From bdumont at ameritech.net Tue Dec 15 13:24:09 2009 From: bdumont at ameritech.net (Brian J. Dumont) Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:24:09 -0000 Subject: [sword-info] Two new modules available Message-ID: <4B27EFD0.6040307@ameritech.net> Now available at the Xiphos repo are two new modules: Kretzmann (a commentary) and KretzmannMaps. These come from the 4-Volume "Popular Commentary" by Paul Kretzmann completed in 1921 through 1923. The source of the electronic text is the Kretzmann Project, www.kretzmannproject.org The commentary module includes more OSIS features than are currently supported by SWORD software, in the hopes of being a catalyst to feature addition. The primary feature is to make external, non-scriptural references into links. It includes links to a number of SWORD modules (references were checked against print editions): * [Clarke] (Bible Commentary by Adam Clarke) * [Concord] (The Book of Concord - Genbook) * [Josephus] (The Works of Josephus - Genbook) * [LifeTimes] (The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah by Alfred Edersheim - Genbook) I'd like to give an example of why we should support this type of inter-book linking. For the module "LifeTimes", the SWORD module is organized by Book/Chapter. The original print edition is organized by Volume/Book/Chapter. References to the book in "Kretzmann" are by Volume/Page. This means that if someone wants to follow the reference given by Kretzmann using the SWORD module "LifeTimes", that he needs to first go to a print edition in order to find what book and chapter correspond to a specific volume/page. I think that it is obvious that that is downright silliness. Later we could add links to modules on our "wish list": * Schaff Commentary * Keil/Delitzsch Commentary * Expositor's Greek Testament * "In the Days of Christ" by Alfred Edersheim * "The Temple" by Alfred Edersheim * ... and a bunch of others The "elephant in the room" when one gets into this commentary are the links to Luther's writings. All Luther references are made to an original-language collection of Luther's Works (German and Latin mixture). To date I'm told that about half of Luther's writings have been translated into English and about half of that is in the public domain. I don't know either German or Latin, so I can't really set these links to point to the module "LuthersWorks" without an enormous amount of pain. Other OSIS features in Kretzmann that I hope are one day supported: * better handling of OSIS tags - these are in the OSIS file, but I strip them out before building the module in order to get proper right and left double quotes ... If handling is improved, I'd love to see some sort of front-end support to assist the reader with long quotes. Maybe the start and end of the quote is highlighted when the mouse is over the quote or something. Maybe a baloon window showing the contents of the "who" attribute. * better support for things like smallcaps, subscripts, and superscripts * support for OSIS tables I will very gladly make the original OSIS document available to anyone, especially to developers who might be looking to add support for some of these features :) Enjoy, Brian -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: