Re: [sword-devel] Ubuntu 11.04

2011-04-30 Thread Greg Hellings
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Barry Drake wrote: > Hi there  Currently, Natty 10.04 offers a binary for Xiphos that > won't install because Xulrunner is now not only deprecated but marked as > 'forbidden' (whatever that means).  Bibletime is OK however. This is known. Xiphos team is worki

Re: [sword-devel] BPBible 0.5 beta 3 released

2011-04-30 Thread David Troidl
Great news. Successfully installs without a hitch. Peace, David On 4/30/2011 12:18 AM, Jonathan Morgan wrote: Hi all, BPBible 0.5 beta 3 has been released. This has added a lot of improvements and bug fixes over beta 2, and is hopefully a lot closer to a final release. For more details,

[sword-devel] Strong's Numbers Python Script for Foreign Language Bibles

2011-04-30 Thread Kamal Abou Mikhael
Dear Brothers, I hope you are well. A while back therw was a post regarding a python script that created first drafts of Strong's numbers for foreign languages. Was anyone able to find or obtain it? In Christ, Kamal ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword

Re: [sword-devel] Rendering added words for languages that don't use italics?

2011-04-30 Thread David Haslam
See also http://chinese-union-version.co.tv/ http://chinese-union-version.co.tv/ This includes: Typography of the Chinese Union Version Text in the Chinese Union Version is typeset generally vertically from right to left, with some captions for illustrations typeset horizontally from left to r

Re: [sword-devel] Rendering added words for languages that don't use italics?

2011-04-30 Thread David Haslam
In HTML, the dotted underline in the aforementioned article was implemented by means of 他們 David-- View this message in context: http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/Rendering-added-words-for-languages-that-don-t-use-italics-tp3459750p3485844.html Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive a

Re: [sword-devel] Rendering added words for languages that don't use italics?

2011-04-30 Thread David Haslam
Here's a link that describes the use of the dashed (or dotted) underline for the Chinese NCV Bible. http://scott.yang.id.au/2004/01/ncv-esv-bible-by-worldwide-bible-society/ http://scott.yang.id.au/2004/01/ncv-esv-bible-by-worldwide-bible-society/ Here's the relevant section ... "Another featur

Re: [sword-devel] Rendering added words for languages that don't use italics?

2011-04-30 Thread David Haslam
Further information which may be relevant. In Chinese, the underline is a punctuation mark for proper names (專名號, 专名号; pinyin: zhuānmínghào; literally “proper name mark”, used for personal and geographic names). Its meaning is somewhat akin to capitalization in English and should never be used fo

[sword-devel] Ubuntu 11.04

2011-04-30 Thread Barry Drake
Hi there Currently, Natty 10.04 offers a binary for Xiphos that won't install because Xulrunner is now not only deprecated but marked as 'forbidden' (whatever that means). Bibletime is OK however. There seems to be a slight issue in the current BibleTime binary in the Natty repo (2.5) in th

Re: [sword-devel] Rendering added words for languages that don't use italics?

2011-04-30 Thread David Haslam
It's not the end of the discussion. Nothing much has been decided yet. One of the other prompts for beginning this thread relates to Chinese Bible translations. For Chinese, the convention for rendering translators' added words is to used dotted underlines. I guess that none of our front-ends ac