[sword-devel] OSIS markup for gen books and devotionals

Nic Carter niccarter at mac.com
Wed Aug 27 22:55:10 MST 2014


Ahh, no, sorry. Devotionals, commentaries, Bibles & dictionaries :)


> On 28 Aug 2014, at 15:51, Laurie Fooks <laurie.fooks at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Nic
> 
> I certainly hope there will be a solution to paragraphs and line
> displays, particularly for Android programs ... until then, I am stuck
> with >lg><l> !!
> 
> I have PocketSword 1.45 on an Ipod and Iphone - Is there a way for it
> to display general books?
> 
> Cheers
> Laurie
> 
>> On 8/28/14, Nic Carter <niccarter at mac.com> wrote:
>> Hi Laurie,
>> 
>> Some front-ends will apply some special formatting for poetry & you don't
>> want that formatting for your modules, so don't mark it as poetry & you'll
>> be fine :)
>> (PocketSword is an example, if you wanted to test on an iOS device.)
>> 
>> Thanks, ybic
>> Nic. :)
>> 
>> 
>>> On 28 Aug 2014, at 07:52, Laurie Fooks <laurie.fooks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Thanks David,
>>> 
>>> Please look at my second set of OSIS genbook test modules - I may be
>>> formatting incorrectly.  This second set includes <p> tags but
>>> BibleTime is not displaying these as intended.
>>> The OSIS site also suggests that <lg> <l> not be used for pagebreaks -
>>> I am not sure why it is not a good idea? - as it stands, it is the
>>> only markup that I have found to work across all front ends.
>>> 
>>> Really appreciate if you can also look at the <figure> tag - BibleTime
>>> / BT-Mini show an indicator that there is an image, but is not
>>> displaying the image. BibleTime does display images in ThML formatted
>>> modules.
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> Laurie
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 8/27/14, David "Judah's Shadow" Blue <yudahsshadow at gmx.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On August 26, 2014 7:44:58 PM EDT, Laurie Fooks <laurie.fooks at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 2. Paragraphs and linebreaks - I have found the poetry markup (lg, l)
>>>>> is the only reliable way to have line breaks / paragraphs - Its
>>>>> working well, but is there an alternate I should use?
>>>> 
>>>> I can't speak for other front-ends and poetry formatting, but I am
>>>> working
>>>> on formatting poetry "correctly" in BibleTime (i.e. indenting, block
>>>> formatting, etc). So using lg or l for merely the line breaks is a bad
>>>> idea.
>>>> Plus, as Peter said, it should be working for the other methods.
>>>> 
>>>>> 3. Images are not displayed, except in Xiphos, xulsword and AndBible.
>>>>> - Is this a front end design choice or bug?
>>>> 
>>>> BibleTime will display pictures I know, I've played with the images test
>>>> module in it. I don't recall though, if that was a commentary or a
>>>> genbook.
>>>> 
>>>> --
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>>>> 
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