Hacking

As mentioned here: Sermon File Add in Schema for L4?  and here: Will OpenOffice to Libronix filter work in Japanese?. I've been working on an export filter for OpenOffice.org (OOo) which will save your sermon's into the Ready-to-Compile Sermon File format.

I'm glad to report that I have finally released a beta filter.  Right now it does the following:

• Generates Sermon Files, does not tag illustrations as such.
• Defaults to NOT publishing the sermon file online.  (you can change this in the code quite simply if you want).
• Uses the "title" from the properties dialog in OOo to create the internal title for the Libronix Sermon File (LBXSFL)
• Uses a comma delimited string of keywords  from the OOo properties dialog to fill in the topics for the LBXSFL
• It uses the Create Date of the document to generate the first date for where you preached it. 
• It will copy over file comments from the OOo properties dialog into the notes section.
• Properly imports headings, bold, italics, tables, ordered and unordered lists, including nested lists!
• Imports hyperlinks!
• Appears to work across languages (including Greek and Hebrew)

It does not:

Formatting

The documented formatting for lbxsfl is very limited as it stands. It is based upon basic wiki syntax and provides for the following:

• Paragraphs
  • <crlf>
  • line breaks \\
• Headings (1-6)
  1. !
  2. !!
  3. !!!
  4. !!!!
  5. !!!!!
  6. !!!!!!
• Emphasis
  • Italic /
  • Bold *
• Lists
  • UL <crlf> *
  • OL <crlf> #.
  • nested lists of both types are accomplished by equalized spacing before the tag
• tables | | |
• Horizontal lines ----<crlf>
• hyperlinks
  • (this is misleading and appears to work only internally with Libronix- a big limitation)
  • [[datatypereference|displayedtext]]
  • Refer to the documentation regarding the differences between parsed and unparsed references
• Segment
  • {{ }}
  • Language Uses the two or three letter language code after a colon the word follows.
  • {{:el γινωσκω}}

Overview

I am attempting to write an export filter for
OpenOffice.org which will export Libronix Sermon File's ready to be compiled from within Libronix. The Libronix sermon file format (*.lbxsfl) is just a basic XML file with some fairly simple rules. I have yet to determine whether or not the formatting represented in the help file represents the entirety of all of the formatting options. (Internal Libronix Link)

Sourceforge is providing the bug tracking and file serving for this project. You can link directly to it and related projects at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/libronixtools/

If you are interested in helping with developing tools for Libronix to be released under GPL licensing and you wish to distribute them under the libronixtools sourceforge account let me know.