Re: Bible study tools in Debian repository - End-user support?
On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 08:06:49AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> I browsed the posts at
> [https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-crosswire-devel/]
> for the last year. I don't think my initial questions would be suitably on
> topic.
>
Understood. Still, the offer stands.
> >
> > As the name would suggest, the primary purpose of the list is
> > development-related discussions (bug reports, package maintenance,
> > etc.). But if you have a look at the archives, the list goes long
> > periods without any discussion, which is to say that the traffic is
> > quite low. If you are not able to find another list, feel free to ask
> > your questions there. As far as a I know, all of us on the list are
> > active users of these tools in addition to maintaining them. We should
> > be able to help you out with what you need there if you decide that your
> > questions are off-topic here on debian-user.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > -Roberto
> >
>
> My immediate BibleTime related questions include:
> 1. When display the Strong's entry for a word there is a field titled
> "Morphology:". I find no references to the meaning of the abbreviations used
> there.
I personally don't use the morphology information and my knowledge of
linguistics is sadly lacking. A quick skim of the "Morphology
(linguistics)" article on Wikipedia indicates that it is a way of
describing the origins and relationships of various parts of a word or
phrase.
> 2. Discussion of how to best use the "Personal commentary" tool.
>
This doesn't make sense to me. Are you referring to the mechanics for
using the personal commentary tool or principles for developing a
personal commentarty?
> Another issue is difference(s) (if any) in the target audience of BibleTime
> and Xiphos.
>
Personally, I use Gnome and Xiphos, being built with GTK, integrates a
bit better. Bibletime is built with Qt and so it feels more like a KDE
application. That said, I have encountered some annoying UI bugs with
Xiphos and have not made the time to report/fix them.
> I know I don't have the latest release as this particular machine is still
> at Debian 9.8. I'll be installing Debian 10 soon but have some housekeeping
> issues to resolve first.
>
One thing that I found with Xiphos (again, which I've not yet formally
reported) is that drop-down selections for book/chapter/verse no longer
scroll. That is, if their contents extend past the top/bottom of the
screen, the widget no longer has the ability to scroll. That means
either getting as close as possible then navigating with up/down arrows,
or directly typing in the particular location in the adjacent text
field.
I am not aware if Bibletime has any similarly annoying bugs.
Regards,
-Roberto
--
Roberto C. Sánchez
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