[be] [task #8286] USFM view improvements

[Teus Benschop]

URL:
  <http://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?8286>

                 Summary: USFM view improvements
                 Project: Bibledit
            Submitted by: teus
            Submitted on: Monday 06/16/2008 at 19:31
         Should Start On: Monday 06/16/2008 at 00:00
   Should be Finished on: Monday 06/16/2008 at 00:00
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

My opinion is that BE needs the ability to see verse style, not just in
printouts but on the screen. And users need to see the usfm in a way that is
better than the pop-up usfm screen. I would suggest that this be done in a way
similar to Paratext, where a Ctrl-key can be pressed to change the view. Each
key press would toggle between Formatted View, Verse View, USFM with long
lines wrapped, and USFM without wrapping.

What I am proposing is that there would be three view-style sheets in the
same way that one can have different style sheets for printing. The differing
views would not need to change the usfm structure, and it might be that in
certain views certain usfm markers would be protected from change.

So currently, a \p causes an indent in formatted view. In verse-style view,
it would cause a blank line. In verse-style view \v would mean that verse
numbers would start a new line. etc.

In the first usfm view, the view of the plain text would be just like you
would see it in a text editor. That is, one would see all the markers, but the
long lines would wrap so that the user could see all of the text. Currently in
the pop-up viewer, the lines are not wrapped, so finding an end-footnote
marker is very inconvenient. It would be nice in usfm view if different usfm
markers appeared in different colors, like how some programmer's text editors
work with programming symbols.

Thanks,
Phil




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