Re: [Ldsoss] New Scriptures Beta Test Site

[Tom Welch]

Excellent feedback Charles.  Thanks.  Tom Charles Fry wrote: The issues that bother me are: I constantly find myself cutting and pasting from the online scriptures into documents I am editing. Doing this with footnotes enabled is a trecherous endeaver, as the footnote letters get copied into the text which is pasted. I just noticed the "Hide footnote indicators" option, but that actually turns footnotes off. It would be nice to have an option (even as a default!) which turned off the footnote letters, but left the links. In my mind, the letters themselves are a remnant of the printed version of the scriptures, and are antiquated by the use of hyperlinks. The current display format is highly unreadable. It may be sufficient for reference, but it is quite ill-adapted for online reading. I don't know what the best solution is, but some possibilities include: thiner single column, multi-column display, paragraph format display. One could even display the scriptures in fairly thin columns, as is done in our printed scriptures, with scrolling (perhaps aided by _javascript_?) to the left and right rather than up and down. At this point, I suspect that almost any change will more readable than the current instantiation. :-) Charles -----Original Message----- From: Tom Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Ldsoss] New Scriptures Beta Test Site Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:35:59 -0600 To: LDS Open Source Software <ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org> Reply-To: LDS Open Source Software <ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org> Although I am over the open source initiative for the Church, I've also been asked to help project manage the online scriptures program. The current version that is on http://scriptures.lds.org has been up for quite some time. It had some limitations in that there was no easy way to deploy additional languages. For quite some time a new version of the scriptures has been under development. It has been designed around supporting multiple languages. So, although the initial look and feel of this new version does not look much different, it is a completely rewritten piece of code. I'm sending this email to enlist your help in testing this new scriptures program. You can find it at http://beta.scriptures.lds.org. Give it a try and send me feedback on bugs or improvements. Here is a piece of history about this software that I think is of HIGH interest to this audience. This program was not written by the Church but was written by a member and then donated to the Church. Even the original version that has been on the website for some time was written by this member. The Church has offered help with some pieces of the work (translation, technical advice, etc) but 99% of the code was done by this member and a few others who helped him. I've talked with the member about the possibility of open sourcing this code and allowing others to work on it and he is fully supportive of this approach. Using an open source approach, we could add PDA links, alternate formatting and an API set to integrate the online scriptures into other programs. We are not sure this will happen yet as there may be some extenuating circumstances we have to first solve but I thought you all would find it interesting that an open source model can work for the Church. Meanwhile, please help test http://beta.scriptures.lds.org and thanks for your help! Tom -- Tom Welch [EMAIL PROTECTED] (801) 240-1609 (858) 829-4614 - Cell ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss -- Tom Welch [EMAIL PROTECTED] (801) 240-1609 (858) 829-4614 - Cell ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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