Sermon File Export Filter for OpenOffice - Beta

TCBlack · March 2010

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:

Fill in the bible references, sorry - at this point the parsing and translating is far too complex for my little brain. But if someone wants to volunteer a bit of XSLT knowledge and Logos Bible reference pointers knowledge to fix this, I'll give you developer access!
While it does fill in the topics, it will not fill in the "tags" (e.g. morning service)
Does not (yet) import blockquotes (coming soon).

This is released under GPL so it is freely edible and transferable.

I am hoping to do something similar with the as yet pending Sermon File addin in Logos 4.

Feel free to read about it, test it here: sourceforge.net/projects/libronixtools/ Hopefully that doesn't break the Forum Guidelines.

PLEASE: Because this is not Logos software, keep your bug reports and feature requests constrained to the sourceforge bug tracker linked under support on the link mentioned above. Though I see no harm in discussing sermon file addin features and functions here.