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Option to view only the variable texts of the Mass #74

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Currently, the missa program produces the complete text of the Mass for a given 
day, just as the horas program produces the complete text of the office for a 
given day and hour. While this is necessary for the breviary, I believe it is 
too much text for many who regularly attend Mass in the extraordinary form. 
Carefully following all the words the priest and server say is one way of 
achieving actuosa participatio, but it is not the only way.

Once the responses are memorized (or even sooner if it is not a dialog Mass), 
the interesting part is the variable texts that come from the proper or common: 
introit, collect, epistle, etc. plus indications of things that are special 
about the Mass, e.g., the psalm Judica is not said in Passiontide, there are 
various particularities about a Mass for the dead, etc. The Triduum is enough 
of a special case that the full text should probably be provided in any case.

This short form of the Mass texts could also be useful to priests preparing a 
homily.

Possibly, a "medium" form of the Mass should also be an option: this would be 
the short form plus longer texts that are said by the congregation during a 
dialog Mass: Gloria, Credo, and perhaps "Suscipiat Dominus..."

Original issue reported on code.google.com by a...@liturgiaetmusica.com on 12 Nov 2011 at 9:08

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
BTW, I am requesting this now so that it won't be forgotten and can be 
discussed, not because I need an immediate implementation.

Original comment by a...@liturgiaetmusica.com on 12 Nov 2011 at 9:09

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
The horas program also of course has a way to abbreviate what it sent: the 
"expand" option (leftmost at the bottom of the page) where you can choose 
'all', 'psalms', 'nothing', and 'skeleton'.   Unless you choose 'all', then 
certain parts of the Hour (such as, the psalms, the hymns, or the various "ad 
omnes Horas") are suppressed behind "pop-up" links.   We could adopt a similar 
scheme for the Mass.

The "pop-ups" are not cutting edge (HTML5) nor modern (jQuery) nor even recent 
(style.display=), but old:  target='_NEW'.  This raises a parallel issue, 
namely : are the pop-ups even used by the user community, and if so, shouldn't 
we update them?  But on the other hand pop-ups in general have a very different 
L&F on mobile devices, and perhaps such UI niceties should be left to the 
"resellers" (i.e. iMass and Breviarium Meum).  

(NB the psalm popup feature is currently broken on the live site.  I think this 
means that it's not widely used, since there have been no complaints (that I've 
heard).)

Original comment by a...@malton.name on 12 Nov 2011 at 4:24

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I would say that questions about the user community would be best settled by 
examining Web site stats: how often is /cgi-bin/horas/popup.pl downloaded?

Original comment by a...@liturgiaetmusica.com on 12 Nov 2011 at 5:56

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
In Sep and Oct 2011 : 260007 Pofficium's, 22907 officium's, and 326 popups.

Original comment by a...@malton.name on 13 Nov 2011 at 4:30

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Easter egg: you can add ?Propers=1 to the URL and get an approximation to 
what's called for here.

Original comment by a...@malton.name on 15 Nov 2011 at 4:57

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by a...@malton.name on 25 Nov 2011 at 2:43