[Dtb-talk] Macintosh dtbook conversion utlities

[Greg Kearney]

I have made some important improvement and additions to my Macintosh  
based dtbook conversion utilities. I have also made the beta version  
available for download. Here are the particulars:

Changed the process so that you now get CSS file and better  
transformation from TextEdit to dtbook The files will be placed in a  
directory of your choosing. The XML file will now pick up titles and  
authors from the Documents Properties window of TextEdit. (File>Show  
Properties)

Developed a version that works with Microsoft Word for Macintosh. Save  
your documents as WordML (XML) and run the utility. This version will  
handled various headings, bring over images and convert them and so  
on. It will produce a very complete dtbook file set. As with TextEdit  
this program will pick up Title, author and so on from the Properties  
setting of the document.

Both of these programs can be run as stand alone programs or as  
scripts attached to TextEdit or Microsoft Word.

A few bugs still to be worked out:
You should not use spaces in the path to or the name of the documents  
or the paths to where the dtbook files will be saved. I need to figure  
out how to deal with this.

Here are the URLs:

Dtbook for TextEdit http://w3.wmcnet.org/dtbmaker/dtbook/Dtbook.zip
MSWordDtbook for Microsoft Word for Macintosh http://w3.wmcnet.org/dtbmaker/dtbook/MSWordDtbook.zip

Both of these are free and open source. they are AppleScript  
Applications and can be opened and edited with the Script Editor  
application.

Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
gkearney at gmail.com