Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 

I've made so that the list in the install screen doesn't scroll horizontally. Other than that, there's not a lot I can do; the behavior is standard Qt behavior.

Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 

Ok, I've pushed a new version to extras-testing. This includes PalmBible+ support, and numerous interface enhancements. Test it, report any problems, and vote it up if you don't find any issues!

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is it still listed as katana? i didnt get any updates for it today?

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If you already had the latest version installed from extras-devel, you won't be prompted to update just because it moved to extras-testing.

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Please excuse me if this was already brought up somewhere - I didn't see it when searching the thread. I've had various versions of Katana installed for months, and haven't been able to make use of it at all. (I've just forgotten to file a bug report >_<) The texts seem to download and install properly, and the app functions correctly, but aside from the chapter and verse numbers, the text is nonexistent. I've tried purging the config and redownloading, as well as other things. One thing that may be worth mentioning is that I used to use Rapier on my N810 about a year and a half ago, and it worked fine; when I noticed this bug using Katana, I tried Rapier on my N810 again (I'd reflashed since the last time I'd had it installed), and had the same problem exactly. I'm a bit confused that no one else seems to have experienced this. I'm using Katana v0.4.2-0 on my N900 right now.
Any ideas?

Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 

It might be a silly thing to ask, but have you checked in the NT? What you are describing is what happens when you have a translation opened that doesn't provide any text for that section.

I have seen that happen on occasion, though. Switching translation has always resolved it for me.

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I know this translation has the full text, but admittedly I have only tried the one - heck, for all I know it could be corrupted on the server, or something similarly stupid. I'll try your suggestions and let you know.

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For those of you who use the new PalmBible+ capability, could you please test the current version and vote it up? It's ready to go as far as I know, but needs more votes to make it into extras.

Thanks!

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Hello.

I have a question. Is it possible to make an own translation of the bible?

I am a Tamil Christian and it would be great if there was a tamil version of the bible.

I have a tamil bible for my desktop pc and I am wondering if there is a possibility to do something similar for the N900.

Thanks

Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 

I've never looked into doing it, but I presume that the Sword Project provides tools to do so. Keep licensing issues in mind, though - you may not be able to share the converted text.

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Oh yeah, and in regards to my previous post about the text not showing up, it works fine now. I just blammoed the config and restarted Katana, and everything went much better. I suspect the download may have been borked the first time as well, given the difference in download time for the texts.

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Just noticed a bug when using PDB files.Katana crashes if you type I using the keyboard in situations like trying to open the book of Isaiah.
This does not happen in with sword bibles. Tried different letters but it seems for pdb files the problem lies with the letter i.

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I can't reproduce this. Could you please email me the PDB file that you're using?

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There are several keyboard commands in Bible+ and I wonder if these are somehow embedded within the PDB file? There is a list of these keyboard commands in the Bible+ Manual, at the moment I don't know which that one is for.

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I got this question via a personal email from the Crosswire folks. I am asking it here for discussion but also want to refer that it should be posted to the Sword Developer mailing list where this discussion is well underway:

Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 

Topping up to start up conversation on ARJWright post

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Since wine now seems to support arm (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...309#post833309)
Maybee it would be polssible to run e-sword on n900.
There is some old winCE versions for E-sword that possibly would run on this machine. Anyone with good knowledge up for a test?
Sadly I dont think I have the right knowledge to get it working:(

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why the hell would you want to run a win*** app on your linux phone ?
when there is a great great great bible app in qt, supporting sword and in qt, so supporting autorotation, i've named Katana !!!
I've used Rapier before Katana came to live but UI was awful, but now there is Katana an UI is just Well...

So don't be sad for crappy OSes things which don't work on your shiny OS and let be happy with what you have or can have, you will surely see that your joy is already existing (PS : i saw just today that N900 have a real Spotify client : QSpot, because others was not satisfaying for me...)

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There are many reasons why it would be nice to run apps not maded for linux on n900. E-swrod i such a program. I have used Katana and it is a realy good program but e-sword has an edge when it comes to have study material gatherd in one apps. And sewcondly for those who have used an app earlier there are working material yuo have that you can not move to other apps easly.
So as always inthe best of world we wold have had one OS for all computer related machines and one good app for each thing we do. Now we have NOT! so we are stucked to try to fit many things together.

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The power of platforms such as Sword isn't in the application itself being ported to any platform, but the content. Applications such as Rapier and Katana are designed to being that content to this specific platform, and as they mature, offer features or usability that is comparable with the e-sword on (physically) larger platforms.

In respect to that view, what exactly are you looking for from e-Sword that you would like to see on your Maemo device? And then having stated what it is you are looking for, would you be apt to assist in the development, testing, etc. of such a feature if it indeed works best on a handheld device (and not already in the queue to be added)?

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You are right, it is the content that is important. Katana is very good when it comes to search and read thats for sure. What I like with E-sword is the incorporated functions with both study topics at the right side and the lexicon under the bible text. For instance when you click on a verse you automaticly gets both relevant informmation from study topics on that verse and you get lexicon word explanation underneath. You even get the text if there is a biblevers as reference when you hold the mouse over that verse. It is this integration that makes E-Sword excellent to use. I understand that this would be complicated to get to work in a small handheld device such as n900 but to get crossreferences would be realy a treat.
I would love to test susch thing but I dont have good knowledge in programing and such stuff to make thing happend my self.
With greetings

Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 

No worries. I had an idea that this might have been what you are referring to. One of the ways of helping along efforts like Katana is to state what it is you are looking for and a piece of how you would like it to work. Usually speaking, someone can come along and refine things via a UX wireframe, or just go straight to the code.

Adding the kind of experience you are asking for will require some thought, but is worth exploring. If I get the time, I shall play with an idea or two and share it here. Others should contribute as well, so then we can refine the feature, and then see what the impact to Katana will be.

Keep the ideas coming, and don't be afraid to share. You never know who is listening and appreciating thoughts and comments on this effort ;)

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This sounds very good! You guys who are contributing to this community is awsome. When I bought my n900 I never thought that it has capacity to do so much. It seems almost endless possibilities.
But of course there are always ways improve. I will check back in this thread to see what ideas you might come up with. And of course I would like to tributute with testing if possible.
:)

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Hey, I have some few Brazilian-Portuguese translations in .pdb that I do not find in the repositories, neither in zip modules files to download around the internet.

If you still want the files, it will be a pleasure provide them to you.

Regarding other subject, I know that to invert colors on the screen seems a little unnecessary, but when I am reading at night, before sleeping, it would be nice to have a darker background, hence not "hurting" the eye with the clarity, or even to have a darker screen when my wife is in the bed and I don't want to bother her with the light coming from my screen.

I hope you consider this reasons.

Thank you so much for this big app that you provided to us, and God bless you everyday! Amen!

RG

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Very nice app and I use it often. Thanks all.
Can we have the following features:
1. Adding comments
2. Highlight verses in different colour
3. Read out options (like read whole chapter or certain selected range of verses)

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Any possibility of youversion on the N900? Katana is great and I like that it is offline unlike youversion. However, there is no NKJV available on Katana for copyright reasons I hear but it is available on youversion (presumably because it just takes you to an online version of the text). NKJV is what we use in my church and though UKJV is close it would be good to have access to the exact same text being read.

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If you have a purchased PDB version of NKJV it would work. Tried it and works.

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Hi RG,

I'm interested, are these catholic translations?
could you please shared them with me?

thank you

Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 

Have you tried just loading the page in the browser? It seems to use flash and/or javascript and therefore should work okay in microb. If that doesn't work, install java using one of the tutorials kicking around and use the java version. If that doesn't work, contact whomever develops it, as i don't see any signs it's open source and asking here probably isn't going to get to the developers.

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I once asked the folks at YouVersion about Maemo and other mobile platforms, they have a plan at which they are going at all platforms and that determines the availability of the application/service for them. As it stands, there is no way to take bibles that you have downloaded from YouVersion in one platform and add them to the other. They rely on the user being connected and download snippets of text as it is needed.

It is possible that they could go the route of a plugin for Katana that would do this, that would be simpler than an entire app. But, my guess is that it will be coded in Qt and come later when MeeGo is a touch more popular.

In terms of additional resources to support, a module for Logos' Biblia API/Service would be a signifiant and nice touch for Katana to go towards, and that API is open and Logos is open to seeing that happen. Again, this is another Bible service based on connectivity, not local storage, so folks here need to adjust their perspectives/expectations a bit for this.

In my opinion, it is for APIs like Biblia that Katana was developed. Publishers should have an a hook to their content, and then work with this community to create the plugin so that folks can take advantage of it. Makes sense for them financially, biblically, and technologically.

Edit: by the way, I just poked YouVersion and Logos back to this thread. You never know, God just might move their heart towards such a thing as this. It follows nicely with their goals.

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I have another problem here:

I've tried to use a .pdb file of a braziliam portuguese version but in the Katana some "firsts" verses of some chapters don't show. This is interesting cause in the bible+ for palm it works very well.

Is this a bug already known ?

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Any progress here .. :confused:

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Is there no update to this app... I use this app quite often. Could teh maintainer pls check out the above mentioned requests

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Any chance of adding the following:

(a) Back feature: To return to the previous screen. An example of where this would be useful is when you go to the select passage screen. If you select the Book you go to the chapter select screen. However, if you mistakenly press the wrong chapter you need to start the process all over again. Would be nice to just press back which would take you back to the chapter select screen.

(b) Next and previous chapter icons. Can be a mild annoyance having to go through the book and chapter selection process when the chapter you want is just 1 or 2 chapters away. I know you can scroll up or down to other chapters but not quite as intuitive and you may not know how long the chapter you are in is.

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Not sure if folks are still working/testing on Katana, but I've got to confess - I've not been pushing this project as much as I could have. Part of it has been life-related, other parts having more to do with just not seeing certain aspects of how I deal with faith and tech in a manner that serves (1 Cor. 13).

I simply ask for your forgiveness in that, and the ability to move forward.

I'm hoping to get an N900 (yes, I know the platform news) and get back into this project and a few others. If you could keep me in prayer for one (or know someone who'd be up for donating their N900) that would be great. In the meantime, I hope to put the work where my mouth/fingers are - there is an aspect of being aligned with an open source platform that makes a lot of sense for the ecosystem of Bible reading/distribution/marketing. Time to make that clear in practice.

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Can someone point me to some instructions on how to make one's own version of a Bible translation if one already has it in ASCII format?

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You can try this tool (http://gbf2bc.sourceforge.net/), but you might need to search around that community for an alternate one for other types of files/versions.

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If anyone could help me get the NIV on Rapier for Diablo, I swear, I personally will write a song about you. http://http.cdnlayer.com/cf/images/s...nion/love2.gif

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Sorry, not much of a chance of that happening (legally that is); its a licensing issue, not a technical one.

Your best bet will be a website to access it for the forseeable future.

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Thanks. I found this site which seems to be what I was looking for. In case any one is looking for the same thing.

http://palmbibleplus.sourceforge.net/createbible.htm