[sword-devel] Looking for vpl reference

[Angel Candelaria]

I tried to download the vpl2mod.exe (for Windows) but seems that the link is
broken.  Is there any other link available? Or maybe someone can provide a
copy.

Thanks.

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Mike Hart <just_mike_y at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I had that problem (terminating characters) on linux, but not on windows.
> When I didn't have a windows box, I found that the vpl2mod.exe command under
> wine worked better than the vpl2mod script.  In my case the incoming trouble
> had to do with the file I was working on being saved by open office as a
> .CSV (tab separation)
>
> --- On *Fri, 6/10/11, Angel Candelaria <linuxarecibo at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Angel Candelaria <linuxarecibo at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Looking for vpl reference
> To: "SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum" <sword-devel at crosswire.org>
> Date: Friday, June 10, 2011, 7:42 AM
>
>
> Thanks for the info.
>
> Anyway, seems I almost got it working, following the brief
> instructions on the man page of vpl2mod (I'm using Linux, by the way).
>
> I only have one problem: When I open the module on a viewer (I'm
> testing it on Xiphos), it lacks spaces between the words.  Here's an
> example of Genesis 1:1 as it is displayed, so you understand what I'm
> talking about:
>
> "ENelprincipio creó elPoderosolos cielosy latierra."
>
> It should be displayed as "EN el principio creó el Poderosolos cielos
> y la tierra."; some spaces between words are missing.  This problem is
> present throughout all the bible module. Maybe some encoding problem?
>
> By the way, when I compile the module with vpl2mod, I get a lot of
> "problem" errors on the terminal, and occasional "ERROR: short read of
> terminating char in readline" errors too.
>
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Brian J Dumont
> <brian.j.dumont at gmail.com <http://mc/compose?to=brian.j.dumont@gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> > Angel,
> >
> > The link that you reference is not VPL, it is OSIS.  That's why vpl2mod
> > fails.
> >
> > Sorry, I don't have any example vpl files.
> >
> > Brian
> >
> >
> >
> > On 06/10/2011 06:48 AM, Angel Candelaria wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all.
> >>
> >> I'm new in this list, as you can tell.  Please excuse me if my
> >> questions shout out "NOOB" all over the place.
> >>
> >> I'm working on a Spanish module based on the public domain SpaRV 1909.
> >>  Seems that it uses KJV versification, so I'd like to try and format
> >> it as vpl and convert it to a Sword module.  But since I'm new at
> >> module making, I'm looking for a vpl source to use as a reference;
> >> just something I can look at and compare my work to.
> >>
> >> Can someone point me out to a link where I can find vpl sources I can
> >> use as reference? I found this page
> >> http://crosswire.org/~dmsmith/kjv2006/ . I tried to run one of the vpl
> >> text's found at the bottom of the page through vpl2mod (just as a
> >> practice) but I got some errors (maybe those texts are not made for
> >> that, but I don't know)
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
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