It works, it works. Thank You. :) I can finally have NIV, NKJV and NASB on my Handspring :) In Christ, David
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Little" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 4:23 AM Subject: RE: [sword-devel] Sword exporter (Diaspora) > > It's great. Thanks. The Palm bit is fine. I now have the > > version I want > > running on mine! On the Palm, it works the same as footnotes > > turned on > > all the time in Sword - and that's OK. > > Yeah, I wasn't originally writing this as an end-user tool, but as a > tool for people to export as much data from a given module as it > contains. So I turned on all option filters internally. But now I've > added some checkboxes to allow users to turn off the option filters. > The Roman transliterator checkbox you can see is just a placeholder for > now, but I'll get it working some time this week when I get ICU linking > under Borland's compiler. I figure transliteration should be pretty > cool since it will allow you to read Greek & Hebrew Bibles on the Palm > even if it lacks the font support. > > Not sure if anyone noticed, but when outputting for Palm Bible Reader, > the exporter will output book names in the module's locale if it is > installed. I thought this was pretty cool. :) > > Since everything exported is in UTF-8, which is not supported by Palm or > OLB, I compiled & uploaded an encoding converter to the site called > uconv (part of IBM's ICU). Usage is pretty straightforward. To convert > a file "GerLut.txt" to ISO-8859-1, you would run "uconv -f UTF8 -t > ibm-1252 GerLut.txt > newGerLut.txt". When targetting Palm Bible > Reader, remember to change the encoding value on the first line of the > file for encodings other than ISO-8859-1. I have no idea what values > are valid. > > The file location has moved to the public FTP area. > Diaspora is now located at > http://www.crosswire.org/sword/download/ftpmirror/pub/sword/utils/diaspo > ra.zip > And uconv can be found at > http://www.crosswire.org/sword/download/ftpmirror/pub/sword/utils/uconv. > zip > > For those interested, I've added the Diaspora source to CVS in a new > module called swordtools. (So use 'cvs co swordtools' instead of 'cvs co > sword'.) > > --Chris > >
