[sword-devel] diatheke - plain output error

[Greg Hellings]

On Tue, Dec 31, 2024 at 12:53 PM David Haslam <dfhdfh at protonmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Peter,
>
> I just tried with diatheke.exe that is bundled with Xiphos for Windows.
> 4.2.1 (gtk2 webkit1)
>
> This may be based on an earlier version of SWORD.
> The utilities were all dated 2020-04-26.
>
> The plain filter did not show the fault you reported. eg.
>
> Genesis 1:15: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to
> give light upon the earth: and it was so.
>
> NB. On my current Windows 11 x64 system, I don't have the latest SWORD
> utilities. Greg was working on them a few weeks ago but his new procedure
> has not yet produced the desired results.
>

What's the shortcoming here? The only complaint I recall was the date on
the files being set to Unix timestamp of 0, but nothing related to the
actual execution of them. If there's an outstanding issue with them, please
let me know. I had moved on to trying to build a version with native
Windows on Arm support. The latest versions of the MinGW tooling supports
building that target.

--Greg

>
> Best regards,
>
> David
>
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>
> On Tuesday, December 31st, 2024 at 4:53 PM, Peter von Kaehne <
> refdoc at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> > Trying to use the diatheke and I note that it puts out incomplete
> > verses. (Diatheke
> >
> > peter at peter-thinkpadx220:~/Source/sword/utilities/diatheke$ ./diatheke
> > -b KJV -f plain -k Gen 15.1
> > Genesis 15:1: After these things the word of the
> > (KJV)
> >
> > and
> >
> > peter at peter-thinkpadx220:~/Source/sword/utilities/diatheke$ diatheke --
> > help
> >
> > Diatheke command-line SWORD frontend Version 4.8 (SWORD: 1.9.0.3893)
> > Copyright 1999-2018 by the CrossWire Bible Society
> >
> > I was going to check the bug tracker but as that is down I had no
> > chance, yet.
> >
> > The same error happens with the NASB. Reviewing the module - it appears
> > mainly that text inside tags vanishes, so I guess this is a filter
> > problem.
> >
> > I do not know who last laid hand at the plain filter set, but if others
> > confirm that this is an error and not a problem with my set up, I will
> > look further into this.
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