If it can be distributed freely and you think it would have other users, please send it to me once you think you are done, I might upload it to CrossWire's module library<br><br>Sent from my mobile. Please forgive shortness, typos and weird autocorrects.<div class="quote" style="line-height: 1.5"><br><br>-------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: Re: [xiphos-users] Q re creating GenBook<br>From: John Dudeck <john.dudeck@sim.org><br>To: Xiphos users <xiphos-users@crosswire.org><br>CC: <br><br><br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">It turns out the problem was with the tools delivered with Xiphos. I'm not sure if the problem was with xml2gbs.exe or with one of
the libraries. In any case I installed the tools from crosswire (sword-utilities-1.7.0-1.zip) and things started working.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Thanks.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Hi John, </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> All module related questions should be asked on sword-devel - if the</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> module works in general it will also work in Xiphos. </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> The most common problem in making it work are wrong path in the conf</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> file. What you describe sounds as if it could be this problem</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Also, have a look at the wiki (www.crosswire.org/wiki)</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> yours</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Peter</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> On Mon, 2017-06-19 at 16:06 -0400, John Dudeck wrote:</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> > Greetings. I hope this mailing list is functioning, or that somebody</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> > can point me in the right direction.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> > I am trying to create a GenBook from OSIS source. I used xml2gbs to</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> > create a .bdt file, then created the necessary .conf file, etc, and</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> > made it into a zip.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> > </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> > The zip file installs correctly using Xiphos Module Manager. The</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> > metadata info displays ok. However it does not display any content.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> > </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> > I notice that other genbooks have .dat and .idx files along with the</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> > .bdt file.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> > </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> > Where are these files created, and what do I have to do to make that</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> > happen? Are they needed in order for a genbook to display?</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> > Thanks in advance.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">John Dudeck</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Programmer at Editions Cle                             Lyon, France</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">john.dudeck@sim.org                            john@editionscle.com</span></font></div>
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