[sword-devel] Bible submission process question

[Russell Allen]

Hi,
It’s more a case of converging evolution - my code started being very customised for the OEB when there wasn’t a clear alternative and has become more general over time. The initial focus was PDF (via ConTeXt) and a now obsolete version of John Dyer’s study software but it was extensible so it has accumulated more backends over time. Because it was focused on the OEB it has some nice features for the OEB, but I wouldn’t claim that is a general solution especially for non-English languages.

Would you recommend Haiola for generating Sword modules over the Crosswire tools? Or does it use them as a backend? 

I don’t think I need transforming to InScript because I use the version at https://github.com/digitalbiblesociety/browserbible-3 <https://github.com/digitalbiblesociety/browserbible-3> which comes with a USFM importer.

I’m a little hazy on the interrelation between the eBible.org <http://ebible.org/> repository and the modules available through http://www.crosswire.org/sword/modules/ <http://www.crosswire.org/sword/modules/>  Are they separate/unrelated? Should the OEB be in both? 

Thanks, Russell



> On 4 Mar 2016, at 1:05 pm, Kahunapule Michael Johnson <Kahunapule at eBible.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello, Russell.
> 
> It sounds like you are on your way to duplicating the capabilities of Haiola <http://haiola.org/>. Haiola reads USFM and spits out Crosswire Sword modules, WordML, HTML, InScript, ePub, Amazon Kindle Mobi (created from the ePub with an Amazon program), PDF (in the pre-release development version), and more. It doesn't do RTF, but you can read the WordML into Microsoft Word or LibreOffice Writer and write out RTF from there. Haiola is free and open source software, except for the InScript generation module, but even that I will run on my computer for open access Bibles like the OEB. It has been tested on over 700 Bible translations. The PDF generation isn't released yet, because of some issues with bidirectional scripts, but that shouldn't be a problem with the OEB.
> 
> So... feel free to carry on with the way you did it last time, or just point me to the OEB USFM files and help me with the metadata, and I can have your updated module in the eBible.org repository reasonably quickly.
> 
> On 03/03/2016 01:57 PM, Russell Allen wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>> Sorry if this is the wrong place.
>> 
>> There is an old version of the Open English Bible on the website which needs updating. Someone helped me creating the modules a few years back.
>> 
>> I’m currently trying to automate building the OEB as much as possible so that we can put out more regular updates. Source is in USFM (which should be compliant now) and I have software which parses USFM using a python parser framework and can then spit out RTF, PDF, HTML etc etc with pluggable renderers [1]. The software isn’t OEB specific - it should handle most USFM - though it hasn’t been tested that much on other sources.
>> 
>> I would like to integrate this with the SWORD framework so that new OEB versions can be pushed out with as little human input as possible but I’m not sure what the recommended process is.
>> 
>> At the moment I don’t generate OSIS but could do that fairly easily if I had some help on what the OSIS should look like, or I could integrate with an existing USFM->OSIS generator.
>> 
>> Best wishes,
>> Russell
>> 
>> 
>> [1]: https://github.com/openenglishbible/USFM-Tools <https://github.com/openenglishbible/USFM-Tools>
>> 
>> 
>> 
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