[sword-devel] Print Bible Features
Kahunapule Michael P. Johnson
sword-devel@crosswire.org
Tue, 20 May 2003 20:48:46 +1000
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At 10:31 20-05-03 +0600, you wrote:
>On 19-May-2003 David's Mailing-list and Spam Receiver wrote:
>> On Monday 19 May 2003 04:42 pm, Jimmie Houchin wrote:
>>> What features which are available in Print Bibles does Sword lack?
>>>
>>> If someone were wanting to take of the Bible texts in Sword and publish
>>> (print) a Bible what does Sword not have. (Copyright permitting.)
>>
>> Well, I don't really think it would be a wise idea to print sword
>> modules.
>> Even if we could replicate every single feature that print bibles have,
>> the
>> resulting quality would not be as good as a professionally typset and
>> printed
>> bible.
>
>I think if we will use Knuth's TeX or a similar high quality renderer we
>can get even higher quality than of most printed bibles.
Maybe. TeX has some problems-- but I use it anyway to generate the PDF files of the WEB & HNV (like http://eBible.org/web/webnt.pdf). It starts getting really awkward when you want to typeset other languages.
Kahunapule Michael P. Johnson
Servant of Jesus Christ
mpj@eBible.org
http://eBible.org/mpj/
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<font size=3>At 10:31 20-05-03 +0600, you wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>On 19-May-2003 David's Mailing-list
and Spam Receiver wrote:<br>
> On Monday 19 May 2003 04:42 pm, Jimmie Houchin wrote:<br>
>> What features which are available in Print Bibles does Sword
lack?<br>
>><br>
>> If someone were wanting to take of the Bible texts in Sword and
publish<br>
>> (print) a Bible what does Sword not have. (Copyright
permitting.)<br>
> <br>
> Well, I don't really think it would be a wise idea to print
sword<br>
> modules. <br>
> Even if we could replicate every single feature that print bibles
have,<br>
> the <br>
> resulting quality would not be as good as a professionally typset
and<br>
> printed <br>
> bible.<br><br>
I think if we will use Knuth's TeX or a similar high quality renderer
we<br>
can get even higher quality than of most printed
bibles.</font></blockquote><br>
Maybe. TeX has some problems-- but I use it anyway to generate the PDF
files of the WEB & HNV (like http://eBible.org/web/webnt.pdf). It
starts getting really awkward when you want to typeset other
languages.<br><br>
<br>
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Kahunapule Michael P. Johnson<br>
Servant of Jesus Christ<br>
mpj@eBible.org<br>
<a href="http://ebible.org/mpj/" eudora="autourl">http://eBible.org/mpj/<br>
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