YanceyLink 1.3 Release (GospeLink 2001 convertor)

[erichca]

YanceyLink 1.3 (automatically converts books from your GospeLink 2001 library to YanCEyWare YBK books) is now available here:

***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***

home.comcast.net/~erichca/YanceyLink1.3.zip

Let's face it--life is too short to copy hundreds of HTML files over to your library folder and memory is too expensive.

This version of YanceyLink creates compressed YBK files.

For reference, Jesus the Christ is now a single 753K YBK file instead of 2.52 MB scattered over 45 HTML files.

1.3 Changes/Features
- YBK Support
- Strips out next tag at bottom of each book as it was redundant.

1.2 Changes/Features
- Added support for cascading style sheets--this requires that you have the PocketPC 2003 OS as the PocketPC 2002 OS IE doesn't support styles. This effectively makes the Yanceyware books have the exact same formatting on your PocketPC as they have in the Windows version of GospeLink.
- Since the YanCEyWare reader doesn't support linking style sheets, I insert into every page a style block with just the styles used in that page to save space.
- You can edit the new styles.css file to change the way the book is converted--for example, you can change the fonts for the chapter headings or the fonts for quoted scriptures. There are over 50 styles available that you can tweak to create exactly the look you want for your generated book.
- Fixed an issue with the encoding I was using--this will fix some errors that resulted in characters getting omitted and two words getting merged together.

This utility will create Yanceyware EBooks from any book in your Gospelink library. The books get created in the c:\books directory for now. You then copy the ybk file created for the ebook out of the c:\books directory to your YanceyWare library directory.

For example, after converting Articles of Faith, a ybk file called "ArticlesofFai.ybk" is created in the c:\books directory. Copy that file to your YanCEyWare reader library directory on your pocket PC (the direcotry where your existing .ybk files are located). Then, launch the YanCEyWare reader on your PocketPC, and from the "Hammer" menu choose "Refresh Library" to rebuild the index. Your new books should be located at the bottom of the main index.

this utility requires that the latest version of the .NET runtime be installed on your machine--.NET is available through the windows update site: (http://www.windowsupdate.com).

GospeLink 2001 must be running on your machine before you launch this utility. I recommend you do the full installation of GospelLink and copy all the GospelLink files to your hard drive rather than running from CD. I have not tested or provided any functionality for GospeLink running from CD.

It is practically impossible to test all 1240 YanCEyWare books that can be produced from GospeLink using this utility. If you find something that you want improved or formatting or scripture linking issues in a particular book, please send mail to [e-mail] and I'll try to add it to the next version.

Some things that definitely do not work:
1-I don't try to create image directories yet as part of the books.

[robow8]

Thank you! This program is AWESOME! I am finally able to dump EZ Reader! Woohoo!

[NateBan]

I second that!

[clarkkent93]

sucks for those that can't fork out the 60 for the cd's

bernard

[Terry LaMantia]

As of 10 mins ago -- EZ reader has been uninstalled!

Thank you Eric!

[erichca]

YanceyLink 1.4 is now available.

I apologize for the frequent releases--but everyone keeps finding good bugs.

home.comcast.net/~erichca/YanceyLink1.4.zip

1.4
- Produces a better index page, 1.3 was dropping characters.
- Uses bulleting on the index to make it look nicer.
- Fixes scripture link creation problem pointed out by KongLong in We Believe.
- Adds support for creating Yanceyware e-books from GospeLink Periodicals--there are now 1551 books it can create.
- Adds a check box that will let you keep the source files in case you want to edit them and copy them to your PDA instead of the generated YBK.

[NateBan]

Keeps getting better. Thanks Eric.

[Hujya]

Will YanceyLink 1.4 work with the Web Version of Gospelink 2001? I have this at work.

[erichca]

I only want to support one mode--the "full install of GospeLink 2001 to local disk" mode where it works on your local machine without hitting a public internet site.

I don't want this utility to start creating traffic on the GospeLink website.

[Abinadi]

Hi:

Does this thing work on older devices such as the Pocket PC 2000 OS? I still have it, and I'm old-fashioned.

"Abinadi"
HP Jornada 548 User

[Victor Garcia]

Can Erichca reply to me by email?
I down loaded the 1.4 and I have gospel link and I not sure If I have net. I have xp on my system and I want to know what to do next . I looked at the file and I'm not sure what to do next. Does 1.4 go in my library or what? What do I do to start transfering files? Could you make a list of steps. That would be great.

Victor

[e-mail]

[erichca]

WRT to Pocket PC 2000 OS--books created by YanceyLink should work on any version of the Pocket PC OS that the YanCEyWare reader will run on. You just might not get all the formatting that you get with the latest Pocket PC 2003 OS (the books YanceyLink creates uses a new feature of Pocket PC 2003--style sheets for the pocket pc internet explorer). However, to be honest, I haven't tested books YanceyLink creates on these older version of the Pocket PC OS, but I think others have. Users of these older OS's will have to let me know if they encounter problems.

WRT to .NET installation--you can download the .NET runtime here: download.microsoft.com/download/a/a/c/aac39226-8825-44ce-90e3-bf8203e74006/dotnetfx.exe

Once you have .NET installed, you should be able to just extract all the files in the YanceyLink1.4.zip file to a directory and run the YanceyLink executable from that directory. Remember that you have to be running the GospeLink 2001 program first before launching YaunceyLink.