Ability to display 2 lanaguages in lyrics and 2 bible translations @ once

Corban

Ability to display 2 lanaguages in lyrics and 2 bible translations @ once would be really cool like in opensong (ithink it is and dreambeam)   As I am the media / tech guy at my church and would like to be able to display english and tagalog versions as the church i goto is primarily Filipino but in Australia

loopie159753

Was wondering if this feature will be in version 2. I have been using this software for about 8 months now and the only thing I dont like is that you cant display two bibles at once.

raoul

We are intending implementing more than one language in songs in openlp.org 2.0, but we hadn't thought about Bible translations. I'll put that one to the team and see what they say.

TRB143

Already planned for version 2 is the ability to show 2 verses from different bibles on the same slide. This can be by language or version.

MinMuC

I am glad that you are looking into displaying two languages at the same time as this is something that we need. Would it be possible to add text formating within a "Song Slide" e.g. to allow for displaying alternate lines of a song that are in different language. This could be easily seen by the veiwer because of the corresponding font attritubes (such as white bold for 1st Language and Italic grey for the 2nd Language)

taras_90

I have been looking for this for very long time. I need to show two languages at the same time. I have just finished working on Ukrainian translation of the Bible and can post it for others to use. But i also need to display English and Ukrainian language at the same time. When do you think that will be possible with OpenLp? Thanks

paddy2706

hey taras_90, it will be possible anywhere in the not so far future, I'd say. openlp.org 2.0 will be able to display scriptures in different languages at the same time. But the progress until the finalization of 2.0 will absolutely take at least this year (I'd say). be blessed, paddy2706

ferdilouw

I'm now trying to move from opensong to openlp because of this feature. But we often need it even in one language: Sometimes the worship leader would suddenly switch from the third person to the second person. So "He is Lord" must now be replaced with "You are Lord" Also often the plural/singular changes: E.g.: I vs We Some songs have multiple versions. A visiting leader might start to sing a song and suddenly I need to jump to another version of the same song. Naturaly I would like to have a hotkey access to be able to make fast jumps. Ferdi Louw Canada

KostiaKaz

I would like to start with thanking for all the hard work that the developers have put into this software. We are a multilingual church and like to display 2 different version/languages of the Bible.

The trouble we run into are long verses. At current time, OpenLP would display the first version/language and then the second version/language on next slide. Is there a plan to have OpenLP break up the verse that it would display both versions/languages at same time even if both verses bleed into next slide? Allowing users to read same verse in different version/language at the same time the main version/language is being read.

stico

KostiaKaz The best way to fix it is by going to themes at the righthand of the screeen, and then click on edit and from there you can reduce the font size then the two version will be displayed together instead of one by one.

raoul

@KostiaKaz we don't have anyone working on that feature at the moment.

quannguyen

I find this feature very cool and has been used on Easislide software, which is that they do not fix the font size of Bible verses when displaying two translations, so they can display them on the same page at the same time. mat. Bible verses automatically shrink when displayed in 2 languages to fit the screen. I feel like it's both a bug and a feature because if the sentence is too long it will make the text smaller. But this feature works quite well for most other Bible verses. Can this idea be applied to OpenLP development when displaying 2 parallel translations?