Hi Michael,<div><br></div><div>I hope you don't feel I am bombarding you but I suddenly realised you may be able to help with a need for abbreviated bible book names in the Hebrew language. JSword provides, among many other things, book names in local languages and And Bible makes a greater use of abbreviated book names in the next release. Unfortunately some languages do not have the abbreviated book names available in JSword and Hebrew is one of the languages without abbreviations.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you have time it would help a lot if you could fill in the *.Short lines in this <a href="https://crosswire.org/svn/jsword/trunk/jsword/src/main/resources/org/crosswire/jsword/versification/BibleNames_he.properties">Hebrew properties</a> file. You can see an English version for comparison <a href="https://crosswire.org/svn/jsword/trunk/jsword/src/main/resources/org/crosswire/jsword/versification/BibleNames.properties">here</a>. I don't know if you are familiar with the escape codes used in Java properties files. If not you can ask or I did start putting together a <a href="http://code.google.com/p/and-bible/wiki/UserInterfaceTranslation">ui translation wiki page</a> and you will see a reference to this JSword properties file at the end. Ideally abbreviated names will be between 3 and 5 characters long with no spaces or full stops.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best regards</div><div>Martin</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/1/15 מיכאל בר-דוד <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@mail.org.il">michael@mail.org.il</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<big> Hello List<br>
<br>
My name is Michael and I'm a software developer from Israel. I
wrote a basic version of android bible app in the past (as well as
other bible software: PHP, JS, python, maemo version, etc.), but
that was before I discovered And Bible. I started to use it 3
weeks ago, and it's very nice, and so I use it as primary bible
app.</big> <big><br>
<br>
I would like to participate the dev team, if that's fine with you.
I'm not experienced with android development too much, but I know
a little, and I have some knowledge about UI design. I also can
help in Hebrew translation and other Hebrew-related issues. I have
Motorola Milestone (AKA Droid in the states) with 2.1, and a
chinese device called SmartQ V5 which has android 2.1.</big> <big><br>
I also have a web server, so I can offer forums, bug-reports
system or other web systems that might be useful for the project.<br>
<br>
BUG report:</big> <big><br>
A serious bug that started from v 0.14 and still on 0.15, is about
hebrew text direction. As you probably know, Hebrew is written
from right to left, AKA RTL, and also right aligned as default.
Versions before 0.14 were in RTL direction and right aligned, but
from 0.14 the text is left aligned (I can't determinate if it's
RTL or LTR). My guess is that the text size change that was added,
is responsible for that, in some way. BTW, have you considered
using pinch-to-zoom? I used it in my app, and it's was very
comfortable.<br>
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<div style="direction:ltr"><big>I want to
strengthen your hands with that important work.<br>
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Regards,</big> <br><font color="#888888">
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<h1 style="direction:ltr">Michael Bar-David</h1>
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