Re: [sword-devel] New filter for red letter words

2003-01-15 Thread Daniel Russell
Number one rule in software: Power to the user is more valuable than any philosophy that he programmers may artificially impose on the project. Here i use the word artificially in the sense that the philosophy is contrived' as opposed to being a natural restriction, under whatever rationale.

Re: [sword-devel] List of Questions...

2003-01-15 Thread Jan Paul Schmidt
Am Mit, 2003-01-15 um 00.36 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 15 Jan 2003 at 0:39, Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Derek Neighbors wrote: 1. Are the sword, gnome-sword and bibletime packages for Debian actively maintained? I had been making some custom one's because they

Re: [sword-devel] New filter for red letter words

2003-01-15 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Personally I like having Yahweh in the Bible. I am not a Hebrew scholar or a scholar of Jewish History or Culture. However I have always found it quite strange that the Jewish practice of not pronouncing the name of God as a reason for not putting the name of God in His written Word. To my

Re: [sword-devel] New filter for red letter words

2003-01-15 Thread Jerry Hastings
At 12:32 AM 1/15/2003 -0800, Daniel Russell wrote: Number one rule in software: Power to the user is more valuable than any philosophy that he programmers may artificially impose on the project This is another way in which users are not all the same, and you need to determine which group

[sword-devel] www.crosswire.org problem

2003-01-15 Thread Joachim Ansorg
Maybe you know already that the www.crosswire.org start page shows now the welcome message of tomcat? I'd be glad if that could be fixed. Joachim -- Joachim Ansorg www.bibletime.info www.ansorgs.de ___ sword-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [sword-devel] New filter for red letter words

2003-01-15 Thread Jimmie Houchin
I will agree greatly that is a poor translation, and something I greatly dislike, even though the KJV is currently the translation I use. While I disagree with translating God's name that way and believe that we would have been and would be better off if it was included correctly. I made the

Re: [sword-devel] www.crosswire.org problem

2003-01-15 Thread Joachim Ansorg
Sorry, seems to work again. Strange. Joachim Maybe you know already that the www.crosswire.org start page shows now the welcome message of tomcat? I'd be glad if that could be fixed. Joachim -- Joachim Ansorg www.bibletime.info www.ansorgs.de

Re: [sword-devel] New filter for red letter words

2003-01-15 Thread Jimmie Houchin
I too am very pro powerful software. I am pro open software. A feature I am very fond of which permits powerful software and in fact encourages it is what you could call living software. Software which can be changed while in use. ie: a living system. Software, that while I am using it I can

Re: [sword-devel] New filter for red letter words

2003-01-15 Thread Daniel Russell
Jerry Hastings wrote: At 12:32 AM 1/15/2003 -0800, Daniel Russell wrote: Number one rule in software: Power to the user is more valuable than any philosophy that he programmers may artificially impose on the project This is another way in which users are not all the same, and you need

[sword-devel] Re: Squeak

2003-01-15 Thread porton
I am not a developer/programmer but am in the process of learning Squeak. Squeak is an open source Smalltalk system. It is very cross platform. I personally have run it from my wife's Power Mac 604e 200mhz, my children's iMac (rev. B), my Linux machine, a Win95 PII 266 machine at work,

Re: [sword-devel] Re: Squeak

2003-01-15 Thread Jimmie Houchin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not a developer/programmer but am in the process of learning Squeak. Squeak is an open source Smalltalk system. It is very cross platform. I personally have run it from my wife's Power Mac 604e 200mhz, my children's iMac (rev. B), my Linux machine, a Win95 PII 266

[sword-devel] Re: [sword-devel]Squeak Sword UI

2003-01-15 Thread Jimmie Houchin
It will be interesting to see if the Sword Module system stabilizes in light of OSIS. If the Sword project provided OSIS modules for all its text that would be fine. With OSIS there is a spec to go by. I could start there within Squeak. If I needed to interface the Sword libraries then I

Re: [sword-devel] Re: [sword-devel]Squeak Sword UI

2003-01-15 Thread porton
It will be interesting to see if the Sword Module system stabilizes in light of OSIS. The problem is not what is format of entries (e.g. OSIS), but the format but a module (as a whole, the structure how it is split to entries). Why we don't use a database library (db1/db2/db3, are to bloated

Re: [sword-devel] Re: Squeak

2003-01-15 Thread porton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In GnomeSword we can do it just first showing strongs in the module, and then searching a number. Last time I tried that in GnomeSword it failed. Probably a month or so back. That is also how it works in Windows. You need to first enable strongs and then search