[sword-devel] Calvin's Commentaries - new module

peter refdoc at gmx.net
Tue Jan 8 16:26:17 MST 2008


DArio Matos wrote:
> Luke,
> 
> Are the files you posted the link in your first mail updated? I'd like to test them myself.
> 
> Also, could you make them windows-frontend installer friendly, instead of just having them raw?

Simply unzip the module with C:/Program files/Crosswire/The Sword Project/



> Thank you in advance,
> 
> Dario Matos
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 18:43:13 +0000
> From: Luke Plant 
> Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Calvin's Commentaries - new module
> To: SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum 
> Message-ID: <200801081843.15700.L.Plant.98 at cantab.net>
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> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I did some more work on this, and I reckon I'm ready for public testing.  
> Changes include:
> 
> - list of books in the .conf, as suggested by someone on the list
> - fixed the book of Psalms, Zechariah and Malachi, which had slightly
>   different ThML, causing them to import incorrectly.
> - a couple of fixes to the source of John 1, which I've also sent
>   upstream (CCEL) as ThML patches.
> 
> All of the links below remains as they were, they have been updated with 
> new files.  For the impatient, it should just be a matter of getting 
> the .osis.bz2 and the .conf, bunzipping it and running osis2mod:
> 
> osis2mod ...something/modules/comments/zcom/calvinscommentaries 
> calvinscommentaries.versified.osis 0 2 3
> 
> Obviously, there may still be errors, but there is no way I can check 
> all of it, and everything I've come across so far now seems to be in 
> order, and I've been enjoying using it myself :-)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Luke
> 
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've created a module that combines all of Calvin's commentaries.  It
>> is an OSIS module, which I've generated from CCEL's ThML sources,
>> using XSLT and various python scripts etc.  osis2mod doesn't yet
>> support OSIS commentaries very well (it requires them to be marked up
>> like Bibles), so, after some messing around, I've added a stage into
>> the scripts to 'versify' the OSIS -- hopefully that will be removed
>> at some point.
>>
>> All my scripts etc. are in the swordtools Subversion repository.  For
>> the end result, see:
>>
> http://lukeplant.me.uk/misc/sword/calvinscommentaries.versified.osis.bz2 
> http://lukeplant.me.uk/misc/sword/calvinscommentaries.conf 
>> It's working quite nicely on my machine :-)
>>
>> To generate the module from sources, you will need to look in the
>> swordtools repository:
>>
>>  http://crosswire.org/svn/modules/calvinscommentaries
>>
>> Have a look at the README. (BTW, current build scripts don't clean up
>> after themselves very well, to make debugging easier, so you will end
>> up with 300 Mb of stuff in a folder 'build').
>>
>> You will also need the CCEL sources -- for your convenience, you can
>> download them here:
>>
>> http://lukeplant.me.uk/misc/sword/calcom_sources.tar.bz2
>>
>> I haven't checked this thoroughly by any means, and I've run out of
>> time to do any more work on it for a while, but it should provide a
>> pretty solid basis.  The module strips out everything that isn't
>> commentary, including Calvin's latin translation of the text and all
>> the forewords and indexes -- I think that is better, for now at
>> least.
>>
>> One thing I have noticed, and I think it is a bug with osis2mod --
>> where a line starts with whitespace, all the leading whitespace is
>> removed, which means that if the line before didn't end with
>> whitespace, two words now get joined together.  For an example,
>> search for "eloquent by nature, but when" in
>> calvinscommentaries.versified.osis, and see the corresponding words
>> in Gen 3:1, where you will find "whenSatan".  This occurs quite a
>> lot, it would be good to get it fixed before releasing the module to
>> the public.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Luke
> 
> 
> 
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