[sword-devel] diatheke missing bibletext.cls and sword.sty

[Peter von Kaehne]

Latex is used to produce scholarly editions with heavy apparatus, so i would dispute what you say re inability to achieve a good output

Sent from my phone. Apologies for brevity and typos.On 6 Feb 2016 5:39 am, Michael H <cmahte at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Brian, 
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> You'll run into issues trying to build a Bible in Latex. Simon Cozens did, and decided to fix it. Resulting in Sile. (That's a stretch and mangled history, but theres a bit of truth in there.) 
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> Sile is free and open source and is designed to produce printed books, with Bibles in mind.
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_kk20vlamo
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> It's also much younger and in active development.
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> https://github.com/simoncozens/sile/
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> Latex might produce a King James (text only, not references.. xrefs etc.) You won't be very happy with it.  Sile can handle KJV with greek glossed in. Mostly.  If you have time. 
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> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 7:14 PM, Brian Jolly <brian at brianjolly.com> wrote:
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>> Thanks Guys,
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>> I am really trying to stick with the free and open set of tools (sword/diatheke/LaTeX).
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>> Peter, thanks for your work on the filters. Are any of the LaTeX support files shareable even outside of SVN? 
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>> Feel free to contact me off list if that's more appropriate. 
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>> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 12:17 AM, David Haslam <dfhmch at googlemail.com> wrote:
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>>> If you have the OSIS XML source file, why not use Prince XML to create the
>>> PDF for printing a Bible?
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>>> Or do you only have the module and not the source text?
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>>> http://www.princexml.com/
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>>> Although the first page mentions HTML, the samples page gives an example for
>>> OSIS.
>>> http://www.princexml.com/samples/
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>>> http://www.princexml.com/samples/titus.pdf
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>>> It's all done using CSS for page layout and formating.
>>>
>>> btw. There was a companion program called Princess XML in 2010.
>>> https://code.google.com/archive/p/princess-2010/
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>>> It's for Windows - so less interest for folk such as Peter.
>>> It's not been migrated to GitHub.
>>>
>>> Princess was developed at SIL by Jim Albright.
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>>> Best regards,
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>>> David
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