What processes the internal markup of the text? Is that done by Sword or is it done by the front-end.
Thanks Chad On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 15:02, Chris Little wrote: > On 11 Jan 2003, Chad Snow wrote: > > > How many formats does sword support? As I read this mailing list I see > > mention of GBF, XSEM, SF, STEP, OSIS and many more. What are the > > formats that sword supports and which is the best to use for the future? > > Sword really supports only its own data file format (which is really a set > of many different formats for different kinds of books). However, for > import and internal markup of texts, we support plain text, GBF, Th Th ML, and > OSIS to some degree or another. > > Of those, OSIS is probably the most capable (excepting Th ML for its > display formatting abilities due to inheritance of ~HTML). All our texts > will be moved into OSIS format shortly and it will be the format from > which GBF, Th Th ML, HTML, RTFM, etc. are derived for display or export from > Sword. > > There is an importer (that may or may not work at the moment) for Th ML > format, but this will be easily converted to work with OSIS. > > Some day we might support reading STEP natively (rather than as an import > format) but that day is not quite here. > > So for marking up texts, I would suggest OSIS. > > --Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devil mailing list > sword-devil@cross cross wire.org > HTTP://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel
