I've been looking for a good solution and here's the best things I've found
that don't require any paid licenses. Basically there are 3 options and they
all have holes or a steep learning curve: 1. OSIS>USFM>SIL Fieldworks/Pathways,
2. Multiple Open Office plugins, 3. OSIS>xxx?>KindleGen>Calibre.
1. SIL Fieldworks/Pathways
The closest thing I know of is the Fieldwork's publishing module Pathways,
which does a decent job of implementing a basic Epub for Bibles. (It does
footnotes and Chapter links well, but the chapter links are only one way.
that is, The book title and chapter titles need manual modification for the
backlinks back to the Table of Contents.) However, Pathways requires USFM
encoded texts, and I'm unaware of a good OSIS2USFM converter. (Is there such a
thing?)
http://pathway.sil.org/
(NOTE: Pathway likely will require a functioning installation of either SIL
Fieldworks or UBS Paratext. Fieldworks is free for download.
2. Open Office Plugins for both Input and output.
I've read about an Open Office plugin for OSIS. However, as of (June?), it
required an antiquated version of OOO. If that could be made to function, there
are multiple Epub Open Office plugins that will function, but aren't designed
for multilevel navigation that scripture needs.
(This isn't exactly the link I tried, but looks pretty close to it.)
http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/TEI_OpenOffice_Package
3. OSIS>XXX>KindleGen>Calibre
You might also look into KindleGen, which can produce Calibre friendly output
from a linux/mac/windows command line even if your target device is not kindle.
It doesn't accept OSIS as input, but it has a wide range of formats it does
accept. I've struggled to make it do 2 level linking that epub Bibles need, but
I'm dedicated to print projects, and epubs are just part time.
https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A3IWA2TQYMZ5J6
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For a touch enabled e-reader with no keyboard, (kindle touch, nook simple
touch) or above, The Bible's Table of Contents (TOC) should only contain links
to the start of each book. The Title of the book should be a link back to the
TOC. Between the title of each book and the start of chapter 1, a list of
chapters that link to each chapter should appear. Each chapter title should
link back to the beginning of the book. That is the simplest way to make the
Epub compatible with as many e-reader technologies as possible until epub v3 is
implemented widespread. You can do a little more with kindle 8 and ibooks 7,
but you have to be developing market specific and the files get huge.
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From: Joachim Ansorg <nospam+sword-de...@joachim-ansorg.de>
To: sword-devel@crosswire.org
Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 1:08 PM
Subject: [sword-devel] sword -> epub ?
Hi all,
is there a solution to convert a sword Bible into a readable epub file? Would
be cool to have it my preferred Sword modules on my ebook reader.
Regards,
Joachim
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