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Re: [be] Bibledit printing through internal typesetter


From: Loren Hawthorne
Subject: Re: [be] Bibledit printing through internal typesetter
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:09:48 -0700
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Thanks --Loren
On 09/28/2012 12:53 PM, Teus Benschop wrote:
Hi Loren,

This didn't make it to bibledit-general, though I suppose it was supposed to go there since you ask for info from 'anyone else'.

These days I have no time to program anything in Bibledit-Gtk due to other commitments, but patches are always welcome. Hopefully there will be time to work on this later on.

Bibledit-Web (http://bibledit.org) has a way of exporting USFM text to OpenDocument format, including the drop-caps and reasonably nice headers. It's software that can be downloaded, and there's a demo online.

An advantage of OpenDocument format, or indeed any editable format, is that it can easily be tweaked after the initial publishing phase.

Bibledit-Gtk produces the rather rigid PDF format, though there is that intermediate stage that you use to run a CC table on.

Good luck thinking ahead of the days that SIL will be somewhere else. As they said in Zimbabwe: Don't give a fish to somebody, but a hook and teach him to fish.

Teus.

On 09/27/2012 11:45 PM, Loren Hawthorne wrote:
Thanks, Teus. You've done a beautiful job on the rendering. I especially
like your running headers and the drop cap chapter numbers, things that
can be difficult to do in other systems.  On my wish list for making
this a great tool for local people who want to print their own Scripture
would be the possibility of adding a cc table or other text processing
tool (cc being my choice because it is the one tool I have good command
of) into the process to be run on the intermediate level output that you
can see in the window that pops up if you enable it. It isn't terribly
difficult to copy that text to a file, run the cc, then paste the
results back into the window, but for a naive user, it would be a bit of
a learning curve. I think with a few tweaks that could be done that way
and a good stylesheet, the output would be good enough for informal
publishing. These days, they have me thinking about ways to enable
people to publish Scripture when SIL is no longer around to help.  If
anyone else has a good way to do this, especially with Linux based
tools, I'm all ears. The export to Open Office might be good, but I
don't have an easy way to get all things like drop cap chapter numbers
and nice running heads there.

--Loren





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