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Improve version comparison #122

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
The version comparison window just presents a passage in parallel in each
of the selected translations, stacked either vertically or horizontally. 
There should be a better way to compare versions at the word level.  Making
a system that scales to comparing more than two versions while remaining
readable could be quite a challenge.  Possible sources of inspiration:
1. The AV/RV Interlinear Bible displays the common words of the
translations in large font, and shows variations in a smaller font, one on
top of the other.  I find it difficult to read without practice, and it
also looks awkward for minor changes like.  It does at least seem to make
commonalities and different fairly distinct.

2. BibleDesktop allows two versions to be compared in one line of text,
using strike out to give text of the first that differs from the text of
the second.  This can be quite difficult to read because it is at the
letter level rather than the word level, and some of the changes can strike
out a part of a word and put a completely different word in its place,
which is not a significant or legible change.

3. There was a recent suggestion on the CrossWire forums to scale to more
than two translations using vertical stacking and colouring to capture
differences from different translations
(http://www.crosswire.org/forums/mvnforum/viewthread_thread,823).  It
appeared well thought out, but I am not clear how well it would work if the
text of any of the lines needed wrapping.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jonmmor...@gmail.com on 15 Feb 2010 at 11:25

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
4. Another possibly relevant suggestion is to borrow the style of the 26 
Version New
Testament, which does it on a phrase by phrase basis and selects readings from 
a few
versions that it thinks gives the most significant variations.  This is not as
complete as actually comparing all 26 versions, but it is probably easier to 
read and
more useful as well.  However, I'm not sure how well you could determine 
significant
variations of wording in software, so I suspect such a thing would have to be 
done by
hand (and it would probably have considerable copyright implications and 
require lots
of publisher permission if you chose to include copyrighted versions in the 
comparison).

Original comment by jonmmor...@gmail.com on 15 Feb 2010 at 11:47