Re: [sword-devel] A question about Generic book modules

2020-06-07 Thread David Haslam
Timmy Braun has tried xml2gbs in Windows 10. The .idx & .dat files were created, but only every other SECTION of the resulting test module LBC1646 were displayed. i.e. SECTION I, III, V, VII, IX,... Very weird behaviour! To compare the results with the module built properly under Linux might be

Re: [sword-devel] A question about Generic book modules

2020-06-04 Thread David Haslam
I just tried with MSE stopped. It made no difference at all. David Sent from ProtonMail Mobile On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 22:23, Greg Hellings wrote: > On Wed, Jun 3, 2020, 15:41 David Haslam wrote: > >> The only AV that I use is Windows Security Essentials. >> This has never caused me any issue

Re: [sword-devel] A question about Generic book modules

2020-06-03 Thread David Haslam
The only AV that I use is Windows Security Essentials. This has never caused me any issues with other Sword utilities, so I doubt it could be the culprit for xml2gbs. There's nothing in its quarantine storage. I noticed during a further test earlier this evening that during the fleeting existenc

Re: [sword-devel] A question about Generic book modules

2020-06-03 Thread David Haslam
Well I guess there's at least one Windows 10 user on this mailing list, so it would be useful to know whether the same issue occurs on that supported operating system, even if one accepts that Windows 7 is past its official end of support for non-enterprise customers. Aside: There's still a ver

Re: [sword-devel] A question about Generic book modules

2020-06-03 Thread Greg Hellings
On Wed, Jun 3, 2020, 15:41 David Haslam wrote: > The only AV that I use is Windows Security Essentials. > This has never caused me any issues with other Sword utilities, so I doubt > it could be the culprit for xml2gbs. There's nothing in its quarantine > storage. > Can you try running the impor

Re: [sword-devel] A question about Generic book modules

2020-06-03 Thread David Haslam
Be that as it may, it would be helpful if someone could go the extra mile beyond the call of duty. As it is, I have no means to test a new GenBook module until it’s been put in CrossWire Beta by Dom. Kind regards, David Sent from ProtonMail Mobile On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 15:44, Greg Hellings

Re: [sword-devel] A question about Generic book modules

2020-06-03 Thread Greg Hellings
On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 12:41 PM David Haslam wrote: > Well I guess there's at least one *Windows 10* user on this mailing list, > so it would be useful to know whether the *same issue* occurs on that > supported operating system, even if one accepts that *Windows 7* is past > its official end of

Re: [sword-devel] A question about Generic book modules

2020-06-03 Thread David Haslam
http://tracker.crosswire.org/browse/MODTOOLS-104 Sent from ProtonMail Mobile On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 14:33, David Haslam wrote: > My Sword path is not in the part of the system that Windows guards like that! > > It's where any normal Windows user with the same name would have it. > > C:\Users\Da

Re: [sword-devel] A question about Generic book modules

2020-06-03 Thread David Haslam
My Sword path is not in the part of the system that Windows guards like that! It's where any normal Windows user with the same name would have it. C:\Users\David\AppData\Roaming\Sword For my own convenience, I have subst s: as one of the several substitute drives made during startup. I never

Re: [sword-devel] A question about Generic book modules

2020-06-03 Thread David Haslam
Well, yes, a sensible last resort - but the result was no match found! Best regards, David Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, 3 June 2020 14:16, Tom Sullivan wrote: > David: > > One last suggestion: Windoze (used to at least) has pretty good fil

Re: [sword-devel] A question about Generic book modules

2020-06-03 Thread David Haslam
If I watch the folder for the full datapath while I'm running the original command, the same thing happens! They appear and vanish Best regards, David Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, 3 June 2020 14:10, David Hasl

Re: [sword-devel] A question about Generic book modules

2020-06-03 Thread David Haslam
I followed Timmy's sensible suggestion, which was something I'd pondered myself already. Now here's what I observed. Files lbc1646.dat and lbc1646.idx appeared momentarily in the Make folder, but simply vanished when lbc1646.bdt finished being created. Does anyone have a plausible explanation

Re: [sword-devel] A question about Generic book modules

2020-06-03 Thread Greg Hellings
On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 9:50 AM David Haslam wrote: > Be that as it may, it would be helpful if someone could go the extra mile > beyond the call of duty. > Don't hold your breath. None of the developers of the utilities are Windows users, nor do they support running an unsupported version of the

Re: [sword-devel] A question about Generic book modules

2020-06-03 Thread David Haslam
Thanks Tom, The module name is [LBC1646] (as specified in my .conf file), and that points to the right module path. This was the command in my CMD file, all of which are stored in a folder called Make under my Sword path. ..\utils64\xml2gbs -fO ..\Import\OSIS\OSIS-lbc1646.fix.xml ..\modules\g

Re: [sword-devel] A question about Generic book modules

2020-06-03 Thread David Haslam
It's apparent that the .dat and .idx files are needed for the module to function aright. When I tried to open the new module in Xiphos, nothing was displayed. So please would someone explain how I can make these two files so that my new module will work correctly. Best regards, David Sent w

Re: [sword-devel] A question about Generic book modules

2020-06-03 Thread Greg Hellings
I will remind you 1) Windows builds of the utilities are not officially supported at all 2) Builds of the utilities from any source other than SVN trunk are not supported at all This problem falls into both categories and is, therefore, not a supported situation that is likely to garner any atten

[sword-devel] A question about Generic book modules

2020-06-03 Thread David Haslam
I have just used xml2gbs to create a Generic book module for the first time. It created a module file with extension .bdt in the right location. All Generic book modules I've installed from CrossWire also have two more files in the module folder. One with extension .dat and one with .idx I have

Re: [sword-devel] A question about Generic book modules

2020-06-03 Thread Tom Sullivan
David: I gave up on Microslop and Windoze years ago. So I am way out of date, but even several years ago, Windoze would, for security reasons, restore changed system files and delete foreign files unless certain settings were made. C:\, was protected then, and maybe now. I think you got hit

Re: [sword-devel] A question about Generic book modules

2020-06-03 Thread Tom Sullivan
David: One last suggestion: Windoze (used to at least) has pretty good file search capabilities. Search your whole machine for the missing files. Tom Tom Sullivan i...@beforgiven.info FAX: 815-301-2835 - On 6/3/20 9:10 AM, David Haslam wrote: I followed Timmy's sensible

Re: [sword-devel] A question about Generic book modules

2020-06-03 Thread Timmy
Hi David, As Tom also mentioned, I run the command on linux, in your case, like this: ..\utils64\xml2gbs -fO ..\Import\OSIS\OSIS-lbc1646.fix.xml lbc1646 Windows also can have issues if there are spaces in the path. I don't know if your full path has any spaces, but you might want to try running f

Re: [sword-devel] A question about Generic book modules

2020-06-03 Thread Tom Sullivan
David: You will have cd to a temporary directory xml2gbs as xml2gbs just puts its output in the current directory, then copy files from that temporary directory to your .sword library as below, along with your .conf file. All three of those files are created simultaneously. After you copy

Re: [sword-devel] A question about Generic book modules

2020-06-03 Thread Peter Von Kaehne
As such the Wiki does not describe any of our file formats and that is intentionally so. So please do not start an article there. Peter > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 03. Juni 2020 um 11:18 Uhr > Von: "David Haslam" > An: "sword-devel mailing list" > Betreff: [sword

Re: [sword-devel] A question about fonts - to get front-end developers thinking

2015-12-19 Thread David Haslam
From the OSIS Reference Manual... The foreign element is used to mark a portion of text that is not in the primary language of the text, such as ‘Talitha Cum’ in Mark 5:41. The specific language should be indicated via the xml:lang attribute. For example: He took her by the hand and said to her:

Re: [sword-devel] A question about fonts - to get front-end developers thinking

2015-12-19 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Iirc, OSIS offers an element . I suppose if addded a type attribute x-greek or some such we could at least on html based frontends assign a separate code via css. Peter Sent from my phone. Apologies for brevity and typos.On 19 Dec 2015 6:09 pm, Michael H wrote: > > On other systems, this is

Re: [sword-devel] A question about fonts - to get front-end developers thinking

2015-12-19 Thread Michael H
On other systems, this is addressed with font per Unicode range tables. That is, each character or paragraph style has the option to have supplementary fonts assigned to a range of Unicode. This might not be feasible with low power processors you see in today's mobile devices. https://developer.m

[sword-devel] A question about fonts - to get front-end developers thinking

2015-12-19 Thread David Haslam
Suppose a Bible translation for language with a non-Roman script has footnotes that contain some Hebrew or Greek text. What then? The likelihood that a single Unicode font has coverage for the Biblical languages as well as the target language non-Roman script is pretty small. Is anyone research

Re: [sword-devel] A question about OSIS notes

2011-12-30 Thread David Haslam
Thanks Greg, Xiphos certainly supports it, so this means SWORD does. As I'm working towards improving the OSIS for the CzeCSP module, that's what I just tested. A search for the exact phrase, "posla před" found just one hit in Mark.1.2 even though the word "posla" is followed by a note. I also

Re: [sword-devel] A question about OSIS notes

2011-12-30 Thread Greg Hellings
You could easily test if this is the case by finding a phrase that wraps around a note in one of our heavily annotated modules like the KJV or ESV. Remember, if you test it, that BibleTime has its own implementation of a search engine that is separate from what SWORD provides for the rest of the a

[sword-devel] A question about OSIS notes

2011-12-30 Thread David Haslam
Page 45 of the OSIS manual includes this observation: "It is worth mentioning that although a *note* element is physically contained in the OSIS document, at the point where it applies, it is not /logically/ ‘contained’ there. For example, a user who searches for the phrase ‘undivided devotion’ sh

Re: [sword-devel] A question

2002-09-05 Thread David's Mailing List and Spam Reciever
On Thursday 05 September 2002 10:39 am, Joachim Ansorg wrote: > > Ah good I was holding off on making gentoo packages for the sword and > > stuff until 1.5.4. > > Gentoo? Never heard this name ... It's relitivly new in the linux world. Maybe a year or two old, but it is in the top 10 distros lis

Re: [sword-devel] A question

2002-09-05 Thread Joachim Ansorg
> Ah good I was holding off on making gentoo packages for the sword and stuff > until 1.5.4. Gentoo? Never heard this name ... > On that note I was thinking about making the install manager it's own > package think that is workable? Should be, but for Linux it's not working for remote sources.

Re: [sword-devel] A question

2002-09-04 Thread David's Mailing List and Spam Reciever
On Wednesday 04 September 2002 02:49 pm, Joachim Ansorg wrote: > Yes, this is the normal way we go. Ah good I was holding off on making gentoo packages for the sword and stuff until 1.5.4. On that note I was thinking about making the install manager it's own package think that is workable? Al

Re: [sword-devel] A question

2002-09-04 Thread Joachim Ansorg
Yes, this is the normal way we go. > Will the sword lib 1.5.4 be released along with biblecs 1.5.4? Joachim

[sword-devel] A question

2002-09-04 Thread David's Mailing List and Spam Reciever
Will the sword lib 1.5.4 be released along with biblecs 1.5.4? -- --David's Mailing List and Spam Receiver Keeping me (relativly) spam free since 2002