[osis-editors] File formats

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To: MPJ

The format which would be most useful to me would be to have each chapter of
the Bible as a separate HTML file. For each book of the Bible (other than
Obadiah and 2 & 3 John, of course) there would also be a file which simply
contained links to each chapter, in the following manner:

1 Corinthians

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
...

with each of those being links to the chapter named.

This format may already be available through one of your converter programs:
I haven't checked in a while, but will do so soon. (When I get back to
college I'll have free internet access, which is useful: there's no way I'd
download the entire Bible text over this dial-up connection.)

My operating system: Win95.
It'd be simpler to have everything on the website, but if space is at a
premium, as I imagine it is, a converter program would be fine.

Keep up the good work.
Tim.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kahunapule Michael P. Johnson" <Kahunapule at mpj.cx>
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Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 2:36 AM
Subject: [WEBnews] File formats; update status


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> So far, the "master" copy of the World English Bible has been in "General
Bible Format" -- a text format that I invented a long time ago for this
purpose. (It is documented at http://eBible.org/bible/gbf.htm, if you are
interested.) I have programs that convert from GBF into a variety of file
formats, some of which I maintain on the web sites listed above (as well as
for 4 other translations of the Holy Bible). In the not-too-distant future,
I would like to shift the master copy of the World English Bible to either
USFM or an XML format that can be losslessly and automatically converted to
and from USFM. The reason I'm doing this is to be able to share Bible
formatters and converters with the Bible translators who are using USFM or a
format very close to USFM, mostly for minority languages. In the process of
making that shift, I'll have to rewrite many of the converters that I now
have for GBF. Before I start that process, I would like to know which Bible
file formats that a!
> re offered on our web sites above that you actually use now, or would like
to use. That will help me prioritize the format conversion writing process.
Which formats are most important to you, and why?
>
> Also, I would like to know what you would think if I stopped posting some
formats on the above web sites, but instead provided a converter program
that could produce the "missing" formats. Would that be acceptable? If so,
what operating system would you like to run the converter on?
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