[sword-devel] Ezra Project 0.8.0 released

Mon Jun 3 22:46:53 MST 2019

Thanks for the hint, David! :)
I will certainly have a look and see how I can improve the language code 
handling.

Best regards,
Tobias

On 03.06.19 23:25, David Haslam wrote:
> Tobias,
>
> You need to look up the language codes from ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3
>
> Using only ISO 639-1 is clearly inadequate.
>
> Aside: Language decoding files complied into front-ends can easily 
> become out of date.
> So for example, there are still 8 language codes at eBible.org that 
> are not yet decoded by PocketSword.
>
> Regard#,
>
> David
>
> Sent from ProtonMail Mobile
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 22:06, Tobias Klein <contact at tklein.info 
> <mailto:contact at tklein.info>> wrote:
>> I can answer the point about the number of repos and translations.
>>
>> Basically I filtered on "known" languages. If a repo didn't have any 
>> "known" languages it was also hidden. A "known" language is one where 
>> the language code can be mapped to a language name.
>>
>> Is there any way to render the language codes of all those indigenous 
>> languages on eBible.org into something more readable than a few letters?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Tobias
>>
>> Am 3. Juni 2019 21:01:56 MESZ schrieb Tobias Klein 
>> <contact at tklein.info>:
>>
>>     Hi Troy,
>>
>>     Yay! I'm excited to hear that Ezra Project works for you and
>>     thanks for this report! :)
>>     I'm glad I found some tools that allow packing of Electron
>>     applications into *.debs and *.rpms rather easily.
>>     I now have a script that can create packages for Ubuntu 18.04 &
>>     19.04, Fedora 29 and CentOS 7 in one go, so for future updates
>>     it's gonna be easier with the packaging. I may still add some
>>     other distributions based on demand. The packaging for each of
>>     these distributions is done in individual Docker containers,
>>     which also really helped to get this done efficiently.
>>
>>>     The repos list doesn't seem to show all the repos available from
>>>     our registry. 
>>
>>     Oh, ok. Interesting. I though I'm just showing the content of the
>>     "master repo list".
>>     Which repos are shown on your computer and which are missing?
>>
>>     Essentially I'm just calling
>>     installMgr->/refreshRemoteSourceConfiguration/(), then
>>     installMgr->/saveInstallConf()/ and then I'm iterating over
>>     /installMgr->sources/ to get the repositories.
>>
>>>     Selecting CrossWire and choosing Greek, English, and Hebrew, I
>>>     don't see the WHNU Greek module.
>>>
>>>     Noticed the eBible.org repo only shows that is has like 74
>>>     modules available, but I think Michael has like 2000 or something :)
>>>
>>     Currently only modules with "recognized languages" are shown.
>>     When loading the languages I'm separating them into "known" ones
>>     and "unknown" ones using the ISO-639-1 Javascript module.
>>     https://www.npmjs.com/package/iso-639-1#validatecode
>>     Only the "known" languages end up being shown in the installation
>>     wizard. I should change that and also show the other ones below
>>     the recognized languages in the installation wizard.
>>
>>>     I like that I can have multiple tabs of different Bibles
>>>     pointing to different locations.
>>>
>>>     Noticed Hebrew (module: WLC) is left justified.  You should be
>>>     able to key off the config entry: Direction=RtoL
>>>
>>     Thanks for the hint! Could I do that automatically based on
>>     certain information in that bible's *.conf file?
>>
>>>     I like that I can highlight multiple verse and then click a tag
>>>     to add them to that tag.  I am not sure if they are tagged
>>>     individually, or as a group, but regardless, they all seem to be
>>>     tagged.
>>>
>>     They are tagged individually in the database.
>>
>>>     I am not sure how to show all the verses associated with one of
>>>     my tags.
>>>
>>     Click on "Select tag" (next to "Select book") in the menu above
>>     the text display area and choose one. You can also choose
>>     multiple ones. Then click on "Select tag" again to hide that
>>     dropdown.
>>
>>>     I notice you're not showing all the books associated with the
>>>     current module.
>>>
>>
>>     Yes, that's correct. At the moment the books shown is a static
>>     list. The only thing dynamic is that within that static list Ezra
>>     Project checks which of these books are actually available and
>>     disables the links if they're not.
>>
>>>     Great start!  Thanks for your work! I am sure building up
>>>     personal tab libraries of Bible topics and sharing those with
>>>     others can be a wonderful way to study God's Word. 
>>
>>     Thanks for the encouragement :). Sharing a tag library could be a
>>     feature for the future. At the moment a "Word export" is
>>     implemented, but that obviously is not the same as sharing a
>>     technical database. I could implement a simple JSON or XML
>>     export/import to support such a feature.
>>
>>
>>     There's other features besides tagging that I have on my mind.
>>     Generally I want to support the user in creating material based
>>     on the bible that is not "separate" (like separate text
>>     documents), but rather directly linked with the text.
>>
>>     Best regards,
>>     Tobias
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Message sent from my phone. Please excuse brevity.
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