[sword-devel] OSIS 1.5 / OSIS Editor

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Simon,
	OSIS was created with the idea to INTENTIONALLY leave display markup 
tags out.  The concept in OSIS is to critically markup the text in 
respect to attributes of the text itself and leave the prefered display 
of these attributes to the presentation software.  ie. Don't markup a 
word as italics; markup the as WHY it was italics, e.g. <transChange 
type="added">word</transChange>, then if the user wants added words 
italicized, they can pick that as the display type for added words.

	All of these display types may change drastically depending on the 
display medium, e.g. a black and white Palm.

1.5 should be available here:
http://whi.wts.edu/OSIS/Projects/OSIScore

	Hope this helps.

		-Troy.


	PS.  I shouldn't tell you this, but there is a tag for supporting stuff 
that you just can't figure out any other way to markup except for a 
display oriented tag-- see <hi>



Simon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently working on an OSIS editor (for now only for editing books and
> commentaries and lexicons, not bibles), using Borland C# Builder Personal
> (the free version). The output it creates is 100% valid OSIS.
> 
> Now, it 'would be nice' to have the latest OSIS docs, but I searched and
> searched, and nowhere I could find docs for OSIS v1.5 (as far as I know,
> v1.5 should be the latest version). Can anybody please tell me where to find
> it...
> 
> Ow, and maybe you can suggest some tags you think are important, so I can
> put them higher on my ToDo list...
> 
> Ow, about markup, as far as I know (the last time I checked is some months
> ago), OSIS doesn't define tags for markup. So, are there markup tags defined
> in OSIS v1.5? If not, what tags do you guys advise me to use for markup (you
> know, for things like: fontsize, bold, italic, that kind of stuff), just the
> HTML-tags?
> 
> Greetz,
> 
> Simon
> 
> PS> My current todo list for tags to implement (besides the structure tags):
> - Markup tags (bold, italic, underline)
> - Extended markup tags (fontsize, I guess fontcolor and fontname are not
> supported by Sword)
> - Reference tags
> - <w tag
> 
> If you think I'm missing some important tags, that should be high on the
> list, please lemme know!
> 
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