User tool import extensions

[Tim Campbell]

Hi all.

 

I publish a lot of my sermons and essays via WordPress, and have developed some very basic scripts for importing posts into Accordance as user tools.

 

As a result of this exercise, however, I have a couple of suggestions for how user tool imports could be more flexible:

 

1) Support the html <blockquote> tag (i.e. an indented block quote).

 

2) Map html anchor tag (<a>) for links internal to the page as well as external. I frequently use footnotes and endnotes in my work, and would like to be able to hyperlink a note indicator (superscript 1) to an endnote, and, ideally, have the note appear in 'instant details'.

 

3) Support 'pretty printing' (my phrase) of hyperlinks. At the moment, a hyperlink like "<a href="http://some.site.com">this</a>" gets imported into Accordance as "http://some.site.comthis", whereas it would IMHO be cleaner to mimic the HTML behaviour if possible.

 

4) [Pushing my luck here, but here goes...] Some kind of syntax for 'tagging' text as belonging to particular fields. e.g. if I wanted to include a French or Latin phrase in an essay, I might use some syntax like <span class="Latin">veni, vidi, vici</span>. This would then appear as one of the fields in the search dialog, allowing me to search all Latin etc.

[Outis]

 

 

2) Map html anchor tag (<a>) for links internal to the page as well as external. I frequently use footnotes and endnotes in my work, and would like to be able to hyperlink a note indicator (superscript 1) to an endnote, and, ideally, have the note appear in 'instant details'.

 

 

 

I can't speak for the other requests, but Accordance already makes some decent looking footnotes. But, yes, I agree, it would be nice to have them hyperlinked instead of having to search for the links, you could just click on the link.

[Tim Campbell]

Accordance already makes some decent looking footnotes.

 

In user tools? I shall have to dig deeper. Are they available via HTML import?

[Outis]

Are they available via HTML import?

 

Yeah. I write my sermons and papers in XeTeX. Then I convert them to .html in BBEdit. Then I import them into Accordance. The <blockquote></blockquote> tags aren't imported. And there's no support for tables (though I think I can concede that providing a link to pdfs and stuff would be a suitable alternative). But, the footnote tags ARE imported. I'll attach both and example of an html file and a resulting user tool.

 

Kethiv-Qere.zip

[Tim Campbell]

Yeah. I write my sermons and papers in XeTeX. Then I convert them to .html in BBEdit. Then I import them into Accordance. The <blockquote></blockquote> tags aren't imported. And there's no support for tables (though I think I can concede that providing a link to pdfs and stuff would be a suitable alternative). But, the footnote tags ARE imported. I'll attach both and example of an html file and a resulting user tool.

 

Kethiv-Qere.zip

 

Thanks Steve.

 

When I try to import your HTML, the footnotes come through as ordinary text, but the link between the note place holder and the note itself is lost - is this expected? (I'm afraid I couldn't get the supplied user tool to work - I am guessing it is a 8.x -> 9.x issue.)