[sword-devel] Genbooks

[Michael H]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Compiled_HTML_Help

CHM is not exactly opensource.  Microsoft successfully sued TomTom for
using FAT32 formatting in it's GPS systems without paying any royalties to
Microsoft.  That's the old (Gates, Balmer) Microsoft, but still it's a
proprietary technology by a company with a history of using litigation on
technologies just to shut people down.

I don't see Crosswire as being a target by microsoft, but sometimes people
with intent to harm license technology just to make it something to
rattle... I'd feel a lot more comfortable using a known-opensource
technology.

It would make production easy if it was supported.

On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 11:41 AM refdoc at crosswire.org <refdoc at crosswire.org>
wrote:

> A while back I wrote about Bibleworks and its legacy. As part of my
> further research I found that Bibleworks uses instead of a GenBook format
> for user supplied books of that category the CHM format.
>
> How ubiquitous is CHM on our platforms? If all platforms can use it , we
> could probably tap into a huge GenBook like module library - specifically
> for textual research - for very little extra effort.
>
> Peter
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> Petee
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