[osis-core] OSIS 2.0?

[Steve DeRose]

At 11:46 AM -0400 06/17/02, Harry Plantinga wrote:
>Looking through an NIV Study Bible, I found the
>following which would be hard to model in OSIS 1.1:
>
>   - Tables

Patrick is putting in really simple tables even as we speak (type).

>   - Images

We do have figure, does that cover what you had in mind?

>   - Vector graphics (SVG?)

COuld pull in same way as images (if browsers were built better, you 
could even pull in XML inline that way....)

>   - Indexes (i.e. mark words, paragraphs, or
>     whatever so that indexes can be constructed)

Interesting point -- I'm not sure if we discussed this at all -- thoughts, all?

>   - A glossary

I think we relegated that to a list subtype -- can somebody check the 
issues list from Rome and see if it says?

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

One thing high on my list is a simple schema for mapping ranges in 
audio to verse references.

By scripting languages, do you mean a basic set of event hooks 
something like in HTML?

>
>-Harry


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