[sword-devel] Not user-friendly behavior in commentaries (should be continuous)

[Greg Hellings]

On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 11:19 AM Karl Kleinpaste <karl at kleinpaste.org>
wrote:

> On 5/30/20 11:45 AM, yvand wrote:
>
> I think Karl already talked about this feature in the past. But maybe I am
> wrong, I did not find the conversation.
>
>
> Xiphos has a feature, "commentary by chapter," so that whole commentary
> chapters are displayed along with whole Bible chapters, and then the verse
> is tracked visually in the commentary pane, but in a different manner from
> the Bible pane (i.e. current verse always aligned to top, plus a preceding
> horizontal rule).  It's a UI issue IMO, not an engine issue.  If you
> explicitly list the verse range covered in your markup, then I imagine you
> might get the effect you want in other UIs.
>
> Up to this time, Xiphos' commentary by chapter has not been default, and I
> wonder if I should make it so in the future.
>

I think so. Since Bibles are by chapter, it makes sense to have
commentaries as well.

--Greg

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