[sword-devel] Bishop 1.4.0 and SWORD Utility Modules

[Daniel Owens]

Not sure if I love it, but Google's Noto fonts are designed to handle 
many different languages. Noto Serif would not be a bad choice. We use 
it to publish books in Vietnamese. It is published under the SIL Open 
Font License. See https://www.google.com/get/noto/. I believe it is also 
converted to a web font 
already:https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Noto+Serif?selection.family=Noto+Serif. 


Daniel

On 3/20/20 9:41 AM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm wrapping up the next release of Bishop and would like to possibly
> change the default reading font.
>
> Does anyone have a special place in their heart for a favorite font they
> would recommend?  It should be freely usable, have a good coverage of
> Unicode and preferably already converted to a web font.
>
> For other frontend developers, this next release of Bishop uses a new
> feature of the upcoming SWORD release called "Utility" modules.  These
> are modules which frontends can download, update, and remove with
> InstallMgr, like any other module, but they are not intended to be shown
> to end users.  They contain utility data for implementing frontend
> features.  The specific utility modules used by this new release of
> Bishop are the two Eusebian Canon modules which provide data for
> creating parallel Gospel displays.  SWORD will eventually hide these
> modules from the normal modules list, so they won't show in existing
> frontends when installed, but for now trunk still shows them under a
> category "Utility".
>
> To see what you can do with this Eusebian utility module set, a
> pre-release of Bishop can be installed from here:
>
> http://crosswire.org/~scribe/bishop-1.3.901.apk
> bishop-1.3.901.apk size: 8858668 md5: 8eaf67ad5eb7d205178638dcbef418b7
>
> You'll need to turn on the "Show Parallel Gospels" setting.
>
> Or you can have a look at SWORDWeb here:
>
> http://www2.crosswire.org/study/passagestudy.jsp?key=Matt.3
>
> You'll notice the Eusebian numbers in the left margin.  Click on one to
> see the Gospel parallels for that passage using the currently selected
> Bible.
>
> You'll also see a slider at the top of the parallel Gospels page which
> allows adjusting context before and after.
>
> The Utility Modules concept brings a solution to the common problem
> we've had when we'd like to include a dataset with SWORD for
> implementing features in a frontend, but not have the module displayed
> to the end user.  We've never had a standard way to include these,
> update these, etc.  We've hacked a few datasets into the engine (e.g.,
> the "locales" locale for looking up internationalized locale names), but
> none of these are good implementations nor were standardized ways to
> include or update these datasets.  I am hoping this Eusebian module set
> will be just the first of many "Utility" modules we make available in
> the coming months and years.  We should start a wiki page where
> developers can learn about Utility modules which are available.  I'll be
> sure to include a "how to use" primer in the "About" section of these
> first two.
>
> Hope everyone is staying healthy.  God's blessings,
>
> Troy
>
>
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