<p dir="ltr">Worth noting in passing that jsword currently let's the frontend handle these including the unicode characters marked using rtf notation. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Chris</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 18 May 2014 18:03, "DM Smith" <<a href="mailto:dmsmith@crosswire.org">dmsmith@crosswire.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Only a subset is allowed in the conf. The following page gives details. SwordWeb and JSword assume that the field is RTF even if plain text. \oar looks like a typo for \par.<br>
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<a href="http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/DevTools:conf_Files" target="_blank">http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/DevTools:conf_Files</a><br>
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> On May 18, 2014, at 11:10 AM, Jaak Ristioja <<a href="mailto:jaak@ristioja.ee">jaak@ristioja.ee</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hi!<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.crosswire.org/sword/develop/swordmodule/" target="_blank">http://www.crosswire.org/sword/develop/swordmodule/</a> states:<br>
><br>
> "About is a lengthier description and may include copyright, source,<br>
> etc. information. It may be formatted as RTF or as plain text."<br>
><br>
> I agree that something more than plain text is needed for anything<br>
> more than one non-formatted paragraph of non-formatted text. But as<br>
> everybody surely knows, all RTF starts with the string "{\rtf".<br>
> However looking at the .conf files in my ~/.sword/mods.d/, I conclude<br>
> that actually only a subset of RTF is allowed in the About field.<br>
><br>
> I have two questions:<br>
><br>
> 1) What exactly are frontends required to support here? Groups?<br>
> Certain control words only?<br>
><br>
> 2) How should a frontend distinguish between an RTF formatted About<br>
> field and a plain text About field? Search for RTF control words, fall<br>
> back to plain text if none found or if invalid RTF segment provided?<br>
><br>
> Thanks!<br>
><br>
><br>
> Blessings,<br>
> Jaak<br>
><br>
> PS: histmideast.conf contains a probably invalid \oar (did not find<br>
> this in the RTF specs).<br>
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