[be] Re: [task #7965] support for verse-by-verse style

[oreo]

Teus,

Again, although I am a Savanah member, I don't have permission to add comments.

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




Teus Benschop wrote:

Update of task #7965 (project bibledit):

                  Status:               Need Info => Ready For Test         
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #3:

The same thought went through my mind when thinking about it. What would
happen is that the v style causes new paragraphs at each verse in the
formatted view. Now, the formatted view will take this that the style is p v.
So then, if edits are made, it will change the USFM code to p v accordingly,
which would not be correct. Therefore I am not in favour of this change
either. The best thing is, therefore, to leave the normal paragraph layout in
the formatted view, and do the paragraphing at each verse only on printout (as
it is now). Thanks for thinking with us.


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