diatheke does not include the font color table when output format is RTF, yet this is required to support option x (Red Words of Christ)

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Here is what I entered at the Windows cmd line:

utils\diatheke -b ESV -o x -f RTF -k "Gen - Rev">Export\ESV\ESV.diatheke.ox.rtf

The Words of Jesus are marked in the RTF file using font color 6 like this: \cf6 ...\cf0

Examples can be found throughout the Gospels, the first being in

Matthew 3:15: {\f1 But Jesus answered him, \cf6 "Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness."\cf0 Then he consented.}\par

For this to display correctly, the RTF file should include a font color table near the start of the file. It doesn't.

The first output line begins:
{\rtf1\ansi{\fonttbl{\f0\froman\fcharset0\fprq2 Times New Roman;}{\f1\fdecor\fprq2 Times New Roman;}{\f7\froman\fcharset2\fprq2 Symbol;}}

and is immediately followed by Genesis 1:1:

So three fonts are defined, but font colors are not defined. They should be!
i.e. cf6 should be red, cf0 should be black.

No attachment is added, as the issue is readily reproducible.

David Haslam

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Please ignore the line which read:
NB. The 2 unrecognized characters above are left & right double quotes - the problem is merely that of JIRA.
It appertained only to the appearance of those two chars in the edit box.

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Just moved this issue from SWORD to Module Tools.

The issue appertains to diatheke when RTF is specified as the output format.

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David Haslam added a comment - Just moved this issue from SWORD to Module Tools. The issue appertains to diatheke when RTF is specified as the output format.
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Simple RTF file to illustrate what a colortbl looks like.

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David Haslam added a comment - Simple RTF file to illustrate what a colortbl looks like.
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David Haslam added a comment - - edited

An RTF color table can have as many entries as required.
The one shown in the attachment has extra line breaks inserted to show the structure more clearly.
Open it with Notepad to see lines 3 to 8.
As it happens, here I chose \cf5 for red color, but I could just as readily have used \cf6

To solve this issue, all that needs to be done is to insert the following line before the text proper starts.

{\colortbl {\cf0;\cf1;\cf2;\cf3;\cf4;\cf5;\cf6\red255\green0\blue0;}}

It should be a simple enough task to update and test the diatheke source code.

Within the RTF text ...
\cf0 restores the default color (black).
\cf6 is used for the Words of Christ.

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David Haslam added a comment - - edited An RTF color table can have as many entries as required. The one shown in the attachment has extra line breaks inserted to show the structure more clearly. Open it with Notepad to see lines 3 to 8. As it happens, here I chose \cf5 for red color, but I could just as readily have used \cf6 To solve this issue, all that needs to be done is to insert the following line before the text proper starts. {\colortbl {\cf0;\cf1;\cf2;\cf3;\cf4;\cf5;\cf6\red255\green0\blue0;}} It should be a simple enough task to update and test the diatheke source code. Within the RTF text ... \cf0 restores the default color (black). \cf6 is used for the Words of Christ.
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I just inserted the color table as line 2, and tested the result in KJV.diatheke.colortbl.rtf

Here's proof that it works.

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David Haslam added a comment - I just inserted the color table as line 2, and tested the result in KJV.diatheke.colortbl.rtf Here's proof that it works.

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