[sword-devel] Too many milestones can cook your buffer?

[Greg Hellings]

Which driver have you used? RawText? zText? That might influence a buffer
size.

On Fri, May 2, 2025, 9:07 AM David Haslam <dfhdfh at protonmail.com> wrote:

> While experimenting with the *KhmerNT* module eXperimental improvement, I
> encountered a new issue after creating modules using *imp2vs*
>
> Earlier today, I had the "bright idea" of replacing all the ZWSP between
> Khmer words with the following OSIS element. NB. The marker attribute
> contains a ZWSP character
>
> <milestone marker="​" type="x-lexical-word-divider" subtype="x-ZWSP"/>
>
> Nothing wrong with that, you might assume, like I did.
> It's perfectly valid OSIS according to our schema and wiki.
> It's also much more explicit than simply leaving the ZWSP characters
> invisible to the naked eye.
>
> Only a few smaller books in the NT ever got compiled!
> Or if they did compile OK, afterwards SWORD cannot read parts of them.
>
> So, I thinks to myself, "let's make it a bit smaller", and I then tried
> again with this abbreviated attribute value.
>
> <milestone marker="​" type="x-LWD" subtype="x-ZWSP"/>
>
> A few more NT books were compiled this time, but the largest one visible
> was *Hebrews*.
> The apparently missing books just show as empty verses in *Xiphos* and
> with *emptyvss*.
>
> I have attached the log file generated during the second attempt at module
> build.
> NB. The *error.log* was empty, which now rather makes me think it's a
> SWORD output issue.
>
> Using *diatheke* and *mod2imp* after the module was built, one or either
> of these gave this repeated message:
>
> *ERROR: not enough room in the out buffer during decompression.*
>
> Evidently "Too many milestones can cook your buffer?"
>
> I'd be happy to supply the IMP file and/or the module for further
> investigation.
> I think this is a serious issue. I'm surprised that it's never been
> encountered hitherto.
>
> Best regards,
>
> David
>
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