[sword-devel] free Windows compiler for SWORD

[Troy A. Griffitts]

> 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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