[jsword-devel] Future Direction for BibleDesktop

Peter von Kaehne refdoc at gmx.net
Mon Mar 2 15:34:24 MST 2009


Adam Thomas wrote:

> Maybe I am the one who isn't understanding. I wasn't meaning that
> BibleDesktop is a web application. Are you guys referring to embedding
> an HTML renderer so you can do things like create links in the
> scriptures and have rich content displayed in the Bible texts?

Yes. The main problems with the renderer right now are poor font control
(parallel texts in several columns in different scripts), alignment
control with intermitternt RtoL LtoR texts, font rendering (complex
scripts like Hindi, shaping as in Arabic/Farsi) etc.

Peter




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