Latex is used to produce scholarly editions with heavy apparatus, so i would dispute what you say re inability to achieve a good output
Sent from my phone. Apologies for brevity and typos.On 6 Feb 2016 5:39 am, Michael H <cma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Brian, > > You'll run into issues trying to build a Bible in Latex. Simon Cozens did, > and decided to fix it. Resulting in Sile. (That's a stretch and mangled > history, but theres a bit of truth in there.) > > Sile is free and open source and is designed to produce printed books, with > Bibles in mind. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_kk20vlamo > > It's also much younger and in active development. > > https://github.com/simoncozens/sile/ > > Latex might produce a King James (text only, not references.. xrefs etc.) You > won't be very happy with it. Sile can handle KJV with greek glossed in. > Mostly. If you have time. > > On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 7:14 PM, Brian Jolly <br...@brianjolly.com> wrote: >> >> Thanks Guys, >> >> I am really trying to stick with the free and open set of tools >> (sword/diatheke/LaTeX). >> >> Peter, thanks for your work on the filters. Are any of the LaTeX support >> files shareable even outside of SVN? >> >> Feel free to contact me off list if that's more appropriate. >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 12:17 AM, David Haslam <dfh...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> >>> If you have the OSIS XML source file, why not use Prince XML to create the >>> PDF for printing a Bible? >>> >>> Or do you only have the module and not the source text? >>> >>> http://www.princexml.com/ >>> >>> Although the first page mentions HTML, the samples page gives an example for >>> OSIS. >>> http://www.princexml.com/samples/ >>> >>> http://www.princexml.com/samples/titus.pdf >>> >>> It's all done using CSS for page layout and formating. >>> >>> btw. There was a companion program called Princess XML in 2010. >>> https://code.google.com/archive/p/princess-2010/ >>> >>> It's for Windows - so less interest for folk such as Peter. >>> It's not been migrated to GitHub. >>> >>> Princess was developed at SIL by Jim Albright. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> >>> David >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/diatheke-missing-bibletext-cls-and-sword-sty-tp4655990p4655992.html >>> Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ 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