[sword-devel] Looking for vpl reference

[Angel Candelaria]

Ok, found a copy of sword utilities at the ftp server.

How do I use it in Windows (i'm sorry, I'm a Linux user - there's been a
while...)?

Or how do I run it on Wine?

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Angel Candelaria <linuxarecibo at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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