I do not think the engine is the place other than for well defined standardised output formats, as much of the rest ephemeral. But front-ends maybe can do more?
Sent from my mobile. Please forgive shortness, typos and weird autocorrects.
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Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Sword front-ends, the clipboard and social media
From: David Haslam
To: SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum
CC:
Jack,I think you’ve missed the main point too.Facebook edit boxes for posts, comments and replies sees everything pasted as plain vanilla text.Text styles are simply squished.However, being a global platform, it supports the whole Unicode character set.DavidSent from ProtonMail MobileOn Sun, May 5, 2019 at 20:14, Jaak Ristioja <j...@ristioja.ee> wrote:I'd suggest using CSS with custom element attributes instead, for example:
<html><head>
<title>Hallelujah! :)</title>
<style>
span::before {
content: attr(verse-id);
vertical-align: super;
font-size: 50%;
margin: 0 0.4em 0 0;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<span verse-id='12'>Christ</span>
<span verse-id='13'>is</span>
<span verse-id='14'>risen!</span>
</body>
</html>
Online example: https://jsfiddle.net/23z5n9dc/
Best regards,
J
On 05.05.19 18:58, David Haslam wrote:
> When pasting a Bible passage from the clipboard to Social media, text styles are usually squished.
>
> This often means that superscripted verse tags just become ordinary numbers.
> Some front-ends even leave no space between the verse tag and the start of verse text.
> The result in social media is a tad ugly.
>
> Surely we could do better?
>
> One bright idea implemented externally by one of our members is simple enough for us to consider adding as a new filter in the SWORD API.
>
> Convert verse number digits to Unicode superscript digits, ⁰¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹
>
> NB. These special 10 characters are not in a continuous block.
>
> How front-ends might include the filter such that copying a passage to the clipboard would automatically make use of these special characters is yet to be determined, but if the idea is not yet discussed, we’ll not make any progress.
>
> Aside: I made my own TextPipe filter to convert digits to these special characters.
> I included a restriction to avoid converting chapter numbers.
> I did not yet consider what to do about digits that are part of verse text (such as 144,000).
>
> Even so, how do software developers feel about the concept ?
>
> Best regards,
>
> David
>
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>
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