Dear all, I have uploaded two utility software, which may be of some use¹:

(3/17/10 Important notice: Improved Macscribe translator. Now, the Macscribe operators which are not understood by JSesh are displayed as text (in red), instead of being thrown away. It allows one to find what must be changed **) (11/17/09 Important notice: I have just fixed a problem which made the files unusable on a mac.**)

• a converter for MacScribe files : this reads a number of MacScribe files, and produces JSesh files.

  I've tried to write it so that it can read all MacScribe files. Now, I'm not sure it does. If you have problems, please contact me. This will help me to improve the import.

  The next version of JSesh (2.13.2) which I'm about to release, includes a number of new features to support this import. Nevertheless, it's supposed to read all files, but it understands only some part of them. In the future, I intend to have a complete coverage, but it's not the case right now.

  Unsupported MacScribe constructs are : arrows, tabulations, text justification, over-the-line and under-the-line placement.

• a converter to fix a bug in JSesh 2.4.5 : for a short while, a typo in a version of JSesh (about 2.4.5) gave incorrect coordinates in groups made with the "Edit Group" command. When read with later versions of JSesh, those groups appear with very small glyphs. This small software corrects the said groups.

Both softwares are zip files. Simply unzip them, you will get "jar" files which can be ran by double-clicking on them.

Sources for both softwares will be available soon. The first one will be eventually included in JSesh.