Why not add a simple edit function in Sword itself, with just some simple functions, like font-properties and text-references, something like E-Sword has.
Are you offering to work on it? ;) We do have a commentary editor in the windows software, and I believe the linux apps have this feature, as well. The API supports a write interface that most module drivers implement, so the frontend developers are welcome to add editing featured into their software. A few problems:
Commentaries created with the Personal Commentary module in BibleCS keep the editor's markup, which is RTF-- which sucks and not what a module should use. As Chris stated, it is display oriented markup and not appropriate for anything other than displaying back to the same device size/user preference with which it was written.
We also do NOT want to allow GENERAL editing in the sword tool for ethical reasons. If someone decides they want to incorrectly change John 1:1 in the NASB from "and the Word was God" to "and the Word was a God", just because they can click and modify, it poses copyright problems for us. Placing editable works copyrighted by other individuals in front of our end users is not something I feel we want to do. There is nothing that can be done to physically prevent a user from making and publishing such a change, but our software shouldn't lend itself to making it anything other than a premeditated purposeful circumvention of copyright. 99% of our users want a readonly tool, save a personal commentary editor. I'm under the persuasion that an editing tool should be a separate piece of software.
Thanks for these suggestions and the others below.
-Troy.
Then users can easily add their own content without all conversion
problems. When all markup is done by Sword, the user can't mesh up the markup...
Maybe also a good idea to make a link page on the Sword website where users can add a link to their homepage, where they host their own created content, then the Sword people don't get blamed when the module is buggy..
Greetz,
Simon
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