Re: [sword-devel] Social networks and front-end apps?

2011-08-14 Thread Peter von Kaehne
On 14/08/11 18:02, Mike Hart wrote: > How else do you envision a front end interacting on a > social site? And Bible can share a verse or passage via SMS and to Facebook. I do like that and I understand it was easy to implement. It would be nice to have such features in e.g Xiphos etc - to writ

Re: [sword-devel] Logos Personal Book Builder

2011-08-14 Thread Greg Hellings
I have pursued the avenue of docx -> Bible conversion in the past and, allow me to state unequivocally, it is incredibly complex. The sheer number of ways to mark up the same item and material makes any sort of attempt at such a conversion almost impossible to conceive. I never completed the proj

Re: [sword-devel] Social networks and front-end apps?

2011-08-14 Thread Mike Hart
As already demonstrated, the Crosswire Swordweb implementation is usable with most social sharing sites that accept http links. Other than that, a cron system that pushed daily readings might be nice... but I don't see how you'd apply bible reader apps to social websites besides those paramete

Re: [sword-devel] Logos Personal Book Builder

2011-08-14 Thread Benjamin Misja
Hi, The new PBB feature sounds exciting and I will definitely see if I can integrate some papers and additional bible translations into my Logos library. I would think that having a comparable feature for making SWORD modules would give a huge boost to both the available amount of books and c

Re: [sword-devel] Logos Personal Book Builder

2011-08-14 Thread Daniel Owens
I haven't looked at it myself either, but I like the concept. This past week I was trying to revive the OpenOffice filter that was broken with version 3 of OpenOffice. I have isolated the problem code in the XSLT filter and commented it out so that the filter "works," but it doesn't export the

Re: [sword-devel] Social networks and front-end apps?

2011-08-14 Thread David Haslam
Go Bible is not a SWORD front-end app (/per se/). My original question was specifically addressed to SWORD (& JSword) front-ends. David -- View this message in context: http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/Social-networks-and-front-end-apps-tp3690289p3742876.html Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing

[sword-devel] Logos Personal Book Builder

2011-08-14 Thread Jonathan Morgan
I don't usually comment on competing products, but I thought the new (long-expected) Logos Personal Book Builder was worth commenting on. You can find a post about it at http://blog.logos.com/2011/08/personal-book-builder-the-inside-scoop/. The main difference from most software is the fact that