[sword-devel] Making module and conf file

[Troy A. Griffitts]

If I remember right, I think you have .modules at the start of your
DataPath.  It should be ./modules

On 10/01/2010 09:23 AM, Robert Hunt wrote:
> Ok, I still haven't won this one. I think I now have my files in the
> correct structure as per Nic's diagram. Xiphos now finds my files and
> gives no errors installing the module when I point it to the folder
> containing the mods.d and the modules folders. But it doesn't copy any
> files into .sword/modules/texts/ztext/ -- it only seems to find and copy
> the config file.
> 
> Even if I copy the files manually into the right folder for Sword,
> Xiphos still just displays a blank screen (with heading) instead of the
> selected verses (and I can't change the verse reference boxes).
> 
> Diatheke gives no errors but no text:
> 
>     Home$ diatheke -b Matigsalug -k Ge 1:1
>     Genesis 1:1:
>     (Matigsalug)
> 
> I'm not sure where to look or go back to from here. I didn't seem to get
> an errors anywhere along the way but something is still obviously not
> quite right.
> 
> Thanks,
> Robert.
> 
> On 30/09/10 20:58, Nic Carter wrote:
>>
>> Hi Robert,
>>
>> I'm no modules expert, but I have a nice little pic I did for someone
>> a few months ago with the structure of a module.
>>
>> http://crosswire.org/pocketsword/img/module-zip-structure.png
>>
>> Hope that helps!  ybic
>> nic...  :)
>>
>> On 30/09/2010, at 3:00 PM, Robert Hunt wrote:
>>
>>> I've had fun with a USFM New Testament, converted it to OSIS using
>>> the Perl script and then to a module using osis2mod. So far, so good...
>>>
>>> I'm trying to follow instructions in
>>> http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/DevTools:confFiles.
>>>
>>>     ...4/ Can you see anything wrong/missing in my skeletal
>>>     matigsalug.conf file -- this is the one for the compressed module:
>>>
>>>         [Matigsalug]
>>>         DataPath=.modules/texts/ztext/matigsalug/
>>>         Description=Matigsalug Scriptures
>>>         ModDrv=zText
>>>         CompressType=ZIP
>>>         BlockType=BOOK
>>>         Direction=LtoR
>>>         SourceType=OSIS
>>>         Encoding=UTF-8
>>>         Abbreviation=MBTV
>>>         Version=0.9
>>>         Category=Biblical Texts
>>>         LCSH=Bible.
>>>         Lang=mbt
>>>
>>
> 
> 
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