I may simply be blind, but I can't see how any of the examples there show me how to treat various types of modules. I *did* however find a snippet that showed how to much more easily render everything as HTML, so that's quite handy.
On Sat, Oct 5, 2024 at 2:34 PM Peter von Kaehne <ref...@gmx.net> wrote: > > Have you looked at the examples section in the code ? > > Sent from Outlook for iOS > > ________________________________ > From: sword-devel <sword-devel-boun...@crosswire.org> on behalf of Aaron > Rainbolt <arraybo...@gmail.com> > Sent: Saturday, October 5, 2024 7:41 PM > To: SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum <sword-devel@crosswire.org> > Subject: [sword-devel] How exactly is one supposed to handle the various > different types of modules? > > Background - trying (for the second time) to write my own SWORD > frontend. I tried once quite a bit ago, trying to make something > focused on writing Markdown, and failed rather miserably. I'm now > taking a second swing at it, aiming to make something a bit like > theWord but with a user interface closer to the old Logos Library > System (and yes, I'm talking about the *old* Logos Library System, I > have a copy of it around here with some material on it, some of which > is DRM-locked but oh well). > > I have a decent Bible view implemented (well, mostly - still need to > figure out how to handle markup other than OSIS but at least OSIS > works), and am now figuring out what view to implement next. With that > in mind, I installed some extra modules and looked at how Xiphos > handled them and how they look internally using mod2imp... and quickly > learned that modules do not always behave like I expect. For instance > "Cult/Unorthodox" modules show up in Xiphos's Bible view, daily > devotions are treated as dictionaries, and commentaries are structured > by book, chapter, and verse just like Bible views but have their own > "kind" of module in the SWORD API. > > Is there a good breakdown on how each kind of module is intended to be > treated in SWORD? Right now I think it's probably: > > * Biblical Texts -> SWText > * Commentaries -> SWCom > * Dictionaries -> SWLD > * Glossaries -> SWLD > * Daily Devotionals -> SWLD > * General Bookx -> SWGenBook > * Maps -> ? > * Images -> ? > * Cult/Unorthodox -> SWText > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > > Sent from Outlook for iOS > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
