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Post by erichca on Jan 12, 2004 13:53:01 GMT -5
Ok--I understand. As I mentioned before, I'm not an HTML guru so forgive my confusion. I'll fix this in 1.5.
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Post by dbowman001 on Jan 12, 2004 14:50:29 GMT -5
I just downloaded 1.4 and converted Mortal Messiah Book 1. This was a test, I had originally done this by hand. It took man days if not weeks. The program worked like a charm, and from clinking on the link to download the progam to begin reading the book on my Pocket PC with the scriptures cross referenced, took about 10 minutes. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, My gratitude knows no bounds.
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Post by dogboy on Jan 12, 2004 19:22:34 GMT -5
;D Thanks for the program! I am totally lost when it comes to creating my own content and this program was easy enough for me to figure out. I already felt I was getting my money's worth out of Gospel Link, but I would easily pay $60 just to have these on my iPAQ. Yanceyware Rules!!!
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Post by erichca on Jan 12, 2004 19:44:05 GMT -5
I just heard from someone who has converted almost all the books (1548) to YBKs. He said it came to 459 MB.
So you could buy a 512 MB flash card and put all the books on your PocketPC. Cool!
I wonder if the YanceyWare reader itself can support that many books though?
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Post by Konglong on Jan 13, 2004 0:07:20 GMT -5
No worries dude. I encourage any tools that help out with our conversions. These are all great. Keep up the great work......
Kong
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Post by erichca on Jan 13, 2004 3:03:37 GMT -5
YanceyLink 1.5 is now available at: home.comcast.net/~erichca/YanceyLink.zip**** You must be a registered user of GospeLink 2001 to use this utility. Do not distribute e-books you create using this utility to other people who do not own the GospeLink 2001 library *** 1.5 Fixes & Features - Fixed some bugs with books like We Believe where paragraphs markup wasn't getting added. - I now make footnotes that are links to the same page pop up in a new popup window. - The above feature made having "fn" for footnotes everywhere confusing, so I'm now numbering footnotes 1,2,3 etc. This is a move away from the GospeLink book format--GospeLink just uses the text "fn"--there may be isues with this feature if the book doesn't number the footnotes in a traditional 1,2,3 way. - Stripping more tags like HTML, HEAD, BODY, TITLE - Convert <DIV Class... to <P Class... - Added missing </P> tags. - Now support a new element in the books.xml file called "ShortTitle". If you add a ShortTitle element (see Jesus the Chist and Articles of Faith in the books.xml for an example) it will use your short book name instead of trying to generate one. - Grabbing the "Citation" for the index page. - Converting headings on the title page to title case. - YanceyLink now saves the set of books you have checked to convert--this will make it easier to pick up updates to YanceyLink and rebuild your book collection. - Fixed link error when linking to the title page of the Book of Mormon
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Post by Bryce Yancey on Jan 13, 2004 22:09:46 GMT -5
I just heard from someone who has converted almost all the books (1548) to YBKs. He said it came to 459 MB. So you could buy a 512 MB flash card and put all the books on your PocketPC. Cool! I wonder if the YanceyWare reader itself can support that many books though? As far as I know, the only limit to the number of books YanCEyWare Reader can support is the size of the library page (i.e. how many books can be listed). I increased the maximum size for the library.html file to 32Kb in versison 1.4. I currently have roughly 70 books in my library folder, and the my library.html file size is 8K...a good deal of which is due to the overhead of the main header and the catagory headers...which don't necessarily increase as you add books. Hence, you should be able to hold around 300 books in a single library. How many seperate books are we talking about in Gospel Link? I'm guessing 300 individual books should be more than sufficent for most users. -- Bryce
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Post by erichca on Jan 14, 2004 0:20:45 GMT -5
I had a bug in YanceyLink 1.5 that was breaking references and redirecting them to the book of mormon title page. I've fixed the bug as of 9PM PST January 13. Redownload YanceyLink with the fix at: home.comcast.net/~erichca/YanceyLink.zip
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Post by FroelichD on Jan 14, 2004 12:43:03 GMT -5
I love this program! Here's some of my observations: 1. It would be nice to have the book title at the beginning of the string for the full name (2nd entry in the Yanceyware header) for use in the history list and quickmarks. Here's a quote from Bryce in explanation: Full Name: This is defined by the <fn> tag in the custom header. This is used to describe entries in the history list and quickmarks. The full name is typically more descriptive and contains some reference to the book, since there is typically no context associated with a full name when it is displayed. 2. footnotes work great in most books! One that doesn't is "Joseph Smith's Kirtland: Eyewitness Accounts" in that book, the footnotes don't appear at the bottom, and clicking on the numbers just brings up a popup window starting with the beginning of the chapter.
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Post by erichca on Jan 14, 2004 16:04:42 GMT -5
FroelichD:
1: This should be easy enough to do--I'll add this in version 1.6.
2: As I've worked on this project, it has become clear to me that a lot of the GospeLink books just weren't done correctly on the original GospeLink CD. Especially in the area of footnotes--the footnotes in books that are broken when converted to YanCEyWare format are also broken when you view them in GospeLink. So we have kind of a garbage in/garbage out problem.
I've been thinking about a plan to have a way to have a "hints.xml" file that will list specific fixes that have to be made to fix particular books that were formatted incorrectly by GospeLink.
For example, in the book "Approach to the Book of Mormon", the footnotes for a chapter sometimes appear at the start of the following chapter.
The fix would be to add to this "hints.xml" file a rule that says that for the book "Approach to the Book of Mormon" move everything from position a to position b in chapter 3 back to the end of chapter 2.
Other problems I've seen with footnotes include the footnotes being placed at the end of the very last chapter of the book despite the footnote markup for the book assuming the footnotes are at the end of each chapter. An example of this is "Lord Increase Our Faith". Once again, these books are also broken in GospeLink itself. A fix in hints.xml might move chunks of footnotes into the same html page that they are referenced or fix all footnote references to point to the last page of the book.
A third issue I've seen is that footnotes aren't numbered in some books--"Lord Increase Our Faith" is also an example of this.
Also, some titles of some chapters are messed up--for example see "Teaching of Gordon B Hinckley" where the text "A-Hinckley, Gordon B." prefaces each page title. This problem also exists in GospeLink itself. So a possible rule in hints.xml would say to strip the text "A-Hinckley, Gordon B." out of every page before you process it.
Anyway, just some thoughts I've been thinkin'.
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Post by erichca on Jan 14, 2004 16:09:59 GMT -5
How many seperate books are we talking about in Gospel Link? I'm guessing 300 individual books should be more than sufficent for most users. -- Bryce Bryce: YanceyLink can create over 1500 individual books. But I highly doubt you would really want to move that many books onto your PocketPC at once.
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Post by FroelichD on Jan 14, 2004 17:30:45 GMT -5
I understand about garbage in/garbage out.
I'll just keep downloading Yanceylink updates. Even if you don't do those things, Yanceylink is a great asset to the Yanceyware community. Let us know if you need help with anything. Maybe hints.xml is something others could update as they find errors with books.
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Post by erichca on Jan 14, 2004 19:12:47 GMT -5
Along those same lines--whatever algorithm GospeLink used to mark up scripture references in their books is simplistic and misses a lot of references. Right now, YanceyLink just converts the hyperlinks already in the GospeLink books to Yanceyware reader compatible links. I'm thinking about doing another pass over the documents to find any scripture references that aren't already linked and adding those in.
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Post by Konglong on Jan 14, 2004 19:31:18 GMT -5
Great idea. Was talking to Decaf not too long ago about adding this function to Xpresso as well. This way the works on lds.org that are not yet linked to the scriptures can be linked.
Kong PS. Liking the * ah link better than the period.
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Post by Bryce Yancey on Jan 14, 2004 22:29:17 GMT -5
Bryce: YanceyLink can create over 1500 individual books. But I highly doubt you would really want to move that many books onto your PocketPC at once. Just wait. Someone will try to...and as soon as they do, I'll hear about it. ;D
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