[sword-devel] Sword exporter (Diaspora)

[Don A. Elbourne Jr.]

Chris,

This is very cool. the only thing that would make it even cooler is if it
could also do the conversion the other way around, from those formats to
sword. :) Possible?

Don A. Elbourne Jr.
http://elbourne.org

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sword-devel@crosswire.org
> [mailto:owner-sword-devel@crosswire.org]On Behalf Of Chris Little
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 9:55 AM
> To: sword-devel@crosswire.org
> Subject: RE: [sword-devel] Sword exporter (Diaspora)
>
>
> Another new version.  Same location as last time:
> http://www.crosswire.org/sword/download/ftpmirror/pub/sword/utils/diaspo
> ra.zip
>
> Changes:
> - New icon. :)
>
> - David pointed out some problems with resizing that were fixed.
>
> - In the case of plain text output, the byte order mark is output as the
> first 3 bytes.  This signals that the file is UTF-8 and not ASCII.  So
> you can output a Greek text, load it up in notepad, and it will display
> Greek, not Latin-1 garbage.
>
> - For ThML and plain text output, when an entry spans multiple verses,
> the range is indicated instead of just the first verse.  This roughly
> triples the time it takes to process a module, but I feel it's a
> necessity.
>
> - For Palm Bible Reader output, when an entry spans multiple verses or
> when verses/chapters are skipped, the exporter will try to make empty
> verses/chapters to maintain verse alignment.  It doesn't create empty
> verses following the final verse with contents in a chapter, so you will
> still get lots of warnings in Poetry's converter, but they shouldn't
> cause any problems.  I tested with the MHCC and it worked pretty well.
>
> - David also requested the ability to export only portions of a module,
> so I implemented that also.  It will take anything that Sword can parse
> into a ListKey, but things like "Gen-Deut", "Mat-John",
> "Isaiah-Malachi", "Psalms", etc. are what I expect this will be used
> for.  Don't be too ambitious with the commentaries though, because it
> appears there are some verse length limits in the program--it couldn't
> certain entries from the complete MHC.
>
>
>
> --Chris
>
>