On 11 Jan 2003, Chad Snow wrote: > How many formats does sword support? As I read this mailing list I see > mention of GBF, XSEM, SF, STEP, OSIS and many more. What are the > formats that sword supports and which is the best to use for the future?
Sword really supports only its own data file format (which is really a set of many different formats for different kinds of books). However, for import and internal markup of texts, we support plaintext, GBF, ThML, and OSIS to some degree or another. Of those, OSIS is probably the most capable (excepting ThML for its display formatting abilities due to inheritence of ~XHTML). All our texts will be moved into OSIS format shortly and it will be the format from which GBF, ThML, HTML, RTF, etc. are derived for display or export from Sword. There is an importer (that may or may not work at the moment) for ThML format, but this will be easily converted to work with OSIS. Some day we might support reading STEP natively (rather than as an import format) but that day is not quite here. So for marking up texts, I would suggest OSIS. --Chris _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel