[sword-devel] Print Bible Features

Victor Porton sword-devel@crosswire.org
Tue, 20 May 2003 17:25:32 +0600 (YEKST)


On 20-May-2003 Kahunapule Michael P. Johnson wrote:
> At 10:31 20-05-03 +0600, you wrote:
> 
>>On 19-May-2003 David's Mailing-list and Spam Receiver wrote:
>>> On Monday 19 May 2003 04:42 pm, Jimmie Houchin wrote:
>>>> What features which are available in Print Bibles does Sword lack?
>>>>
>>>> If someone were wanting to take of the Bible texts in Sword and
>>>> publish
>>>> (print) a Bible what does Sword not have. (Copyright permitting.)
>>> 
>>> Well, I don't really think it would be a wise idea to print sword
>>> modules. 
>>> Even if we could replicate every single feature that print bibles have,
>>> the 
>>> resulting quality would not be as good as a professionally typset and
>>> printed 
>>> bible.
>>
>>I think if we will use Knuth's TeX or a similar high quality renderer we
>>can get even higher quality than of most printed bibles.
> 
> Maybe. TeX has some problems-- but I use it anyway to generate the PDF
> files of the WEB & HNV (like http://eBible.org/web/webnt.pdf). It starts
> getting really awkward when you want to typeset other languages.

Tried Lout? (It converts some text format to PDF with very good support
for such things as multicolumning etc.)

-- 
Victor Porton (porton@ex-code.com)