Suggestion: Commentaries & Study/Topic Notes

[reynaldi]

Assalamualaikum wr. wb.,

Hi, first of all i'd like to thank all the contributors to this
wonderful project. May Allah rewards you all for your good work.

If there's one (or two) features that I'd really love to have in Zekr,
it would be incorporating Commentaries and Study/Topic Notes as we see
in e-sword.net into Zekr. Those tools are very useful especially when
you're really studying the Quran and you can share the notes with
anyone using Zekr.

In the notes we can insert hyperlinks so for example when we type
"baqarah:12" then block it then press "insert hyperlink" button, it
becomes a hyperlink to surat al baqarah ayah 12. Same thing goes when
we type "2:12". And when we move the mouse over the hyperlink, a
tooltip comes up showing the ayah. There are many more features you
can add but I think those are the basics. IMHO this will greatly
enhance the usefulness of the software in it's main objective: to
study Al-Qur'an.

Btw, is there any recent TODO list posted? If not, can you post it so
we all know what to expect in future release(s)? And maybe it will be
useful too for developers who want to contribute. Thank you very much.

[Mohsen Saboorian]

Wa Alaikumassalam wr wb,

Thanks for your interest in the project and useful feedbacks. There is no special TODO for the future 0.8 release except adding commentary. Please feel free to fill an enhancement request here regarding topic/study notes.

I get your point about e-Swords study or topic notes. We have a very simple version of study note, which is bookmark. Although it doesn't have text formatting feature, you can manage your bookmarks, have several bookmark sets, and export/import them. I think a more important feature is to have more manageable panels (in RCP terminology: Views), a toolbar, tabbed browsing and the most important thing for now: commentary.

Regards,

Mohsen

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[reynaldi]

Thank you for the link, I just added a feature request. Yes, I do use
the bookmark, it serves my basic needs albeit the lack of features in
it's current state. And I agree those features you mentioned are the
more important ones right now, especially the Commentaries. In fact I
imagine the Study & Topic Notes would be placed on the same frame with
the Commentaries, just on different tabs.
One step at a time :)

Btw, where will you get the commentaries from? Are they available
online now? Thanks

Regards,
Reynaldi

On Nov 27, 5:19 pm, Mohsen Saboorian <mohs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wa Alaikumassalam wr wb,
>
> Thanks for your interest in the project and useful feedbacks. There is no
> special TODO for the future 0.8 release except adding commentary. Please
> feel free to fill an enhancement request

> here<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=713689&group_id=128414&func=browse>

> regarding
> topic/study notes.
>
> I get your point about e-Swords study or topic notes. We have a very simple
> version of study note, which is bookmark. Although it doesn't have text
> formatting feature, you can manage your bookmarks, have several bookmark
> sets, and export/import them. I think a more important feature is to have
> more manageable panels (in RCP terminology: Views), a toolbar, tabbed
> browsing and the most important thing for now: commentary.
>
> Regards,
> Mohsen
>

> > zekr+uns...@googlegroups.com <zekr%2Bunsu...@googlegroups.com>

[Mohsen Saboorian]

Salaam,

This is another problem. Where to find plain-text or XML format of commentaries (since most of them are HTML and colored/formatted), how to separate them (by sura, by aya, by section, by page), how to handle footnotes, and so on.

Regards,

Mohsen

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