Help with script

[Mordecha Behar]

I am not a script wizard, but I think I may know of a way to cut down a lot
of the work.
Calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com/) is a FOSS library tool. It allows the
user to import books in many formats, including plain text and html.
Another FOSS program called Sigil (http://code.google.com/p/sigil/) allows
the user to easily create, edit and modify epub formatted ebooks (creating a
title page, changing text format in a GUI editor, making a table of
contents...).
What I would do would be to save the html (or plain text) files from the
internet in a single folder, then import that to Calibre, then use Calibre's
tool to convert to an epub book, and use Sigil to add the finishing touches.
Between the two, and with freely available text from the internet, I think
you can get the job done a lot easier, without writing a single script.
Good luck!

2011/2/24 Steve G. <wordz2u at gmail.com>

> I am looking for someone to mentor me, help me, or work with me on the
> following, non-marketable project. This is NOT a job offer, but a request
> for help. If any money comes out of the project, I will gladly share it with
> people who help me, but I doubt anything will.
>
> So here is a description of what I want to accomplish:
>
> Many years ago, I resolved to read the bible (old testament) in its
> entirety, in Hebrew/Spanish. I purchased a dual language bible, La Biblia,
> and start the journey. The goal was to learn Spanish, and also become
> acquainted with the old text, only bits and pieces of which are taught in
> any school, even a religious one.
>
> Carrying a bilingual bible is literally a heavy burden, scares away the
> chicks and everyone else except fundamentalists and weirdos, which did not
> help. I got stuck somewhere in the second book when too many names stumped
> me. I still read a page now and then, but at this rate it will take me 543
> years to finish.
>
> Fast forward 20 years, we now have a tool perfect for reading one line at a
> time - the new Kindle! So I am thinking why not create an electronic version
> of the same document - 2 bilingual
> bibles, Hebrew-Spanish and Spanish-Hebrew, verse by verse. Maybe even with
> punctuation marks, though that is not a necessity.
>
> I can find copyright free web pages. In Spanish I can get the whole bible
> as a single file. In Hebrew most sites are arranged book by book, but that
> is fairly easy to combine into a single file manually. I would like to write
> a script, preferably in python, that would read the files, parse them into a
> series of sentences, and recombine them as a bilingual file, one verse
> following the other. Hebrew/Spanish and Spanish/Hebrew.
>
> I am not a programmer, but I can probably create a script with guidance.
> Working with a knowledgeable individual would eliminate enough of the
> learning curve for me to make it a reality. If I were to do it from scratch,
> it will be so low on my priorities list that it would take years to get to
> it. If we get this done, I would post it somewhere as a freely available
> document, of course.
>
> As for the commercial part - if we get this text processed, I will
> considering offering it as a Kindle book on Amazon, and also maybe
> converting it to PDF. As far as I know there is nothing like that on the
> market, though someone is selling dual language bibles in English and a
> number of other languages on Amazon.
>
> Anyone interested in helping with the project, please let me know.
>
> Z.
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