Re: [Gnomesword-developers] Module generation from XML (Re: FYI, recent development activity)

[Robert P. <rob...@gm...>]

I tried the small one that you did and had to change the paths a littlebit
but still cannot view it why is that it is there though


Bob

On 7/2/07, Brian J. Dumont <bd...@am...> wrote:
>
>  Yeah, the docs can be a bit obscure here.  I started to learn by finding
> a fairly straight-forward, relatively small genbook in ThML format until I
> learned the system.  You can find on my web site a sample xml file (Luther's
> Small Catechism); pretty much straight from CCEL.  It's zipped here:
> http://users.ameritech.net/bdumont/smallcat.zip
>
> You can build the module files by running:
> xml2gbs smallcat.xml smallcat
>
> This makes the files:
> smallcat.bdt
> smallcat.dat
> smallcat.idx
>
> You then need to write a conf file.  I've placed a sample in the above
> zip.  Lastly,  place the files in the appropriate places.  For this demo on
> my system, they should be placed as:
> /usr/share/sword/mods.d/smallcat.conf
> /usr/share/sword/modules/genbook/rawgenbook/smallcat/smallcat.bdt
> /usr/share/sword/modules/genbook/rawgenbook/smallcat/smallcat.dat
> /usr/share/sword/modules/genbook/rawgenbook/smallcat/smallcat.idx
>
> check permissions, start gnomesword, and you should see the module in the
> genbooks section.
>
> Hope this helps a bit,
> Brian
>
>
>
>
> Robert Peters wrote:
>
> how did you convert thml to sword module
>
>
>
> On 7/2/07, Karl Kleinpaste <ka...@kl...> wrote:
> >
> > ransom82 <ran...@gm...> writes:
> > > Of particular interest to me (and
> > > one of my reasons for abandoning e-sword in favor of gnomesword or
> > > sword in general) are the books available on CCEL. I have never taken
> > > the time to learn the command line tools to import any of these, so I
> > > would appreciate having something built in to the ui.
> >
> > One thing of which to be wary is that texts obtained from CCEL are not
> > at all certain to be import-ready with xml2gbs.  For example, I have a
> > module HodgeSysTheo which comes from CCEL, but there was a great deal
> > about the module's XML content that was simply not good for the Sword
> > Project tools.  So I resorted to my all-too-typical methodology of a
> > heavy duty sed(1) script, to twist and mutilate the content into
> > import format with ThML overtones until it was something more
> > palatable to the Sword environment.
> >
> >
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