[sword-devel] A question about Generic book modules

David Haslam dfhdfh at protonmail.com
Wed Jun 3 09:22:41 EDT 2020 

Well, yes, a sensible last resort - but the result was no match found!


Best regards,

David

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On Wednesday, 3 June 2020 14:16, Tom Sullivan <info at beforgiven.info> wrote:

> 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
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> On 6/3/20 9:10 AM, David Haslam wrote:
>
> > 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 for such bizarre behaviour?
> > Were they moved to some unknown destination or simply deleted?
> > Best regards,
> > David
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> > On Wednesday, 3 June 2020 13:34, Timmy tim.bze at gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > > 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 from c:\ directly, or some path that has no spaces.
> > >
> > > After command runs, the 3 files are in current directory. If it does
> > > not work on Windows then there might be wins problem, not sure.
> > > *
> > >
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Timmy Braun*
> > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 6:23 AM David Haslam <dfhdfh at protonmail.com
> > > mailto:dfhdfh at protonmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >     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\\genbook\\rawgenbook\\lbc1646\\lbc1646 2>..\\Log\\error.log
> > >
> > >     NB. utils64 is a symbolic link to where I installed the Windows
> > >     edition of Sword utilities (x64 version).
> > >     Likewise, the Import folder is one I created some years ago. The
> > >     Log folder is similar.
> > >
> > >     This command created the file called lbc1646.bdt in the right
> > >     place, but did not create the other two files.
> > >     And, yes, I've looked for them elsewhere too!
> > >
> > >     So am I doing something wrong or is there a deficiency in the
> > >     Windows edition of xml2gbs ?
> > >
> > >
> > >     Best regards,
> > >
> > >     David
> > >
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> > >     ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> > >     On Wednesday, 3 June 2020 12:57, Tom Sullivan
> > >     <info at beforgiven.info <mailto:info at beforgiven.info>> wrote:
> > >
> > >     > 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 from the temporary directory, you should have a .conf
> > >     > file in .sword/mods.d, (done manually), and then from your temporary
> > >     > directory: in .sword/modules/genbook/rawgenbook/somemodulename
> > >     the three
> > >     > files *.bdt, *.dat, *.idx.
> > >     > An images directory should be there also if there are images.
> > >     >
> > >     > This is Linux. I do not know what Windoze will do.
> > >     >
> > >     > Hope this helps.
> > >     >
> > >     > Tom
> > >     >
> > >     > Tom Sullivan
> > >     > info at BeForgiven.INFO
> > >     > FAX: 815-301-2835
> > >     > ---------------------> 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
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> > >     > > On Wednesday, 3 June 2020 11:18, David Haslam
> > >     dfhdfh at protonmail.com <mailto:dfhdfh at protonmail.com> wrote:
> > >     > >
> > >     > > > 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 not found anything on our wiki that describes what
> > >     software tool is used to create these two files, nor an
> > >     explanation of what they are for.
> > >     > > > Please would someone enlighten me.
> > >     > > > Best regards,
> > >     > > > David
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