[sword-devel] OSIS 1.5 / OSIS Editor

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Ok, that last link has a malformed URL at the bottom.  I've posted the 
latest schema at:

http://www.bibletechnologieswg.org/osis/specs/


Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> 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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