I'd like to thank everyone who has responded to my post, either on the mailing list of personally. It has been of great help.
It is clear that I'll need to produce an OSIS file, for Crosswire to be able to publish/convert to Sword etc. files for public distribution. In that case, I'll start by making an OSIS equivalent of the existing VPL file, and later on focus on getting a fully-formatted OSIS file with alternate versification, possibly from scratch. I'll have a look at some of the previous mail to see whether I should use milestones or containers for OSIS, as I see that there was some discussion on that recently. It seems that I have to use osis2mod to convert an OSIS file into a module, in order to be able to see what the OSIS file looks like. It would be handy to be able to view the OSIS file straight, without this process. Any suggestions on whether this is possible in XML? David Haslam is also working on producing a GoBible version too, which is great. I have a copyright text which is similar to that found on NIV Bibles, such as limiting the number of verses which can be quoted before requiring the publisher's permission. It also states that the module (in another program format) can be freely distributed. It seems that the general license that the Sword files are distributed under covers the distribution. But I wonder how the limitation on quoting should be included. Is the GPL compatible with adding additional limitations on quoting from the text? Any thoughts on what the best way of handing this is? Thanks again, John Duffy -----Original Message----- Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:38:23 +0100 From: <johndu...@cgcf.net> Subject: [sword-devel] OSIS looks daunting. Can I import from existing VPL format? To: <sword-devel@crosswire.org> Message-ID: <e9d7ea9939494594871abc62a1727...@laptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" _______________________________________________ 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