[sword-devel] Export CzeCSP to format which could be imported to InDesign

[Michael H]

Matej,

you can use Bibledit to import the project into USFM, which is somewhat
easier to deal with.

The Bible Drop-box will produce a myriad of outputs. Both HTML and Word
import into indesign better than your RTF example.

Michael Johnson's Haiola is what runs the Drop box.. it will do most or
more of the work, depending.

However, none of these will get you a work that is ready to print with
Indesign. Converting a project from web-ready to press ready typically
involves about a month's work, and about a week to 2 weeks of input from
the translation team resolving conflicts.  It's possible or even likely
that the czeCSP is in better shape than most modules, but you'll still
spend time customizing the module in indesign to appear like Czech works
should appear.

If you're familiar with linux, and have a partition to dedicate, I
recommend you install Wasta Linux, since it provides several tools from SIL
that help with publishing biblical works, especially non-English works.



On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 6:01 PM Matěj Cepl <mcepl at cepl.eu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> people I got my sources for CzeCSP from, would like to publish
> their translation as a Book. Their publishing house uses
> InDesign, so I wonder whether it is possible to export OSIS XML
> somehow to something wordprocessor-like.
>
> The easiest solution seemed
>
> diatheke -b CzeCSP -f RTF -o fmhsinx -k Jn >jan-CSP.rtf
>
> but that produced something my LibreOffice Writer seriously
> doesn't know what to do with (https://da.gd/wtsPp is
> diatheke-generated RTF, and Writer generated ODT is
> https://da.gd/Vpa6). I guess Windows Western European \ansi
> encoding is probably not the right one. Any ideas, how to fix
> it? HTML is generated correctly (https://da.gd/fZpue), but it
> doesn't contain any notes, footnotes, etc.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Blessed Christmas,
>
> Matěj
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