[sword-devel] OSIS markup for gen books and devotionals

Nic Carter niccarter at mac.com
Wed Aug 27 23:20:46 MST 2014


(Except GenBook format is still sadly unsupported...)


> On 28 Aug 2014, at 16:17, refdoc at gmx.net <refdoc at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> There is a module maintainer mode deeply buried in pocketsword's settings which allows you to upload a zipped module onto your phone. It is created exactly for your scenario
> 
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Laurie Fooks" <laurie.fooks at gmail.com>
> To: "SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum" <sword-devel at crosswire.org>
> Subject: [sword-devel] OSIS markup for gen books and devotionals
> Date: Thu, Aug 28, 2014 07:05
> 
> 
> Hi Nic
> 
> I just has a look at Psalms on PocketSword in a bible version using
> <lg><l> markup -its great as it does display the <l level="2"> etc
> tags to give the indenting.  I don't see anything else unexpected ?
> Did I miss something ... Is line spacing the same... it was hard to
> tell?  I would love to try my test mods on the PocketSword.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Laurie
> 
> On 8/28/14, Nic Carter <niccarter at mac.com> wrote:
> > Hi Laurie,
> >
> > Some front-ends will apply some special formatting for poetry & you don't
> > want that formatting for your modules, so don't mark it as poetry & you'll
> > be fine :)
> > (PocketSword is an example, if you wanted to test on an iOS device.)
> >
> > Thanks, ybic
> > Nic. :)
> >
> >
> >> On 28 Aug 2014, at 07:52, Laurie Fooks <laurie.fooks at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks David,
> >>
> >> Please look at my second set of OSIS genbook test modules - I may be
> >> formatting incorrectly.  This second set includes <p> tags but
> >> BibleTime is not displaying these as intended.
> >> The OSIS site also suggests that <lg> <l> not be used for pagebreaks -
> >> I am not sure why it is not a good idea? - as it stands, it is the
> >> only markup that I have found to work across all front ends.
> >>
> >> Really appreciate if you can also look at the <figure> tag - BibleTime
> >> / BT-Mini show an indicator that there is an image, but is not
> >> displaying the image. BibleTime does display images in ThML formatted
> >> modules.
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> Laurie
> >>
> >>
> >>> On 8/27/14, David "Judah's Shadow" Blue <yudahsshadow at gmx.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On August 26, 2014 7:44:58 PM EDT, Laurie Fooks <laurie.fooks at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> 2. Paragraphs and linebreaks - I have found the poetry markup (lg, l)
> >>>> is the only reliable way to have line breaks / paragraphs - Its
> >>>> working well, but is there an alternate I should use?
> >>>
> >>> I can't speak for other front-ends and poetry formatting, but I am
> >>> working
> >>> on formatting poetry "correctly" in BibleTime (i.e. indenting, block
> >>> formatting, etc). So using lg or l for merely the line breaks is a bad
> >>> idea.
> >>> Plus, as Peter said, it should be working for the other methods.
> >>>
> >>>> 3. Images are not displayed, except in Xiphos, xulsword and AndBible.
> >>>> - Is this a front end design choice or bug?
> >>>
> >>> BibleTime will display pictures I know, I've played with the images test
> >>> module in it. I don't recall though, if that was a commentary or a
> >>> genbook.
> >>>
> >>> --
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> >>>
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