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Can't access commentary book or chapter text #161

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Try to access commentary contained at the book or chapter level from 
Jamieson Fausset and Brown commentary. For example, Matthew chapter 21.
2. Text exists at both the book (Matthew) and chapter (Matthew 21) level per 
JFB module viewed in Xiphos, but can't access the commentary in And Bible. 
Commentary at this level is accessed in Xiphos by right-clicking in the 
commentary window and selecting either 'Display Book Heading' or 'Display 
Chapter Heading'.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Selecting Matthew 21 and JFB commentary displays no commentary. Is there a way 
to access the commentary in JFB at the book or chapter level?

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
And Bible 1.7.3 on Ice Cream Sandwich.

Please provide any additional information below.
Thanks very much for your efforts to date.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by gazn...@gmail.com on 13 Feb 2013 at 12:53

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I see the same behaviour.

The point in this issue is that a commentary (JFB) only displays at verse level 
for the single verse currently selected.

And for many verses, there is no entry anyway, such is the nature of some 
commentaries.

Original comment by DFH...@gmail.com on 13 Feb 2013 at 7:52

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
JFB Mat 21:23 does display some content. Verses 1-22 don't.

Original comment by DFH...@gmail.com on 13 Feb 2013 at 7:55

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
IMHO, viewing commentaries at chapter level should be a Settings option. This 
would help especially for [parts of commentaries] where the entries are 
sparsely populated.

Original comment by DFH...@gmail.com on 13 Feb 2013 at 7:58

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
This may be a limitation in the way JSword handles pre-chapter (introductions) 
content.  Can you check what Bible Desktop does.

Original comment by mjden...@gmail.com on 13 Feb 2013 at 8:11

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Adding to comment #2, the commentary for verses 1-22 is contained in the 
chapter commentary rather than being at the verse level.

Re: comment #4, Bible Desktop appears to handle the commentary data the same 
way as And Bible. I haven't used Bible Desktop before but couldn't find a way 
of viewing commentary at the book or chapter level.

I know nothing about programming but some other approaches to being able to 
view the data would be to associate book or chapter commentary with the next 
verse, or to be able to view a commentary as a book (to see the overall text 
flow) rather than linked to a bible.

Original comment by gazn...@gmail.com on 13 Feb 2013 at 8:47

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I think the JSword & Bible Desktop developer has already addressed this in the 
next version of JSword, but it might be a while before I can upgrade to that 
because there are a lot of other changes in it.

Original comment by mjden...@gmail.com on 13 Feb 2013 at 9:02

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
There appears to be a thread on the jsword-devel list about this issue at 
http://www.crosswire.org/pipermail/jsword-devel/2012-January/003918.html

The issue does appear to be particular to jsword and its offshots.

Original comment by gazn...@gmail.com on 13 Feb 2013 at 9:03

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Re comment #6. OK, thanks.

Original comment by gazn...@gmail.com on 13 Feb 2013 at 9:04