menus and books descriptions While the main books text is fine and in correct order)

Thanks for your support .

Best Regards,
Pola Edward

Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 16:07:07 +0400
From: kostyamaslyuk at gmail.com
To: sword-devel at crosswire.org
Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Xiphos Repository

2013/11/11 Pola Edward <5001 at hotmail.com>




Hi Костя Маслюк, 

Thanks for your suggestion about Bible Time mini, I tried it today for the first time .
Just have some Notes


BibleTime 2.9.2 see those modules, investigating AndBible i found that mods.d.tar.gz have *.conf have files for your modules but them are still not visible in frontend.

Arabic Modules Descriptions are rendered from Left to Right with wrong order 
Example (كلام عربى تجريبى) Becomes (تجريبى عربى كلام)

I have hasted to implement this but just remembered that localized module description is not supported yet (anyone correct me if i wrong). So there is no way to determine language of description, by default it is English and Crosswire always do so. Other repositories started to introduce localized module description but there is still no official/stable solution for this.


Same problem in Modules Menu (GenBook Index)The font used for Arabic rendering has wrong glyphs 

Example (س) Becomes (ش) so it's better to use another one Like Droid Kufi and Droid Naskh
I fairly can't read Arabic and it looks like Qt issue, cant you prepare text file in utf encoding with possible problem symbols and their combinations, screenshot of how it should be rendered is also useful. If there really is rendering problem on Android i will report it.


Added later:
Anyway Arabic is not rendered correctly and https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-34191 confirm this, so we ought to wait.

 Some Usability comments not related to Arabic can be discussed later if you want 

I want, of course, the best point here is that changes we will made, will be available on other platforms (i see BlackBerry still have valuable market share in Arabic world, and according to another report Symbian have 50% among OS-es in UAE)



Blessings.

 Thanks for your effort in the frontend, and for your reply to my mail .

Best Regards,

Pola Edward


Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 14:12:59 +0400
From: kostyamaslyuk at gmail.com
To: sword-devel at crosswire.org

Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Xiphos Repository

Hi, alzat, vigil and yastageeb modules are visible in BibleTime Mini.
Blessings.
10.11.2013 12:54 пользователь "Pola Edward" <5001 at hotmail.com> написал:





Hi,
Thanks to Karl, He published my Arabic GenBook modules in Xiphos Repository . I thought I'll find them in all frontends but i couldn't 
I was only able to find them using Xiphos frontend, but Bible Time and And Bible Couldn't find the Modules although they look in the Xiphos repository .



So what's the problem ? is it cache ? or non-updated mirror ?

Thanks in advance and Thanks again to Karl
Pola Edward

 		 	   		  

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