Re: [xiphos-users] xiphos does not show any Bible text

2024-03-28 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
For some reason, mail is getting oddly backed up for this mailing list. I found out about this because I got an admin request, and then I found that a few messages have not gone through to all. oldschoolcowboy at protonmail.com writes: It seems the problem is something is stopping the

Re: [xiphos-users] Slightly odd behavior - reason?

2024-01-17 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
On 1/17/24 13:32, Ed Backell wrote: Is this a known behavior? Is it easy to alter? Yes. No. The code wraps the entire verse text in to make it clickable. Then the problem becomes that internal linkages in the module markup also using create an HTML inconsistency of the form some stuff

[xiphos-users] lack of text display on some platforms

2023-10-18 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
This is an FYI for users who have recently seen(sometime in Fedora 38/39 or Debian 11 timelines) that Xiphos does not display text properly in its text widgets. Xiphos starts, no error messages are seen, menus and buttons show text normally, but the text windows for Bible, commentary,

Re: [xiphos-users] Need Reina y Valera 1960

2022-08-22 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
On 8/21/22 10:44 PM, Chuck Hast wrote: I assume then that it is copyrighted and not available for the Xyphos format? I don't know. Many (most, in fact) Bibles have copyright but are freely available. It may be that the publisher has never gotten around to it. Or just that particular version

Re: [xiphos-users] Need Reina y Valera 1960

2022-08-21 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
On 8/21/22 11:38 AM, Chuck Hast wrote: Is this one of those that is blocked? No. There are 3 RV versions in the Crosswire repo: SpaRV1865, SpaRV1909, SpaRVG The latter's documentation has a recent copyright, "All Rights Reserved Copyright 2004 y 2010," so perhaps that's what you

Re: [xiphos-users] Verse starting in a new line

2021-11-17 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
On 11/17/21 9:19 AM, Jose Isaias Cabrera wrote: > Is there a setting for a verse to start in a new line? Context menu (right-click), module options, verse per line.___ xiphos-users mailing list xiphos-users@crosswire.org

Re: [xiphos-users] e-Sword modules to Xiphos

2021-11-16 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
On 11/16/21 11:11 AM, Jose Isaias Cabrera wrote: > I have e-Sword modules that I would like to convert to Xiphos. Regrets, Sword and e-sword are unrelated, and the module formats are not compatible. There is no conversion process. Many years ago, we were about to add support for direct usage of

Re: [xiphos-users] help

2021-09-29 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
On 9/29/21 12:39 AM, Johan Mail wrote: I checked my KJVA and it does not show the Words of Christ in red, when /Strong’s/ is enabled. Oookay. That looks like an engine bug, not a Xiphos bug. But given the after-engine hacking done to produce the stacked strongs/morph view, ... well,

Re: [xiphos-users] help

2021-09-24 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
On 9/24/21 6:32 AM, John Garrod wrote: cannot get Christ's words in red, although the module option is there. Which module?___ xiphos-users mailing list xiphos-users@crosswire.org http://crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/xiphos-users

Re: [xiphos-users] How to fit xiphos onto linux Pinephone screen?

2021-08-31 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
On 8/31/21 2:56 PM, Nels Tomlinson wrote: > How can I change the width of the bible text area so that it is no > wider than the screen? The short answer is that you probably can't. The long answer is that we have had requests since The Dawn Of Net.Time for re-arrangements of Xiphos' main window

Re: [xiphos-users] Error Correction

2021-06-10 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
On 6/10/21 10:08 PM, Skaynopoyos wrote: > I want to know what file to edit. Most text modules are in "ztext" compressed text format. For these, you'd have to uncompress the content, edit it, and re-compress it, making sure that all 31,102 verses' (standard KJV versification) constant offsets from

Re: [xiphos-users] odd parallel behavior

2021-06-10 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
On 6/10/21 4:38 PM, garywk wrote: > if I had verse 20 selected in the main tab the parallel tab would show > verse 10 or less in the parallel tab Still feeling confused about this description. Could use a screenshot. ___ xiphos-users mailing list

Re: [xiphos-users] Error Correction

2021-06-10 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
On 6/10/21 6:30 PM, Skaynopoyos wrote: > I would like to go into the xiphos file and fix an error: We don't fix module content errors. You'll have to file a bug with the Sword bug tracker. https://tracker.crosswire.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa https://tracker.crosswire.org/projects/MOD/issues/

Re: [xiphos-users] Which distro should I switch to

2021-05-23 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
On 5/23/21 6:59 PM, garywk wrote: > I just checked the Fedora package list and the > Xiphos version number in it is the same version number I have in Devuan > which is a descendant of Debian just like Ubuntu is. So it would be a > waste to switch distros because you're going to run into the same

Re: [xiphos-users] Install Xiphos on Fedora 34

2021-04-28 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
On 4/28/21 12:30 AM, Thomas Crawford wrote: > Updating to fedora 34, xiphos is not in the fedora 34 regular fedora > 34 repos. There is a problem in building Xiphos in the F34 toolchain. There is debate about the needed fix going on in a bug report.

Re: [xiphos-users] Xiphos 4.2 on Ubuntu Mate 20.04

2020-11-08 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
On 11/8/20 5:20 PM, John Miller wrote: > unable to edit You're running an unofficial 4.2.0 that was patched to avoid Xiphos' use of the gtkhtml editor which is no longer available in straight Ubuntu. See the note on PPA use for upgrade to 4.2.1

[xiphos-users] Xiphos 4.2.1

2020-05-07 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
https://github.com/crosswire/xiphos/releases/tag/4.2.1 After a long dry spell, Xiphos is back with a new release. This is a release of many bug fixes and much re-structuring, especially for how the build system operates, an important factor for those in development. The older waf build system is

[xiphos-users] New maps module, FreeBibleMaps, Xiphos repo

2020-04-25 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
There is a new maps module, courtesy of Paul Haenze , now in Xiphos repo. ___ xiphos-users mailing list xiphos-users@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/xiphos-users

Re: [xiphos-users] parallel view column width

2018-05-10 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
On 05/10/2018 05:35 PM, Ed Backell wrote: > I logged BACK into JWM... and ALL THE COLUMNS ARE THE SAME. If this should ever happen again, it would be interesting to know what happens if you don't logout but instead invoke another window manager -- or even the same one -- with the "--replace"

Re: [xiphos-users] Xiphos spec file

2018-05-09 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
On 05/09/2018 04:06 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > Any clue how it could have gone missing from the Education menu? > Note that I'm running Mate, not Gnome or other DE. I run Mate as well. Presence in menus is defined by presence in /usr/share/applications. ___

Re: [xiphos-users] Xiphos spec file

2018-05-09 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
On 05/09/2018 02:47 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > I didn't find it in the menus, > either. As best as I can recall, earlier versions at least appeared in > the menu (under "Education"). It still appears there, as Xiphos Bible Guide. This hasn't changed in a geological epoch, and is how it appears on my

Re: [xiphos-users] [sword-devel] Xiphos 4.1.0

2018-04-19 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
On 04/18/2018 10:34 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > #829, below, is not windows only. it occurs on LInux, too, In, at least, > the epel build for RHEL/Centos. > So I did a local build and the problem remains. Not if you built out of the 4.1.0 tarball, or have updated with git pull. The relevant commits

[xiphos-users] Xiphos 4.1.0

2018-04-18 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
A bit late from original plan, but here it is. 4.1.x is expected to be a busy development time for Xiphos. Already with updated Sword and BibleSync, future improvements will include heavy work on module abbreviation sanity (it's an inconsistent hack right now; I'll write about that to sword-devel

[xiphos-users] detached sidebar

2018-04-15 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
The "detach sidebar" capability is poor, has apparently never been good, functional, or valuable, and yet has outstanding bug reports. Given the lack of serious use of this feature, I am considering simply removing the ability, rather than to spend time on a feature which has, to the extent I

Re: [xiphos-users] Problem With Daily Journal and Daily Prayer Lists

2018-04-08 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
On 02/09/2018 09:34 AM, Stephen Bishop wrote: > I have created a Daily Journal and a Prayer List but any entries I make are > not saved. I assume you're running a Windows build. There is some ongoing nightmare in the Windows compatibility hackery on the underlying Sword library which controls

Re: [xiphos-users] Xiphos 4.0.7

2017-09-24 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
On 09/24/2017 09:50 PM, Jorin Gedamke wrote: > I would download Linux builds... The problem is that you're nearly alone. Download counts below, since moving releases to GitHub. *.rpm are retrieved by a vanishingly small set. It seems more productive simply to let normal Linux distro update

[xiphos-users] xiphos repo down for the day

2017-09-08 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
FYI the host personifying ftp.xiphos.orgfailed last night. I should have a solution in place this evening. ___ xiphos-users mailing list xiphos-users@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/xiphos-users

[xiphos-users] new release by end of month

2017-09-05 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
Just FYI. I've been busy, as anyone watching xiphos-source and issues email can attest. The issues list is down by more than half (it appears I've closed 27 reports in the last couple weeks), to less than a single page as shown by github, and only 2 of those remaining are bugs, the rest are

[xiphos-users] xiphos.org updated

2017-08-17 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
I was reminded that I had neglected to update xiphos.org for 4.0.6. So I just wanted to let folks know that it's been updated for proper links to the right release and so forth, along with a few other details. Simon has had some trouble getting the manual to auto-update out of source control into

[xiphos-users] xiphos install on win10: "windows protected your pc"

2017-08-17 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
I've got 4.0.6 installed on a win7 and on my desktop win10 at work. No sweat. Last evening, I was going to install it on my wife's win10 laptop. When I double-click the installer, I get a blue box that says, "Windows protected your PC," refuses to run the file, offers a single button at the

Re: [xiphos-users] [xiphos-devel] Xiphos 4.0.6

2017-08-12 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
On 08/11/2017 04:48 PM, Dominique Corbex wrote: > if there is no .sword directory in my > $HOME dir, xiphos crashes after startup (segfault) when refreshing the > Crosswire repo in the module manager. I've just experimented with exactly this situation, and I don't get any crash.

Re: [xiphos-users] ideas for the future

2017-08-12 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
On 08/11/2017 04:39 PM, Muddleglum Smith wrote: > I recently wanted to search in the ante-Nicene fathers. > 1. Could you allow searches in books, please? Simple sidebar search is for Bibles and commentaries only. Open the Advanced Search window (Edit -> Advanced Search, or F3) for full generality,

Re: [xiphos-users] Fedora RPM

2017-08-11 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
On 08/11/2017 06:17 PM, Karl Kleinpaste wrote: > I will build 32-bit RPMs and add them to the release. Done. ___ xiphos-users mailing list xiphos-users@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/xiphos-users

Re: [xiphos-users] Fedora RPM

2017-08-11 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
On 08/11/2017 05:49 PM, Muddleglum Smith wrote: > it looks like you have information that involves making and installing > rather than an RPM. Am I confused? Maybe some. Release pages on GitHub are in a standard format -- some free-form text (a README) and then the hyperlinked list of what's

Re: [xiphos-users] Xiphos 4.0.6

2017-08-11 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
BTW... I had a couple reports of Xiphos under Win10 crashing in the previous release, both 32- and 64-bit builds. I am unable to reproduce this. I have Win10 on my desk at work and on my woman's laptop, and Win7 in a VBox VM, and have no trouble with Xiphos on any of these. If you see such a

Re: [xiphos-users] modules not appearing

2017-03-03 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
On 03/03/2017 10:50 AM, Jorin Gedamke wrote: > I can't get to the Edit menu because no Bibles are installed. Then you're already looking at the mod.mgr. So...Module Sources -> Choose, etc. Once you've chosen a repo, Refresh must get the dump of available modules. If Refresh doesn't work, then

Re: [xiphos-users] xiphos crashes when I open the edit window on a personal commentary view

2017-03-02 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
The mailer for rtouz...@teleport.com bounced back at me that he's over quota, so he won't see what I said in reply. If anyone can reach him elsehow, please let him know. ___ xiphos-users mailing list xiphos-users@crosswire.org

Re: [xiphos-users] keyboard navigation in Xiphos

2016-04-29 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
On 04/29/2016 07:03 PM, Ed Backell wrote: > SO... is there a simple way to read through the text chapter by > chapter using only the keyboard that I'm just missing? Yep, 'n' and 'p' in various flavors. See the manual via F1, or at http://xiphos.org/manual/interface#xiphos-shortcut Verse