Choosing a SWORD program
Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Features Common to All SWORD Front-end Applications
- 3 Side-by-Side Comparison of Notable SWORD Front-end Applications
Introduction
This page needs to be maintained to give fair coverage of the SWORD front-end programs.
Do feel free to edit this page to make it more complete and better organized.
The purpose of this page is to help an end user decide which SWORD front-end program is the best for them. The first consideration is which programs are available for the user. This can be found at CrossWire's home page. Once the user has narrowed down which programs are available, the following can be used to focus on the best program.
It is recommended that each user try all the available programs. It is likely that one will resonate with the user and work best for that user.
As this page is oriented to program features, it does not distinguish whether the underlying engine is SWORD or JSword.
Some applications have a different CrossWire development code name than the public name.
Features Common to All SWORD Front-end Applications
Most SWORD Front-end programs have these features:
- Uses Unicode (though some front-ends don't yet support 5.0 or later)
- Released under an open source license
- Powerful search syntax - wildcard, regex and often also clucene indexed searches (fuzzy and proximity searches + searches for Strong's, stemming etc) within preset and customized scopes.
- Strong's, morphological info, cross references and footnotes
- All front-ends listed below are undergoing more or less active development.
- Verse and block layout
- Image support in all types of modules
- Localization - all front-ends are designed to be readily translatable. Many are translated in various languages.
Side-by-Side Comparison of Notable SWORD Front-end Applications
- This is a work in progress. It may not be 100% accurate. As front-ends are further developed, some items may become out of date.
Please help to keep this page useful by editing it to the best of your knowledge.
Legends
To keep the tables below compact, the SWORD programs are identified by abbreviations. Here is an explanation of each of them:
- AB — And Bible based on JSword, for Android OS
- ABS — Alkitab Bible Study based on JSword, uses Java 5+
- B — Bishop for Android OS and iOS / iPadOS
- BD — BibleDesktop based on JSword, uses Java 1.4.2+
- BT — BibleTime uses cross-platform Qt toolkit
- BPB — BPBible uses wxPython
- EBA — Ezra Bible App runs on Windows, Linux and macOS.
- EQ — Eloquent – formerly named MacSword2
- PS — PocketSword v1.x.x
- SPW — The SWORD Project for Windows
- SB — SwordBible
- ST — STEP Bible
- Xi — Xiphos
- XS — xulsword (aka Holy Bible / Электронная Библия)
- A blank entry means that it is unknown whether a feature is present. Footnotes are automatically numbered.
Operating Systems and Portability
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Feature | AB | ABS | B | BD | BT | BPB | EBA | EQ | PS | SPW | SB | ST | Xi | XS |
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Runs on Windows 95/98/NT/ME | no | no | yes | no | no | no | no | no | yes | yes | no | no | ||
Runs on Windows 2K/XP/Vista/7/8/10[1] | no | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | yes [2] | no | no | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
Runs on Mac OS X 10.3+ | no | no | yes | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no | yes | |
Runs on Mac OS X 10.4+ | no | yes | no | yes | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no | yes |
Runs on Mac OS X 10.5+ | no | no | yes | yes | no | yes [3] | yes | no | no | no | yes | no | yes | |
Runs on Linux | no | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no | no | no | yes | yes | yes |
Runs on other Unix | no | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | no | no | no | yes | yes | yes[4] | yes | |
Runs on iPhone, iPad, & iPod touch[5] | no | no | yes | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no | no | yes [6] | no | no |
Runs on Android | yes | no | yes | no | no | no | yes [7] | no | no | no | no | yes [8] | no | partial [9] |
Can be installed to run from USB drive | no | no | no | yes[10] | no | yes[11] | yes [12] | yes[13] | no | yes[14] | no | yes [15] | yes[16] | yes |
- ↑ Windows 8 is supported only on x86 processors, so Windows RT is unsupported.
- ↑ Ezra Bible App requires at least Windows 7, previous versions of Windows are not supported.
- ↑ Ezra Bible App requires at least macOS 10.10 "Yosemite", previous versions of macOS are not supported.
- ↑ BSD and Solaris.
- ↑ iOS 3.1.3 and higher.
- ↑ Currently, only the web-version. Online mobile app is coming soon.
- ↑ Ezra Bible App requires at least Android 5, previous versions of Android are not supported.
- ↑ Currently, only the web-version. Online and offline mobile apps are coming soon.
- ↑ Here, xulsword is essentially a Firefox add-on, and can run anywhere Firefox runs, but the libxulsword engine must first be compiled for Android OS.
- ↑ Portable both in the sense that it can be carried in ones pocket and in the sense that it runs on Windows, Mac or Linux, requiring nothing from the host computer and leaving no trace on it.
- ↑ PortableApps.com edition for Windows only. Leaves no trace on host computer.
- ↑ Yes in theory.
- ↑ Leaves traces on host computer.
- ↑ Temporarily install to a computer and then copy the "C:\Program Files\CrossWire\The SWORD Project" folder to the USB drive. Finally, uninstall it and delete install directory. Leaves no traces on host computer.
- ↑ Yes in theory. Similar to BD, but not tested.
- ↑ Windows only.
Module Support
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Feature | AB | ABS | B | BD | BT | BPB | EBA | EQ | PS | SPW | SB | ST | Xi | XS |
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Daily devotions start with today | yes | yes | yes | no | no | yes | yes | no | yes | yes | ||||
Daily devotions show friendly dates[1] | yes | yes | yes | no | no | yes | no | no | yes | no | ||||
Shows testament introductions | no | no | no | yes | no | yes | no | no | no | yes | ||||
Shows book introductions | no | no | yes | no | yes | yes | no | yes | no | no | yes | yes | ||
Shows chapter introductions | no | no | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no | yes | yes | ||
Personal commentary | no | no | no | yes | no | yes | yes | no | yes | no | no | yes[2] | yes | |
Journal[3] | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes[2] | no | ||
Right to Left scripts[4] | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
Complex scripts[5][6] | partial[7] | no | yes | partial[7] | yes | yes | ||||||||
ICU Transliteration | yes[8] | no | no | yes | no [9] | yes | no | |||||||
Encoded Transliteration[10] | no | no | no | yes | yes[11] | yes | no | |||||||
Can display Lemmas[12] | no | no | yes | yes | ||||||||||
Can display Glosses[13] | no | yes | yes | |||||||||||
Footnote expansion | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes[14] | yes | yes | yes | ||||
Glossary links[15] | no | no | no | no | yes | yes | ||||||||
Morphological segments[16][17] | no | yes[18] | yes | yes | ||||||||||
Can display variants[19] | no | no | yes[20] | |||||||||||
Alternate Versification[21] | yes[22] | yes | yes | yes | no | no | yes | yes | yes[23] | yes[24] | yes | yes | ||
Show deuterocanonical books[25] | yes | no | yes | yes | no | no | yes | yes[23] | yes | yes | no | |||
Show encoded transliterations[26] | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no | |
Supports module abbreviations[27] | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes | yes |
- ↑ Dates use locale appropriate date representation. Month names if used are localized, too.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Exportable as a SWORD module
- ↑ These are user-created and user-editable modules to contain general content. Initially conceived as simple prayer lists, they have expanded to include daily journals and topic-outline content. The user can maintain prayer lists, or prepare sermons, or write any structured content desired.
- ↑ Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and other modules Right-to-Left scripts are displayed from right-to-left, properly aligned and correctly shaped, and with adequate implementation of the bidirectional algorithm.
- ↑ See Examples of Complex Rendering.
- ↑ The application can display correctly Brahmic, Indic, and related scripts (or other scripts of similar layout) - subject to availability of adequate fonts and standardized Unicode
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 To the extent that Uniscribe supports a given script
- ↑ Only when compiled with libsword ICU.
- ↑ Does not use ICU.
- ↑ Where the transliteration data is encoded within the module markup.
- ↑ Appears to support only Greek and Hebrew, and to be limited to a small subset of texts.
- ↑ Applicable only for modules with GlobalOptionFilter=OSISLemma or GlobalOptionFilter=ThMLLemma. The KJV module is one such example. See DevTools:conf Files.
- ↑ Applicable only for modules with GlobalOptionFilter=OSISGlosses or (deprecated) GlobalOptionFilter=OSISRuby. See Japanese Bibles. See DevTools:conf Files.
- ↑ Notes appear in popup. Extremely long notes may appear truncated in the popup.
- ↑ i.e. For reference elements with attribute type="x-glossary" ...
- ↑ Display these segments by some suitable method, for modules that have GlobalOptionFilter=OSISMorphSegmentation in the configuration file. An example is the WLC module.
- ↑ Currently, only some JSword based front-ends seem to support this feature. The SWORD engine has the switch available, but no change in output is effected.
- ↑ e.g. For module OHSB or WLC - click color code Hebrew from the cog menu.
- ↑ Applicable only for modules that have GlobalOptionFilter=ThMLVariants or GlobalOptionFilter=OSISVariants. For a front-end without proper support for this feature, the default is that both readings are displayed. See DevTools:conf Files.
- ↑ Module options context menu includes Variants: Primary/Secondary reading as well as All readings. The default is that only the Primary reading is displayed.
- ↑ Modules with a different book order may have navigation problems in some front-ends.
- ↑ As of version 1.9.0 which provides mapping between Synodal, German, Leningrad, Vulgate, KJV, and NRSV versifications and adds the IBT repository as a download location.
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 Av11n is supported as from release 1.7.3
- ↑ Including converting from one versification to another for Synodal, German, Leningrad, Vulgate, KJV and NRSV.
- ↑ This implicitly requires support for av11n, yet showing DC books also requires being able to navigate to them via the passage selector, etc.
- ↑ For modules such as SP (Samaritan Pentateuch) that are configured with GlobalOptionFilter=OSISXlit.
- ↑ For modules that include the abbreviation property in the configuration file (e.g. Most of the modules in the IBT repository).
Module Management
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Feature | AB | ABS | B | BD | BT | BPB | EBA | EQ | PS | SPW | SB | ST [1] | Xi | XS |
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Integrated module manager | yes | yes[2] | yes | yes | yes | partial[3] | yes | yes | yes[4] | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
Module unlocking support[5] | yes[2] | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes[6] | yes | no | yes | yes[7] | |||
Locked modules are identified | yes[8] | yes[9] | yes[8] | |||||||||||
Multiple download repositories[10] | yes | yes[2] | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes[11] | yes |
Local repositories (e.g. CrossWire CD) | no | no | yes | no | no | yes | n/a | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||
Option to add remote source | yes[12] | yes[13] | ||||||||||||
Module maintainer mode[14] | yes[15] | |||||||||||||
Use of proxy configurable | yes | no | n/a | no | no | n/a | no | no | yes | n/a | yes | |||
Downloaded modules are available immediately without restart | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no | yes | yes | yes | |
User is warned of internet access[16] | yes[2] | yes[17] | yes | yes | n/a | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
User is advised about download size | yes[2] | yes | no | n/a | no | no | yes | no | no | no | yes[18] | yes | ||
User can continue working while download is in progress | yes | yes | n/a | no | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |||
Download can be canceled | yes[2] | yes | yes | n/a | yes | yes | no | yes | yes | no | partial | yes | ||
User is warned if module already exists | yes[2] | yes | no | yes [19] | yes [19] | yes [19] | yes[20] | yes [19] | yes | |||||
User is notified of module updates | no | yes | no | no | no | yes | yes | no | yes | yes | ||||
User is notified of new modules | no | no | no | no | yes | no | no | no | yes | no | ||||
User is notified of obsolete modules[21] | no | no | yes | yes | ||||||||||
Hiding/showing installed modules[22] | no | no | yes | no | yes[23] | yes[24] | n/a | yes | no | yes[25] | yes | yes | ||
Modules sorted or selected by type | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
Modules are further sorted by language | yes | yes | yes[26] | yes | yes | no | yes | no | yes | no | no | yes | yes[27] | yes |
Module manager displays localized language names | yes | yes | n/a | yes | n/a | no | n/a | n/a | yes | yes | yes | |||
Modules can be archived/exported[28] | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no | ||
Companion module support[29] | yes | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no | |
Utility module support[30] | yes | |||||||||||||
Can install specified font[31] | yes | no | n/a | no | n/a | yes[32] | ||||||||
Respects MinimumVersion[33] | no[34] | no[34] | no[34] | no | no[34] | yes[35] | yes[36] |
- ↑ Available on desktop version only for obvious reasons
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 via plugins
- ↑ Zip installer for locally available modules only
- ↑ Includes a Module Maintainer Mode to install modules locally via WiFi.
- ↑ The application allows the user to supply the unlock key. The user does not have to manually edit the module's conf file.
- ↑ Appears to have stopped working properly since the release of iOS 9.x
- ↑ Also supports built-in key generator capability
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Locked modules are listed with a padlock icon.
- ↑ Locked modules are displayed in brown font.
- ↑ Integrated installer allows download from more than one SWORD module repository.
- ↑ Xiphos supports automatic repository discovery, using the standard set maintained at CrossWire
- ↑ PocketSword module manager UI can add an FTP source.
- ↑ Xiphos module manager UI can add/remove repositories with either FTP or HTTP protocol.
- ↑ This feature is more relevant in mobile devices.
- ↑ PocketSword supports installing an archived module via a locally networked PC through a random port number.
- ↑ Ideally, this should be given before remote repositories data is refreshed!
- ↑ Warning is given once per session when the user is either about to install a module or before refreshing remote resources.
- ↑ Xiphos will extract info from repository if provided
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 Installed modules are highlighted
- ↑ The user is now shown the option if the module is already installed.
- ↑ When a module is installed that obsoletes an already installed module.
- ↑ This refers to the ability to select which of the installed modules are listed for selection, without having to uninstall any modules.
- ↑ Already installed modules are shown, but greyed out (not selectable for installation)
- ↑ Modules can be sorted for installed/uninstalled
- ↑ Modules are displayed in 2 columns: 'available for download' and 'installed'
- ↑ Modules are sorted by language code, though modules in the current user language are shown first.
- ↑ Languages are displayed in their own locale.
- ↑ Packages a module into SWORD's shareable "Raw Zip" format.
- ↑ This facilitates authors combining Bibles and commentaries as a pair. When a user opens one, the front-end UI asks the user to open the other. For modules with Companion=ModuleName in the conf file
- ↑ New SWORD feature currently being trialed in Bishop.
- ↑ Where a redistributable font is specified in the module conf file, installing the module can also install the font.
- ↑ The font may be included within the module's zip file, under a "fonts" sub-directory, or else a URL can be used to specify the font.
- ↑ Drops any module that requires a SWORD version beyond the engine's capability.
- ↑ 34.0 34.1 34.2 34.3 JSword has never cared about the field. It represents what the SWORD engine can and cannot handle. Rather it has a different mechanism. It examines each field in the conf for unsupported values and marks those where it makes a difference with “Unsupported”.
- ↑ 4.0.7 and later.
- ↑ Dropped modules are listed in the consoleLog.txt file in the MK user profile after the app closes.
Image Module Support
SWORD proper does not really "support" any particular image formats. The engine delivers text on demand to the applications, some of which incidentally contains references to image content. The engine itself isn't really aware that images are part of the deal, other than that some of the filters happen to scribble the right target markup, which is agnostic to what image format is referenced.
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Feature | AB | ABS | B | BD | BT | BPB | EBA | EQ | PS | SPW | SB | ST | Xi | XS |
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Image resizing[1] | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no | ||
JPEG format[2] | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | yes | |||
PNG format | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | yes | ||||
SVG format | no | no | no | no | yes | yes | no | no | yes | yes | ||||
HEIF format[3] |
- ↑ Shrink large images to fit proportionally within the window or pane.
- ↑ All full-featured SWORD applications should already have support for this type.
- ↑ High Efficiency Image Format
Module Information
Some front-ends can display the complete information from the module's conf file. Others can display hardly anything at all of this information. Please use this section to record what each program can display for module information, and how this is accessed.
Please state whether the front-end can display the ShortPromo link, if present in the module conf file. Except for locked modules, this is the only configuration item that allows HTML.
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Configuration Item | AB | ABS | B | BD | BT | BPB | EBA | EQ | PS | SPW | SB | ST | Xi[1] | XS[2] |
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Module name | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||||||||||
Abbreviation | yes | no | yes | yes | ||||||||||
Description | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||||||||||
Type | no | yes | yes | yes | ||||||||||
Version | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||||||||||
Language | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||||||||||
Distribution license | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||||||||||
Filter features[3] | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||||||||||
Installed size[4] | yes | partial[5] | yes | yes | ||||||||||
Short Promotional | no | no | yes[6] | yes[7] |
- ↑ Example: http://ftp.xiphos.org/sword/xiphos/about_modules.png
- ↑ Items not shown immediately can be viewed by clicking 'More', which then displays the complete configuration file in a text window that even has an 'Edit' option.
- ↑ Headings, footnotes, xrefs, Strong's numbers, morph tags, ...
- ↑ For CrossWire hosted modules this property is generated automatically.
- ↑ Size shown only when installation is requested.
- ↑ Includes auto-hotlinking bare URLs.
- ↑ Text only after clicking 'More'. Not a hyperlink.
Windowing and Text Display
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Feature | AB | ABS | B | BD | BT | BPB | EBA | EQ | PS | SPW | SB | ST | Xi | XS |
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Window layout flexible | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | n/a | yes | yes [1] | yes | yes | |||
Un/Linkable[2] | yes | yes | yes | no | yes[3] | n/a | n/a | yes | yes | yes | ||||
Parallel display[4] | yes | yes | yes | no | no[5] | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | yes | |||
Text comparisons in parallel displays | yes | yes | no | no | yes | no | yes | |||||||
Multiple texts | yes | yes | yes | no | yes[6] | yes | no | no | yes | yes | yes | |||
Module default font[7] | yes | yes | no | no | yes | yes | yes | no[8] | yes | yes | ||||
Font size adjustable | yes | yes | yes[9] | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |||
Font settable per module | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | yes[10] | yes | no[11] | yes | yes | ||
Font settable per language | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no | no | no | partial[12] | yes | no | |||
Transliteration | no | no | no | no[13] | no | no | yes | no | yes | yes | no | |||
Doublespace lines option[14] | no | no | no | no | yes[15] | yes | ||||||||
CSS display control for authors[16] | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes | yes[17] | |
Overall application CSS display control | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes[18] | no | |
BibleSync shared navigation | no | no | yes | no | no | no | no[19] | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no |
Honors coded note tags[20] | no | no | yes | yes[21] | no | |||||||||
Can display small-caps[22] | no | no | yes |
- ↑ STEP's layout is so different to others that it is hard to compare. The user is given a choice between showing 1 panel or two, and whether to collapse the bookmark functionality or not. The user can also move the info/lexicon popup. Since all searches and Bible passages happen on different areas of the page, there is limited scope for layout.
- ↑ Open text panes can by user choice be linked or unlinked and will then move together to the next reference or stay at different references
- ↑ Only linked at the moment
- ↑ Several bible +/-commentary texts can be displayed in a set of parallel columns
- ↑ This is a requested feature for Ezra Bible App.
- ↑ Multiple tabs can be opened with each tab holding a different bible book / tagged verse list / search results.
- ↑ Used if the font is installed
- ↑ The fonts are set in stone on a language basis
- ↑ Global settings adjustment within the app. Currently (as of 2020-04-25), the +/- is not working in iPadOS.
- ↑ Font size is also adjustable per module.
- ↑ The fonts are set in stone on a language basis
- ↑ The fonts are set in stone on a language basis but this is not exposed to the user.
- ↑ This is available if compiled with ICU.
- ↑ Useful (e.g.) to prevent Strongs numbers obscuring the diacritics for the line below. Or (e.g.) for those non-Roman scripts that have some very tall characters.
- ↑ A per-module option.
- ↑ Using the suggested configuration directive PreferredCSSXHTML=style.css, naming a file in the module's DataPath directory. Generality for any XHTML renderer is advised, e.g. "body { -webkit-column-count: 2 ; }" can provide 2-column display, but only in a WebKit-driven application.
- ↑ As of xulsword 3.15
- ↑ In ~/.xiphos/default-style.css. This affects all modules' display. For advanced users.
- ↑ This is a requested feature for Ezra Bible App.
- ↑ For OSIS note elements that specify the tag using the n attribute, e.g. n="†"
- ↑ Via the context menu Module Options: Footnote / Cross-ref Markers.
- ↑ For text inside OSIS hi elements with type="small-caps".
Search and Dictionary
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Feature | AB | ABS | B | BD | BT | BPB | EBA | EQ | PS | SPW | SB | ST | Xi | XS |
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Able to create a search index | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | yes [1] | no[2] | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | |
Able to download a search index[3] | yes | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no | no | no | n/a | no | |
Able to delete a search index | yes | yes[4] | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | no[5] | n/a | yes | yes | yes | yes[6] | |
Index in background[7] | no | yes | no | n/a | yes | n/a | no | yes | yes | no | ||||
Indexed Search | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | yes[8] | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | |
Cross Verse Proximity Search | yes | yes | yes[9] | no | no | no | yes | no | yes | yes | no | |||
Indexed Strong, Morphology and Body search | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | ||
Indexed CrossRef search | no | yes | yes | yes | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no | no | ||
Indexed Note and Heading search | no | yes | yes | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no | no | ||
Advanced search options[10] | partial[11] | partial[12] | no | yes | yes | yes | yes | |||||||
Fuzzy search[13][14][15] | no | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | ||
Normalize the search string[16] | no | yes | no | |||||||||||
Strong's search lexicon results[17] | no | no | no | no | yes[18] | |||||||||
Strong's search reverse lexicon[19] | no | no | no | no | yes[18] | |||||||||
GenBook and Commentary search | partial[20] | yes | yes | no | yes | yes [20] | yes | yes | yes[20] | yes | yes | |||
Combined module search | no | no | yes | no | no | yes | no | no | no | yes | yes[21] | no | ||
Return to last search results[22] | yes | yes | yes | no | yes [23] | no | yes[24] | |||||||
Search within search results | no | yes[25] | no | no | yes | yes | no | |||||||
Search scopes[26] | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||
Result highlighting[27] | yes | yes | no | no | yes | yes | yes | |||||||
Automatic/On-Mouse Strongs/Morphology lookup | n/a | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | n/a | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
Automatic/On-Mouse Glossary lookup | n/a | no | no | yes [28] | n/a | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||||
Share search results | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes[29] | no |
- ↑ Index can also be created automatically for all installed modules if enabled.
- ↑ PocketSword search index creation is in hand (April 2020) by the Kahunapule.
- ↑ For a mobile device, it's generally much faster to download an index than to create one.
- ↑ Through plugins
- ↑ Other than by deleting the module or by resetting PocketSword via the iPhone System Preferences
- ↑ Done automatically as required, but the delete function is not accessible to users.
- ↑ User can continue to use application while index is being created.
- ↑ PocketSword cannot search at all unless there is a search index installed.
i.e. All PocketSword searches currently use the Lucene search index installed for each module. - ↑ Allowing phrases across verse boundaries
- ↑ e.g. All words / Exact phrase, Regular expressions, Boolean combinations, Case-[in]sensitive, etc.
- ↑ All words, any word, exact phrase.
- ↑ All words, any word, exact phrase, case-[in]sensitive
- ↑ Finds words based upon approximation.
- ↑ Lucene also provides for "fuzzy" searches. Try searching the KJV for:
melchesidec~
The tilde on the end indicates to the Lucene search engine to do a fuzzy search. This example will findMelchizedek
in Gen 14:8, Psalm 110:4 and the 9 instances ofMelchisedec
in Hebrews, though it also givesMalchielites
in Numbers 26:45 ! - ↑ What if you want to fuzzy match two or more words? Try this for example:
tilgath~ AND paliser~
- ↑ Automatically normalize the Unicode search string to NFC when entered, so that it is able to match the normalized text in the module.
- ↑ Provide a table of matched words and their frequencies corresponding to any Strong's tag search.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Result includes up to 500 search results.
- ↑ Provide a table of matched Strong's numbers and their frequencies correspding to any regular search of a Strong's tagged module.
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 Commentaries when treated as Bibles
- ↑ Creation of lists of modules to be searched together
- ↑ Without having to search again.
- ↑ If we mean we're coming from a different type of search or a passage lookup.
- ↑ via independent search result windows
- ↑ Ezra Bible App handles search results just like any other text. So you can do anything with it that you can also do with other types of text (like module text or a tagged verse list) including searching within them (using CTRL + F).
- ↑ Limit search to one or more passages or books, possibly with predefined options for search OT only & search NT only.
- ↑ Search term(s) highlighted in results
- ↑ Via context menu
- ↑ On verse list context menus via BibleSync.
Bookmarking, Tagging, Listing and Notes
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Feature | AB | ABS | B | BD | BT | BPB | EBA | EQ | PS | SPW | SB | ST | Xi | XS |
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Bookmarks, verselists, or tags | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||
Manual adding | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||||
Bulk adding of search result | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no | yes | no | ||||||
Permanent | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes [1] | yes | yes | |||
Hierarchical | no | yes | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | no | no | yes | yes | |||
Drag and drop management | n/a | n/a | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | n/a | no | yes | yes | |||
Exportable | yes | yes | yes[2] | no | no | no | yes[3] | yes | ||||||
Importable[4] | no | no | no | yes | yes | |||||||||
User comments | no | yes | yes | no | yes | no | no | yes | yes | |||||
Delete all | no | no | no | yes | yes | |||||||||
Study notes | yes | no | yes | no | yes | yes | no | yes | yes | no | yes | yes |
- ↑ (until cookies in browser history are cleared)
- ↑ Export of tagged verse lists to docx document file.
- ↑ Plaintext, XML, HTML; for plaintext and HTML, with or without referenced material.
- ↑ Bookmarks Standard
Session and State Management
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Feature | AB | ABS | B | BD | BT | BPB | EBA | EQ | PS | SPW | SB | ST | Xi | XS |
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Layout stored | yes | partial[1] | yes | yes | yes | yes | n/a | yes | yes | yes | yes | |||
Interface language | yes | yes | yes [2] | yes [3] | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||||||
Open modules | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |||
Search results | partial[4] | yes | partial [5] | no | yes | yes[6] | partial [5] | |||||||
Storing of multiple sessions | n/a | no | yes | no | yes | no | yes [7] | yes | no |
- ↑ Size and location of windows only
- ↑ Selected from locale setting
- ↑ Selected from locale setting
- ↑ User can store the results of a search as a verse list
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Not result but search query is stored
- ↑ Verse list content is storable as bookmarks, including search results, Bible and commentary xrefs, and loaded history. See sidebar verse list context menu.
- ↑ This is done by bookmarking URLs
Help System
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Feature | AB | ABS | B | BD | BT | BPB | EBA | EQ | PS | SPW | SB | ST | Xi | XS |
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Manual, English | yes | yes | yes | no | no | no | no | yes | yes | yes | no | |||
Manual, Other | yes | no | no | no | no | no | yes[1] | no | ||||||
Active links to online help | yes | no | no | no | yes[2] | yes[3] | yes | |||||||
Tooltips | yes | yes | yes | yes | partial | partial | no | yes | yes | yes |
Localization
Only languages with at least 70% of the user interface translated are listed.
The following languages are present in these front-end applications.
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Feature | AB | ABS | B | BD | BT | BPB | EBA | EQ | PS | SPW | SB | ST | Xi | XS |
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GUI RtoL support[1] | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no | yes | yes | no | no | yes | yes | ||
Localized numerals[2] | yes | yes | no | no | no | no | yes | yes | ||||||
English | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
中文 (Chinese, Traditional and Simplified) | yes | no | yes | no | yes | no | no | yes | no | no | yes | yes | no | |
Deutsch (German) | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | yes | no | yes | yes | no | |
Português (Portuguese) | yes | no | no | yes | no | no | no | yes | yes | no | no | yes | no | |
Suomi (Finnish) | yes | no | no | yes | no | no | no | no | yes | no | no | yes | no | |
فارسی (Persian) | no | no | yes | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes | yes | |
Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese) | yes | no | yes | no | yes | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | |
Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian) | yes | yes | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no | no | no | no | |
Français (French) | yes | no | no | yes | no | yes | no | yes | no | no | yes | yes | no | |
Česky (Czech) | yes | no | no | yes | no | no | no | no | yes | no | no | yes | no | |
Magyar (Hungarian) | yes | no | no | no | yes | no | no | no | yes | no | no | yes | no | |
Español (Spanish) | yes | no | no | yes | no | yes | no | yes | no | no | yes | yes | no | |
Polski (Polish) | yes | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no | no | yes | no | |
Svenska (Swedish) | yes | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no | no | no | yes | no | |
Dansk (Danish) | no | no | no | yes | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no | |
Slovenščina (Slovenian) | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no | no | yes | no | |
Afrikaans | yes | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no | no | no | no | |
日本語 (Japanese) | yes | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes | yes | no | no | yes | no | |
Latviešu (Latvian) | yes | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no | |
Lietuvių (Lithuanian) | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no | |
Slovenčina (Slovak) | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no | |
עברית (Hebrew) | yes | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no | |
Norsk (Norwegian Bokmål) | yes | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no | |
Nederlands (Dutch) | yes | no | no | no | no | yes | no | yes | no | no | no | yes | no | |
Cymraeg (Welsh) | yes | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no | |
Român (Romanian) | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no | |
Русский (Russian) | yes | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no | no | yes | yes | yes | |
Italiano (Italian) | yes | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no | no | no | yes | no | |
Українська (Ukrainian) | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no | no | yes | yes | no | |
ภาษาไทย (Thai) | yes | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no | no | no | no | no | |
한국어 (Korean) | yes | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no | no | no | no | yes | |
Türkçe (Turkish) | yes | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | |
Ελληνικά (Greek) | yes | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | |
Swahili (Kiswahili) | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no | no | |
Қазақша (Kazakh) | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes[3] | |
Къумукъ (Kumyk) | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes[3] | |
Кыргызча (Kyrgyz Cyrillic) | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes[3] | |
عىزچا (Kyrgyz Arabic) | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes[3] | |
Татар теле (Tatar) | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes[3] | |
ئۇيغۇرچە (Uyghur) | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes[3] | |
O‘zbekcha (Uzbek Latin) | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes[3] | |
Ўзбекча (Uzbek Cyrillic) | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes[3] |
- ↑ Layout flips from Left-to-Right layout to Right-to-Left based on user's locale.
- ↑ Chapter & verse numbers use localized script.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Available at IBT: http://ibt.org.ru/pc
Use this section to document whether the front-end has any menu options for printing a selection from a module. If so, what restrictions exist as to how much text can be printed in one operation.
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Feature | AB | ABS | B | BD | BT | BPB | EBA | EQ | PS | SPW | SB | ST | Xi | XS |
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Menu has a print option | no | no | no[1] | no | no | yes[2] | no[3] | yes | no [4] | yes[5] | yes[6] |
- ↑ Print menu to be added as a future enhancement.
- ↑ Current text display
- ↑ Talk to me when Apple introduces printing support in iOS.
- ↑ Browser has a print menu, however doesn't print everything that is on the screen.
- ↑ Current chapter
- ↑ Prints parallel passages, bookmark and user-note selections, search results, or any passage up to an entire Bible, with user selected options such as footnotes, cross-references, headings etc.
Other
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Feature | AB | ABS | B | BD | BT | BPB | EBA | EQ | PS | SPW | SB | ST | Xi | XS |
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Extramodular Bible reading plan | yes | yes | yes | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no | no | |||
Other extramodular content | no | no | no | yes[1] | yes [2] | yes[3] | yes[4] | no | no | yes [5] | no | yes[6] | ||
Read aloud[7] | yes[8] | no | partial[9] | no | no | yes | yes[10] | no | no | yes | yes[11] | |||
Skins[12]/Themes[13] | no | yes[14] | partial[15] | n/a | yes[16] | yes[17] | yes[18] | yes | ||||||
Export passage to clipboard[19] | yes | yes[20] | no | yes | yes | |||||||||
Other features not listed otherwise | yes[21][22] | yes[23] | no | yes[24] | yes[25] | yes[26] | yes[27] |
- ↑ Bible Study HOWTO
- ↑ Gospel Harmonies, Guess the Verse game
- ↑ Tagged verse lists
- ↑ Notes (RTF files) management
- ↑ Topical verse lists
- ↑ Some XSM (XulSword Module) files, like Central Asian Russian, install extra localized material such as a topical index, essays, bookmarks, maps, tables, audio files, and more.
- ↑ Also known as Text to Speech (TTS).
- ↑ Only for Android devices that have a TTS Engine.
- ↑ On MacOS 10.3+ only
- ↑ When Speak selection is enabled in iOS accessibility settings, then selected text in any iOS app can be sent to the built-in TTS engine. The user may wish to adjust the reading speed. See [1] for more details.
- ↑ Supports playback of read or dramatized Bible passage recordings. IBT has a special repository of such audio recordings at ftp.ibt.org.ru/pub/modaudio. Faith Comes By Hearing specializes in such recordings.
- ↑ See Skin (computing) in Wikipedia.
- ↑ See Theme (computer) in Wikipedia.
- ↑ Via OS and saved themes.
- ↑ Two themes available: Light color (default) and night mode (dark theme)
- ↑ Via OS and saved themes.
- ↑ Via OS
- ↑ Via OS and saved color preferences
- ↑ Configurable feature.
- ↑ Via CTRL + C after selecting the verses
- ↑ Night mode display option (white text on black background).
- ↑ Tilt to scroll – the more you tilt the faster it scrolls (this requires a couple of sensors that are in most, but not all devices).
- ↑ Display Strong's headwords
- ↑ Full screen view; floating, transparent preview window; tabbed panes detachable to seperate window; automatic software download and update
- ↑ Rotatable orientation; night mode (white on black).
- ↑ Pseudo-interlinear display of Strong's/morphology; tabbed interface for multiple Bible/commentary/dictionary study; detached windows for any module; commentary by chapter; lexdict mouse-hover content-to-previewer; tab-able or detached full-chapter parallel window; passage exporter; selectable previewer position; image content display selectivity; per-tab, per-pane visibility; high-contrast highlight of current verse; external image viewer on click; geography interface through BibleMap.org; yellow-highlighter (metaphor) per-verse personal annotations; text-to-speech using Festival; verse list load from history and vice versa.
- ↑ xulsword features recursive popup windows to help make xulsword's interface simpler and intuitive. Xulsword supports localized XSM (XulSword Module) files which may contain any number of SWORD modules, bookmarks, audio files, video clips, fonts and more, for automatic installation into xulsword.