[sword-devel] Bible in Myanmar

[Cyrille]

Thank you Michael for your help!
Let me know if you succeed to do something.

Il 13/05/2019 15:57, Michael H ha scritto:
> Cyrille
>
> LibreOffice Draw attempts to open the pagemaker file, with limited
> success. But it confirms that even in the pagemaker source, the verse
> numbers are a separate text stream. With this source, there is no way
> to copy the text with verse numbers intact. It appears to be stored
> with each book in it's own text stream. Each book is a separate text
> stream in the page maker file. LO Draw isn't rendering all of the
> pages, only the first 10, So I've only explored Matthew further. 
>
> Based on Matthew only, the verses seem to all end with the character
> "-" or ";/", which should aid in the reconstruction. I've looked
> through the PDF and this seems to be the case for all books visually
> as well. However, this isn't perfect: I find 1107 of these characters
> in Matthew, instead of the expected 1071 verses.  But since the text
> stream has a book introduction, this is likely easily explained.
> Hopefully this gets you well down the path to creating a stream with
> verses. 
>
> I would NOT start from the PDF file, but from the pagemaker file.  The
> PDF almost certainly has a lot of text rearranging and extra
> characters like page numbers and running heads.  Pagemaker has the
> book text in a single stream, in a form that will convert to unicode
> relatively easily. 
>
>
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