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[WayWord]

After encountering problems with Bible modules displaying incorrectly in e-Sword 11.0.5, I have determined a couple of things.

 

The PC to Apple Module Conversion Utility found on the e-Sword web site under the Extras menu is useful for converting BBLX files to BBLI format. This resolved my display problems in the Compare and Parallel Bible tabs for four Bible modules, two of which contained Greek text.

 

I was unable to create BBLI files directly from ToolTip Tool NT v2.77 that would work. Using SQLite3 to look at the Details table showed that the RightToLeft column was missing from the table in the BBLI file, however this does not appear to cause a problem for e-Sword 11.  Using SQLite3 to select specific Bible verses from the BBLI file, I found that if the color of the verse text is all black, everything is fine. Anywhere the color changes, the HTML tag for the font color is incorrectly formatted, ending with a square bracket instead of a right angle bracket. This causes all text that follows in that line to be ignored, up to the next occurrence of black text. If the entire line is a different color, grey for example, that entire verse is not displayed.  Still investigating ...

[JPG]

Hi, 

for my own interest, what was the name of the file you are converting. Do you have link.

Thanks

 

Jon

[WayWord]

Files distributed on the e-Sword web site from earlier versions displayed with no formatting whatsoever in the Compare and Parallel Bible tabs in e-Sword version 11, while they could have still displayed correctly in their individual tabs.  In this case "conversion" requires downloading the corresponding new Bible module that incorporates HTML formatting.  For example, the module named "gnt-byz+.bblx" is now named "greekntbyz+.bblx".  You need to look for these new Bible module names, as they won't show up in the e-Sword Downloads list as something you currently have installed for which there is an update.

 

All other Bible modules on my system that also displayed incorrectly did require a conversion from RTF-formatted text to HTML-formatted text.  (For this, go to the e-Sword.net site, click on the Extras menu, and download/install the PC to Apple Module Conversion Utility, even if all you are doing is converting a *.bblx file to a *.bbli file on a PC.)  All of the remaining Bible modules to be converted were *.bblx files that I had created using ToolTip Tool NT, and as they are for my own research purposes only, I cannot supply links to these.  In attempting to create *.bbli files directly from ToolTip Tool, thereby bypassing the need for the e-Sword Conversion Utility, I discovered the previously mentioned formatting errors in the HTML font color tags, so as long as I stay on e-Sword 11, I will have to depend on the e-Sword Conversion Utility until the ToolTip Tool NT v2.77 issues can be resolved.

[JPG]

ok I understand you can't give links. I wondered what they were because I had not encountered  such issues with Greek Bibles I had.

 

Thanks