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

David Haslam dfhdfh at protonmail.com
Fri May 2 22:55:24 EDT 2025


Update:

Rebuilding the module with BlockType=CHAPTER solved the buffer issue. Hurrah!

The cmd file now reads:

> cd ..
> xiphos\imp2vs Import\IMP\KhmerNTw.raw.imp.txt -z -b 3 -o .\modules\texts\ztext\khmerntw 1>log\imp2vs.log 2>log\error.log
> pause

Useful lesson learned about module building!
cf. This is the first time ever that I have needed to use a BlockType smaller than BOOK.

Aside: Now that I am using the milestone marker form of the ZWSP, diatheke starts each lexical Khmer word on a new line, though Xiphos displays the verse text correctly!

Any ideas towards an explanation?

Best regards,

David

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On Friday, May 2nd, 2025 at 4:48 PM, David Haslam <dfhdfh at protonmail.com> wrote:

> ztext
>
> The module was built using the following cmd file stored in a directory called Make under my SWORD path.
>
>> cd ..
>> xiphos\imp2vs Import\IMP\KhmerNTw.raw.imp.txt -z -o .\modules\texts\ztext\khmerntw 1>log\imp2vs.log 2>log\error.log
>> pause
>
> Best regards,
>
> David
>
> Sent with [Proton Mail](https://pr.tn/ref/SWXT9A5YZ67G) secure email.
>
> On Friday, May 2nd, 2025 at 4:35 PM, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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