[haiku] Re: The Holy Bible

  • From: Nicholas Otley <nicholasotley@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:56:59 +0000

On 18 March 2010 18:42, François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > > Here in the italian mailing list we are discussing about developing
> > > the
> > > Holy Bible for Beos/Zeta/Haiku, there is someone who want to
> > > develop it in
> > > English too?
> > >
> > I can't help you on the Bible, but I'm planning on developing The
> > Holy
> > Qur'an and Nahj al-Balaghah for Haiku (Arabic and English).
>
> I suppose the purpose for either is to index an existing document and/
> or parts of it. Those kinds of documents are usually quite structured
> with similar hierarchies.
>
> Maybe it's possible to have something more generic (hoping it doesn't
> offend any side :p).
>

Sorry, that was the intent of my email but I typed it in a rush lol

What is the status of Right to Left script support in Haiku?  Maybe HTML is
the way to go?

Take care,
Nik

ps No offence taken, we Muslims accept the Bible as divinely revealed too.
:)



>
> If you have something available in html it might be possible to write
> an indexing plugin for BeHappy, though it's not really usable yet in
> Haiku, except with NetSurf.
>
> François.
>
>

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