Chris Little wrote: >> 1) Not everyone likes vocalisations - some Arabic readers think they are >> a bit baby-ish. For some they are crucially important. So we should >> offer choice. > > This is probably better handled via a change plus rename to the existing > UTF8HebrewPoints filter. We can extend it to strip all vocalization from > Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, and others (as we become aware of them and > support content in them). We might call the new filter something like > UTF8AbjadVocalization.
I think this would be excellent and would entirely deal with that angle. > Even those Arabic readers who prefer not to see vocalization would > likely prefer the paragraphing provided by the new source over the > unparagraphed PD version. Indeed. >> 2) The old version is public domain - this one is more restricted. A >> public domain version has significant advantages for third party >> distributers. > > Which sorts of 3rd party distributers do you mean? > > I think 3rd parties who are taking our content on CD (for example) to > distribute in Sword format shouldn't worry about the licensing. I think > that's within the scope of what Arabic Bible Outreach Ministries is > giving permission for. Mirroring and customising of Sword software. Packaging of content so that only relevant stuff for a particular distribution target language is there. > Third parties who want to use our content to derive content in other > formats shouldn't. We don't encourage that. We've never encouraged that. > Those parties should just grab the PD version from Unbound Bible like we > did. It's more reliable than what you can get out of Sword. Agreed. Peter _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
