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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">I am developing a set of Perl scripts that convert Logos XML to OSIS for commentaries. It has proven to be a non-trivial exercise.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">I don't know whether I would have time in the future to get involved with this CCEL project, but it interests me.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> This is a call for volunteers interested in (mostly) English language</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> commentaries and general spiritual books.
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> After a long hiatus of non-communication with CCEL I have been given</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> permission to use their ThML files to upload to CrossWire. This is a</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> brilliant thing.
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Trouble is when I looked at it closer I realised we actually do not</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> have any thml2vs like import utility. We do have a utility for general</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> books, but not for commentaries. I do see that we have some work on</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> scripts for the Calvin commentaries which are CCEL derived, but I had</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> not had a deeper look inside that yet.
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> So, in short - if someone feels willing and called to tackle this</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> 1) a well described and fully automatised process to create a</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> commentary module from ThML source, including XML validation</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> 2) a well described and preferably fully automatised process to pre-</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> process CCEL source to make it clean for further import.
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> any language, as long as it runs on Linux. C, C++, Perl or Python</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> preferred though.
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Then, if someone wants to take on a guardian and shepherding role to</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> deal with what is on offer and produce quality modules from it, with</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> conf files etc etc, this would be hugely appreciated. I will continue</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> This is probably a huge opportunity to help us get a large number of</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> quality texts from a well reputed source, so it would be wonderful if</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> someone or some who are previously maybe not so deeply involved want to</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> tackle this.
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Thanks!</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Peter</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">John Dudeck</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Programmer at Editions Cle Lyon, France</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">john.dudeck@sim.org john@editionscle.com</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">"Hmm, doubtful. The source code generally wasn't there when I needed it."</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"> -- Larry Wall when asked if he learned Perl from the perl source</span></font></div>
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