It appears (finally) there are two different kinds of quote blocks used by the RSV and other bibles, as exemplified by Genesis 48 and 49. In Genesis 48 there is a “quote block” in which wrap and newlines return to the original indent. Then, in Genesis 49 there appears to be a “poetry block” which […]
Author: Appledog
Reworking the UI and Document
I am unsatisfied with my UI. There are two primary changes I want to make; possibly three. This is the reason why I haven’t done any serious work on the site for a month; I’m going to have to redesign everything. The UI issue The first issue is which UI to use. Single document, dual […]
The Next Book is Jonah
I was debating over Job or Jonah for the second book, and decided on Jonah because it’s shorter. This doesn’t mean I’m lazy, it means I don’t want to dedicate a very large amount of my time to a new book when I don’t feel fully satisfied with Genesis. However, with the reader in a […]
The Failure of Datapages
Datapages seemed like such a good idea, but they failed. And I don’t know why. They work — unless they don’t. Most of the time, they work fine. But then suddenly, for unknown reasons, they don’t work. The PHP won’t load. Or the javascript won’t work. I know it’s my fault, somewhere — but I’ve […]
Data Pages: A solution for DokuWiki-BibleApp interoperability
I believe I’ve finally come up with the best solution. An orphan page called genesis_1_data. This page isn’t really an orphan, since all of them will link to each other (with next and back links, perhaps, links to TOC and chapter, etc). The point is, that normally users won’t go to these pages, but to […]
Using export_raw vs RefNotes
A somewhat tricky issue. If I use export_raw, it’s sufficiently easier to reformat pages in the layout script, than it is to have nice looking automatically numbered references via RefNotes in the DokuWiki view. What seals the deal is twofold; you cannot click on the note markers in the reader on DokuWiki, and, the named […]
Formatting Notes, Commentary and Cross-References
This is just a little brainstorm to figure out now how I am going to format notes, commentary, and cross-references. The problem goes something like this. It’s easy to mark notes in a section by verse, but difficult to mark notes in a section by a particular word. If I use double braces ((like this)), […]
Dokuwiki as Document Manager using export_xhtmlbody
So, it seems I may be able to use Dokuwiki, at least to edit the documents, after all. I’ve become aware of the “?do=export_xhtmlbody” command which can be added to any DokuWiki link. This allows me to view the body of a DokuWiki document as XHTML. This uses <h3> for the Creole plugin’s === header, […]
What would be the Best Bible Translation?
As we saw in the previous post, “What is the Best Bible Translation?”, there is no useful English translation for the Noachide, and there is certainly nothing designed for counter-missionary work. But what would be the best bible translation? Something you can trust theologically, for one. Something that reads well — similar to the KJV, […]
What is the Best Bible Translation?
What is the best bible translation? This question has come up a number of times on shows like Tenak Talk. Invariably the answer is that there are no English translations of the bible which are going to replace learning the original Hebrew, and there are many good reasons to take such a statement with it’s […]