[sword-devel] Bishop 1.1.3

[Peter von Kaehne]

Hi Troy, thanks for this. 

I should have said this earlier already - Language Assist leads to
reliabe crashes, immediately, whenever I try to use it. This has not
changed with the update

I have a Huawei P9 Lite on Android 7.0 with some Huawei variations

Peter

On Mon, 2018-06-04 at 09:47 +0200, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> Spent a little time tracking down a few bugs in the new prototype
> views. Now that it doesn't crash every 5th verse or so, I've been
> using the Language Assist view a bit during my morning readings. It
> doesn't suck as much as I initially thought. The Strongs dictionary
> still isn't ideal. I find myself wading through the noise to find the
> glosses somewhere between the etimology and the SEE ALSOs. Would like
> something much more concise and maybe a click to open more in depth
> if I want to learn more about the word. Typically I'm just using it
> in this use case, just to fill in the gaping holes in my vocabulary.
> I'm not actually doing a word study.
> 
> Any ideas on a better lexicon for this purpose? I think David
> Instone-Brewer worked on a gloss list for Hebrew. I can't remember if
> one was done for Greek or where the words for either were derived
> from-- if they were an original work of if they were pulled from
> another source...
> 
> I have done work on our flashcards generator from a biblical text
> range. This goes through all words in a verse range you give and
> collates all the lemmas in that range and also the phrases translated
> by that lemma in that range and builds flash cards. I might try to
> use that to build a gloss list for the Language Assist window.
> 
> Also the Language Assist view configuration is kludgy. You need to
> have your Word Study Bible unset or else set to your primary display
> Bible for the word alignments to coordinate. That defeats the
> purposes for having a dedicated setting for Word Study Bible. It
> needs to be smarter and always use the left display Bible for the
> Language Assist window, or else not try to highlight the active word
> in the verse if they are different.
> 
> Any other ideas would be helpful.
> 
> We had a few people show some interest in helping out. Any luck with
> setting up a dev environment and building an apk from the source?
> 
> Also the iOS bundle is very behind. I need to catch it up to the
> Android release. Some of the native bindings have changed, so it's
> not a simple recompile and I'll need to get my head back into Swift.
> 
> Hope everyone is at the start of a great week!
> _______________________________________________
> sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel at crosswire.org
> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel
> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page