RFE: Best 3.x Premium Edition

This post is mainly for me to track the RFE's I've submitted to Ben.

Convert between programs:


e-Sword 8.0.6 -> e-Sword 9.5.1;
e-Sword 8.0.6 -> Pocket e-Sword 3.1.0
e-Sword 9.5.1 -> e-Sword 8.0.6;
e-Sword 9.5.1 -> Pocket e-Sword 3.1.0;
Pocket e-Sword 3.1.0 -> e-Sword 9.5.1;
Pocket e-Sword 3.1.0 -> e-Sword 8.0.6;

BeST 2.x (Premium Edition) can do this for the resource types it supports.

Import into e-Sword, and where appropriate, Pocket e-Sword:

• Bible;
• Commentary;
• Devotional Modules;
• Dictionary;
• Map/Graphic;
• Study Note;
• Topical File;
• Bible Reading Plan;
• Harmony Resources;
• Markup Overlay;
• Prayer Lists;
• Scripture  Memory Verse Lists;
• Verse Analysis;
• Verse Lists;

http://e-sword-users.org/users/node/3932 and http://e-sword-users.org/users/node/3936 describe some of the issues in creating a tool for all of those resource types. Most of these are currently creatable by BeST.
 
Import support for presentation markup languages:

• B-XML;
• CSV;
• GBF;
• HTML 3.2;
• HTML 5.0 + CSS 2.0;
• OSIS;
• no markup;
• RTF;
• TSV;
• USFX (not currently supported):
• USFM (not currently supported); 
• XSEM (not currently supported);
• VPL;
• Z-XML; 

Unless otherwise stated, these are currently supported by BeST.

Import support for file formats:

• plain text;
• Excel 2000;
• ODF - ODS;
• DIF (? Obsolete format. Probably more effort to implement, than benfit would be derived.   );
• SYLK (? Obsolete format. Probably more effort to implement, than benfit would be derived.);

Unless otherwise stated, BeST currently recognises these file formats.

Resource conversion:

• Create a concordance from any resource type (currently available) ;
• Merge any two resources of the same type into one resource;
• Create a file that lists only the different elements (and which file contains them), for any two resources of the same type;
• Create a file that lists only the common elements for any two resources of the same type;
• Topical File  <-> Dictionary Resource;
• Verse List <->  Scripture Memory Resource;
• Study Note <-> Commentary Resource (currently available);
• Bible Reading Plan <-> Devotional Resource;

Included within Bible Resource construction:

• Red Lettering for Words Of Jesus (Currently available.);
• Red Lettering for Words of God the Father (Easiest is to to read in an external file.);
• Red Lettering for Words of the Holy Spirit (Easiest is to to read in an external file.);
• Red Lettering for words of angels (Easiest is to to read in an external file.);
• User supplied verses to be Red Lettered (Easiest is to to read in an external file.);
• Add Strong's Numbers (Easiest is to to read in an external file.);
• Automatic construction of a concordance file (currently  available);
• Highlight user provided list of verses (Easiest is to to read in an external file.);

Included within Commentary Resource Creation:

• Create a Dictionary file of subject lines for commentary notes;
• Automatic construction of a concordance file  (currently available);

(The following was added 28 November 2009.)
Convert character encodings:
Convert all of the following character encodings to UTF-8:

• Beta Code
• DOS_CP_737 (MS-Dos monotonic Greek)
• ISO_8859_7 (Standard monotonic Greek)
• Ibycus (for Latex)
• Latex Standard Babel
• Babel_7 (Latex Standard Babel + ISO 8859-7)
• SIL Composite (for the SIL Greek system)
• SMK GreekKeys
• SPIonic
• Sgreek
• SuperGreek (for the Macintosh)
• Unicode encoded in UTF-8 (Using precomposed polytonic glyphs from the Greek Extended codepage)
• Unicode encoded as HTML Character Entities (as above)
• WinGreek
• Michigan Claremont Encoding

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The original post was posted to my e-Sword-users.org blog on 17 November 2009.  I did add content to it later, which I note in the post itself.