Re: [sword-devel] Q re search indexes

2019-02-04 Thread DM Smith
Yes, indexes created can be copied to another device having AndBible. You can contact the current developer of AndBible on how to automate the creation of the indexes using JSword. It will be faster. AndBible has recently changed hands and the creation of AndBible’s Lucene indexes on the CrossW

Re: [sword-devel] Q re search indexes

2019-02-04 Thread Dudeck, John
Ok a follow-up question: BTW for now I am really only interested as this relates to AndBible. We are creating a collection of about 50 modules for our first release for French-speaking African pastors. In the future we may make these modules available to customers in Europe, too. Last week I s

Re: [sword-devel] Q re search indexes

2019-02-04 Thread DM Smith
I think AndBible has committed a change to make creation of search indexes be the new mechanism. DM > On Feb 4, 2019, at 7:10 PM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > > Ah, read more closely... You are asking about creating search indices for > DOWNLOAD. > > There is no good answer to this. We don't

Re: [sword-devel] Q re search indexes

2019-02-04 Thread ref...@gmx.net
Hi John,This is a very disorganised area.1) the basic expectation from CrossWire's site is that each front-end creates the indeces on the device, does not receive them as downloads2) as mobile phones were at least in the past not always capable of creating their own indeces PocketSword at least rel

Re: [sword-devel] Q re search indexes

2019-02-04 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
Ah, read more closely... You are asking about creating search indices for DOWNLOAD. There is no good answer to this.  We don't officially support downloadable search indicies.  Some frontends have chosen to support this on their own and they each have their own methods of doing such.  My preferenc

Re: [sword-devel] Q re search indexes

2019-02-04 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
Hi John, SWORD support searching with or without a search index and has 3 methods for maintaining any search index.  The implementation depends on which index system option is turned on at configuration time when building (default is clucene; ximian is also supported).  The calls are: virtual sig

[sword-devel] Q re search indexes

2019-02-04 Thread Dudeck, John
Sorry for what might be a frequently asked question, but I can't find it on the Crosswire wiki: I am working on creating our own in-house repository. How are we supposed to create the search indexes for download? AndBible has a button for downloading the index, which works on some modules but