[sword-devel] A question about Generic book modules

Wed Jun 3 10:36:18 EDT 2020

http://tracker.crosswire.org/browse/MODTOOLS-104

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On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 14:33, David Haslam <dfhdfh at protonmail.com> wrote:

> My Sword path is not in the part of the system that Windows guards like that!
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> It's where any normal Windows user with the same name would have it.
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> C:\Users\David\AppData\Roaming\Sword
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> For my own convenience, I have subst s: <sword_path> as one of the several substitute drives made during startup.
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> I never had such a weird problem with other module creation tools.
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> Best regards,
>
> David
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> Aside (especially for Tom): Eggshell™ is Sean Connery's favourite spreadsheet program. 😉
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> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Wednesday, 3 June 2020 14:22, Tom Sullivan <info at beforgiven.info> wrote:
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>> David:
>>
>> I gave up on Microslop and Windoze years ago. So I am way out of date,
>> but even several years ago, Windoze would, for security reasons, restore
>> changed system files and delete foreign files unless certain settings
>> were made. C:\, was protected then, and maybe now.
>>
>> I think you got hit by Windoze is smarter than you behavior. Try cd to
>> your "my documents" directory and repeat. If you see a 3 files, then
>> you have a Windoze problem. You should be able to break your script into
>> simpler steps and fix things.
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> Tom Sullivan
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>> On 6/3/20 9:10 AM, David Haslam wrote:
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>> > 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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