Hi Peter. If you send me the PDF and/or the XML file I'll have a look though it.
Manfred Am 18.05.2010 um 08:50 schrieb Peter von Kaehne: > Dear all, > > We have been granted permission for a Portuguese modern translation. The > reason that it is not in the repos is entirely my fault as I am > currently extremely slow in all CrossWire work. > > The problem with the text is as follows: > > I have two texts to work with: > > a) a totally unstyled and rather horrendous MS Word 95 document > b) a reasonably clean and highly styled PDF. > > Former I have given up upon. It is simply not possible with any > contortions to make it work. > > Latter is much better. It is the produce of a publishing house who have > gone through (a), styled it properly and produced the PDF in final > outcome. The intermediate step - which would likely be the best text to > work with is not available. > > So I have taken the PDF and run it through pdf2xml and got something I > think I can work with. > > The xml documents are structured with pages as the main structural > element, which in turn are the only way of relating reliably the (ample) > foot notes) to chunks of text. > > If I would filter the footnotes out, I would probably have a decent text > fairly fast. But that would be a waste > > So, are there any more experienced volunteers who could help me? > > Many thanks! > > Peter > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
