Huge encyclopaedia: The Dictionary of Christianity and the Bible

After switching to the Beta channel the Dictionary compiled fine with no errors! It was a long wait though (took about 3 hours!).

5.2a Beta 5 Mac compiled in about 52 minutes with no errors. Thank you Mark.

Glad it works for you after switching to beta channel... I got nothing so I am guessing Verbum Beta's are done differently...( set update channel to beta ) says no updates available after starting update now.

-Dan

I don't suppose switching to the beta channel would help this problem would it?

I doubt it would make an immediate difference. There's not been a beta release since the fixes Logos have told me they've made. More importantly, I've not seen this problem before, so they may not even be aware of it. But it would be good if a Mac user on the beta could confirm whether they have build problems.

I was using 5.2a Beta 5 (5.2.1.0054) when the problem introduced itself to me. That's the latest beta.

I've been told the endless recompiling on both platforms should be fixed in beta 6. But Dan and Liam's issue is a Mac-only problem where even the first compile fails through a missing temporary file.

5.2a Beta 6 (5.2.1.0058) is now available for download. [:D]

Wow....  No pressure, Mark; but I wait impatiently for your PB releases like this sweet resource.  Would it be imposing if we were to ask you for weekly PB publications? [;)]

thanks

Hi Mark, I sent you a PM via Faithlife about this.

Thank you very much for this PB. It's quite a work and I really appreciate this. [Y]

Hi Mark,

I'm running 5.2a SR-1 (5.2.1.0081).

Compiled with no errors & about 90 warnings, which I'm assuming don't account for the difficulty I'll ask about (but I'm reporting them just in case). The warnings were:

1. Very many "Article ____ has only 1 characters", where ___ was the only variable
2. Very many "Bad character in string 0XFFFD"
3. Two "d~bible.19.__ is specified", where __ was either 42 or 90
4. Three "Headword is empty."
5. One "Unknown data type in use: topic+topics"
6. One "Font 'DejaVu Sans' is specified but not installed or embedded. Is this a valid font name?"
7. One "Setting font for 'DejaVu Sans' to 'Times New Roman' ".

I also followed your instructions near the forward of the resulting PB:

1. Using the Topic Guide
2. 
   
   Personal Books don’t appear in the Topic section of a Topic Guide. To have the dictionary appear in your Topic Guide, you’ll need to complete the following steps:
   
   
1. 
   
   Add the dictionary to a collection (if there are other dictionaries missing from your Topic Guide, you could add them too).
   
   
2. 
   
   From the Guides menu, Make a new Guide template. Change the Template type to Topic, and then add all sections from the Topic Guide, or customise the sections if you wish.
   
   
3. 
   
   Now, add a Collections section, and specify the collection you created in step 1. You may like to place the collections section right under the main Topics section.
   
   
4. 
   
   Now, name your Guide My Topic Guide, and close the template. You’ll then be able to choose that new Guide from the Guides menu, whenever you wish.
   
   

Here's where I'm having difficulty. I've opened My Topic Guide (thank you for that!).

1. 
   
   Select the collection including DCB (manually added, since I've created a dynamic collection that prefers the phrase "Bible Dictionary").
   
   
2. 
   
   Key Passover into My Topic Guide.
   
   
3. 
   
   Result: DCB never appears in the hit list (even after completely expanding it), even though I can type in Passover & jump right to the article. DCB is found in the Library (if entire library is viewed) or if PB list is viewed.
   
   

What did I do wrong?

Thanks in advance...

Thanks Mark.  [Y]

Just wanted to say "Thanks!" This is a very welcome resource!

Dear Mark,

It seems the link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zid9v5a520stxzs/Dictionary%20of%20Christianity%20and%20the%20Bible.zip  not available now.

could you please re-post the link again so the we can donwload it.

thank you for your great job!

BR / David.

I just tested this; the link is still active and I was able to download the resource. I don't know what could be causing it to not work for you, though.