[sword-devel] Bible in Myanmar

[Cyrille]

Il 15/05/2019 11:46, David Haslam ha scritto:
> Interim progress report.
>
> I downloaded the file Mat_utf8.zip from Cyrille's link and unzipped the contents to Mat_utf8-odt
>
> I opened the .odt file using 7-Zip from the Windows Explorer context menu, and extracted the file contents.xml
>
> I used Notepad++ plug-in XMLTools to pretty print the XML file and saved it as contents.pp.xml
> This is simply a layout change that's easier to read.
>
> I viewed the .pp.xml file in BabelPad, which confirmed that the non-XML text was (mostly) Myanmar Unicode.
>
> I used a TextPipe filter to remove all XML tags, blanks from SOL & EOL and all blank lines.
> The output file is now contents.pp.txt
>
> This is now something that's readable content in Myanmar Unicode, with some English text such as "The Gospel according Matthew" near the start.
>
> The file is best viewed using BabelPad with the option Display Colours | Colour Code by Script.
> This shows Myanmar characters in light green, and non-Myanmar characters in other colours.
>
> Observations:
> 1. The font conversion to Unicode left a few scattered characters unconverted. :(
>
> 0000C8	È	18	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH GRAVE
> 0000D8	Ø	20	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE
> 0000F2	ò	3	LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH GRAVE
Yes but this can be easily change. I can ask my friends with wich 
characters to change it (or have a look in the pdf).
> The complete character frequency analysis is attached.
>
> 2. A few verse numbers? are still present here and there.
> 3. The content contains section headings and parallel passage headings as well as verse text.
>
> I have just uploaded the file contents.pp.zip to a new folder in my Box account and added Cyrille & Michael as viewers.
My question is, can you do something with the txt file for adding the
verse number?
>
> Best regards,
>
> David
>
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> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Monday, May 13, 2019 9:19 AM, Cyrille <lafricain79 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I recently receive a modern translation of Myanmar of the NT, Psalms and
>> Proverbs with permission to create a new module.
>> But the problems are many... Firs to get the text.
>> I tested different way, but it's done with PageMaker!
>> I can get the text but the problem is I don't have the verses number
>> because they are next in a parallel column and when I copy it I have
>> only the biblical text.
>> I have a pdf also but when I convert it to text (with pdftotext) the
>> columns are mixed.
>> Someone can help me whit any idea?
>> Next problem is the Unicode... The text is not typed in unicode but use
>> a special font.
>> I can send everything you need or push it the git.crosswire.
>>
>> Thanks for help.
>>
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