Great stuff.

Just for your information:
Eloquent (former MacSword) comes with SWORD utilities bundled.
Just use "Install sword utilities" from the main menu under "Help".
After that the sword utils are available from command line.


Regards,
Manfred


> Am 05.12.2014 um 15:45 schrieb Shane Cooke <shaneco...@mac.com>:
> 
> Reposting this as it seemed to not have gone live last time.
> 
> On Apr 7, 2014, at 1:32 PM, Shane Cooke <shaneco...@mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hello everyone.
>> 
>> Praise God, I have version 2893 of osis2mod installed and running on my late 
>> 2012 Retina Macbook Pro, 13”, OS X 10.9.2, 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5, 8 GB RAM! 
>> I can now generate modules right from my own Mac. 
>> 
>> I had been using a Sword installation on my Ubuntu 12.04 on a VM.  It wasn’t 
>> convenient to hop back and forth, using the soon to be discontinued Ubuntu 
>> One cloud storage to sync my source file on my Mac to the VM Ubuntu.
>> 
>> Well, I downloaded the source, and after the first run was notified I needed 
>> ICU. I decided to try to install ICU, despite previous apparent failures, by 
>> reading this blog:
>> http://themidnightprogrammer.blogspot.ca/2010/09/unicode-with-icu.html and 
>> he seemed to have done it,  it made me think, why not me? Part of his post 
>> noted <unicode/unistr.h> which was an error that also appeared when I first 
>> tried to install the Sword 1.7.2 engine  
>> “../include/utf8transliterator.h:41:10: fatal error: 'unicode/unistr.h' file 
>> not found” and he solved it by installed the ICU library, something I had 
>> previously tried to do, but failed (for what reason, I can’t recall). I 
>> followed the steps at 
>> http://freddyduarte.com/2013/08/14/installing-the-icu-libraries-and-the-php-intl-extension-on-a-mac/,
>>  and what do you know, ICU installed. I ran the sword installation again and 
>> voila, it installed. With some trepidation I then tried using osis2mod on my 
>> XML files, but it didn’t work (I was still seeing a strange paragraph number 
>> misplacement).
>> 
>> Then I realized that my osis2mod was still symlinked to the utilities in the 
>> the Eloquent app folders! So I looked to see where the new Sword utilities 
>> were installed and it was /us/bin/osis2mod.
>> 
>> So, in case anyone has previously tried to use the latest Sword engine 1.7.2 
>> utilities on their Mac and it didn’t install or work, give it another try. 
>> They are now! There must be something in the OS X 10.9.2 update which 
>> changed something for the better-I had previously tried installed while on 
>> 10.8.x, and the first 10.9 update)
>> 
>> Shane
>> 
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