Hi Greg, On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 4:45 AM, Greg Hellings <greg.helli...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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 project (my apologies to David for that), but I did get > so far as to have the base text working in SWORD. However, headings > were in the wrong places, foot notes were acknowledged but not > present, and many other things were very wrong with the results I > produced. Not to mention that the parsing was highly dependent upon > that one text and the manner in which its editor had elected to markup > his works. I have since come into possession of better tools which > would make some parts of the process easier, but by no means would it > be simple. > I'm not surprised. I don't know how long it took Logos to develop their PBB and how many programmers were involved, but I do know it was originally tentatively planned for 2010. As you say, I think a big part of the problem is the number of ways a thing can be represented as (plus the general problem of trying to map from presentation to meaning - it's also possible that Logos has a more presentational format than you are targetting). I think Logos handles things like verses using pre-defined styles, but I've only played with it, not read the documentation. > Producing a general book might have better results, but it would still > be a monumental undertaking for anyone who wanted to tackle it. I am > up to my ears right now in other projects or I might consider it. > Also, I lack any sort of source texts which would make it worthwhile > for myself to undertake the project. > Indeed. Jon > > --Greg > > On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Benjamin Misja <alv...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > 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 community > > participation. I think SWORD should make tools like this available to the > > community at any cost. It would take making modules out of the hands of > those > > who know at least regular expressions and some programming language and > put it > > into the hands of anybody who would want to make a module. I know I'd be > > making a lot of them if only I could! It would make SWORD so much cooler > and > > more dynamic. ;-) > > > > Just my humble opinion, > > > > Ben > > > > > > Am Sonntag, 14. August 2011, 23:28:39 schrieb 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 books are built by > >> importing a docx file rather than entering any text into an editor, > which > >> hopefully means minimal work to make it happen. The created books can > then > >> just be shared as you wish, even through the main Logos servers. > >> > >> I personally do not intend to do anything about this, but I thought it > worth > >> mentioning to see what others thought of the idea. Certainly > difficulties > >> converting the text into a usable form seem to crop up quite a bit for > >> SWORD, and we have no knowledge of how many people just give up without > >> asking (I know there is a project to work with OpenOffice to create > >> Genbooks, but I have never used it and so do not know how capable and > how > >> automatic it is). > >> > >> Thoughts? > >> > >> Jon > > > > _______________________________________________ > > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > > > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >
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