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Type:
New Feature
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Status: Open (View Workflow)
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Priority:
Major
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Affects Version/s: 1.5 (was 1.0.7)
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Fix Version/s: 1.7
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Component/s: None
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Description
Having Strongs numbers show up as the actual numbers would be very useful.
When you move your mouse over the "link numbers", they show the actual value in the status bar.
For some, the larger links make the text almost unreadable. I think that having a popup with the actual definition would be cool. It would be like a tooltip in that it would automatically dismiss after a bit of time, that only one would be visible at a time, ....
DM:
There is some new work going on with the Strong's lexicons. Chris Little is working on upgrading the existing ones to show accented text in the original languages, merging the two into one and doing this in TEI (the markup that has been agreed in principle to be used in OSIS). I'm working on something similar for Lockman.
The way the data is being marked up, it will be easy to pull the transliteration and the actual Greek and Hebrew out.
Once those are in place, we will have more opportunities.
We tried making the words that it referred be links, but the problem is that some <w> elements are of the form <w lemma="G1234 G2345" morph="a b">translated text</w>. That is, two or more words in Greek are translated into a phrase in English. Not sure how to represent that as a link. Also, when we have morphology turned on, it describes the phrase too and there can be more than one. We can't have two different links surrounding the same phrase. So if we can figure out how to represent that as a link (perhaps a popup?) we could go there.
The other problem we had with making the words to be the links was that performance was horrible. I don't know if that has improved any.
I like the idea of an unchanging symbol. And making it an option to show the actual number in a link. Likewise for morph.
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Keith, of course, you are right.
The new Strong's dictionaries will be available soon after SWORD 1.5.12 is released. They are in beta now.
The issues here are:
1) Some people find that Strong's Numbers are useful to see. Some don't.
2) The display becomes too busy when Strong's Numbers are shown, making it nearly impossible to read the text.
I think the solution is to let people have what they want via preferences. Such as:
Show Strong's Numbers in the text.
Show Strong's Numbers as a tool-tip when hovering over a simple footnote.
Show the dictionary entry in a hover div when hovering over the reference (however it is displayed)
Since OSIS surrounds text with the tag, it might be nice to highlight the associated text on hover (or click) and also all the other words using the same Strong's Number(s). (SwordWeb does something like this)
For enhancements like this one which would decode Strongs numbers to get the actual Hebrew/Greek words, there is always the possibility that the user has not installed those dictionaries. In those cases these enhancements need to fallback to showing the actual Strongs numbers.