[sword-devel] plain filters

[Chris Little]

On 6/24/2013 5:05 AM, David Haslam wrote:
> Someone could easily count how many by creating a script to find out how many
> modules have
> *SourceType=PlainText*
> in the conf file.
>
> Such a script is probably a one liner in Perl.
>
> A bit more ingenuity would output a counted list of all the source types
> found in each repository.

No, that would be pretty useless since Plaintext is the default 
SourceType and it's virtually never specified explicitly. There are 
still Plaintext modules, but that's not relevant to the question I asked.

I'm not proposing dropping support for Plaintext modules, just querying 
whether anyone uses the PLAINHTML and PLAINFootnotes filters and would 
mind their removal.

Are there any modules for which these filters would function correctly? 
I don't know, but it seems doubtful. We don't even offer a 
PLAINFootnotes option filter option in SWMgr, nor is PLAINHTML exposed 
the way that other render filters are.

--Chris