[sword-devel] Bible submission process question

[Peter von Kaehne]

No, we would not recommend Haiola over CrossWire tools.

Fwiw we have a fairly automatic process now to push a module through. Email me off list please.

Peter

On 4 March 2016 03:04:35 GMT+00:00, Russell Allen <oebible at openenglishbible.org> wrote:
>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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