[sword-devel] Explaine ThML markup

[Victor Zhuromsky]

Could you please show me how to format my Lexicon entries with Strong's 
numbers for generating rawLD module. I can't commprefend the way of 
composing the ThML file for SWORD.

Christian Renz wrote:

>> interpreter, because I use completely different fonts for both Greek and
>> Hebrew, that are not to be encoded to UTF-8. The fonts are taken from 
>> Bible
>
>
> The Sword engine needs to run not only on Windows with western/russian
> charsets, but also on asian versions of Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
> etc. So the best compromise is to use UTF-8 for everything and let the
> Sword engine decode it to whatever the local system needs.
>
>> Works project and are bwgrkl.ttf and bwhebb.ttf. If I don't apply 
>> these fonts,
>> all the greek and hebrew words would be without accents, etc.
>
>
> Well, these are _your_ favourite fonts, but other people might have
> different preferences. We have been discussing font selection
> mechanisms, and the consensus seems to be to have the user choose the
> fonts they want for a specific module or even for a specific
> language. We've had enough trouble with e.g. the Websters module
> having referenced the font "Code2000" in their config file. Yes, it
> might be the optimal choice in terms of display, but for those that
> didn't have the font installed, the display is mangled and they ask
> sword-support to fix it. Also, some people use Sword on computers
> where they don't have the liberty to install their own fonts.
>
> Yes, it is (deliberately) hard to enforce your own style on your
> module. But this makes it easier for more people to use your module
> in the way _they_ want to use it.
>
> Greetings,
>   Christian