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| Posted by BillyReuben at Jan 17, 2008 7:12:48 PM |
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Daily Devotional missing days My church is doing a Bible-in-a-year program, and I would like to turn our notes into a daily devotional module for the Sword program. When I import the module, open BibleDesktop, and select my devotional, I briefly see all of the dates in the window, but then it updates and it skips two days for every day it shows. I see Jan 1, Jan 4, Jan 7, Jan 10, etc -- shows a day, skip two days. If I click on one of the days, it does show the devotional for that day. My devotional doesn't work at all in GnomeSword. More technical detail follows: I used the Day By Day By Grace devotional as an example. I used the mod2imp tool to convert it to imp, so that I could be sure what it was supposed to look like. To get started and familiarize myself with the process, I created a blank devotional biy.imp file that looks like: $$$01.01 <p>Today's lesson is...</p> $$$01.02 <p>Today's lesson is...</p> $$$01.03 <p>Today's lesson is...</p> ----- $$$12.30 <p>Today's lesson is...</p> $$$12.31 <p>Today's lesson is...</p> I also created a biy.conf file like this: [BibleInAYear] DataPath=./modules/lexdict/rawld/devotionals/biy/biy ModDrv=RawCom SourceType=OSIS Lang=en Version=0.5 Description=Ephesians Commentary (NCTM317) by Geoffrey Bingham About=Contains: Ephesians DistributionLicense=Still To Be Negotiated Encoding=UTF-8 I ran imp2ld biy.imp and it created a biy.idx and a biy.dat. I copied those files to /home/billy/.sword/modules/lexdict/rawld/devotionals/biy/ and I put my biy.conf file in /home/billy/.sword/mods.d/ |
| Posted by BillyReuben at Jan 17, 2008 7:14:51 PM |
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Re: Daily Devotional missing days sorry, the conf file I posted earlier was incorrect. That should have been: [BibleInAYear] DataPath=./modules/lexdict/rawld/devotionals/biy/biy ModDrv=RawCom SourceType=ThML Lang=en Version=0.5 Description=Bible in a Year Encoding=UTF-8 |
| Posted by BillyReuben at Jan 17, 2008 7:25:00 PM |
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Re: Daily Devotional missing days I've narrowed the problem down to my import process. I said earlier that I used mod2imp on the Day By Day By Grace devotional and created a dbd.imp. I followed my earlier process, running imp2ld dbd.imp. The resulting dbd.dat file is identical to the one I downloaded, but the resulting dbd.idx was 2928 bytes compared to the 2196 bytes of the original. I replaced the original dbd.dat and dbd.idx in my /home/billy/.sword/modules/lexdict/rawld/devotionals/ directory and restarted BibleDesktop, and it is now showing one day and skipping the next two, repeating. It no longer works at all in GnomeSword. Fortunately I saved a backup, because I like that devotional.  So either I'm using the wrong import command or I'm using the import command incorrectly, or there is a bug in the version of mod2imp that I am using. Oh, I forgot to say what versions I'm using. Sword: 1.5.9 GnomeSword: 2.2.3 BibleDesktop: 1.0.7 I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) those are the versions of Sword and GnomeSword that install from Synaptic. I'm running BibleDesktop from Java WebStart, using JDK 1.6. |
| Posted by BillyReuben at Jan 17, 2008 7:59:13 PM |
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Re: Daily Devotional missing days Problem Solved! Instead of $ imp2ld biy.imp I should have done $ imp2ld biy.imp BibleInAYear 2 Skipping days in a devotional is a weird symptom. Running imp2ld with no arguments gives me a list of options, but I can't find anything that tells me what any of them mean. Why do I need to use 2 here instead of the default value of 4 to properly build the index? What do 2 and 4 mean? |
| Posted by Osk at Jan 18, 2008 12:52:32 AM |
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Re: Daily Devotional missing days 2 vs. 4 indicates whether the length of the text is represented by 2 bytes or 4. If it is 2, no entry can be longer than 64kb. But I would recommend using the compressed module option anyway, which should be z. (Just guessing here, I don't have imp2ld handy.) That will result in a smaller file size. It looks like you're setting the wrong driver value, as well. RawCom is for commentaries. You need either RawLD, RawLD4, or zLD (for 2, 4, or z options respectively). |
| Posted by rlrandallx at Jul 20, 2008 1:34:05 PM |
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Re: Daily Devotional missing days Billy, I have done exactly what you have. Mine works in BibleCS 1.5.9 I'll send my "1year" version if you write to RobinLRandall@gmail.com A problem I have is I can't right click and show a Bible passage unless I show it in the Lex/Dict window, but then I lose the auto daily display. You can't have it all (until they fix the Devotional window. In His Grace, Robin |
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