[sword-devel] Displaying the chapter and verse in other numbers

Cyrille lafricain79 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 21 08:09:21 MST 2019



Le 21/07/2019 à 05:41, Troy A. Griffitts a écrit :
>
> Michael, I would be interested to hear your logic for
> internationalizing a numeric parser.  I always assumed it wasn't as
> simply as providing alternate symbol codes for 0-9.  Think Roman
> Numerals (SWORD already supports Roman Numerals).  If it was as simply
> as swapping out, say 47 with an alternate symbol for '4' and an
> alternate symbol for '7', it wouldn't be much of a problem to solve,
> but I suspect other languages do things like: XLVII.
>
For Burmese it is only ten characters like arabs numbers.
>
> On 7/20/19 1:49 PM, Michael Johnson wrote:
>> It is an important question. I have a way to handle it in other
>> formats using Haiola. I suspect that proper handling it in SWORD will
>> take a design change. In Haiola, the source chapter and verse numbers
>> are always as in English. I can select display chapter and verse
>> numbers from many options.
>>
>> Aloha,
>> Michael
>> http://mpj.us
>>
>>
>> On Jul 20, 2019, at 10:39, Cyrille <lafricain79 at gmail.com
>> <mailto:lafricain79 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> No body else have a proposition for this question? Should I open a
>>> bug report?
>>> Is it not an important question?
>>>
>>> Best regards, Br Cyrille
>>>
>>> Le 17/07/2019 à 23:14, David Haslam a écrit :
>>>> Several other non-Roman scripts have their own digit characters
>>>> corresponding to our 0-9.
>>>>
>>>> IMHO the possibilities for using non-Roman digits ought to be
>>>> facilitated in the back-end.
>>>>
>>>> Even so, each front-end would then require a new UI control to
>>>> select which script should be used to display the chapter and verse
>>>> numbers.
>>>>
>>>> An alternate idea would be to specify the non-Roman digits as a ten
>>>> character UTF-8 string in a module .conf file.
>>>>
>>>> Adapting the back-end to use this module specific configuration key
>>>> might be much simpler. 
>>>>
>>>> Front-ends would still require adapting for the UI features that
>>>> require chapter and verse numbers to be input or displayed or
>>>> adjusted by controls. 
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>
>>>> David 
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 22:00, Cyrille <lafricain79 at gmail.com
>>>> <mailto:lafricain79 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>> I'm still working on a modern NT-Ps-Pr translation in Burmese. My
>>>>> friends from Myanmar send me the text. But they don't use the arab
>>>>> numbers, they hava their own numbers.
>>>>> It could be very important for them to write in they own numbers
>>>>> (If I had tu use their I will be lost ;) ).
>>>>> Is it possible to add this possibility to the frontend, or this
>>>>> should be in sword directly?
>>>>> Need I to open a new issue on the bug tracker?
>>>>>
>>>>> Example of text, in bold the chapter and verses:
>>>>>
>>>>> ၃ ၁။ ထိုနေ့ရက်တို့၌ ယောဟန်ဘတ္တိဇံသည် ရောက်လာ၍ ဂျူဒေးယပြည်၊ တောကန္တာရတွင် ဟော
>>>>>
>>>>> *၂။* ပြောသည်မှာ၊- နောင်တရကြလော့၊ အကြောင်းမူကား
>>>>> ကောင်းကင်နိုင်ငံတော်သည် ရောက်လုနီးပြီဟူ၍တည်း။-
>>>>>
>>>>> *၃။* ပရောဖက်အီဇာယဟောထားခဲ့သည့်အတိုင်း၊ ထာ၀ရ
>>>>> ဘုရားသခင်ကြွလာတော်မူမည့်လမ်းကိုပြင်ဆင်ကြ လော့၊ ကိုယ်တော်၏
>>>>> လမ်းများကို ဖြောင့်တန်းစေကြ လော့ဟူ၍ တောကန္တာရ၌
>>>>> ကြွေးကြော်သောသူ၏အသံသည်ကား ဤသူပင်ဖြစ်သတည်း။-
>>>>>
>>>>> *၄။* ယောဟန်သည် ကုလားအုတ်မွေးဖြင့် ရက်လုပ်သောအဝတ်ကိုဝတ်ဆင်ကာ ခါး၌
>>>>> သားရေခါးစည်းကြိုးကိုစည်းထား၏။ သူ၏အစာသည်ကား ကျိုင်းကောင်နှင့်
>>>>> တောပျားရည်တို့သာဖြစ်၏။-
>>>>>
>>>>> *၅။* ထိုအခါ ဂျေရုဆလင်မြို့မှစ၍ ဂျူဒေးယနယ်တစ်နယ် လုံးနှင့်
>>>>> ဂျော်ဒန်မြစ်တစ်လျှောက်ရှိဒေသမှ လူအပေါင်း တို့သည် သူ့ထံသို့ လာကြ၏။-
>>>>>
>>>>> ၆။ ထိုသူတို့သည် မိမိတို့၏ အပြစ်များကို ထုတ်ဖော်ဝန်ခံကြလျက်
>>>>> ဂျော်ဒန်မြစ်တွင် သူ့အားဖြင့် ဆေးကြောခြင်းကို ခံယူကြ၏။
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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