[bt-devel] 1.1b1 & general book support

[Chris Little]

> > On a general note, I would suggest adding an ability to 
> toggle textual 
> > variants (using the ThMLVariants filter) before releasing.  
> There are 
> > currently no modules that use this, but there should be soon.
> 
> This will probably not possible at the moment. We implemented the 
> GlobalOptionFilters as binary, 2-state filters. Therefore we 
> cannot support a 
> filter with 3 or more states at the moment, because it would 
> involve a bigger 
> change in our class structure. We shall make this change 
> later, combined with 
> the sword-icu implementation. Sorry.

Ah, good point.  I had forgotten that it currently supports 3 states,
with possibly more to come.  What I would suggest, is simply allowing
the user to toggle between variant 1 and variant 2.  This is probably
what most people would want to do most of the time anyway, and it
reduces the functionality to a 2-state system.
 
> One thing that disturbs me about ICU: it must be present at 
> compile time. 
> Would it be possible to load it at runtime in sword, if it is present?

I don't know if that's possible or not.  What would be the advantage?

--Chris