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BUGS & PROBLEMS
Under Windows XP or Windows 2000, accented fonts that have accents separate
from the letters do not work correctly. The accents are usually indicated as
zero length letters in the True Type font which the new TRichedit box is not
processing correctly. The effects the MGreek text. Accented text like
Hebrew and Greek do not work but since the Online Bible does not use
accented Greek and Hebrew we are not affected.
We have a fix (XPFix) you may download from OnlineBible.Net. It has side
effects on the mouse wheel and Arabic support. If you do not have display
problems, do not use it.
ADDITIONS
New Bibles
New Topic Material
Commentaries
User Sent Material
UPDATES
Topics
Dictionaries
OTHER NEWS
We have made up a tutorial on how to add topics and books to the Online Bible program. As time permits we plan to include the other types of modules also. Feedback would be appreciated on the tutorials.
Due to the large number of viruses we are being sent each day we are no
longer accepting letters with attachments. The only Exceptions will be -
- startup logs will be accepted.
- advance notice of an attachment.
NEW PROGRAM FEATURES
- Advance User Mode is no longer an option to enable/disable. Feature is
always turned on (enabled).
- Backup feature added to backup material (copy) from one location to another.
- New tool to automatically build and sort dictionary indices for existing
dictionaries.
The Word Version 1.0 / The Online Bible 9.0 onwards
- Septuagint in Greek
- Septuagint in English
- Rotherham Bible
- Peshitta, Syriac Bible
- Barnes Notes on the New Testament
July, 2001
Version update 1.03
June, 2001
New manual posted (Feb. 3, 2001) in PDF format on our web site.
1) To change the book names for compiled Bible versions include a text file
BookName.Lst in the note control directory of the Bible notes set. Each
line consists of several entries. The last entry on the line is the
bookname abbreviation and the rest of the text of the line is the book
name. Abbreviations must not exceed four characters and must be unique.
Booknames cannot exceed 15 characters in length. The following is sample
file for Xhosa bible with control directory of ..\xhosa00.
Contents of file Bookname.Lst
IGenesis Ge
IEksodus Ek
ILevitikus Le
INumeri Nu
IDuteronomi Du
UYoshuwa Yos
&c
2) Date of compiled modules displays in preselection menu so you can quickly
determine if you have the most recent copy.
3) Some have reported a sync scroll bug. We have tracked it down to
scrolling a passage window with footnotes activated. The Windows text box
is not correctly the case where an entire line is of a different size in
a verse. The various work arounds are:
1) Use the notes window to sync scroll.
2) Turn off footnotes in the Bible text.
3) Use a Bible text that does not have footnotes.
4) Use the right/left arrow to move to the next note or right click
and use the menu option to move to the note.
5) Buy Windows /2000. All the 9X, ME, series operating systems have this
bug. Windows /2000 does not have this problem.
4) To assist technical support, the preselection menu displays the compile
date for modules. The error count and the source of the module e.g.
(User) is also indicated. Some users have been posting compiled modules
that are absolutely full of errors. If the module displays incorrectly
you will now know why.
5) To compile a module without the "_" affixed to it, create you noteset so
that is starts with an "_". e.g. "_Notes". Compiled modules must have
unique names otherwise you will have trouble accessing modules in your
system with the same name. Use the Rename function under the
"Create/Maintain User Material" menu to rename existing text notes sets.
6) You can now copy locked versions to your hard drive before you unlock
them. You can delete locked versions on your hard drive, if you do not
want them.
7) Smart note display works for notes like Matthew Henry's Commentary that
do not have notes on every verse but do comment on every verse in a
chapter. If you display a verse that does not have a note, the note that
does comment on that verse is displayed instead.
8) Auto formatting and the HTML convert should eliminate most orphan tokens
resulting from OCR scanning errors &c. The HTML converter should be now
able to handle very large HTML files quickly. (e.g. > 10 megs)
9) Under the advanced customise options, you can disable scanning for the
OLB CD or the Audio CD at program startup. Do this only if you have the
Audio CD files or the OLB CD files all copied to your the hard drive and
never run with the OLB CD. Scanning for the CD is necessary if you have a
CD juke box where the drive letter for the OLB may change each time you
insert a CD.
10) To display display of all alternate versions in a window, press "9" or
select "Show Primary Version Only" in the right mouse button popup menu.
11) Text marked as fixed format is not orphan checked by the editor or the
note compiler. Display problems with fixed format text are corrected.
12) Mapping omissions in Gideon Hebrew font to OLB Hebrew font corrected for
HTML converter routine. Support added for Galaxie Software Greek, Hebrew
and Scholar fonts which are used in some HTML texts.
13) You can export existing Bible texts directly into notesets that are
created with the BibleText attribute. Use the conversion tools to do this
selecting the tool "Convert Old Bible text ... ". For the Input file
specify the name of the Bible, e.g. ASV. The destination is a the name of
a noteset that has been created with the BibleText attribute. Each verse
of the Bible will be copied to each note and can be accessed as a regular
note. The resulting noteset may be compiled to produce an amended Bible
text.
If a Bible is copyrighted you must make extensive changes (> 10%) to
qualify for a new version. Spelling changes do not count. You and you
alone are responsible to see to it that you do not violate copyright
law. Any English Bible text that is older than 75 years may safely be
assumed to be public domain in North America.
14) Select All, Clear buttons added to search menu. Select All selects all
resources to be searched. Clear All, clears all selected items.
Currently search menu opens new windows for every database that is
searched. This will be changed in the future.
15) Installing Works Suite 2001 causes the popup menus to appear twice for a
single right click under Windows 98, and ME. Problems does not happen
under Windows 2000! A code work around was implemented to circumvent
this new Microsoft bug. Uninstalling Works does not correct the problem.
Once it is installed once, the damage is done.
16) Interface changed to install two manuals, the basic one and and advanced
one. The advanced is available only in electronic format.
17) Word Wheel suppressed when doing a multi-database search.
18) HTML code "ul" meaning unnumbered list now supported. It is the same
as text in poetry format in the Online Bible. You may use
instead of "ul".
19) Indicated footnotes with the following new XML code:
<fn id="xxx" text="yyy" /> Where xxx is the footnote id and yyy is the footnote text.
Before:
This text contains a footnote here <fn id="1" text="footnote text 1" /> and
here <fn id="2" text="footnote example 2" /> as well.
After HTML Converter:
This text contains a footnote here {1} and here {2} as well.
{1} footnote text 1
{2} footnote example 2
The footnotes appear at the end of the division.
20) Wild card names accepted in Html Conversion tool form. This allows batch
conversion of all files in a directory.
Input file: c:\myfiles\*.htm
Output File C:\newfiles\*.txt
All HTM files are converted and placed in output directory "c:\newfiles"
with an extension of "txt". All errors are displayed at the end of the
batch processing. BE SURE TO CORRECT AND RERUN THE TEXT WITH THE ERROR!
Future plans for this Spring:
1) Linux development put on hold pending more research.
After conducting a poll of our users to gage the interest in Linux, we
are deferring that project for at least one year if not permanently. So
little interest was shown, it does not justify us doing anything at this
time. We remember how badly we got burned on OS/2 and do not wish to
repeat that fiasco. The way it stands now, we feel we should wait at
least a year before attempting the conversion. This will give us time
to see how well Borland's Kylex is accepted in the market place and how
many software conversions to Linux actually take place. Also this will
indicate if Linux is going to gain in market share. Most of the support
for Linux is based on an irrational hatred of Microsoft which is a very
poor way to promote a new system. Like OS/2, Linux has very serious
installablity and usability issues that preclude wide spread use by he
average user. Delaying development also gives programmers time to get
experience in Kylex conversions of Delphi programs to Linux. The old
adage is all too true that you can always spot the pioneers by the arrows
in their backs.
To date only five people responded who wanted Linux.
2) When Delphi 6 is shipped in the second quarter we will migrate to Delphi 6 in the next release.
3) Performance improvements in loading large note sets for the editor and for display.
4) More enhancements to tools used for note creation.
January, 2001
Version update 1.02
August, 2000
New manual posted (August 2000) in PDF format on our web site.
Future plans for this fall (Autumn to those in Britain!):
1) When Borland releases a Linux version of Delphi, we will work on porting
the code to Linux. Our guess is that it could take several months
depending on how well Borland does the port of Delphi to Linux. This
entire project depends on Borland and their time tables. We make no
promises.
2) Performance improvements in loading large note sets for the editor and
for display.
3) Many improvements to the editor for creating notesets for the Online Bible.
... Larry Pierce
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