On 11/7/25 9:39 AM, gfp wrote:
Is it possible, and how to do that, to create a module etc
The short answer is Yes, absolutely. The PDF will probably not be
useful, but the text is fine.
It's not a trivial process, but it's very doable, especially for simple
text format source material. You just have to put in some effort.
See first the Crosswire developers' wiki
<https://wiki.crosswire.org/Main_Page>, where the relevant information
will be found. At bottom right, see Module Development.
You need to do a couple things:
- Edit the text into a format usable by Sword's conversion tools.
Notably for you, this is probably the simple "import format." This is a
format where verse identifications are separated from verse text:
$$$Genesis 1:1
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
$$$Genesis 1:2
...
and so on.
- Then "imp2vs" will convert that "import" content to the internal
versified (indexed) format used by all Sword apps. That produces 4
files: ot, ot.vss, nt, nt.vss. The *.vss are index files referencing the
textual content in the non-.vss files, respectively Old and New Testament.
- You need to edit a configuration file. Look in ~/.sword/mods.d for
examples and see the Module Configuration Files reference at the wiki.
Don't overdo it, especially for a module built from simple text.
Put your .conf into ~/.sword/mods.d/.
Put the ot/nt files into the directory beneath ~/.sword/modules that you
specified in the .conf as DataPath.
After that, Xiphos will know about the module.
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