Added Introduction to Valentinus essay. The essays will
soon have thier own section but as there is just one it is
a direct link for now.
The Application shows Scriptorium 2.0 in the Title bar,
which is due to the fact that it is the second program I have
written with that title. The 1.0 refers to the build, so Scriptorium
should, I guess, be called 2.1.0 (Version, major buid, minor
build). I will fix this is the next revision. Sorry for the
confusion.
There is an undocumented 'feature' (a real feature, not
a Microsoft feature!) in the text editor. The Font toolbar
has a button which launches the loaded document in the Windows
default program for the currently loaded document. So, if
you have Office, it will probably load the RTF documents in
Word, and TXT documents in Notepad. This is so you can print
the document, or edit it in a "richer" editor. It is experimental
so let me know if you have problems with it. You can change
the default program for any file type by right clicking on
a file, selecting 'open with' and checking 'Always open with'
in the dialog after you select the program (or see the Windows
help. Its really easy).
May 21, 2006 - Scriptorium 1.0 now available on the download
page.
The full version of Scriptorium is now available see the download
page for full details. As promised, here is a tentative list
of future add ons:
Apocrypha - at least one version,
probably 2 or 3
The Books of Enoch - including the Bruce translation of
1 Enoch.
Primary Texts of the Medieval Kabbalah - such as the Sepher
Yetzirah, The Zohar and Bahir
More reference works are also planned, with
Matthew
Henry's Commentaries - both Full and Concise
Apocrypha - at least one version, probably 2 or 3
Nave's Topical Bible
Torrey's New Topical Textbook
King james Concordance
Theosophical Dictionary
If there are works you think might
be useful (that are in the public domain) that you do not see,
please
suggest them!
There will be updates and patches as needed
so please bookmark and check back now and then.
May 18, 2006 - The Installation, Quick
Start and Admin Guide has been uploaded to the Documentation
page. You can download it by clicking here.
Note that both the Install guide and the UI Reference will be
included in the distribution Zip file, so you don't have to
download it seperatly, unless you want to. The release of the
full version is on track for this weekend. I will probably post
the files on Sunday evening.
Thanks everyone for your interest!.
May 9, 2006 - Scriptorium has a release
date!
(note: I am pushing the date back a week, sorry) Monday May 22nd, 2006
will see the release of the full version of Scriptorium. All of the testing is done.
The Database and Admin Guide is almost ready. The full release
version will include everything in the beta plus Scripture Linking,
Book import from the (greatly expanded) options panel and a
lot more. Plus the Import tool has been fixed up. When the full
version goes up I will also post a list of future add-ons and
modules that are in progress. That includes Bible creation (Codex
first) tools, database maintanence tools and some export features
for things like Bibliography.
April 22, 2006 -
The draft version
of the Scriptorium Core UI Reference is available on the documentation page or by clicking here.
April 17, 2006 -
The
Corpus Hermetica is now avaialable on the download
page as a module. It was compiled from the
G.R.S. Meade translation.
April 14, 2006 -
The
Pistis Sophia is now avaialable on the download
page as a Module. It was compiled from sources
on the Internet (mostly from Internet Sacred Text Archives version)
from the G.R.S. Meade translation.
March 31, 2006 -
The
URANTIA Book is now available on the download
page. The work is definitly in the public domain
- as there is NO valid copyright holder - and the confusion
stems from undated information that was 5-10 years old and the
fact that there were several lawsuits between 1997-2003. As
the WWW gets older this sort of thing will happen more and more,
I guess. Concerning the copyright case, the entire
story of the Oklahoma trial denying the Urantia
Foundation's copyright and subsequent appeals
(all the way to the Supreme Court!) is also posted online. The
module was not compiled from any version owned by the Urantia
Foundation.
March 30, 2006 -
The Final Beta
Release is now available on the Download
Page. If you have the first Beta you should
replace it with Beta 2 (or you can download binaries only).
March 26, 2006 -
The second (and final) Beta
release is nearly ready to go up. After a bit of trouble with
my new laptop, the modules are tested and the bug list is done.
The Html editor has been modified so that the links and includes
function are gone but the rest of the form works very well.
The links and includes functions were trickier that it looked
since the UI creates the HTML by reading the rich text, which
means, in a nutshell, that there was no way to ensure the text
and HTML output matched up if the text was edited after a link
was defined or an image was added. On the good side, the HTML
output is easily edited in a real editor like Dreamweaver or
the free but useful ASP Web Matrix. I will put alink on the
Resources page.
On to the good news, then. The crash I had with the lap top
actually turned out ok. HP picked it up, fixed it and had it
back within 72 hours, though I am still a bit uncertain what
'actually' was wrong. The tech support guys re-imaged the hard
drive so I can't really say it's not going to happen again but
I will be even more careful about backups. Anyway, the Module
code was (naturally) on that computer so I had to rewrite that
whole class and the integration but while I was doing the code
(for the second time) I realised that the same idea could be
used for References like Eastons Dictionary which is already
in the first release. So the next release will contain the previously
mentioned Bible modules (no Urantia book though, the copy right
situation is somewhat murky) plus the Basic English Bible. These
are all Bibles included in a majority of Scripture tools. Along
with them there will be five reference 'plugins' :
Easton's Bible Dictionary
Smithe's Bible Dictionary
King James Bible Dictionary
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Concise Bible Dictionary
As previously mentioned, executable and libraries must be updated
to use the new modules but all that is required is that you
download and unpack the files into your Scriptorium directory
( this will overwrite the old )
Barring any more technical glitches I am planning on a release
around 3/31.
March 24, 2006
- Site Updates:
New screen shots showing the new features that will be in
Beta 2. See them here
Added online versions of the new reference tools. There
is a browser (by reference) page and a search page.
See the Browse page here
/ See the Search page here.
March 18, 2006
- The first Scripture
modules are done and as soon as the new EXE is QCed they will
go up on the download page.The first batch includes:
LDS Scriptures - Book of Mormon and the LDS Bible - Whole
Bible plus
You will have to update the EXE to use the modules (or you
can download the whole thing again if you really want to).
Also, I am looking at the possibility of expanding the Webbrowser
(or creating a new Document type) for HTML documents, as that
seems the way things are going and many bibles and other books
are available in HTML for free download - and also adding an
HTML panel to the Scriptures form for commentaries, dictionaries,
etc.
The RTF-HTML section is also being overhauled and I will post
some screens / details soon.
Thanks! Note: The Hebrew Bible has an error
in the Texts table. I will fix it in the next
release but in case you want to fix it now (or you don't want
to overwrite your database for a little thing like this!) you
can:
Open the Exegesis database in Access. In the 'Texts' table change
the NameTable to 'bible_books'. That will take care of the issue.
March 14, 2006 -
Runnning through a short list
of bugs. Documentation is coming along. It will be a while before
it is perfect but I will get a draft posted as soon as possible.
I am making some changes to the HTML tools, mostly trying to
make the form easier to use, even though that means trimming
the functions that it supports, as it stands now it's too complicated.
If I can get it to convert straight RTF files to HTML it should
be sufficient. Anything more complicated and Dreamweaver or
something like it is really better than trying to overload the
thing and end up making it practically speaking, useless. There
should be a 'patched' EXE within a week or two and I am also
trying to get additional scripture ready as well. The first
couple should include the Book of Mormon, a couple of other
Bible/NT translations and maybe a 'New Agey' text like the Urantia
book.
