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schierlm / BibleMultiConverter

Converter written in Java to convert between different Bible program formats
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E-Sword Import #10

Closed doxaPar closed 7 years ago

doxaPar commented 7 years ago

It isn't clear to me if import from E-Sword format is possible. Can you provide details? Thanks

schierlm commented 7 years ago

Hello,

import from E-Sword (like from Logos) is not possible at the moment.

Main obstacle is that E-Sword uses RTF to store its formatting. And I don't know any good free robust RTF parsers for Java (OpenOffice is probably a bit too heavyweight just for converting from a Bible).

Also, in my experience, E-Sword modules tend to be of lower quality than other formats (they do not support footnotes, have a fixed versification, and also the support for formatting is worse than for other Bible formats), so I would prefer to convert from another source anyway, if available.

If you really want to get the text out of an E-Sword module, you are probably best off exporting it with ToolTipTool NT and then manually editing it to another supported format.

doxaPar commented 7 years ago

Thank you!