[osis-core] Re: Open source XML editor....

[Patrick Durusau]

Steve,

Have you looked at a recent version of OpenOffice? (I haven't and hence 
the question.) Might be interesting to use its native XML to export to 
OSIS. Kirk suggested that there is documentation on how to write an 
export filter for other formats. (Would be the office alternative to 
jEdit, which I have seen before but not played with very much.)

Patrick

Steven DeRose wrote:

> Have now played with jEdit a little; it's impressively fast for being 
> in Java, and very full-featured. Syntax hightlighting for XML works, 
> but is a little simplistic. Apparently driven by a config file (itself 
> in XML), so could probably hack it pretty nicely for OSIS-specific 
> coloring.
>
> Main problem is that it doesn't do any real formatting. But I'll bet 
> there's a bit more one can do, such as auto-indenting constructs; and 
> it might not take a whole lot of work to let a syntax-coloring 
> definition specify not just color, but also font, size, and indent -- 
> which would probably suffice for general editing. Will read up and see 
> if there's much more one can do just at the config level, or if such 
> tweaks would reqire mucking around in the core. The app in only 136K, 
> so there can't be that much code there.
>
> It does claim to support Unicode, plus many other encodings including 
> shift-JIS (popular Japanese encoding); and has a macro language and a 
> plugin API. And it does proportional fonts fine, so at least it's 
> clearly not based on a row/column model of the screen. And, it has a 
> synchronized scrolling features for multiple panes, which i'll bet we 
> could hack to do the right thing (currently I think it just goes by 
> line numbers).
>
> It's a nice looking tool....
>
> At 03:05 PM -0400 05/07/02, Steven DeRose wrote:
>
>> Has anybody played with jEdit? Entire editor in Java/Swing. 
>> Apparently has plug-ins to support something like 70 syntaxes, 
>> including XML. See review at 
>> http://www.linuxmuse.com/articles.php?action=section&article=14&num=1
>> Main page for it at http://www.jedit.org/    Feature listing at 
>> http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=features
>>
>> I wonder what it would take to build a custom mode for OSIS 
>> (basically hack the XML mode so it also knows about milestones, and 
>> so it provides all the right menus for tagging easily.
>>
>> If we had that, plus a plug-in that could do verse-checking, and one 
>> to pull up multiple texts in parallel windows, we'd have a pretty 
>> good deal.
>>
>> Not sure what level of formatting it does other than indentation -- 
>> but as long as it can do arbitrary fonts and a few things like color, 
>> italics, and bold, it would probably be a pretty good place to start.
>>
>> Thoughts? Anybody want to take a shot at making it work for us
>>
>> S
>> -- 
>>
>> Steve DeRose -- http://www.stg.brown.edu/~sjd
>> Chair, Bible Technologies Group -- http://www.bibletechnologies.net
>> Email: sderose@speakeasy.net
>> Backup email: sderose@mac.com, sjd@stg.brown.edu
>
>
>

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Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
pdurusau@emory.edu