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This is a cosmetic/clean-up release. No new capability is present.
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- Building against GTK3 (i.e. waf configure --gtk=3) should once again
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be reasonable. Generally, GTK3 will require --enable-webkit-editor,
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because the older editor seems not fully de-lintable for GTK3.
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- Internal use of generic warnings has been updated to re-introduce
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"modal" warnings, i.e. user acknowledgement before Xiphos proceeds.
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This is necessary for e.g. startup catastrophes, where the warning
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dialog must appear and remain for user ACK before the program exits.
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- Added statusbar acknowledgement of alt-[SRM] display modifiers, as well
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as BibleSync keyboard navigation.
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- The Preferences page for BibleSync has been de-cluttered somewhat.
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- The unnecessary doubling of win32 login name is gone in BibleSync.
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- A build complaint from very new compilers has been fixed.
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This release has drastic forward movement in BibleSync plus a number of
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- BibleSync is no longer integral to Xiphos alone; it has been separated
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into its own library, to make it available for other Bible programs.
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There is some activity toward integrating it into others already.
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- BibleSync has gained a number of features, both in the library itself
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and in how Xiphos uses it. It now uses its own Preferences page, due to
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additional features and complexity. Notably, BibleSync operates using
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speaker beacons, limiting the trouble that can be caused by either
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inadvertent or malicious navigation by others.
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- BibleSync in Xiphos 3.2.1 will not interoperate with 3.2.0. The
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addition of speaker beacons means that 3.2.0 will not recognize or
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generate them, and 3.2.1 will not recognize a speaker without them.
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(As applied to BibleSync 1.0.0 -vs- 1.0.1 differences.)
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- Fixed a very old error regarding inconsistent internal use of the
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scripture cross-reference option.
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- Consequent to that xref bug fix, exported content correctly no longer
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contains either footnotes or xrefs.
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- Persistent difficulties with module archive have been resolved.
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- Generic warning dialogs, used all over the place, have been replaced
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with a non-modal method that is not troublesome in the face of timing
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- Compatibility issues with Solaris and BSD are resolved.
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- Added populating the verse list directly from a dialog (context menu).
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This release is to accommodate one late-arriving Sword engine change and
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to support generalized companion modules. It also provides the first
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implementation of BibleSync, a shared navigation protocol specification
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for Bible programs, details of which we are sharing with other programs'
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authors and hope to see being made available soon. GTK2 is still the
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display toolkit we expect to be used. Also, several urgent bugfixes have
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- New BibleSync subsystem: Multicast group navigation with glue on
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navigation reception and transmission when navigating locally.
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- Preferences added to support BibleSync options: mode enable, navigation
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style choice, and activity tracing and privacy toggle options.
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- Updated companion modules (conf directive Companion=Abc,Def,Xyz) for
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Bibles and commentaries so as to allow arbitrary sets where the 1st
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opens in the main window and the rest open in detached windows. This is
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important for organizations such as Wycliffe who produce grouped
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modules, useful in such a manner.
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- Added kbd toggles alt-S (Strong's), alt-M (morphology), alt-R (red words).
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- Heading generation changed in line with Sword 1.7.3's new internals.
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- Fixed crash on unparseable xref module content.
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- Fixed crash on copy/export.
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- Fixed crash on bogus middle-click on multi-ref bookmark.
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- Fixed crash on handling xref within heading
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- Fixed win32 pango module filesystem placement.
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- Fixed module manager column width setting.
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- Fixed module manager archive function.
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- Fixed NASB-specific lexica references for forthcoming NASB release.
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- Removed gconf query.
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This release is for compatibility with the recent Sword release, a number
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of small features, and many bug fixes.
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This release was very delayed both due to our need for the long-awaited
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Sword 1.7 release, upon which any release of Xiphos has been dependent for
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more than a year, and because of time demands on Xiphos developers.
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Due to many problems with GTK3 support, 3.1.6 is being released with the
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expectation of being built against GTK2. The GTK3 problems will be
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resolved for a future release and we will move Xiphos forward for that then.
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Incidental improvements and bug fixes:
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- The existence and placement of Preferences, Module Manager, and Advanced
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Search windows is saved.
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- Major compatibility changes for the underlying Sword interface,
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especially renderText() and its minions.
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- Live chat nick selection identifies user's platform and Xiphos version.
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- Manual updates to reflect recent additions (eg. Alt-A [annotate]).
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- Journals can be opened in regular display detached window (not editor).
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- "Friendly" (abbreviation) month names for devotional use in the
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- Export off-by-one error when crossing chapter boundary is fixed. Export
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also made somewhat more general and featureful. 3.1.5's missing export
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- Addition of repository support for HTTP, HTTPS, and SFTP.
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- Version differences in dbus IPC (xiphos-nav) have been homogenized.
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- Build inconsistencies across Linux distributions are fixed.
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- Removed last vestiges of unneeded, defunct KJV pilcrow (¶) handling.
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- A number of updates to native language support for module tree lists.
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- Sword's OSISVariants now works (had never been added since Sword's OSIS
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support came into existence).
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- Xiphos internals have moved forward to Sword's XHTML interface, leaving
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behind the old HTMLHREF interface. Many consequent internal changes.
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- Unicode punctuation is no longer mis-spoken in ReadAloud.
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- The last of the historic gtkhtml3 support has been removed, other than
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the editor component in GTK2: Xiphos depends exclusively on webkit. This
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is Xiphos' 5th display engine. We do not intend to change it ever again.
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