[sword-devel] step reader

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Billy Earney,
	I don't believe it would be a violation of the copyright laws.  STEP is 
a published standard so that software can be written to read this 
format.  Our limited step utilities that you have already mentioned were 
written before we had General Book Support (GBS in our engine), so they 
all are geared toward book/chapter/verse documents-- Bibles and special 
Commentaries.

	It really should be a straight forward task to create a step2imp 
utility (imp is our basic:

$$$KEY
text for this entry

format.  Then use imp2gbs to import such.  A book uses '/' to divide 
subsections. e.g.

$$$Introduction
This is the introduction

$$$Section 1/Topic 1
This is the first topic in section 1 of this book

$$$Section 1/Topic 1/Point 1
My first point is...


I think it would be very valuable if someone picked up on where we left 
off with these utilities.  It would give us another avenue to allow 
people to use copyrighted material.

	-Troy.



Earney, Billy C. wrote:
> 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
>  
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