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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">It seems to me that we need a good way to look up any word, not just Strong's numbers (or eg. OSIS-tagged names). We have
several French Bible dictionaries that we have digitized and put into Sword format. It would be of great value to our target audience
(French-speaking African pastors), if there was a way to define a default dictionary, and do a single-tap/click lookup of any word.
We use AndBible as our front-end. But there is no way that I can find to select a single word and look it up in a dictionary without
opening the dictionary and retyping the word into its search box. </span></font></div>
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<span style=" font-size:10pt">Adding a new filter is not a difficult task, the main question is what to do with the outcome.<br>
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I always thought of names being useful as links to Bible encyclopedias and , with location names possibly, where known, with map
links. All the ways of creating confusion I can not see being of any real relevance, but for the original language texts. And there it is
often enough a matter of interpretation.<br>
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Peter<br>
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Sent from my mobile. Please forgive shortness, typos and weird autocorrects.</span></font></p>
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Subject: [sword-devel] Doing something useful with the OSIS name element?<br>
From: David Haslam<br>
To: sword-devel mailing list<br>
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<span style=" font-size:10pt">Dear developers,</span></font></div>
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<span style=" font-size:10pt">A few years back, DM Smith and I discussed the possibility to enhance the CrossWire flagship </span><span style=" font-size:10pt">
<b>KJV</b></span><span style=" font-size:10pt"> module by marking all
</span><span style=" font-size:10pt"><b>names</b></span><span style=" font-size:10pt"> therein - each with suitable </span><span style=" font-size:10pt">
<b>attributes</b></span><span style=" font-size:10pt">.</span></font></div>
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<span style=" font-size:10pt"><i>This is still something I'd like to be involved with when I have more free time for CrossWire activities.</i></span></font></div>
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<span style=" font-size:10pt">AFAICT, the SWORD API currently doesn't do anything special with the OSIS </span><span style=" font-size:10pt">
<b>name</b></span><span style=" font-size:10pt"> element.</span></font></div>
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<span style=" font-size:10pt">IMHO, we could do something useful here and thereby enhance the understanding of a suitably marked up Biblical text.</span></font></div>
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<span style=" font-size:10pt"><u>Suggestions</u></span><span style=" font-size:10pt">:</span></font></div>
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<font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#010101; font-weight:Normal; font-style:Normal; font-decoration:Normal">Provide a new filter to display words wrapped within the </span>
<span style=" font-size:10pt"><b>name</b></span><span style=" font-size:10pt"> element using (e.g.) </span><span style=" font-size:10pt">
<b>bold</b></span><span style=" font-size:10pt"> font style.</span></font></div></li>
<li style="margin-left: 23pt; margin-right: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; font-family: Arial; color: #010101; "><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 14pt; ">
<font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#010101; font-weight:Normal; font-style:Normal; font-decoration:Normal">Support a new module configuration key </span>
<span style=" font-size:10pt"><b>GlobalOptionFilter=OSISNames</b></span><span style=" font-size:10pt"> to allow the front-end to toggle this on and
off.</span></font></div></li>
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<span style=" font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#010101; font-weight:Normal; font-style:Normal; font-decoration:Normal">Add API support to succinctly display </span>
<span style=" font-size:10pt"><b>attribute</b></span><span style=" font-size:10pt"> values for the name element (e.g. by mouseover tooltip, etc).</span></font></li>
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<span style=" font-size:10pt"><u>Discussion points</u></span><span style=" font-size:10pt"> :</span></font></div>
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<font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#010101; font-weight:Normal; font-style:Normal; font-decoration:Normal">There are some words that are used as a </span>
<span style=" font-size:10pt"><b>name</b></span><span style=" font-size:10pt"> in some places but as an ordinary common word in other places.</span></font></div></li>
<li style="margin-left: 23pt; margin-right: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; font-family: Symbol; color: #010101; "><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 14pt; ">
<font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#010101; font-weight:Normal; font-style:Normal; font-decoration:Normal">Although we capitalise names in </span>
<span style=" font-size:10pt"><b>English</b></span><span style=" font-size:10pt">, we also capitalise the first word of every sentence, thus potentially leading to
ambiguities for new readers.</span></font></div></li>
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<font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#010101; font-weight:Normal; font-style:Normal; font-decoration:Normal">All nouns in </span>
<span style=" font-size:10pt"><b>German</b></span><span style=" font-size:10pt"> are capitalised, so a learner of the language has an even harder job to know which words are
names.</span></font></div></li>
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<font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#010101; font-weight:Normal; font-style:Normal; font-decoration:Normal">There are several writing systems in which there is no visual clue at all to indicate which words are names.</span></font></div></li>
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<font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#010101; font-weight:Normal; font-style:Normal; font-decoration:Normal">cf. There are even some writing systems in which there is no space between words.</span></font></div></li>
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<font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#010101; font-weight:Normal; font-style:Normal; font-decoration:Normal">Not all writing systems have font support for </span>
<span style=" font-size:10pt"><b>bold</b></span><span style=" font-size:10pt"> style, so perhaps an alternative display method might need to be
defined in the .conf file ?</span></font></div></li>
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<span style=" font-size:10pt">Best regards,</span></font></div>
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<span style=" font-size:10pt">David</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">John Dudeck</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Programmer at Editions Cle Lyon, France</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">john.dudeck@sim.org john@editionscle.com</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">--</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">"I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"> to read." -- Larry Wall</span></font></div>
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