[sword-devel] How to get vowels in the Arabic bible module?

[John H.]

Just wondering whatever happened with this:)


On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 09:42 +0000, peter wrote:

> Chris Little wrote:
> > 
> > peter wrote:
> >> Chris Little wrote:
> >>> peter wrote:
> >>>> or another point, would a export filter directly for OSIS or THML be a
> >>>> possibility?
> >>> No, not even remotely possible.
> >> technically impossible or no one there to write it?
> > 
> > If you're talking about a facility to take any random text file, such as 
> > the Arabic Bible, load it in OpenOffice and use an export filter to 
> > generate OSIS, then that's an intractably complex problem that is 
> > virtually impossible to solve.
> > 
> > If you're talking about an OSIS export facility in OpenOffice that uses 
> >   specialized styles, requiring that any document that would be exported 
> > as OSIS have been written with those styles, then that's quite possible. 
> > There's been plenty of talk of it at various times, but no one has 
> > written anything to my knowledge. CCEL did an OSIS exporter for Word 
> > 2003, though.
> 
> This makes sense. Thanks!
> 
> 
> > 
> > --Chris
> > 
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