Turkmen

[Yish]

I've got a Turkmen database ready to convert but I can't get the Version Database Compiler to work. I'm using version 6 which is old, I know. It's running in a Windows XP update 3 box under Windows 8.1. Can anyone be kind and compile it for me so I can load it on? Where can we upload the database once ready to go? Copyright: Institute for Bible Translation, Moscow.

[Mark Eddy]

If your database is copyrighted in the last 75 years it is illegal to copy it in the United States of America without written permission from the copyright holder. If it is in the public domain I would be happy to help you. You can attach any file with a .txt extension to this forum, so that anyone who reads this can access it. I could return the files for a compiled version via e-mail. All this, of course, only if the text is in the public domain.
God bless!
Mark Eddy

[Yish]

Ok let me check to see if they're alright with that, and what kind of statement they'd like with it.

Yish

[Yish]

Hi, The Turkmen Bible is now available online for free at http://ibtrussia.org/en/text?m=TKL&l=1Chr&g=0&audio=1 (to read and listen to). I have the .txt files (actually .sfm but that's the same thing). Are you still willing to convert them for me? I now have Bibleworks 10 btw!Thanks, David

[Yish]

Ok I managed to convert it (took all morning!) but haven't got the versification right. It has Russian versification so I copied the rso.vmf file and renamed it to tkm.vmf, and put it in the same folder as the converted Bible:

C:\Program Files (x86)\BibleWorks 10\userdb

and the Bible has the name tkm.txt, which is as it should be.

But somehow it's still stuck on English versification.

Any ideas how to fix this?

Yish

[Glenn Weaver]

Hi Yish,

The new vmf file has to go in the \databases folder, not the \userdb folder. The \userdb folder contains the files that are to be compiled using the Version Database Compiler. When BibleWorks starts, it reads the \databases folder for files, but it does not read the \userdb folder. Try putting the new vmf file in the \databases folder and restart BibleWorks, and see if that doesn't solve the problem.

Blessings,
Glenn