[sword-devel] IMP format for Daily Devotionals?

[Greg Hellings]

Structurally it sounds very akin to the idea that has occasionally
been asked for, to allow commentaries in a gen-book layout. Within the
commentary you might have a nesting such as
New Testament
- Gospels
-- Luke
--- Birth of Christ
---- Magnificat
----- Luke 1:50

The commentary might include text at all of those levels that someone
scrolling directly to Luke 1:50 might be interested in. Currently
there is no way to display all of that text to the user, as
commentaries are - like Bibles - a flat array of verses.

By the same token, it might be nice to have a daily devotional that is
structured in a similar way. Then you could have
2016
- February
-- Lent
--- 02.10

as an entry for today, and all of the parents would be displayed together.

This would obviously require significantly different tooling, but
having a hierarchical arrangement of keys in all of our modules could
give this sort of flexibility when a module creator wanted it.

--Greg

P.S. The above example reminds me to wish everyone on the list a
blessed Ash Wednesday

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Peter Von Kaehne <refdoc at gmx.net> wrote:
> I think, Karl, this depends very much on the set of devotions - some of the
> more liturgical churches will have probably run one aspect in a daily
> repeated way. I mentioned the Losungen and I think having the monthly one
> appear the whole month, the yearly one the whole year does make sense. For
> others, it clearly would not.
>
> Maybe the whole thing needs more thought
>
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 10. Februar 2016 um 18:03 Uhr
> Von: "Karl Kleinpaste" <karl at kleinpaste.org>
> An: "SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum" <sword-devel at crosswire.org>
> Betreff: Re: [sword-devel] IMP format for Daily Devotionals?
> On 02/10/2016 12:23 PM, David Haslam wrote:
>
> Putting it in mm.01 implies that it only belongs to the first of the month.
> In the 1842 original these headings were at the top of each month's table.
>
> It seems to me that this is a sort of semantic gap between original paper
> publication and how the content is seen in our apps.
>
> Paper version had a single table for the whole month, at the top of which
> was a heading. But our devotionals are single-day displays. Forcing a
> month-representative heading into every day seems...very odd. The
> fundamental change is just that the unit of display is different.
>
> I'm not sure that asking all apps to look for and prepend mm.00's content
> onto every single mm.dd's content is a good solution.
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