[sword-devel] Bishop 1.4.0 and SWORD Utility Modules

[Cyrille]

Have a look in the Chinese locale, it display zh_CN and note Chinese (in
chinese).

Le 20/03/2020 à 05:18, Daniel Owens a écrit :
> 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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