theWord Modules

Webmaster Update for September 10, 2024 (18 files)

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Pastor David Cox
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Today I am working on uploading more Austin-Sparks files and adding random “A Author” files. Also note that I am not doing all the editing that I am wanting to do. I want to add another topic in these files to other works of the same topic. If I am going to get the website restored, that will have to wait, and I will eventually be doing that if the Lord permits, and I will name the newer files “-v1_1” (bump up the minor version number) to show that.

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Also note that I am closing to editing all of these modules from now on. They are not encrypted, but only closed so that viewing them, a user doesn’t change the content by accident.

The comments are open on these posts, as well as the Webmaster updates. Please let me know if you like the new format I am using. It is somewhat easier to post material, but it doesn’t give the user a lot of information about the work. But as it is, you really need to download, install and view the work to see if you can really use it anyway. But other module repository websites make you register, “jump through hoops” like a circus dog act just to see a work. Here, you can visit these Webmaster updates and know and download what is new every day, or search in the stacks for something specific.

I am expending a lot of energy and work in formatting these modules, something that with modules being donated by different people is not seen in other module collections. I want consistency between works as you the user go from one module to another. I am also eliminating all the specific eSword formatting problems like the topics are forced to be sorted by first letter, thus needing 01, 02, … 10, 11, 12. That gets old after a while, though everybody understands it. Also, I am removing extra information like “01 Chapter 01” reducing it to a simple “1.” so that the user does not have to open the topic window so wide and steal space from the topic contents.

Old English in works

Note that a lot of our works are from Christians who lived in England, many quite a time back. They used what was their English at the time. Some of it is not understandable to an American (I am an American), so I don’t even upload that stuff. By there is a large body of works that have an “Anglicized” style of writing, and I make no pretense to change that. An American (most of our users) can read that text just fine. So I am bypassing that matter completely. There is an amount of work involved in making the text correct for American English. For those users who live in other English-speaking countries like Australia or South Africa, I do not think it is a problem for them either.

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