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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/16/18 7:46 AM, Peter Von Kaehne
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">I think a variety of frontends still use the module identifier - and of course CrossWire's website's download page does so too. I will attend to the last one as soon as I can. But can I ask all those who develop frontends to consider how to make this nicer? </pre>
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<font face="FreeSerif">Xiphos has had support for the Abbreviation
configuration directive for a few years, however the semantics
behind it are incomplete and I'm not aware that any other frontend
handles them correctly, either. I've been intending to write some
text about this problem but frankly I've been long delayed on
getting to several things that would have led to a 4.1.1 release.
I expect to find time again after 2019 starts.<br>
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As matters stand, there is both the config file support to
consider, for automatic abbrev choices, but more generally there
is a need for user-defined abbrev choices to supersede both the
formal name as well as any possible Abbreviation suggested; and
there are several semantic problems behind where abbrevs are used,
and how they manifest themselves implicitly. Xiphos' abbrev
support is one of several things due for an overhaul in order to
give better, proper, semantically consistent support. Again, I'll
try to bring something to the table about this soon, as I think
Xiphos already had the best beginning, but none of the frontends
yet has a good ending for abbrev support.</font><br>
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