[sword-devel] Bishop 1.4.0 and SWORD Utility Modules

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Thank you for the report, Br. Cyrille.  It is fixed in the next release.


On 3/20/20 6:28 AM, Cyrille wrote:
> 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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