Re: [sword-devel] Pathway, SIL, GoBible and CrossWire

2011-10-27 Thread Nic Carter
An FYI for those who care about the current state of fonts under iOS. Quick answer is that there are currently 58 different font families available under iOS 5.0 Long comment: > In one sense, Android (being open) is more amenable to such inventiveness > than iOS. You can only display Bibles in

Re: [sword-devel] Pathway, SIL, GoBible and CrossWire

2011-10-27 Thread Nic Carter
Hi Greg, > Greg's final comment was along the lines of, "There is desire and need > for SWORD support in Pathway, but no one is asking for it because they > don't realize they need and desire it." That sentiment is in line with > the (extensive) questions I heard after the presentation. I have >

Re: [sword-devel] Pathway, SIL, GoBible and CrossWire

2011-10-21 Thread David Haslam
Greg, That's very interesting. Even before Go Bible was adopted by CrossWire, we knew that Jolon Faichney had toyed with the concept of better font support for phones with inadequate firmware coverage. He never made enough progress as to complete such a task, though what he did attempt is probabl

Re: [sword-devel] Pathway, SIL, GoBible and CrossWire

2011-10-20 Thread Greg Hellings
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:23 AM, David Haslam wrote: > Greg wrote, "GoBible overcomes this by using Graphite somehow." > > Well, I suppose some phone manufacturers may have designed in Graphite into > their firmware, but the fact of the matter is that Go Bible relies entirely > upon what Unicode

Re: [sword-devel] Pathway, SIL, GoBible and CrossWire

2011-10-20 Thread Greg Hellings
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:46 AM, David Haslam wrote: > Maybe you didn't delve deep enough into the detail of the Distant Shores > Media blog post? You've caught me red handed! I simply read the title you assigned it and assumed I understood what it was talking about. That might prove slightly mo

Re: [sword-devel] Pathway, SIL, GoBible and CrossWire

2011-10-20 Thread David Haslam
Greg wrote, "GoBible overcomes this by using Graphite somehow." Well, I suppose some phone manufacturers may have designed in Graphite into their firmware, but the fact of the matter is that Go Bible relies entirely upon what Unicode font coverage has been provided by the mobile phone manufacturer

Re: [sword-devel] Pathway, SIL, GoBible and CrossWire

2011-10-20 Thread David Haslam
Maybe you didn't delve deep enough into the detail of the Distant Shores Media blog post? The *USFMtag* extension to Wikimedia server is /not/ to facilitate further editing. It's to allow USFM content to be pasted "as is" into a wiki page. Once saved, the server extension will display the content

Re: [sword-devel] Pathway, SIL, GoBible and CrossWire

2011-10-20 Thread Greg Hellings
David, On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 7:46 AM, David Haslam wrote: > Did Greg Trihus or anyone else at the Dallas conference happen to mention the > http://www.dsmedia.org/blog/publishing-usfm-encoded-bible-translations-mobile-phones-instantly > USFMtag extension  to Wikimedia servers? During Greg's ta

Re: [sword-devel] Pathway, SIL, GoBible and CrossWire

2011-10-20 Thread Greg Hellings
Martin, My initial thought was Greg may have been using an early test version or a module which had some problems. A further problem that And Bible suffers from (YouVersion hits the same problem) is lack of fonts on Android systems. GoBible overcomes this by using Graphite somehow. For instance I'

Re: [sword-devel] Pathway, SIL, GoBible and CrossWire

2011-10-20 Thread David Haslam
Did Greg Trihus or anyone else at the Dallas conference happen to mention the http://www.dsmedia.org/blog/publishing-usfm-encoded-bible-translations-mobile-phones-instantly USFMtag extension to Wikimedia servers? This is being developed by a programmer in Indonesia connected with http://www.dsm

Re: [sword-devel] Pathway, SIL, GoBible and CrossWire

2011-10-20 Thread Martin Denham
Hi Greg, AndBible has always been able to display Psalm 119, even on low powered devices, and many people say that, far from being slow, it is very responsive. I can only think that Greg was getting confused with some other bible software. Martin On 19 October 2011 19:29, Greg Hellings wrote:

Re: [sword-devel] Pathway, SIL, GoBible and CrossWire

2011-10-19 Thread Greg Hellings
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Matthew Talbert wrote: >> 3) Help with the C# bindings for SWORD. I know some people have talked >> about them in the past, but I don't know what state they might be in. >> Since Pathway is written in C#, it would be a great help to anyone >> writing a SWORD export

Re: [sword-devel] Pathway, SIL, GoBible and CrossWire

2011-10-19 Thread Matthew Talbert
> 3) Help with the C# bindings for SWORD. I know some people have talked > about them in the past, but I don't know what state they might be in. > Since Pathway is written in C#, it would be a great help to anyone > writing a SWORD export path if they could access the engine bindings > directly thr

[sword-devel] Pathway, SIL, GoBible and CrossWire

2011-10-19 Thread Greg Hellings
Some time ago David pointed out the SIL Pathway project, which is a plugin for the Paratext. Paratext is a popular scripture translation editor which is available from the United Bible Societes (http://paratext.ubs-translations.org/) and is popularly used within Wycliffe Bible Translators. Paratext