Chris, This is very cool. the only thing that would make it even cooler is if it could also do the conversion the other way around, from those formats to sword. :) Possible?
Don A. Elbourne Jr. http://elbourne.org > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris Little > Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 9:55 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [sword-devel] Sword exporter (Diaspora) > > > Another new version. Same location as last time: > http://www.crosswire.org/sword/download/ftpmirror/pub/sword/utils/diaspo > ra.zip > > Changes: > - New icon. :) > > - David pointed out some problems with resizing that were fixed. > > - In the case of plain text output, the byte order mark is output as the > first 3 bytes. This signals that the file is UTF-8 and not ASCII. So > you can output a Greek text, load it up in notepad, and it will display > Greek, not Latin-1 garbage. > > - For ThML and plain text output, when an entry spans multiple verses, > the range is indicated instead of just the first verse. This roughly > triples the time it takes to process a module, but I feel it's a > necessity. > > - For Palm Bible Reader output, when an entry spans multiple verses or > when verses/chapters are skipped, the exporter will try to make empty > verses/chapters to maintain verse alignment. It doesn't create empty > verses following the final verse with contents in a chapter, so you will > still get lots of warnings in Poetry's converter, but they shouldn't > cause any problems. I tested with the MHCC and it worked pretty well. > > - David also requested the ability to export only portions of a module, > so I implemented that also. It will take anything that Sword can parse > into a ListKey, but things like "Gen-Deut", "Mat-John", > "Isaiah-Malachi", "Psalms", etc. are what I expect this will be used > for. Don't be too ambitious with the commentaries though, because it > appears there are some verse length limits in the program--it couldn't > certain entries from the complete MHC. > > > > --Chris > >
