XML-tagged Religion Dataset 2.00

[Walid Shaari <Walid at melinux dot com>]

FYI

I have stumbled across the following link today

 http://xml.coverpages.org/bosakXMLReligion200.html

that could prove to be useful to the Quran project.
now the above emphasizes again my previous point of having a name-spaces
in the XML file, due to its being old, I guess thats why its not
implemented in there. I don't agree with their element types as they
treat the Quran just as another religion text. not taking in perspective
other issues. [that I do know will make Mr. M. yousif inflamed ;-)]
but they could be of value when it comes to other technical issues such
as transformations/standardization etc.

and also this would be the place to archive previous attempts.

Now where did I leave my coffee mug :)

Walid.

On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 20:46, Mohammed Yousif wrote:
> Salam,
>  These are some thoughts about the Qur'an project.
>  * Font
>     I'm currently working on this font, it will have:
>      - Othmani letters that Ossama contributed.
>      - Other symbols that is used in copying the Qur'an
>        texts (Sajda, Robeh Hezb Start, Imala, aya numbers, ...etc)
>      - Sura names (سورة الفرقان), Juz'a Numbers (الجزء الخامس), Basmalla,
>        and other names of books to be included (tafser, asbab annozol,
>        ..etc)
>        (yes I will map them in the font itself to the roman alphabet).
>    So I need those characters/symbols as bitmap files and also sura
>    names and juz'a numbers (I think they can be scanned from a
>    hard-copy of the Qur'an text).
>    The fonts at motken.com have the most of these symbols but they
>    are not unicode fonts (correct me if I'm wrong) so we can't use
>    the font itself but we can use the symbols. but first I need to
>    know about the license (ask him?).
>    as soon as the font is created, we will (Insha'allah) recopy the
>    Qura'n arabic text (from a Mushaf of course) to look exactly as
>    the Qur'an arabic text written in Othmani script.
>  * Displaying text:
>    - The user should be able to browse by Aya, by Sura and by page
>      (meaning that we limit the number of lines available at a single
>       widget for instance to 10 lines).
>        (currenly by aya and by sura is implemented in QtQuran)
>    - The current Aya should be tracked by red color. (done already
>      in QtQuran)
>    - At the start of every Sura, there should be a decorated box that
>      have the sura name, number of verses and if it's makkiya or
>      maddania..etc (this should be scanned from a hard-copy of the
>      Qura'an text and displayed as pictures, not much work fortunately).
>    - Basmalla should be on the top of every Sura (its symbol will exist
>      on the font I'm creating Insha'allah) except Surat Attauba and 
>      Surat Al-Fateha.
>    - Sajda and Robeh Hezb Start symbols should be included in the XML
>      file itself (including the line above the position of the sajda)
>      all these symbols should be provided by the font.
>    - Current Juz'a number should be on the top-right corner of the
>      text container widget and current Sura Name should be on the
>      top-left corner.
>    - Sajda signs should be on the left of the text container widget
>      and it should be on the same line the sajda symbol after the
>      verse is in (count the number of lines and the distance between
>      them and position the sajda sign accordingly).
>    - Robeh Hezb Start symbol should be done the same as the sajda sign.
>  * Books:
>    - Adding some other books related to the Qur'an in various languages
>      to libquran (as addons?)
> 
> So on a nutshell, we need:
>  - Some symbols used in the Othmani script not provided by Ossama.
>     (motken.com?)
>  - Scanning Basmalla symbol, sura names, Ajza'a numbers from a Mushaf. (motken.com?)
>  - Scanning names of common books that are to be included. (tafser
>    Ibn Katheer, Lobab Al-Qaol lel Seyouty, ...etc)
>  - Copying the texts of these books:
>     * Lobab Al-Qaol lel Seyouty (aka. Asbaab Annuzoul).
>     * Tafser Al-Jallalain.
>     * Tafser Ibn Katheer.
>     * Other books as wll
>    to XML format (if you want to contribute ask me first about the DTD
>                         to adopt).
>          - asking for these books in some electronic format from
>            Al-Muhaddith project(http://www.muhaddith.org)?
> 
> 
>  A screenshot of the current CVS code of QtQuran is available here:
>    http://mhdyousif.hypermart.net/quran/qtquran-0.08.jpg
> 
>  Thanks for reading this long email :-)
-- 
Walid Shaari <Walid at melinux dot com>