[sword-devel] step reader

[Earney, Billy C.]

Sword Developers,
 
Has a step reader been added to sword?  I've seen several messages spanning from June 200 to mid 2002 talking about this subject.  I've noticed one or two comments of excitment about adding step while one or two comments seem to think the technology is dead.
 
I'm wondering if someone is actively working on it?  I've noticed 2 tools step2vpl.exe and stepdump.exe.  I can get stepdump.exe to work, but I get errors when running step2vpl.exe (I guess vpl has to be a bible, and not another book such as a commentary...  I'm not sure).
 
I think having a step reader would be nice, because a lot of people have books in that format, and they want to obey the copyright laws.  I have several books by Finis Dake in step format and would like to be able to merge all those books into sword.
 
Is there a tool that will convert a step book into some other format that sword will read? I don't know if that would be a violation of copyright laws.  (I fear it is..)
 
Thanks for your time..
 
Billy Earney
earney@umr.edu