| Local (for CD or USB memory stick distribution) | Master Location |
| Current version | wordsend-2010-12-11.exe |
| Dot NET runtime 2.0 for versions 19 April 2006 and later | Windows Update or dotnetfx2.exe |
| Dot Net runtime 1.1 for versions prior to 19 April 2006 | dotnetfx.exe |
| WordSend cross-platform command line tools (these require Mono or Microsoft .NET) | wordsend-console.zip |
| Onyx Powerpoint presentation (from CTC2004) | onyxppt.zip |
| Source code | http://code.google.com/p/wordsend/source |
You must install the .NET runtime prior to installing WordSend.
Before installing WordSend on Microsoft Windows XP, you must install the Dot NET runtime (see the downloads above) if you haven't done so, already. To install WordSend on Windows XP, just run the self-installing executable file you downloaded. If you already have a newer version of WordSend installed and are going back to an older version (not usually a good idea), or if you have any version of Onyx installed, you should uninstall it before installing a different version. Other than that, installing over the top of an older version should not cause any problems.
If you wish to try the command line tools on another platform (Mac OS X or Linux), first install Mono, then unzip wordsend-console-2010-12-11.zip to a suitable directory and include that directory in your executable file search path. The cross-platform abilities of this distribution are not fully tested, and not necessarily useful until some of the bugs in OOo that prevent proper rendition of very complex WordML have been exterminated or until I implement the direct conversion to Open Document Text (ODT), whichever comes first.
If you want to download an older version of WordSend for some reason, please click on the release date of that version. Not all older versions are available. If you find a problem with an older version, please see if it is still a problem with the current version before reporting it to the author. The tested version may not actually be any more stable than the current version, but it has been tested more. The current version will have the latest feature additions.
| Date
posted |
Comments |
| 11 December 2010 | Updated USFM tag list to match current USFM standard. |
| 16 August 2007 | Updated some documentation. Moved source repository to Google Code. Properly anchored help button. |
| 10 November 2006 | Added partial handling of \fig ... \fig*, including allowing the \ character to occur in file names in the figure specification. WordSend doesn’t place a picture there, but puts text formatted with Figure * style names in the output document to make it easy to search for them and insert the picture. |
| 3 November 2006 | Corrected an error affecting generation of WordML with embedded USFX with footnote styles not explicitly terminated by the end of the footnote. |
| 2 November 2006 | Corrected error affecting \wg and \wh (style names swapped); added \rq support (was \rr per PNG standard); added \zp and \zc (custom paragraph and character styles). |
| 11 October 2006 | Corrected a bug where non-standard markers could cause generation of improper WordML that Microsoft Word couldn't read. |
| 10 October 2006 | Corrected a problem where a newer font could be overwritten by an older font on installation. Replaced "Onyx" with "WordSend" in the source code, changing the name of the default log file, the main name space (for programs that use BibleFileLib.dll), etc. |
| 4 October 2006 | Added Python script plug-in to launch WordSend usfm2word.exe from the Paratext 6 checking menu. |
| 26 September 2006 | Updated documentation and renamed the project, web site, and mailing list to WordSend. |
| 19 April 2006 | Converted source project to Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition, and thus to requiring Dot NET runtime version 2.0 instead of 1.1. |
| 28 March 2006 | Corrected critical failure in extract-usfx.exe that caused this program to die before doing any useful work. |
| 20 March 2006 | Corrected link error in documentation. The new distribution format is a single .exe file, not a .zip file. |
| 17 March 2006 | Changed default
handling of qStart and qEnd markers in usfx2usfm.exe to better reflect
USFX best practice. Changed the installation program to use the freeware NullSoft Install System instead of the expensive Microsoft Setup while correcting some compatibility issues. This also makes for an easier-to-use single self-installing compressed executable. It also has more efficient compression and lower overhead to do essentially the same job (but a little better), so the downloads are quicker. Because of the change of install/uninstall systems, you should uninstall any previous version before installing this version. Starting with this version, the install system adds a registry entry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SIL\WordSend\Install_Dir containing the directory that WordSend was installed to. (This is to make it easier for other programs to find the executable files associated with this project.) Made font installation and desktop icon installation optional in the installer program. |
| 7 March 2006 | Added command line switch to permit specification of the log file name to use. Corrected a problem with cross reference footnotes. |
| 6 March 2006 | Added font installation to Windows installer for a better first-time-run experience. |
| 10 November 2005 | Enhanced the setup
program to add the program installation directory to the system search
path for ease of use of the command line utilities in this project. Added usfx2usfm.exe command line utility to convert from USFX to USFM. |
| 25 October 2005 | Reversed attempt
at Mono-friendly function to determine executable file path, as it
didn’t actually work. Corrected bug in SFMInfo.xml affecting footnote markers inadvertently introduced with the last version. |
| 22 October 2005 | Separated out
Mono-friendly portion of this project and made a separate distribution
for command line tools. Enhanced support for front and back matter. Corrected a problem with \w ... \w*. |
| 9 September 2005 | Added support for
front and back matter. Corrected a problem with the "All files" filter not working when selecting USFM input files. Corrected some more problems with USFX interleaving with WordML. Updated the USFX Schema to be more tolerant of marker order variations. Added a command line tool (extract-usfx.exe) to extract USFX data from a WordML document with embedded USFX. |
| 30 August 2005 | Added crop marks
insertion option on "Extras" tab. Added support for styles new with USFM 2.03. Corrected one problem with USFX insertion. Added support for \cl. The chapter label in \cl overrides the setting for chapter or psalm label prefix in the options dialog, if present. |
| 24 April 2005 | Added documentation on picture placement. Changed automatic computation of drop cap spacing from text to be slightly narrower to avoid problem with interference with column separator line. |
| 21 April 2005 |
Corrected a problem where an extra blank line could sometimes appear just before a new paragraph that is also the start of a verse, when the last line of the preceding verse was full. (The “blank” line had a cvmarker style chapter number in it for the running headers.) Added character style mapping for \w ...\w* to go to “Word listed” style. |
| 13 April 2005 | Corrected a problem with the footnote character style sometimes being applied after a footnote has ended. Added a new footnote character style “Quoted from text” for \fq, reassigning \fqa to “Alternate reading.” (The \fqa character style marker is in the USFM 2.0 spec, but it wasn’t in the sfminfo.xml file before this version.) Toggled the default for marking verse 1 and chapter 1 to “true.” |
| 9 April 2005 | Yet another bug fix quick release— this time improving the error handling if you have an non-supported USFM backslash code in the input and correcting the default unit processing for the last two of the manual drop cap parameters to really be half-points instead of twips, as documented. Changed USFX embedding to be enabled by default. |
| 8 April 2005 | Corrected problem with USFX embedding. |
| 7 April 2005 | Enhanced automatic drop cap dimension computations to also read and take into account space before in the Normal-ch style and adjusted the scaling factors for better results over a wider range of point values. For best results, use "exact" spacing instead of "single" spacing on the Normal font. Corrected several problems with the way USFX was integrated into WordML. Thanks go to Randy H. and Tim G. for valuable feedback contributing to this version. |
| 6 April 2005 |
Added “Help” button and revised the documentation. Added feature to automatically calculate drop cap dimensions based on the Normal paragraph font size in the seed file. This makes it more likely that drop caps will look good with various seed files without you having to mess with the manual parameters. The manual parameters are still there, if you need them. They have been changed in the way they now store both a number and a unit of measure. In testing, I found some bugs in the USFX embedding that are still there from last release, but I'll get at least these edits posted before tackling those. |
| 1 April 2005 | Corrected a bug in the setup file generation system that caused the last few updates to actually be older versions. |
| 21 March 2005 | Debugged &
enabled the USFX
(custom XML) embedding in WordML files. Embedding USFX in WordML files
is a prerequisite to converting USFX+WordML back to USFM, but the
converter to do so is still to be written. As a consequence of adding
this feature, two more styles are implemented: "Invisible" (character
style) and "Invisible Paragraph" (paragraph style). These are used to
preserve things like the free-form text portion of the \id tag, which
has no place in the visible portion of the typeset WordML document. Added a direct USFM to USFX converter to the usfm2word.exe "extras" page. (This function will probably be moved elsewhere, later, but will remain available.) Added \hr to sfminfo.xml and the Horizontal Rule style to the sample seed files. You can safely ignore this change if you don’t use \hr, which is not in USFM, but was in the old PNGSFM. It was easier for me to support than to tell the translator he couldn't use it. <grin> |
| 3 March 2005 | Moved merge crossreference footnote marker insertion point so that Microsoft Word wouldn’t break a line just after a verse marker. Changed character style name generated by \it ...\it* to Italics and added that style to the sample seed files. (This marker is depreciated, and it is recommended that you use something else instead, but it is still in the USFM standard for now.) Tweaked the display of the default seed file created with a new .xini file to reflect the location of the default seed file (Scripture.xml in the directory where the program was installed). Changed the substitution list so that it can accept a character in the form of its Unicode hexadecimal code point, U+xxxx, like U+8239 for a narrow non-breaking space, so that the resulting substitutions are more readable. This also makes it easier to find an editor and keyboard to make some substitutions. |
| 18 February 2005 | Added character and paragraph styles for tags that are new with USFM 2.0 that weren’t in USFM 1.53. These include \em...\em*, \sr, \pm, \pmo, \pmr, \qm#, \pro...\pro, and \wj...\wj*. Added new character styles that are only applied to the first normal poetry or prose paragraph of a chapter when drop cap chapters are selected: Normal-ch and Poetry Line 1-ch. The purpose of this differentiation is to allow you to specify additional space above or alter the indent settings on those paragraphs adjacent to the chapter number. |
| 2 February 2005 | Added Gotchas, Known Issues, and Tips section to this document. Removed some development logging code that was causing conflicts on startup of multiple copies of usfm2word.exe. Corrected a problem with chapter labels (not drop caps) when \c is not immediately followed by a tag that causes a new paragraph to start. |
| 31 January 2005 |
Added additional cvmarker fields to substantially increase the probability that a partial last verse of a chapter at the beginning of a page will cause that earlier chapter to be noted in the running headers. Removed the macros from the sample seed files, since they aren’t needed any more. Added a new character style to the seed file called "Hidden" which is cvmarker + font hidden. If your seed file doesn't have this style, you will get some extra spaces in the output at the end of every text run that begins with a verse marker. This style is used to separate the cvmarker invisible text at the beginning of a verse from that at the end. You can copy this style from one of the distribution seed files, or just create it to upgrade an existing seed file. |
| 25 January 2005 | Corrected an error in sfminfo.xml affecting only the sls (secondary language source) style. Changed the headers in Scripture.xml to just have the book and chapter number or range of chapter numbers on the outside rather than book and first chapter on the left and book and last chapter on the right. After this version, I plan to separate the releases into latest and latest stable versions. The tweaks to this version were intended to stabilize this one before I tackle finishing the USFX embedding. |
| 21 January 2005 | Oops! I didn't quite get the setup settings right to include the fixquotes.xml file and its schema, changelist.xsd in the setup list with the 19 January release. A minimalist release process makes it easy to goof-- but also easy to release a fix. Here is that fix. Sorry for any inconvenience... |
| 19 January 2005 |
Added a feature that allows certain global search & replace operations (consistent changes) to be done on the text (not tags) of the Scriptures for the purpose of normalizing quotation mark spacing, replacing character sets with ligatures, etc. (I use it to change << to “, >> to ”, and -- to —, and to put non-breaking narrow spaces between consecutive quotation marks.) |
| 6 January 2005 | Squashed a bug that could cause footnotes and crossreferences to be improperly rendered by Microsoft Word. Enhanced verse bridge rendering to change normal dashes to non-breaking hyphens to prevent line breaks in the middle of a verse marker. Note that the font used must support this character, U+2011 or Alt-8209. |
| 8 December 2004 | Changed the name of the “template” file to “seed” file to avoid confusion with Microsoft Word template files. Updated web page to include a link to dotnetfx.exe for better CD-ROM distribution. Squashed some bugs, including one that may have prevented automatic opening of Microsoft Word upon completion of the conversion process. |
| 16 November 2004 | Added a macro to
Scripture.xml to normalize consecutive typographic quotation marks to
have a narrow no-break space between them. Made some cosmetic changes to the program. USFX insertion into the WordML is still not ready for prime time, so I still recommend leaving this feature disabled (the default). |
| 7 November 2004 | Added a feature to merge crossreference notes from an external file, translating the book name or abbreviation on the fly. The \x tag in the main USFM source is also supported, but this method can save time if you don’t need caller symbols on your crossreference footnotes. |
| 4 November 2004 | Added a single
command line parameter to the Windows GUI version of the program: the
name of the project parameter file to use. For example: usfm2word c:\path\to\mylanguage.xini This feature is intended to be used with batch files or calls from other programs. |
| 3 November 2004 | Corrected problems
in SFM parsing that caused problems with how spaces around footnotes
and verse markers appeared in some cases. Added “advanced” adjustments for drop cap parameters. Corrected prototype Scripture “template” so that drop caps work in the Psalms. (I still think drop caps work better everywhere but the Psalms, and chapter headings are better there, but at least you now have a reasonable choice.) Corrected some footnote behavior. Created some additional prototype Scripture templates. Added some code to embed USFX tags in the WordML. You can optionally activate this code, but the tag embedding is not yet correct and complete as of this version, so I recommend leaving that option off, for now. Defined USFX, at least for a starting point. |
| 5 October 2004 | Beta test version: minimal documentation included above. Several open issues still exist, but many bugs fixed. This version is being posted just prior to implementing some changes to support reversibility of the transformation (i. e. embedding of USFX in the WordML). |
| 29 June 2004 |
Still an alpha test
version: documentation not included. Changes: Improved setup program. Now properly reads & sorts one file per chapter USFM files. Corrected some formatting errors found in testing. Corrected a problem with two instances interfering with each other. Known issues: Still not reversible (i. e. you can’t go back from WordML to USFM, yet). No support for tables. Drop caps in Psalms are not as bad, but there are still some issues with how Word displays some of them. Drop cap formatting is not as configurable as I would like. Automatic open of Microsoft Word on converted file may not always work. Try manually opening it if it fails to automatically open. |
| 20 May 2004 |
Alpha test version.
Known issues include: the setup program doesn't create a menu shortcut properly, causing a crash, ugly formatting in Psalms if you choose drop cap chapter styles, lack of documentation, irreversibility of transformation (i. e. you can’t go back to USFM from WordML), and no support for tables. To work around the menu shortcut problem, create a new shortcut manually. |