Re: [be] request to move the focus up

[Teus Benschop]

Hi Phil,

I hope that your experiments with Door43.org work well. It would be
helpful if this system would be usable for Bible translation work. The
USFM extension sounds interesting.

I do no longer feel attached to or attracted to either Bibledit-Gtk or
Bibledit-Web, or indeed any programming work. Just doing the necessary
parts. We still use Bibledit-* in our two translation projects, and we
have not moved to Paratext.

If Paratext would be ported to Linux, that would be a helpful
development. People on Linux would then have a wider variety of choices
as to which translation software they use and which suits them best in
their own circumstances. There is FieldWorks too, running on Linux now.

In the Lord,

Teus

On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 12:08 -0500, Oreo Warpok wrote:

> I have wondered why you are no longer actively developing BE-gtk. Is
> this because you have yourself moved to Paratext? Or are you in a
> place in your translation program where you don't have time? Or are
> you more involved in BE-web? I have also wondered how you felt about
> all the discussion about Paratext in various environments where
> Bibledit would run.
> 
> 
> We have experimented with putting our translation at Door43.org. I
> would like to see an on-line translation environment developed, and I
> like the philosophy behind Door43. But MediaWiki is not a good editing
> environment for a translation and doesn't give us things that we enjoy
> with GoogleApps or GoogleDocs. One of my friends is working on an
> extension to MediaWiki, such that <usfm> would call the extension, so
> that Scripture chapters could be saved in USFM and still would be
> displayed nicely formated for editing or viewing. We were thinking
> that the USFM might be stored at a separate invisible web site, and we
> thought of using Bibledit-web for that. Tim Jore is kind of stuck in
> development for Door43 because of lack of programmers.
> 
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> Phil
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Teus Benschop
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>         Hi Phil,
>         
>         
>         On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 14:58 -0500, Oreo Warpok wrote:
>         
>         > Are you still using the Savanah site for feature requests
>         for
>         > Bibledit?
>         
>         
>         No longer. I've closed these trackers. This is because I am no
>         longer
>         actively developing Bibledit-Gtk, just maintaining it and
>         tweaking it
>         here and there. If somebody was going to request a bigger
>         thing, I would
>         no longer have the time to implement it. But I'd accept
>         patches for
>         bigger things when these come in.
>         
>         
>         >
>         > I would like to ask that the focus in BE formatted view be
>         moved from
>         > the 50% of the window position to the 33% of the window
>         position. I
>         > currently have 5 Bible windows open in BE. Each time I move
>         to a new
>         > verse, the view keeps returning to the middle line of each
>         window. So
>         > too many times the focused verse doesn't all get displayed
>         in the
>         > smaller windows. Perhaps an even better way would be for
>         each window
>         > to try to show all of the verse focussed.
>         
>         
>         Ok, it was changed from 50% to 33% of the window height. Looks
>         neater
>         indeed. The code is now in the git repository.
>         
>         Hope it helps,
>         
>         Teus
>         
>         
>         
> 
> 
> 
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