[sword-devel] Semantic problem: real module names vs. Abbreviation=XYZ

[DM Smith]

I forget what JSword and BD do now but it is different than back then. I’m pretty sure that Description doesn’t come into play anymore.

— DM

> On Sep 1, 2015, at 12:47 PM, David Haslam <dfhmch at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi DM,
> 
> Yep - collisions are bad.
> 
> I recall several years ago we had a conversation about having two versions
> of the same module in Bible Desktop, and being informed that there was a
> further requirement that the Description strings also had to be different. I
> don't think we ever documented this in the wiki.
> 
> For module developers, this is sometimes necessary. 
> i.e. To have both the last release and the update candidate version
> installed at the same time for comparison and testing purposes.
> 
> btw. I just noticed that for some IBT modules John has not used
> Abbreviation, but rather a xulsword custom property called TabLabel.
> 
> eg. in the module [TJK] he has 
> TabLabel=Таҷ
> 
> Many other IBT modules still use Abbreviation, e.g. for Localization in
> Arabic script ...
> Abbreviation=قىرع–ۉن
> 
> Regards,
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
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