[osis-core] OSIS 2.0?

[Patrick Durusau]

Harry,

Just a quick note as I press on to today's release! ;-)

Harry Plantinga wrote:

>Looking through an NIV Study Bible, I found the 
>following which would be hard to model in OSIS 1.1:
>
>  - Tables
>
Added today.

>
>  - Images
>
Figure already present, was there something else we need?

>
>  - Vector graphics (SVG?)
>
Definitely in the future, I am hopeful that TEI will abandon its 
graph/tree language in favor of SVG which will allow standard (future) 
browsers to render graphs and trees in TEI markup without separate 
processing.

>
>  - Indexes (i.e. mark words, paragraphs, or 
>    whatever so that indexes can be constructed)
>
Hmmm, interesting question. I assume to construct indexes from terms so 
marked to avoid auto-generation? In other words, the encoder marks what 
they feel are the important occcurrences of a term and ignore the rest?

>
>  - A glossary
>
How does a glossary differ from a list?

>
>Thinking about electronic bibles that I have seen
>and/or can imagine, I think the following may be
>desirable to support in a future version of OSIS 
>as well:
>

Yes to all the following!


>
>  - objects: audio, video, vrml, other media types
>  - applets (dollars-to-shekels calculator)
>  - scripting languages
>
Patrick


>
>-Harry
>

-- 
Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
pdurusau@emory.edu