Displaying a lexicon of Paratext Interlinearizer

Question

I’m trying to use a software that displays a lexicon of Paratext Interlinearizer.

However, both Glossy and Glossinator (for Paratext 8) are not working properly. When Glossy (go.bat) is executed, nothing is displayed on the screen. Glossinator 8.exe does not run at all.

I wonder how I can get these programs to work properly.

Answer 1

It’s possible to get Glossy to work but it requires a bit of help.

1. Download and extract Glossy. (extracts to Glossy-1.2 folder)
2. Open glossy.py in text editor and change line 91 from:
   myParatextProjects = ‘C:\My Paratext Projects\’
   to:
   myParatextProjects = ‘C:\My Paratext 9 Projects\’
3. You need python installed on your system.
   I used python 2.7 (I didn’t try python 3)
4. glossy assumes chrome is installed at a particular location, so the bat file might not work so:
   Open a command prompt.
   cd to the folder you extracted glossy.
   In my case cd %USERPROFILE%\Documents\glossy-1.2
   Run the glossy.py script:
   c:\Python27\python.exe %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Glossy-1.2\glossy.py
   Press Ctrl-C when it’s done.
   Run chrome to show the results:
   "c:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --allow-file-access-from-files display_glossies.html

And the output will look something like:

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Comments

Looks like I somehow download an older version. 1.2.
So the instructions I provided were due that older version.

Answer 2

Thanks for this helpful set of instructions hindlemail. I decided to have a go myself, but soon found that several things had to be changed to get the various .bat files and python scripts to work (esp with Python 3). And I’m not there yet… but almost!

Everything seems to work until I open display_glossies.html in Chrome. Then I see this:

I can select a project, but then nothing happens. There’s obviously a piece missing somewhere, but it isn’t obvious to me. My glossy folder is filled with XYZ_Lexicon.xml files, but none of them display.

I used this command to start Chrome and show the page, and hoped that it would make it work, but still nothing…
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --allow-file-access-from-files "%CD%\display_glossies.html"

Where else can I dig? My hope is to get it working and then share the updated version (albeit with hardcoded paths etc.) so that others don’t need to go through the same pain.

Answer 3

Thanks for the replies. Python 3.7 is installed on my computer. Glossy 1.5.1 downloaded from the LingTranSoft site does not run on Python 3. I’ll be waiting for the program to be upgraded to a program running on Python 3.
Please let me know when it becomes available. Thank you.

Comments

I've finally got around to updating glossy for Python3 and Paratext 9.

I'd love it if you could test it. Tested on my Mac (Intel) and Windows (10, 64 bit) environments. There are some sample lexicons you can download so you can see what it is supposed to do.

Answer 4

Very sorry about poor support. I've largely rewritten glossy for Paratext 9 and Python 3. I've finally got around to updating glossy for Python3 and Paratext 9.

I'd love it if you could test it. Tested on my Mac (Intel) and Windows (10, 64 bit) environments. There are some sample lexicons you can download so you can see what it is supposed to do.

Comments

I got an error when trying to unzip the glossy download.
Error 0x80070057:
Issue 47416 - chromium.
It seemed to fail this one step and would not proceed.