Bible translation form ".doc" to web

[Xavier Matoses]

Hello!

I'm an absolute newbie here.

I have a complete Bible translation in ".doc" files made with Microsoft Word. My goal is to put it in a web page, with the possibility of searching words and passages, and, eventually, create an Android app.

(I'm a member of a Biblical Association that holds the rights of the translation).

Can you, please, help me, or indicate where can I have help?

Thanks!

[Darrell Smith]

You need to put it into a database on a web server and use its search functionality. There are many ways of doing this. I use PHP and MySQL with Javascript on the client side for the GUI. You can get hosting on a server for as little as $7 per month. If you don't know how to do this, you will either have to learn how to or hire or find a willing volunteer to do it for you. The first step in any case would be to define what you would like to do in a document (functional description and requirements). It's like writing a book -- you start with the outline first and flesh out the details. After decades of professional experience writing software, I can tell you the biggest headache a developer has is that marketing people or clients who do not do the WORK of really defining what they want. Most people have very fuzzy ideas of what they want to do and want someone else to do the hard work of not only designing the thing, but also, iteratively redoing the labor to try to please the client -- who doesn't really know what they want until they see it. So, good luck on that. If you have specific questions, I and others will gladly answer them. But please, do not expect others to read your mind and work hard to please you. Sorry, but that's the truth. 

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[Rohan Smith]

My first suggestion would be to save it as .txt  so you can get rid of all the msword formatting. Secondly you want to ensure that it is in a "parsable" format so you can create a database out of it. Then you would be able to do searching and publishing to the web

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[Kahunapule Michael Johnson]

With some clever use of search and replace, you should be able to convert it to USFM format (described at http://paratext.ubs-translations.org/about/usfm). From there you can convert it to a web site using software from http://haiola.org.

Aloha,

Michael

http://mpj.us

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[Peter von Kaehne]

Hi, have a look at Crosswire's offerings.

To make a bible module for it is easy, afterwars it will work on
webserver and on android, no problem

Peter

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[Xavier Matoses]

Thanks to all. I know this is going to be a lot of work. I'm trying to figure out how to do it.

Please, excuse me, I have more questions.

@DarrellSmith. I need the same functionality as in www.biblija.net, but only with one translation. I want to learn how to put it in a Database and make the searching GUI.

@Rohan A. Smith. How can I have a "parsable" format? What "parsable" formats there are? Which is best? I imagine that I need every verse in a line, but I have .doc files ready to print, with the usual paragraphs.

@Kahunapule. I've heard about the USFM format. Is there any tutorial for this "clever use of search and replace". Do you have any advice?

@Peter von Kaehne. Thanks for the indication. I'll read about it. 

Xavier M.

www.biblia-vida.com

www.bibliayvida.com

[kri...@gmail.com]

Tell me a little about your translation. I'm a developer in a very large opensource bible community http://bibleway.us

[Xavier Matoses]

Hello., kri...@gmail.

Unfortunately, it's not an opensource translation.

We've already converted the .doc in USFM code (with "some clever use of search and replace", as Kahunapule suggested). There are also people from a University working in the web and the cellphone app. So, it's almost done. Thanks.

El dimecres 7 de novembre de 2012 19:01:10 UTC+1, kri...@gmail.com va escriure: