It should not be to difficult to write a sword-frontend that outputs TeX. TeX is available for any major platform. Even diffent languages can be used with TeX and the output looks good.
GBY, .___ _ _ | __(_)__| |.___ | _|| / _| / -_) |___|_\__|__\___\ Greg Hellings wrote: > Ideally the Sword engine could be adopted to a program such as you are > talking about, but whether one is in progress or not I do not know. > Since the Sword project is just the engine producing the text, the > formatting would have to be a new front-end idea. Typesetting of whole > works, particularly of an entire Bible, would be a very complex > procedure, and I don't believe that a program could be written in any > trivial manner that could handle a single leanguage and certainly not > one that could be applied to multiple languages. I would be surprised > if it is not possible to get a normal print-off from some of the front > ends. I don't have any in front of me to check, but I would imagine > that out of the selection available (BibleTime, Gnomesword, BibleCS, > Biblestudy, MacSword and the related JSword) at least one of those is > available with printing support, thus enabling someone to print out a > selection of Bible ranges (most seem to be limited to displaying one > chapter at a time, so the user would be limited to prtining one chapter > at a time). > > I think a major question would be if there is actually a market of > people who would use it and be aware of its existence. I have trouble > imaginging that someone with enough access to the Internet, a computer > and printer and able to download Sword from within a "restricted area" > would go to the trouble of making a hard copy of that Bible text that > could be traced back to them. But, perhaps, I am mistaken. Most or all > of the texts that come with Sword seem to be ones that have been around > for some time, so the commercial use of such an open source program > seems dubious to me as does the liklihood of a person producing multiple > copies of a Bible off of a home printer. > > That said, there might be a market for non-nationals to take in a > computer with Bible software containing scriptures in the native > language and thus not have to worry about smuggling in printed Bibles. > If that person was so equipped, they could then run off copies of the > text in the native area. However, I still think it would require a > massive undertaking of coding, especially by people familiar with > typesetting and layout of texts, to produce a program that could > conceivably churn out a printable version of the Bible. > > Just my $.02 on the matter (OK, so it's more like $20.00, but you get > the idea). > > --Greg _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
