Converting imperial to metric in script

silkworm · Post by **silkworm** » Wednesday Oct 05, 2005 3:00 pm

Hi All,
Does anyone have a plug-in or script that can convert imperial to metric for a whole word document?
I have seen this once before on my bosses PC but cannot find the script anywhere now and I'm have no time to do it myself with beer to brew

I have an e-book of recipes that is American....

Dogger Dan · Post by **Dogger Dan** » Thursday Oct 06, 2005 2:58 am

You need more than that, if it is US then you need it to extrapolate to get to 23 litres, 5 gallons US is only 19 L, 5 gallon Imperial is 23

Dogger

silkworm · Post by **silkworm** » Thursday Oct 06, 2005 9:09 am

That should be ok once I have the script I will adapt it to suit the conversion. Cheers for the heads up Dogger
Silk

r.magnay · Post by **r.magnay** » Thursday Oct 06, 2005 8:36 pm

Yes I have such a program it is called believe it or not............'Convert'. I had it given to me by a bloke, it was on a floppy so I just did whatever computer people do...is that 'unloaded it'? anyway it is shit hot, you select any bloody thing you want converted and it does it! I converted inches to roots on a Sarurday night and it came up with the right answer, I got none...................must have had too many inches! I don't know if it is pirated or what and I have no idea how to get it to you, but it does exist!

gregb · Post by **gregb** » Thursday Oct 06, 2005 8:43 pm

Not exactly what you're after, but might be handy just the same:

http://www.goconvert.com/

Thanks to Ross for the idea to Google 'convert'

Cheers,
Greg

Brew Nerd · Post by **Brew Nerd** » Thursday Oct 06, 2005 11:14 pm

Hi Silk,

I've made up an excel template. You plug in the amount for water / hops / malts, etc from a 5G (19L) US recipe, and it spits it out the other end as 23L equivalents (metric). It's worked really well for a few Charlie Papazian recipies so far.

Lemme know if you want me to email it.

Cheers...

silkworm · Post by **silkworm** » Friday Oct 07, 2005 9:02 am

Thanks Brew Nerd,
Could you e-mail it to stuff-cool@hotmail.com ?
r.magnay -I've tried that program before that converts inches into roots I thought it was called 'beer'

I have found a couple of programs which I'll check out today.
I'll list them here if they work.
Thanks again,
Silk

Post by **Oliver** » Friday Oct 07, 2005 10:12 am

Brew Nerd wrote:I've made up an excel template. You plug in the amount for water / hops / malts, etc from a 5G (19L) US recipe, and it spits it out the other end as 23L equivalents (metric). It's worked really well for a few Charlie Papazian recipies so far.

If you'd like I can put it on homebrewandbeer.com so it can be downloaded.

Just say the word.

Oliver

r.magnay · Post by **r.magnay** » Friday Oct 07, 2005 11:25 am

You could be right silk!

silkworm · Post by **silkworm** » Friday Oct 07, 2005 1:05 pm

Oliver,
Thats a good idea. If you could post it on the site.
When I find an automated script I'll let you know.....

Brew Nerd · Post by **Brew Nerd** » Friday Oct 07, 2005 7:11 pm

Silk...(& Oliver),

I emailed you a few mins ago.
Hanging around the 'puter a bit later (after a few brews)
Lemme know if it's no good.

Cheers

silkworm · Post by **silkworm** » Friday Oct 07, 2005 9:46 pm

That'll work fine, until I find out how to script it to automate the whole process in a large word file...

Good of you to send it on thanks

Dogger Dan · Post by **Dogger Dan** » Saturday Oct 08, 2005 2:46 am

I would like to see that to if possible please. I had something similar but had a tough time converting Alpha Acids and malts (I can't always get the same goods so I need to adjust). I back burnered it and now can't find it

Thanks
Dogger

Post by **Oliver** » Saturday Oct 08, 2005 10:25 am

Dogger and everyone else, see

http://www.homebrewandbeer.com/bitsandp ... metric.xls

As with all files downloaded from the internet, please do a virus scan as a precaution.

Cheers,

Oliver