<span>Quoting Peter "If I or someone in my organization has texts to hand to Crosswire
in epub format and declare them in the care of Crosswire, would someone
at Crosswire consider starting a repo of epub format texts?</span>"<br><br>I can't speak officially for Crosswire, but I can volunteer resources to host your epub formats Peter, since I have resources available to host (I own some data centres).<br>
<br>I've been playing with how Sword software deals with FTP repositories. I don't know if I've broached rules in doing this but I did this for two reasons. I wanted to get test modules onto my iPad and used the repository to do that for testing purposes. I also wanted to provide access to sword modules to a friend who lives in an environment where 'crosswire' is filtered. So I set up a Crosswire/NET/Xiphos/IBT Mirror using the following details:<br>
<br>Mirror Name: 1XO NET Bible Mirror<br>Mirror Machine Name: <a href="http://ftp.1xo.net">ftp.1xo.net</a><br>
Repository Directory: /bible/sword<br>Link: <a href="ftp://ftp.1xo.net/bible/sword">ftp://ftp.1xo.net/bible/sword</a><br><br>Mirror Name: 1XO CrossWire Bible Society Mirror<br>
Mirror Machine Name: <a href="http://ftp.1xo.net">ftp.1xo.net</a><br>
Repository Directory: /crosswire/pub/sword/raw<br>Link: <a href="ftp://ftp.1xo.net/crosswire/pub/sword/raw">ftp://ftp.1xo.net/crosswire/pub/sword/raw</a><br><br>Mirror Name: 1XO CrossWire Bible Society (attic) Mirror<br>
Mirror Machine Name: <a href="http://ftp.1xo.net">ftp.1xo.net</a><br>
Repository Directory: /crosswire/pub/sword/atticraw<br>Link: <a href="ftp://ftp.1xo.net/crosswire/pub/sword/atticraw">ftp://ftp.1xo.net/crosswire/pub/sword/atticraw</a><br><br>Mirror Name: 1XO CrossWire Bible Society (av11n) Mirror<br>
Mirror Machine Name: <a href="http://ftp.1xo.net">ftp.1xo.net</a><br>
Repository Directory: /crosswire/pub/sword/raw<br>Link: <a href="ftp://ftp.1xo.net/crosswire/pub/sword/avraw">ftp://ftp.1xo.net/crosswire/pub/sword/avraw</a><br><br>Mirror Name: 1XO CrossWire Bible Society (Beta) Mirror<br>
Mirror Machine Name: <a href="http://ftp.1xo.net">ftp.1xo.net</a><br>
Repository Directory: /crosswire/pub/sword/betaraw<br>Zip Directory: /crosswire/pub/sword/betapackages/rawzip<br>Link: <a href="ftp://ftp.1xo.net/crosswire/pub/sword/betaraw">ftp://ftp.1xo.net/crosswire/pub/sword/betaraw</a><br>
<br>Mirror Name: 1XO CrossWire Bible Society (Xperimental) Mirror<br>
Mirror Machine Name: <a href="http://ftp.1xo.net">ftp.1xo.net</a><br>
Repository Directory: /crosswire/pub/sword/raw<br>Link: <a href="ftp://ftp.1xo.net/crosswire/experimental">ftp://ftp.1xo.net/crosswire/experimental</a><br><br>
Mirror Name: 1XO IBT Mirror<br>
Mirror Machine Name: <a href="http://ftp.1xo.net">ftp.1xo.net</a><br>
Repository Directory: /ibt/pub/modsword/raw<br>
Link: <a href="ftp://ftp.1xo.net/ibt/pub/modsword">ftp://ftp.1xo.net/ibt/pub/modsword</a><br><br>Mirror Name: 1XO Xiphos Mirror<br>
Mirror Machine Name: <a href="http://ftp.1xo.net">ftp.1xo.net</a><br>
Repository Directory: /xiphos<br>
Link: <a href="ftp://ftp.1xo.net/xiphos/">ftp://ftp.1xo.net/xiphos/</a><br><br>I'll continue running this until or unless someone asks me to stop with the offer that if anyone else wants to use this mirror for other modules, let me know. Also, I would be greatly appreciated if people would test this mirror out by adding them to your Module Managers.<br>
<br>~Andrew<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 3:24 AM, Peter von Kaehne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:refdoc@gmx.net">refdoc@gmx.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 15:50 -0700, Mike Hart wrote:<br>
><br>
> Crosswire in 2004 listed palmbible+ as a crosswire program (today the<br>
> site claims that crosswire has no palm platform program.)<br>
<br>
</div>FWIW, the site even then did not claim that Palm software is CrossWire,<br>
but listed it in an admittedly more confusing fashion than it is listed<br>
now.<br>
<div class="im">><br>
> Besides a contact offlist, noone has made any statement for or against<br>
> releasing epubs via CrossWire.<br>
<br>
</div>Owning a epub reader I can not see a less useful way for studying the<br>
Bible than using epub. The first thing I did was rooting it and<br>
installing And Bible on it to have a decent study tool.<br>
<br>
epub appears useless to me as a format for anything other than reading<br>
unidirectionally without any serious referencing forward and backward.<br>
<br>
That said, some publishers might indeed be happy for us to produce epubs<br>
too, but I have neither time nor inclination to work in that direction.<br>
If you want to produce a converter say OSIS to ePub or USFM to ePub and<br>
this converter works well, I am sure we could offer epubs to these<br>
publishers for their further use. Whether we would offer them ourselves<br>
for download is another question. I have no opinion on.<br>
<br>
Yours<br>
<br>
Peter<br>
<br>
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