[BD-119] Display Strong's Numbers As Link Text Created: 01/Feb/08
Updated: 06/Feb/11 Resolved:
06/Feb/11
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Bible Desktop
book display
1.0.0, 1.5 (was 1.0.7)
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Keith Watson
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1.6
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DM Smith
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Description
When Strong's numbers are displayed, the text is of the form S1, S2, etc. While this saves space
it is not useful to the user since they have no meaning. It would be better to display the actual
Strong's numbers. This allows the numbers to be viewable on screen, when printed, and when
copied to another document.
This bug report is different from BD-112 in that it is not about a tooltip, it is only about the first
2 sentences of BD-112.
Comments
Comment by DM Smith [ 02/Feb/08 ]
The reasoning was that Strong's numbers themselves should be meaningless. For the most part
of the 8000 numbers, people can only identify a small handful, such as G3588 and H3068. (In
Greek, the first 285 most frequent words account for 90% of the words in the NT.)
Hovering over them show the number in the status bar. The problem is that the user can hide the
status bar and then they are not visible.
Not showing them makes the display simpler. And it improves performance a little bit as Java's
HTML rendering is very poor.
The counter version is not necessary. Enough people have said that they don't like it. We used to
have it the way you want, but I changed it as a matter of my personal preference.
You are welcomed to submit a patch to either change it back or to add a choice toggle between
the two (probably in options and not the view menu) or show a tooltip with the info.
What ever we do for Strong's numbers we should also do for morphology.
I find that Bible Software is about personal preference and what I call work flow. The different
Sword applications have different ways
of doing things. For the most part they reflect what we as developers want.
The difference between the OT and the NT is very significant in the KJV. The OT came from
either ThML or GBF which had the Strong's
numbers between words and referred to what was previous. So basically when it was converted
to OSIS, in which <w> is a container, we took everything from the last Strong's number as
pertaining to the next. This is not exactly correct. In the OT, only some of the Hebrew were
tagged.
For the KJV NT, this was done entirely by CrossWire, taking a Greek text that had every word
with a Strong's number and with a team of
people tagging the text, we have all the Strong's numbers in the NT.
The visual result for the NT is quite a bit different than the OT. Turning on Morphology at the
same time makes it very busy.
Comment by DM Smith [ 06/Feb/08 ]
Done.
Comment by DM Smith [ 06/Feb/11 ]
Just changing fixed version.
Comment by DM Smith [ 06/Feb/11 ]
Just changing fixed version.
Comment by DM Smith [ 06/Feb/11 ]
Just changing fixed version.
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