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From: | Wolfgang Stradner E |
Subject: | Re: [be] future bibledit |
Date: | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:13:38 +0100 |
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Hi Teus,Thinking of building Bibledit from scretch, perhaps the following dream could fit in:
Low Power Computing List: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hi,Thinking of a Scripture processing tool for Balsa (Basic affordable language software applicance), why not dreaming about something? And why not dreaming big?
What about a tool which- looks very much the same as Paratext (=PT): PT is actually the most used Scripture processing tool for Bible translators. I remember that (at least earlier versions of PT tried to be similar to MS-Word (which many people used for Scripture processing at this time) in order to make it easier to learn to use PT, - does a good job in Linux as Bibledit (Bibledit was built for Linux and is working there successfully since many years) and - has the capacity to connect to Fieldworks (in a way the Translation Editor does)
and allowing to switch on/off features so that can be used in a very simple way (working with and without cloud computing) ...
Wolfgang Teus Benschop wrote:
Hello Bibleditors, Looking into the future, development efforts are going to be concentrated on a new Bibledit written in PHP, intended for running on the web either on the internet or your local area network or your local computer. This way it becomes cross-platform much easier than it would be now. Apart from that a more important reason for this is that the whole world is moving to the web. The current bibledit, that is, the desktop application, is likely to remain in existence for a good while to come. It is powerful, and the new, web-based bibledit will not for a long time equal or surpass its capabilities. The new, web based bibledit, is going to be called "bibledit". But how shall we call the current bibledit? Opinions on this are invited. It could be called "bibledit-legacy", which would show the path it would go after some time, but right now since it has so much power, it is not going to be a legacy very soon. It could be called "bibledit-gtk", but that sounds technical since some people might wonder that -gtk means. Or do we call it "bibledit-desktop"? However, the new bibledit for the web runs on your desktop too, be it through a browser. Any suggestions? Teus.
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