[sword-devel] Several-verses Bible comments

Martin Gruner sword-devel@crosswire.org
Sat, 21 Jun 2003 17:21:32 +0200


Victor,

I'm sorry but I think that you're offering solutions for problems we don't 
have.

Martin

Am Samstag, 21. Juni 2003 16:32 schrieb Victor Porton:
> Suppose we have a little Bible commentary for a small range of verses.
> (E.g. for Rev. 8:1-8).
>
> If we would put it into a Sword module (It may be a useful thing as such
> small commentaries (probably from somebody's Sunday preaching) may fill
> gaps in bigger commentaries.), then many such small commentary modules
> would pollute UI (to many tabs when we will have many commentaries).
>
> Note that putting these into a General Book is not a solution, because when
> somebody studies a range of Bible verses he may easily overlook a General
> Book (which not so easily overlooking a commentary).
>
> I propose the solution for this problem which will some day appear:
>
> Add to MODULE.conf file for commentaries the following:
>
> SmallRange=true
>
> to mark a commentary as a commentary for small range of verses (to not be
> displayed among other comments in tabs). It would be displyed in a spearate
> tabs which would list references to small commentaries (but only these of
> them which are used for the current verse.)
>
> Also we would mark a General Book which only comments just a little range
> of verses with (just in ,conf file) like:
>
> VersesRange=Rev 8:1-8
>
> So this general book would also be included in the list of small
> commentaries (in that list in the tab for small commentaries). It would
> eliminate the need to have a very little commentary which would only
> reference this general book.
>
> Well, it is more for UI software than for libSword itself. So, let's us
> just standartise these ideas (probably without including support in
> libSword) for the future. Then every preacher would make many new
> modules...
>
> Is my notion for additional .conf file fields good in your opinions?