Re: [be] future bibledit

[Wolfgang Stradner E]

Hi Teus,

Thinking of building Bibledit from scretch, perhaps the following dream 
could fit in:

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Hi,

Thinking of a Scripture processing tool for Balsa (Basic affordable 
language software applicance), why not dreaming about something? And why 
not dreaming big?

What about a tool which
- looks very much the same as Paratext (=PT): PT is actually the most 
used Scripture processing tool for Bible translators. I remember that 
(at least earlier versions of PT tried to be similar to MS-Word (which 
many people used for Scripture processing at this time) in order to make 
it easier to learn to use PT,
- does a good job in Linux as Bibledit (Bibledit was built for Linux and 
is working there successfully since many years) and
- has the capacity to connect to Fieldworks (in a way the Translation 
Editor does)

and allowing to switch on/off features so that can be used in a very 
simple way (working with and without cloud computing) ...


Wolfgang

Teus Benschop wrote:
> Hello Bibleditors,
>
> Looking into the future, development efforts are going to be
> concentrated on a new Bibledit written in PHP, intended for running on
> the web either on the internet or your local area network or your local
> computer.
>
> This way it becomes cross-platform much easier than it would be now.
> Apart from that a more important reason for this is that the whole world
> is moving to the web.
>
> The current bibledit, that is, the desktop application, is likely to
> remain in existence for a good while to come. It is powerful, and the
> new, web-based bibledit will not for a long time equal or surpass its
> capabilities.
>
> The new, web based bibledit, is going to be called "bibledit". But how
> shall we call the current bibledit? Opinions on this are invited. It
> could be called "bibledit-legacy", which would show the path it would go
> after some time, but right now since it has so much power, it is not
> going to be a legacy very soon. It could be called "bibledit-gtk", but
> that sounds technical since some people might wonder that -gtk means. Or
> do we call it "bibledit-desktop"? However, the new bibledit for the web
> runs on your desktop too, be it through a browser. Any suggestions?
>
> Teus.
>
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