[sword-devel] Sword exporter (Diaspora)

[David Burry]

Depending on the format, I would expect parsing the other formats to be more complex for at least some of them...

Dave


At 05:11 PM 10/15/2001 -0500, Don A. Elbourne Jr. wrote:
>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
>>
>>