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<font size="+1"><font face="Arial Unicode MS">I am excited about the
potential of companion modules because of several module issues I have
puzzled over. <br>
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One is a Catholic translation I am encoding that includes
study-Bible-like notes. They would not work as notes because of the
volume of text involved, so I have been working at preparing the notes
as a commentary. The notes are connected to a particular verse or range
of verses, so it would be nice for that module to appear automatically
when that Bible is accessed. <br>
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Second, I am working on another translation that has book
introductions, and support for those is still limited in Sword.
BibleTime displays them in a Bible window and maybe BibleCS, though I
don't remember for sure. However, the book outlines in the introduction
are a thorny problem because neither lists nor regular paragraphs
appear correctly (the outlines become a single paragraph--totally
unreadable--though they are encoded in proper OSIS). A good purpose for
a companion volume could be book introductions which would appear for
the current book (I know the ESV has book introductions too).<br>
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Third, the way Sword handles commentaries right now is fine if you're
looking at a single verse and the commentary is dealing with a single
verse, but often commentaries give comments on the structure or
theology of a section or comment on a range of verses in a single
paragraph or section. I am wondering if there is a way to have a more
dynamic and continuous way to view commentaries so if you open to
Genesis 1:1 you can just scroll down a bit to see Genesis 1:2 or scroll
up a bit to see the introduction to the section or book rather that
having to change the verse. Print commentaries (and some other Bible
software) allow for such natural browsing, but Sword (for memory/speed
reasons?) is more regimented. I'm just wondering if there is a way to
view commentaries that is more natural, more akin to working with a
print book. </font></font><font size="+1"><font face="Arial Unicode MS">Maybe
this is beyond the scope of the fast/slow commentary concept, but it's
worth thinking about.</font></font><br>
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Daniel<br>
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Chris Little wrote:
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Karl Kleinpaste wrote:
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<pre wrap="">The phrase "companion modules" was coined last January at BibleTech when
several of us were debating additional capabilities in which Wycliffe
folks have an interest.
This past Friday, I implemented a beginning of this concept in
GnomeSword. The idea is that some modules come as a pair. The best
example at hand is NET Bible's NETtext with their NETnotes. Generally
speaking, if you open one of these, you also want the other, since the
footnote indicators in NETtext reference content in NETnotes.
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This sounds a bit like what we did with one of the virtual modules that
has been proposed. The NOTES virtual module (which had a demo
implementation in BibleCS for a while) would essentially act as a target
frame for display of the notes in whatever the current Bible is.
It was designed essentially with the NET in mind, but worked with the
notes in any Bible. It's basically my opinion that the NET Bible and
Notes belong in a single document and a single module. This is less
trivial than just making two modules and may not even be compatible with
the sales model employed for this Bible, but that's how I believe the
text is best encoded.
This makes giant commentaries like the NET Notes usable where they
wouldn't be easy to read in the form of note popups, but also makes
Bibles with modest notesets a bit easier to use since the full text is
always visible (if the NOTES virtual module is selected). On the other
hand, there was never any attempt to make the NOTES virtual module be
auto-focused and it doesn't address fast/slow commentaries, but these
could be addressed.
Anyway, just food for though.
--Chris
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