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Kio-Sword Sourceforge page

2006-12-30T00:50:46Z

I finally got around to uploading Kio-Sword to Sourceforge, which is where all releases will be found from now on. I also migrated my subversion repository, so a complete history is available now.

Kio-Sword 0.3 released

2006-12-17T00:37:11Z

I've released Kio-Sword version 0.3. Changes include:

Fixed a bug which caused dead links when browsing Bibles with non-English locales where Bible book names contains non-ascii characters
Fixed a bug with 'Test settings' where previous URL contained non-ascii characters
Fixed a bug which caused searching for non-ascii characters to fail
Other small improvements and code cleanups

Kio-Sword 0.2 released

2006-01-06T02:47:37Z

About 18 months after my last release, just to show this project isn't dead, I have a new release. It doesn't have everything I wanted to add, but I decided it was better to release what I have done and the rest can wait. Changes include:

Better support for Bibles in RTL languages (Arabic, Hebrew)
Supports localised names for books of the Bible
New, simplified page design using cleaner and better HTML (no tables, semantic HTML)
Settings propagate in URLs, so you can turn a setting on and it stays on (and this works even if multiple kio_sword processes are spawned)
Access keys for navigation and toggling formatting settings
Title of the page is meaningful (much better for browsing history in Konqueror)
New shortcut for Bible verses: e.g. sword:John 3:16 (note there is no forward slash after "sword:") to go to your default Bible
Lots of cleaning up of the code, including a new system for settings and output of HTML, using namespaces nicely and naming classes sensibly :-)
Search page pre-selects the default Bible as the module to search
Fixed various bugs

There are a range of other things I wanted to do, and I am very open to suggestions. If you want a feature, even a really small change, please let me know, and remind me again if I have not included something you really wanted.

If anyone wants to come up with a better page design that would be great. The nice thing about this project is you don't have to worry about Internet Explorer -- the only browser you care about is Konqueror, which has excellent CSS support. So you can show off your knowledge of all the latest and greatest CSS2 etc. Anyone?

Kio-Sword 0.1-3

2005-07-09T16:34:56+01:00

I finally got round to installing Debian Sarge in a chroot (it was amazingly quick and easy using debootstrap), mainly so I could test packages. I've found that my most recent release of Kio-Sword doesn't work in Debian Sarge (I presume a C++ ABI problem), so I've now rebuilt and the new version works in both Debian Sarge and Ubuntu Hoary. You can get it here:

https://lukeplant.me.uk/debian/kio-sword_0.1-3_i386.deb.

Or you can add these lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list and use apt-get:

deb https://lukeplant.me.uk/debian ./
deb-src https://lukeplant.me.uk/debian ./

Kio-Sword 0.1-2

2005-04-23T21:45:14+01:00

I fixed the Debian package of kio-sword version 0.1, to remove some incorrect (and troublesome) dependencies. It's available from the download page.

I am still working on this project, in case anyone is interested! This is my current TODO list:

Fix the title of the page so it shows something useful
Add spacing between verse numbers and the verse
Easier access to the default module, perhaps making 'bible:' go straight there
Display footnotes somehow?
Get it properly internationalised
Support for non-English names for books of the Bible (needs thinking about)
Various bug fixes (strongs and morphs tags for various backend formats don't work right, some cross refs don't work right,...)

I'll hopefully be able to hack on this at some point fairly soon! Having a job is such a nuisance :-)

Kio-Sword 0.1

2004-06-05T16:04:02+01:00

Kio-Sword version 0.1 release, first proper public release. The source tarball and a Debian package are available on the download page.

Kio-Sword 0.0.1

2004-06-02T09:39:48+01:00

Initial test release available on Download page

Kio-Sword

2004-05-31T22:21:42+01:00

New section to the website lukeplant.me.uk/kio-sword, for a software project I'll be releasing shortly.