Re: [sword-devel] Logos Personal Book Builder

2011-08-15 Thread Jonathan Morgan
Hi Greg, On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 4:45 AM, Greg Hellings greg.helli...@gmail.comwrote: I have pursued the avenue of docx - Bible conversion in the past and, allow me to state unequivocally, it is incredibly complex. The sheer number of ways to mark up the same item and material makes any sort

Re: [sword-devel] Logos Personal Book Builder

2011-08-15 Thread Peter von Kaehne
@crosswire.org Betreff: Re: [sword-devel] Logos Personal Book Builder Hi Greg, On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 4:45 AM, Greg Hellings greg.helli...@gmail.comwrote: I have pursued the avenue of docx - Bible conversion in the past and, allow me to state unequivocally, it is incredibly complex

Re: [sword-devel] Logos Personal Book Builder

2011-08-15 Thread Greg Hellings
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Peter von Kaehne ref...@gmx.net wrote: I think the route of a MS Word/OOo - module is so fraught with difficulties that it is simply pointless to think one can automatise it. For docx/odt - Bible, there seems no reasonable way to automate it, but going to

Re: [sword-devel] Logos Personal Book Builder

2011-08-15 Thread Benjamin Misja
Developers\' Collaboration Forum sword-devel@crosswire.org Betreff: Re: [sword-devel] Logos Personal Book Builder Hi Greg, On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 4:45 AM, Greg Hellings greg.helli...@gmail.comwrote: I have pursued the avenue of docx - Bible conversion in the past and, allow me to state

Re: [sword-devel] Logos Personal Book Builder

2011-08-15 Thread Peter von Kaehne
+0200 Von: Benjamin Misja alv...@googlemail.com An: SWORD Developers\' Collaboration Forum sword-devel@crosswire.org Betreff: Re: [sword-devel] Logos Personal Book Builder Jfyi, somebody is working on a script that aims to export mediawiki markup to OSIS in order to provide easy snapshots

[sword-devel] Logos Personal Book Builder

2011-08-14 Thread Jonathan Morgan
I don't usually comment on competing products, but I thought the new (long-expected) Logos Personal Book Builder was worth commenting on. You can find a post about it at http://blog.logos.com/2011/08/personal-book-builder-the-inside-scoop/. The main difference from most software is the fact that

Re: [sword-devel] Logos Personal Book Builder

2011-08-14 Thread Daniel Owens
I haven't looked at it myself either, but I like the concept. This past week I was trying to revive the OpenOffice filter that was broken with version 3 of OpenOffice. I have isolated the problem code in the XSLT filter and commented it out so that the filter works, but it doesn't export the

Re: [sword-devel] Logos Personal Book Builder

2011-08-14 Thread Benjamin Misja
Hi, The new PBB feature sounds exciting and I will definitely see if I can integrate some papers and additional bible translations into my Logos library. I would think that having a comparable feature for making SWORD modules would give a huge boost to both the available amount of books and

Re: [sword-devel] Logos Personal Book Builder

2011-08-14 Thread Greg Hellings
I have pursued the avenue of docx - Bible conversion in the past and, allow me to state unequivocally, it is incredibly complex. The sheer number of ways to mark up the same item and material makes any sort of attempt at such a conversion almost impossible to conceive. I never completed the