[jsword-devel] Bugs in parsing GBF bibles?

DM Smith dmsmith555 at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 31 10:09:34 MST 2004


I was done with my meeting preparation and I have found and fixed the 
problem. It should show up in the nightly build in the next day or two.

While I was at it I found that the view source needed to use a valid 
font. So I have it using the selected font.

DM Smith wrote:

> Thanks, I'll be able to look at this tomorrow. I have to prepare for a 
> meeting tonight.
>
> Jacky Cheung wrote:
>
>> If you don't have any Chinese font, you can download from the Hong 
>> Kong Government. Here is the link: 
>> http://www.info.gov.hk/digital21/chi/hkscs/download/ming_uni.ttf.gz
>>
>> Gunzip it and put it in your font folder.
>>
>> Jacky
>>
>> DM Smith wrote:
>>
>>> I see the problem, but I need a good font to display the text. What 
>>> would you suggest?
>>>
>>> Jacky Cheung wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> The bible can show Strongs references without any problem in Sword 
>>>> but failed to show up in JSword. You will see the "No words..." 
>>>> message in the console. I think these messages were logged in Line 
>>>> 76 of StrongsWordTagBuilder or StrongsMorphTagBuilder.
>>>>
>>>> I tested both 0.9.8 and the CVS version.  Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Jacky
>>>>
>>>> DM Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'll look into the problem of the Chinese Union Traditional Bible. 
>>>>> Where are you seeing this as a problem? In JSword, Sword or in the 
>>>>> module? If it is in JSword, we can help.
>>>>>
>>>>> For the KJV problem, can you provide a bit more info? What version 
>>>>> of JSword are you using (It will display in the lower left hand 
>>>>> corner of the application). If you are not using version 0.9.8 can 
>>>>> you upgrade to it? It has many significant performance 
>>>>> enhancements and it is 4 times smaller than 0.9.7. You can get to 
>>>>> it from http://www.crosswire.org/bibledesktop/download.html.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you are using 0.9.8 can you tell us about your machine?
>>>>> How fast is it (CPU speed)?
>>>>> How much memory (RAM) do you have?
>>>>> Are you running it on Windows 95, 98, ME, XP, NT, 2000?
>>>>> On Linux (if so, which distribution and kernel)?
>>>>> On Mac?
>>>>>
>>>>> Jacky Cheung wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I found that some parsing problem with Chinese Union Traditional 
>>>>>> Bible. This bible contains reference to Hebrew and Greek (just 
>>>>>> like KJV does). However, these reference were gone. I found 
>>>>>> something like "No words to attach word to: <WH99999>". I 
>>>>>> recalled that I have been fixed this when I post my update to the 
>>>>>> parsing of GBF bible a year and a half ago. I would like to know 
>>>>>> whether is the bible error (i.e., wrong tag encoding in the 
>>>>>> bible) or is a bug introduced during the development. If it is a 
>>>>>> bug, I will try to fix this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Furthermore, the program became very slow (the process used 100% 
>>>>>> CPU) when I read KJV with Desktop Bible. Anybody working on this 
>>>>>> issue?  Thanks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>> Jacky
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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