[sword-devel] RTF in About field of .conf files
DM Smith
dmsmith at crosswire.org
Sun May 18 10:01:04 MST 2014
Only a subset is allowed in the conf. The following page gives details. SwordWeb and JSword assume that the field is RTF even if plain text. \oar looks like a typo for \par.
http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/DevTools:conf_Files
> On May 18, 2014, at 11:10 AM, Jaak Ristioja <jaak at ristioja.ee> wrote:
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> Hi!
>
> http://www.crosswire.org/sword/develop/swordmodule/ states:
>
> "About is a lengthier description and may include copyright, source,
> etc. information. It may be formatted as RTF or as plain text."
>
> I agree that something more than plain text is needed for anything
> more than one non-formatted paragraph of non-formatted text. But as
> everybody surely knows, all RTF starts with the string "{\rtf".
> However looking at the .conf files in my ~/.sword/mods.d/, I conclude
> that actually only a subset of RTF is allowed in the About field.
>
> I have two questions:
>
> 1) What exactly are frontends required to support here? Groups?
> Certain control words only?
>
> 2) How should a frontend distinguish between an RTF formatted About
> field and a plain text About field? Search for RTF control words, fall
> back to plain text if none found or if invalid RTF segment provided?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Blessings,
> Jaak
>
> PS: histmideast.conf contains a probably invalid \oar (did not find
> this in the RTF specs).
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