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<div>==Introduction==<br />
This page is under development. As such it may not be helpful until it is near completion. For that reason, please don't link it on another page until then. To become complete it needs fair and balanced™ coverage of the SWORD programs.<br />
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Do feel free to edit this page to make it more complete and better organized.<br />
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The purpose of this page is to help an end user decide which SWORD program is the best for them. The first consideration is which programs are available for the user. This can be found at [http://www.crosswire.org 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.<br />
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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.<br />
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==Features Common to All SWORD Applications==<br />
For the most part all the SWORD programs have the same features.<br />
* Uses Unicode <br />
* Released under an open source license<br />
* Powerful search syntax - wildcard, regex and often also clucene indexed searches (fuzzy and proximity searches + searches for Strong's, stemming etc) within preset and customised scopes.<br />
* Strong's, morphological info, cross references and footnotes<br />
* All frontends listed below are undergoing more or less active development.<br />
* Verse and block layout<br />
* Image support in all types of modules<br />
* Localisation - all frontends are designed to be readily translatable. Many are translated in various languages.<br />
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==Side-by-Side Comparison of Notable SWORD Applications==<br />
=== Legends ===<br />
To keep the lists below compact, the SWORD programs are identified by abbreviations. Here is an explanation of each of them:<br />
*'''ABS''' - [http://www.kiyut.com/products/alkitab/ Alkitab Bible Study] based on JSword, uses Java 5+<br />
*'''BD''' - [[Frontends:BibleDesktop|BibleDesktop]] based on JSword, uses Java 1.4.2+<br />
*'''BT''' - [http://devel.bibletime.info BibleTime] uses cross-platform Qt toolkit<br />
*'''BPB''' - [http://bpbible.com BPBible] uses wxPython<br />
*'''FB''' - [http://thegoan.com/firebible FireBible] based on JSword, runs in FireFox as an extension<br />
*'''MS''' - [[Frontends:MacSword|MacSword]]<br />
*'''SPW''' - [[Frontends:BibleCS|The SWORD Project for Windows]]<br />
*'''SB''' - [http://swordwarrior.net/ SwordBible]<br />
*'''Xi''' - [[Frontends:Xiphos|Xiphos]] (formerly [[Frontends:GnomeSword|GnomeSword]])<br />
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A blank entry means that it is unknown whether a feature is present.<br />
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This is a work in progress. Footnotes are automatically numbered.<br />
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=== Operating Systems and Portability===<br />
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{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xi<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Runs on Windows 95/98/NT/ME'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}}<ref>Not Win9x</ref>!! !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"{{<br />
| '''Runs on Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{part}}<ref name="prealpha"> Pre-alpha</ref>!! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Runs on Mac OS X 10.3+'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<ref>version 1.3.x</ref>!! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Runs on Mac OS X 10.4+'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{part}}<ref name="prealpha"/>!! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<ref>version 1.4.x</ref>!! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Runs on Linux'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Runs on other Unix'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<ref>BSD, Solaris</ref><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Can be installed to run from USB drive'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} <br />
! {{yes}}<ref>[http://www.crosswire.org/~dmsmith/bd/ 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.</ref><br />
! {{no}} <br />
! {{yes}}<ref>[http://PortableApps.com/BPBiblePortable PortableApps.com edition] for Windows only. Leaves no trace on host computer.</ref><br />
! {{yes}}<ref>Using [http://PortableApps.com/FirefoxPortable Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition] from PortableApps.com, for Windows only, but depends on a local installation of Java. Leaves no trace on host computer. Other platforms are possible.</ref><br />
! {{yes}}<ref>Leaves traces on host computer.</ref><br />
! {{yes}}<ref>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.</ref><br />
! {{no}}<br />
! {{no}}<br />
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=== Module Support ===<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xi<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Daily Devotions Start with Today'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Daily Devotions Show Friendly Dates'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Shows Testament Introductions'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Shows Book Introductions'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Shows Chapter Introductions'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Personal Commentary'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<ref name="exportable">exportable as a SWORD module</ref><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Journal'''<br />
<!-- ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<ref name="exportable"/><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Right to Left Texts'''<br />
<!-- ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Complex Scripts'''<br />
<!-- ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! !! {{part}}<ref>To the extent that Uniscribe supports a given script</ref> !! !! !! {{part}}<ref>To the extent that Uniscribe supports a given script</ref> !! !! {{yes}}<ref>with pango-graphit installed</ref><br />
|}<br />
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'''Right to Left texts''' - Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and other modules Right-to-Left scripts are displayed from right-to-left and correctly shaped.<br/><br />
'''Daily Devotions''' - While all SWORD applications support Daily Devotions modules, some open a Daily Devotion to the current day.<br/><br />
'''Introductions''' - Some modules contain Testament, Book and Chapter introductions. Some SWORD applications do not handle them.<br/><br />
'''User Editable Module Content''' - The application supports the Personal Commentary and may allow other types of module creation.<br/><br />
'''Complex Scripts''' - The application can display correctly [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmic_family_of_scripts Brahmic, Indic, and related scripts] (or other scripts of similar layout) - subject to availability of adequate fonts and standardized Unicode<br />
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=== Module Management ===<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xi<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Integrated module manager'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref name="plugins">via plugins</ref>!! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{part}}<ref>Zip installer for locally available modules only</ref> !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Module unlocking support'''<ref>The application allows the user to supply the unlock key. The user does not have to manually edit the module's conf file.</ref><br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref name="plugins"/>!! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Multiple download repositories'''<ref>Integrated installer allows download from more than one SWORD module repository.</ref><br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref name="plugins"/>!! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{n/a}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Local Repositories (e.g. CrossWire CD)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Downloaded modules are available immediately without restart'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{n/a}} !! {{yes}}<ref>After repository refresh.</ref>!! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User is warned of internet access'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref name="plugins"/> !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{n/a}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User is advised about download size'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref name="plugins"/> !! {{yes}} !! !! {{n/a}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! !! !! {{yes}}<ref>Xiphos will extract info from repository if provided</ref><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User can continue working while download is in progress'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{n/a}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Download can be canceled'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref name="plugins"/> !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{n/a}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{part}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User is warned if module already exists.'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref name="plugins"/> !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! !! !! {{yes}} <ref> installed modules are highlighted</ref><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User is notified of module updates'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User is notified of new modules'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Hiding/Showing installed modules'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Modules sorted by type'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Modules are further sorted by language'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Modules can be archived/exported'''<ref>Packages a module into SWORD's shareable "Raw Zip" format.</ref><br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Companion Module support'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
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=== Image Module Support ===<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xi<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| ''' Image Resizing'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''JPEG format'''<ref>All full-featured SWORD applications should already have support for this types.</ref><br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| ''' PNG format'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}}<ref> PNG support will be available in 1.5.12 upwards</ref> !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| ''' SVG format'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
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=== Windowing and Text Display ===<br />
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{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xi<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Window Layout flexible'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Un/Linkable'''<ref> 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</ref><br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Parallel Display'''<ref>several bible +/-commentary texts can be displayed in a set of parallel columns</ref><br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Multiple texts'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Poetry Layout'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} <ref> 2 level indentation</ref>!! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<ref>not indented</ref>!! !! {{yes}} <ref> 2 level indentation</ref><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Ruby Layout'''<ref>A not-yet-released SWORD 1.5.12 feature. Used for Japanese texts.</ref><br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}} !! !! !! !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Module default font'''<ref>Used if the font is installed</ref><br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Font settable per module'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Font settable per language'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Transliteration'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}}<ref>This is available if compiled with ICU.</ref> !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
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=== Search and Dictionary ===<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xi<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Able to create a search index'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --> <br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<ref>automatically created searching a module first time</ref> !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Able to delete a search index'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref>through plugins</ref> !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{n/a}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User can continue to use application while index is being created'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top" <br />
| '''Indexed Search'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<ref>requires another J-Sword installation to create indices</ref>!! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Cross Verse Proximity Search'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<ref>allowing phrases across verse boundaries</ref>!! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''indexed Strong, Morphology and Body search'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}!! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''indexed CrossRef search'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !!{{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''indexed Note and Heading search'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Fuzzy search'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''GenBook and Commentary search'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Combined module search'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<ref>creation of lists of modules to be searched together</ref><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Search scopes'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Automatic/On-Mouse Strongs/Morphology lookup'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Automatic/On-Mouse Glossary lookup'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} <br />
|}<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
=== Bookmarking, Tagging, Listing and Notes ===<br />
<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xi<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Bookmarks, Verselists or Tags'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<ref>utilises FF bookmarking system</ref> !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Manual adding'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Bulk adding of Search result'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! !! {{yes}} !! !! !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Permanent'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Hierarchical'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Drag and drop management'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{n/a}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Exportable'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User comments'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Study Notes'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !!{{yes}}<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
=== Session and State Management ===<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xi<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Layout stored'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Interface language'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! !! !! !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Open Modules'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}}!! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Search Results'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Storing of multiple Sessions'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! {{yes}} !! !! !! !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Help System ===<br />
<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xi<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Manual, English'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Manual, Other'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! !! !! !! !! {{yes}}<ref> French</ref><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Active links to online help'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! !! {{yes}} !! !! !! !! !! {{yes}}<ref>IRC, Mailing lists, bug tracker</ref><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Tooltips'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}}!! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|}<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
=== Localization ===<br />
The following table lists all languages for which at least two applications are available. The remaining languages are listed in footnotes. Only languages with at least 70% of the user interface translated are listed.<br />
<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD <ref>中文 (Chinese, Traditional and Simplified)</ref><br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT <ref>Dansk (Danish)</ref><br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS <ref>Svensk (Swedish)</ref><br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW <ref>Afrikaans, Magyar (Hungarian), Slovenščina (Slovenian)</ref><br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xi <ref>עברית (Hebrew), Nederlands (Dutch)</ref><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''GUI RtoL Support'''<ref>Layout flips from Left-to-Right layout to Right-to-Left based on user's locale.</ref><br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''English'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Deutsch (German)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} <ref> BPBible 0.4.1 will have a German translation </ref> !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Português (Portuguese)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Suomi (Finnish)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''فارسی (Persian)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}}!! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''日本語 (Japanese)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !!{{no}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Français (French)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Česky (Czech)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !!{{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !!{{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Español (Spanish)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Polski (Polish)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !!{{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}}<br />
|}<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
=== Other ===<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xi<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Extramodular Bible Reading Plan'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Other extramodular content'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<ref>Bible Study HOWTO</ref> !!{{yes}} <ref>Gospel Harmonies, Guess the Verse game</ref> !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} <ref>Topical verse lists</ref> !! {{no}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Read aloud'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{part}}<ref name="maconly">On MacOS 10.3+ only</ref>!! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Other features not listed otherwise'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! !! {{yes}}<ref>Display Strong's headwords, configurable export passage to clipboard</ref> !! !! !! !! !! {{yes}}<ref>Pseudo-interlinear display of Strong's/morphology; commentary by chapter; lexdict mouse-hover content-to-previewer; tab-able parallel window; passage exporter</ref> <br />
|}<br />
<references/></div>Eelikhttps://wiki.crosswire.org/index.php?title=Choosing_a_SWORD_program&diff=5765Choosing a SWORD program2009-03-05T07:31:40Z<p>Eelik: /* Session and State Management */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Introduction==<br />
This page is under development. As such it may not be helpful until it is near completion. For that reason, please don't link it on another page until then. To become complete it needs fair and balanced™ coverage of the SWORD programs.<br />
<br />
Do feel free to edit this page to make it more complete and better organized.<br />
<br />
The purpose of this page is to help an end user decide which SWORD program is the best for them. The first consideration is which programs are available for the user. This can be found at [http://www.crosswire.org 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.<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
==Features Common to All SWORD Applications==<br />
For the most part all the SWORD programs have the same features.<br />
* Uses Unicode <br />
* Released under an open source license<br />
* Powerful search syntax - wildcard, regex and often also clucene indexed searches (fuzzy and proximity searches + searches for Strong's, stemming etc) within preset and customised scopes.<br />
* Strong's, morphological info, cross references and footnotes<br />
* All frontends listed below are undergoing more or less active development.<br />
* Verse and block layout<br />
* Image support in all types of modules<br />
* Localisation - all frontends are designed to be readily translatable. Many are translated in various languages.<br />
<br />
==Side-by-Side Comparison of Notable SWORD Applications==<br />
=== Legends ===<br />
To keep the lists below compact, the SWORD programs are identified by abbreviations. Here is an explanation of each of them:<br />
*'''ABS''' - [http://www.kiyut.com/products/alkitab/ Alkitab Bible Study] based on JSword, uses Java 5+<br />
*'''BD''' - [[Frontends:BibleDesktop|BibleDesktop]] based on JSword, uses Java 1.4.2+<br />
*'''BT''' - [http://devel.bibletime.info BibleTime] uses cross-platform Qt toolkit<br />
*'''BPB''' - [http://bpbible.com BPBible] uses wxPython<br />
*'''FB''' - [http://thegoan.com/firebible FireBible] based on JSword, runs in FireFox as an extension<br />
*'''MS''' - [[Frontends:MacSword|MacSword]]<br />
*'''SPW''' - [[Frontends:BibleCS|The SWORD Project for Windows]]<br />
*'''SB''' - [http://swordwarrior.net/ SwordBible]<br />
*'''Xi''' - [[Frontends:Xiphos|Xiphos]] (formerly [[Frontends:GnomeSword|GnomeSword]])<br />
<br />
A blank entry means that it is unknown whether a feature is present.<br />
<br />
This is a work in progress. Footnotes are automatically numbered.<br />
<br />
=== Operating Systems and Portability===<br />
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{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xi<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Runs on Windows 95/98/NT/ME'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}}<ref>Not Win9x</ref>!! !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"{{<br />
| '''Runs on Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{part}}<ref name="prealpha"> Pre-alpha</ref>!! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Runs on Mac OS X 10.3+'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<ref>version 1.3.x</ref>!! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Runs on Mac OS X 10.4+'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{part}}<ref name="prealpha"/>!! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<ref>version 1.4.x</ref>!! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Runs on Linux'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Runs on other Unix'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<ref>BSD, Solaris</ref><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Can be installed to run from USB drive'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} <br />
! {{yes}}<ref>[http://www.crosswire.org/~dmsmith/bd/ 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.</ref><br />
! {{no}} <br />
! {{yes}}<ref>[http://PortableApps.com/BPBiblePortable PortableApps.com edition] for Windows only. Leaves no trace on host computer.</ref><br />
! {{yes}}<ref>Using [http://PortableApps.com/FirefoxPortable Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition] from PortableApps.com, for Windows only, but depends on a local installation of Java. Leaves no trace on host computer. Other platforms are possible.</ref><br />
! {{yes}}<ref>Leaves traces on host computer.</ref><br />
! {{yes}}<ref>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.</ref><br />
! {{no}}<br />
! {{no}}<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
=== Module Support ===<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xi<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Daily Devotions Start with Today'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Daily Devotions Show Friendly Dates'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Shows Testament Introductions'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Shows Book Introductions'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Shows Chapter Introductions'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Personal Commentary'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<ref name="exportable">exportable as a SWORD module</ref><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Journal'''<br />
<!-- ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<ref name="exportable"/><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Right to Left Texts'''<br />
<!-- ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Complex Scripts'''<br />
<!-- ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! !! {{part}}<ref>To the extent that Uniscribe supports a given script</ref> !! !! !! {{part}}<ref>To the extent that Uniscribe supports a given script</ref> !! !! {{yes}}<ref>with pango-graphit installed</ref><br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
'''Right to Left texts''' - Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and other modules Right-to-Left scripts are displayed from right-to-left and correctly shaped.<br/><br />
'''Daily Devotions''' - While all SWORD applications support Daily Devotions modules, some open a Daily Devotion to the current day.<br/><br />
'''Introductions''' - Some modules contain Testament, Book and Chapter introductions. Some SWORD applications do not handle them.<br/><br />
'''User Editable Module Content''' - The application supports the Personal Commentary and may allow other types of module creation.<br/><br />
'''Complex Scripts''' - The application can display correctly [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmic_family_of_scripts Brahmic, Indic, and related scripts] (or other scripts of similar layout) - subject to availability of adequate fonts and standardized Unicode<br />
<br />
=== Module Management ===<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xi<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Integrated module manager'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref name="plugins">via plugins</ref>!! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{part}}<ref>Zip installer for locally available modules only</ref> !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Module unlocking support'''<ref>The application allows the user to supply the unlock key. The user does not have to manually edit the module's conf file.</ref><br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref name="plugins"/>!! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Multiple download repositories'''<ref>Integrated installer allows download from more than one SWORD module repository.</ref><br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref name="plugins"/>!! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{n/a}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Local Repositories (e.g. CrossWire CD)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Downloaded modules are available immediately without restart'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{n/a}} !! {{yes}}<ref>After repository refresh.</ref>!! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User is warned of internet access'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref name="plugins"/> !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{n/a}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User is advised about download size'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref name="plugins"/> !! {{yes}} !! !! {{n/a}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! !! !! {{yes}}<ref>Xiphos will extract info from repository if provided</ref><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User can continue working while download is in progress'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{n/a}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Download can be canceled'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref name="plugins"/> !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{n/a}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{part}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User is warned if module already exists.'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref name="plugins"/> !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! !! !! {{yes}} <ref> installed modules are highlighted</ref><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User is notified of module updates'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User is notified of new modules'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Hiding/Showing installed modules'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Modules sorted by type'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Modules are further sorted by language'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Modules can be archived/exported'''<ref>Packages a module into SWORD's shareable "Raw Zip" format.</ref><br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Companion Module support'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
=== Image Module Support ===<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xi<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| ''' Image Resizing'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''JPEG format'''<ref>All full-featured SWORD applications should already have support for this types.</ref><br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| ''' PNG format'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}}<ref> PNG support will be available in 1.5.12 upwards</ref> !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| ''' SVG format'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|}<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
=== Windowing and Text Display ===<br />
<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xi<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Window Layout flexible'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Un/Linkable'''<ref> 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</ref><br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Parallel Display'''<ref>several bible +/-commentary texts can be displayed in a set of parallel columns</ref><br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Multiple texts'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Poetry Layout'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} <ref> 2 level indentation</ref>!! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<ref>not indented</ref>!! !! {{yes}} <ref> 2 level indentation</ref><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Ruby Layout'''<ref>A not-yet-released SWORD 1.5.12 feature. Used for Japanese texts.</ref><br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}} !! !! !! !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Module default font'''<ref>Used if the font is installed</ref><br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Font settable per module'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Font settable per language'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Transliteration'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}}<ref>This is available if compiled with ICU.</ref> !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|}<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
=== Search and Dictionary ===<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xi<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Able to create a search index'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --> <br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<ref>automatically created searching a module first time</ref> !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Able to delete a search index'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref>through plugins</ref> !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{n/a}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User can continue to use application while index is being created'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top" <br />
| '''Indexed Search'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<ref>requires another J-Sword installation to create indices</ref>!! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Cross Verse Proximity Search'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<ref>allowing phrases across verse boundaries</ref>!! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''indexed Strong, Morphology and Body search'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}!! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''indexed CrossRef search'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !!{{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''indexed Note and Heading search'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Fuzzy search'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''GenBook and Commentary search'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Combined module search'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<ref>creation of lists of modules to be searched together</ref><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Search scopes'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Automatic/On-Mouse Strongs/Morphology lookup'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Automatic/On-Mouse Glossary lookup'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} <br />
|}<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
=== Bookmarking, Tagging, Listing and Notes ===<br />
<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xi<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Bookmarks, Verselists or Tags'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<ref>utilises FF bookmarking system</ref> !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Manual adding'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Bulk adding of Search result'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! !! {{yes}} !! !! !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Permanent'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Hierarchical'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Drag and drop management'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{n/a}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Exportable'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User comments'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Study Notes'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !!{{yes}}<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
=== Session and State Management ===<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xi<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Layout stored'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Interface language'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! !! !! !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Open Modules'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}}!! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Search Results'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Storing of multiple Sessions'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! {{yes}} !! !! !! !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Help System ===<br />
<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xi<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Manual, English'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Manual, Other'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! !! {{no}} !! !! !! !! !! {{yes}}<ref> French</ref><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Active links to online help'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! !! {{yes}} !! !! !! !! !! {{yes}}<ref>IRC, Mailing lists, bug tracker</ref><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Tooltips'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|}<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
=== Localization ===<br />
The following table lists all languages for which at least two applications are available. The remaining languages are listed in footnotes. Only languages with at least 70% of the user interface translated are listed.<br />
<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD <ref>中文 (Chinese, Traditional and Simplified)</ref><br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT <ref>Dansk (Danish)</ref><br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS <ref>Svensk (Swedish)</ref><br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW <ref>Afrikaans, Magyar (Hungarian), Slovenščina (Slovenian)</ref><br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xi <ref>עברית (Hebrew), Nederlands (Dutch)</ref><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''GUI RtoL Support'''<ref>Layout flips from Left-to-Right layout to Right-to-Left based on user's locale.</ref><br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''English'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Deutsch (German)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} <ref> BPBible 0.4.1 will have a German translation </ref> !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Português (Portuguese)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Suomi (Finnish)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''فارسی (Persian)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}}!! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''日本語 (Japanese)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !!{{no}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Français (French)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Česky (Czech)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !!{{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !!{{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Español (Spanish)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Polski (Polish)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !!{{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}}<br />
|}<br />
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=== Other ===<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xi<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Extramodular Bible Reading Plan'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Other extramodular content'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<ref>Bible Study HOWTO</ref> !!{{yes}} <ref>Gospel Harmonies, Guess the Verse game</ref> !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} <ref>Topical verse lists</ref> !! {{no}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Read aloud'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{part}}<ref name="maconly">On MacOS 10.3+ only</ref>!! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Other features not listed otherwise'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! !! {{yes}}<ref>Display Strong's headwords, configurable export passage to clipboard</ref> !! !! !! !! !! {{yes}}<ref>Pseudo-interlinear display of Strong's/morphology; commentary by chapter; lexdict mouse-hover content-to-previewer; tab-able parallel window; passage exporter</ref> <br />
|}<br />
<references/></div>Eelikhttps://wiki.crosswire.org/index.php?title=Choosing_a_SWORD_program&diff=5764Choosing a SWORD program2009-03-05T07:29:05Z<p>Eelik: /* Search and Dictionary */</p>
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<div>==Introduction==<br />
This page is under development. As such it may not be helpful until it is near completion. For that reason, please don't link it on another page until then. To become complete it needs fair and balanced™ coverage of the SWORD programs.<br />
<br />
Do feel free to edit this page to make it more complete and better organized.<br />
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The purpose of this page is to help an end user decide which SWORD program is the best for them. The first consideration is which programs are available for the user. This can be found at [http://www.crosswire.org 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.<br />
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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.<br />
<br />
==Features Common to All SWORD Applications==<br />
For the most part all the SWORD programs have the same features.<br />
* Uses Unicode <br />
* Released under an open source license<br />
* Powerful search syntax - wildcard, regex and often also clucene indexed searches (fuzzy and proximity searches + searches for Strong's, stemming etc) within preset and customised scopes.<br />
* Strong's, morphological info, cross references and footnotes<br />
* All frontends listed below are undergoing more or less active development.<br />
* Verse and block layout<br />
* Image support in all types of modules<br />
* Localisation - all frontends are designed to be readily translatable. Many are translated in various languages.<br />
<br />
==Side-by-Side Comparison of Notable SWORD Applications==<br />
=== Legends ===<br />
To keep the lists below compact, the SWORD programs are identified by abbreviations. Here is an explanation of each of them:<br />
*'''ABS''' - [http://www.kiyut.com/products/alkitab/ Alkitab Bible Study] based on JSword, uses Java 5+<br />
*'''BD''' - [[Frontends:BibleDesktop|BibleDesktop]] based on JSword, uses Java 1.4.2+<br />
*'''BT''' - [http://devel.bibletime.info BibleTime] uses cross-platform Qt toolkit<br />
*'''BPB''' - [http://bpbible.com BPBible] uses wxPython<br />
*'''FB''' - [http://thegoan.com/firebible FireBible] based on JSword, runs in FireFox as an extension<br />
*'''MS''' - [[Frontends:MacSword|MacSword]]<br />
*'''SPW''' - [[Frontends:BibleCS|The SWORD Project for Windows]]<br />
*'''SB''' - [http://swordwarrior.net/ SwordBible]<br />
*'''Xi''' - [[Frontends:Xiphos|Xiphos]] (formerly [[Frontends:GnomeSword|GnomeSword]])<br />
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A blank entry means that it is unknown whether a feature is present.<br />
<br />
This is a work in progress. Footnotes are automatically numbered.<br />
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=== Operating Systems and Portability===<br />
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{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xi<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Runs on Windows 95/98/NT/ME'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}}<ref>Not Win9x</ref>!! !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"{{<br />
| '''Runs on Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{part}}<ref name="prealpha"> Pre-alpha</ref>!! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Runs on Mac OS X 10.3+'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<ref>version 1.3.x</ref>!! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Runs on Mac OS X 10.4+'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{part}}<ref name="prealpha"/>!! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<ref>version 1.4.x</ref>!! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Runs on Linux'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Runs on other Unix'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<ref>BSD, Solaris</ref><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Can be installed to run from USB drive'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} <br />
! {{yes}}<ref>[http://www.crosswire.org/~dmsmith/bd/ 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.</ref><br />
! {{no}} <br />
! {{yes}}<ref>[http://PortableApps.com/BPBiblePortable PortableApps.com edition] for Windows only. Leaves no trace on host computer.</ref><br />
! {{yes}}<ref>Using [http://PortableApps.com/FirefoxPortable Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition] from PortableApps.com, for Windows only, but depends on a local installation of Java. Leaves no trace on host computer. Other platforms are possible.</ref><br />
! {{yes}}<ref>Leaves traces on host computer.</ref><br />
! {{yes}}<ref>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.</ref><br />
! {{no}}<br />
! {{no}}<br />
|}<br />
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<br />
=== Module Support ===<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xi<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Daily Devotions Start with Today'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Daily Devotions Show Friendly Dates'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Shows Testament Introductions'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Shows Book Introductions'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Shows Chapter Introductions'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Personal Commentary'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<ref name="exportable">exportable as a SWORD module</ref><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Journal'''<br />
<!-- ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<ref name="exportable"/><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Right to Left Texts'''<br />
<!-- ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Complex Scripts'''<br />
<!-- ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! !! {{part}}<ref>To the extent that Uniscribe supports a given script</ref> !! !! !! {{part}}<ref>To the extent that Uniscribe supports a given script</ref> !! !! {{yes}}<ref>with pango-graphit installed</ref><br />
|}<br />
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<references/><br />
'''Right to Left texts''' - Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and other modules Right-to-Left scripts are displayed from right-to-left and correctly shaped.<br/><br />
'''Daily Devotions''' - While all SWORD applications support Daily Devotions modules, some open a Daily Devotion to the current day.<br/><br />
'''Introductions''' - Some modules contain Testament, Book and Chapter introductions. Some SWORD applications do not handle them.<br/><br />
'''User Editable Module Content''' - The application supports the Personal Commentary and may allow other types of module creation.<br/><br />
'''Complex Scripts''' - The application can display correctly [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmic_family_of_scripts Brahmic, Indic, and related scripts] (or other scripts of similar layout) - subject to availability of adequate fonts and standardized Unicode<br />
<br />
=== Module Management ===<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xi<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Integrated module manager'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref name="plugins">via plugins</ref>!! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{part}}<ref>Zip installer for locally available modules only</ref> !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Module unlocking support'''<ref>The application allows the user to supply the unlock key. The user does not have to manually edit the module's conf file.</ref><br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref name="plugins"/>!! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Multiple download repositories'''<ref>Integrated installer allows download from more than one SWORD module repository.</ref><br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref name="plugins"/>!! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{n/a}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Local Repositories (e.g. CrossWire CD)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Downloaded modules are available immediately without restart'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{n/a}} !! {{yes}}<ref>After repository refresh.</ref>!! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User is warned of internet access'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref name="plugins"/> !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{n/a}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User is advised about download size'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref name="plugins"/> !! {{yes}} !! !! {{n/a}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! !! !! {{yes}}<ref>Xiphos will extract info from repository if provided</ref><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User can continue working while download is in progress'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{n/a}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Download can be canceled'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref name="plugins"/> !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{n/a}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{part}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User is warned if module already exists.'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref name="plugins"/> !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! !! !! {{yes}} <ref> installed modules are highlighted</ref><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User is notified of module updates'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User is notified of new modules'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Hiding/Showing installed modules'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Modules sorted by type'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Modules are further sorted by language'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Modules can be archived/exported'''<ref>Packages a module into SWORD's shareable "Raw Zip" format.</ref><br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Companion Module support'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
=== Image Module Support ===<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xi<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| ''' Image Resizing'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''JPEG format'''<ref>All full-featured SWORD applications should already have support for this types.</ref><br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| ''' PNG format'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}}<ref> PNG support will be available in 1.5.12 upwards</ref> !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| ''' SVG format'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|}<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
=== Windowing and Text Display ===<br />
<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xi<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Window Layout flexible'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Un/Linkable'''<ref> 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</ref><br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Parallel Display'''<ref>several bible +/-commentary texts can be displayed in a set of parallel columns</ref><br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Multiple texts'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Poetry Layout'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} <ref> 2 level indentation</ref>!! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<ref>not indented</ref>!! !! {{yes}} <ref> 2 level indentation</ref><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Ruby Layout'''<ref>A not-yet-released SWORD 1.5.12 feature. Used for Japanese texts.</ref><br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}} !! !! !! !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Module default font'''<ref>Used if the font is installed</ref><br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Font settable per module'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Font settable per language'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Transliteration'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}}<ref>This is available if compiled with ICU.</ref> !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|}<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
=== Search and Dictionary ===<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xi<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Able to create a search index'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --> <br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<ref>automatically created searching a module first time</ref> !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Able to delete a search index'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref>through plugins</ref> !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{n/a}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User can continue to use application while index is being created'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top" <br />
| '''Indexed Search'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<ref>requires another J-Sword installation to create indices</ref>!! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Cross Verse Proximity Search'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<ref>allowing phrases across verse boundaries</ref>!! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''indexed Strong, Morphology and Body search'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}!! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''indexed CrossRef search'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !!{{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''indexed Note and Heading search'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Fuzzy search'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''GenBook and Commentary search'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Combined module search'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<ref>creation of lists of modules to be searched together</ref><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Search scopes'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Automatic/On-Mouse Strongs/Morphology lookup'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Automatic/On-Mouse Glossary lookup'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} <br />
|}<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
=== Bookmarking, Tagging, Listing and Notes ===<br />
<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xi<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Bookmarks, Verselists or Tags'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<ref>utilises FF bookmarking system</ref> !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Manual adding'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Bulk adding of Search result'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! !! {{yes}} !! !! !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Permanent'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Hierarchical'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Drag and drop management'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{n/a}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Exportable'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User comments'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Study Notes'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !!{{yes}}<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
=== Session and State Management ===<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xi<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Layout stored'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Interface language'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! !! !! !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Open Modules'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Search Results'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Storing of multiple Sessions'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Help System ===<br />
<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xi<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Manual, English'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Manual, Other'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! !! {{no}} !! !! !! !! !! {{yes}}<ref> French</ref><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Active links to online help'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! !! {{yes}} !! !! !! !! !! {{yes}}<ref>IRC, Mailing lists, bug tracker</ref><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Tooltips'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|}<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
=== Localization ===<br />
The following table lists all languages for which at least two applications are available. The remaining languages are listed in footnotes. Only languages with at least 70% of the user interface translated are listed.<br />
<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD <ref>中文 (Chinese, Traditional and Simplified)</ref><br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT <ref>Dansk (Danish)</ref><br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS <ref>Svensk (Swedish)</ref><br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW <ref>Afrikaans, Magyar (Hungarian), Slovenščina (Slovenian)</ref><br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xi <ref>עברית (Hebrew), Nederlands (Dutch)</ref><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''GUI RtoL Support'''<ref>Layout flips from Left-to-Right layout to Right-to-Left based on user's locale.</ref><br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''English'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Deutsch (German)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} <ref> BPBible 0.4.1 will have a German translation </ref> !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Português (Portuguese)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Suomi (Finnish)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''فارسی (Persian)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}}!! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''日本語 (Japanese)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !!{{no}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Français (French)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Česky (Czech)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !!{{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !!{{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Español (Spanish)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Polski (Polish)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !!{{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}}<br />
|}<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
=== Other ===<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xi<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Extramodular Bible Reading Plan'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Other extramodular content'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<ref>Bible Study HOWTO</ref> !!{{yes}} <ref>Gospel Harmonies, Guess the Verse game</ref> !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} <ref>Topical verse lists</ref> !! {{no}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Read aloud'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{part}}<ref name="maconly">On MacOS 10.3+ only</ref>!! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Other features not listed otherwise'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xi --><br />
! !! !! !! {{yes}}<ref>Display Strong's headwords, configurable export passage to clipboard</ref> !! !! !! !! !! {{yes}}<ref>Pseudo-interlinear display of Strong's/morphology; commentary by chapter; lexdict mouse-hover content-to-previewer; tab-able parallel window; passage exporter</ref> <br />
|}<br />
<references/></div>Eelikhttps://wiki.crosswire.org/index.php?title=Choosing_a_SWORD_program&diff=5507Choosing a SWORD program2009-03-03T13:26:31Z<p>Eelik: /* Image Module Support */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Introduction=<br />
This page is under development. As such it may not be helpful until it is near completion. For that reason, please don't link it on another page until then. To become complete it needs fair and balanced™ coverage of the SWORD programs.<br />
<br />
Do feel free to edit this page to make it more complete and better organized.<br />
<br />
The purpose of this page is to help an end user decide which SWORD program is the best for them. The first consideration is which programs are available for the user. This can be found at [http://www.crosswire.org 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.<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
=Features Common to All SWORD Applications=<br />
For the most part all the SWORD programs have the same features.<br />
* Use Unicode <br />
* Released under an open source license<br />
* powerful search syntax - wildcard, regex and often also clucene indexed searches (fuzzy and proximity searches + searches for Strong's, stemming etc) within preset and customised scopes.<br />
* Strong's, morphological info, cross references and footnotes<br />
* All frontends listed beleow are undergoing more or less active development.<br />
* verse and block layout<br />
* image support in all types of modules<br />
* localisation - all frontends are designed to be readily translatable. Many are translated in various languages.<br />
<br />
=Side-by-Side Comparison of Leading SWORD Applications=<br />
== Legend ==<br />
To keep the lists below compact, the SWORD programs are identified by abbreviations. Here is an explanation of each of them:<br />
*'''ABS''' - [http://www.kiyut.com/products/alkitab/ AlKitab Bible Study] based on JSword, uses Java 5+<br />
*'''BD''' - [[Frontends:BibleDesktop|BibleDesktop]] based on JSword, uses Java 1.4.2+<br />
*'''BT''' - [http://devel.bibletime.info BibleTime] uses cross-platform Qt toolkit<br />
*'''BPB''' - [http://bpbible.com BPBible] uses wxPython<br />
*'''FB''' - [http://thegoan.com/firebible FireBible] based on JSword, runs in FireFox as an extension<br />
*'''MS''' - [[Frontends:MacSword|MacSword]]<br />
*'''SPW''' - [[Frontends:BibleCS|The SWORD Project for Windows]]<br />
*'''SB''' - [http://swordwarrior.net/ SwordBible]<br />
*'''Xiph''' - [[Frontends:Xiphos|Xiphos]] (formerly [[Frontends:GnomeSword|GnomeSword]])<br />
<br />
A blank entry means that the feature is not present or it is unknown whether it is present.<br />
<br />
This is a work in progress. The footnotes will be changed to be automatically numbered.<br />
<br />
== Operating Systems and Portability==<br />
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{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Runs on Windows 95/98/NT/ME'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}}<ref>Not Win9x</ref> !! !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"{{<br />
| '''Runs on Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! Soon !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Runs on Mac OS X 10.3+'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<ref>version 1.3.x</ref>!! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Runs on Mac OS X 10.4+'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! Soon !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<ref>version 1.4.x</ref>!! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Runs on Linux'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Runs on other Unix'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<ref>BSD, Solaris</ref><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Can be installed to run from USB drive'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} <br />
! {{yes}}<ref>[http://www.crosswire.org/~dmsmith/bd/ 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.</ref><br />
! {{no}} <br />
! {{yes}}<ref>[http://PortableApps.com/BPBiblePortable PortableApps.com edition] for Windows only. Leaves no trace on host computer.</ref><br />
! {{yes}}<ref>Using [http://PortableApps.com/FirefoxPortable Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition] from PortableApps.com, for Windows only, but depends on a local installation of Java. Leaves no trace on host computer. Other platforms are possible.</ref><br />
! {{yes}}<ref>Leaves traces on host computer.</ref><br />
! {{yes}}<ref>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.</ref><br />
! {{no}}<br />
! {{no}}<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
== Module Support ==<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Daily Devotions Start with Today'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Daily Devotions Show Friendly Dates'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Shows Testament Introductions'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{no}} !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Shows Book Introductions'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Shows Chapter Introductions'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Personal Commentary'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<ref name="exportable">exportable as a SWORD module</ref><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Journal'''<br />
<!-- ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<ref name="exportable"/><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Right to Left Texts'''<br />
<!-- ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Complex Scripts'''<br />
<!-- ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
'''Right to Left texts''' - Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and other modules Right-to-Left scripts are displayed from right-to-left and correctly shaped.<br/><br />
'''Daily Devotions''' - While all SWORD applications support Daily Devotions modules, some open a Daily Devotion to the current day.<br/><br />
'''Introductions''' - Some modules contain Testament, Book and Chapter introductions. Some SWORD applications do not handle them.<br/><br />
'''User Editable Module Content''' - The application supports the Personal Commentary and may allow other types of module creation.<br/><br />
'''Complex Scripts''' - The application can display correctly Indic and derrived scripts (or other scripts of similar layout) - subject to availability of adequate fonts and standardised Unicode<br />
<br />
== Module Management ==<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Integrated Module Manager'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref name="plugins">via plugins</ref>!! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}}<ref> has a installer for locally available zipped modules</ref> !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Module Unlocking Support'''<ref>The application allows the user to supply the unlock key. The user does not have to manually edit the module's conf file.</ref><br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref name="plugins">via plugins</ref>!! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Multiple Download Repositories'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref name="plugins">via plugins</ref>!! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{n/a}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Local Repositories (e.g. CrossWire CD)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Downloaded Modules Are Available Immediately'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<ref>After repository refresh</ref>!! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User is Warned of Internet Access'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User is Warned of Download Size'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{n/a}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User can continue working while download is in progress'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{n/a}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Download can be canceled'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{n/a}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User is warned if module already exists.'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User is notified of module updates'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User is notified of new modules'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Indexing'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Hiding/Showing Installed Modules'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Modules sorted by Language/Type'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{part}}<ref>only by Module type</ref> !! !! !! {{part}}<ref>only by Module type</ref> !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
'''Locked Modules (via GUI)''' - The application allows the user to supply the unlock key. The user does not have to manually edit the module's conf file.<br/><br />
'''Multiple Repositories''' - The application has an integrated module installer that allows installation from more than one SWORD module repository.<br/><br />
'''Archiving/Hiding''' - The application can remove and safely store currently non required modules or otherwise remove them from sight, keeping them available for future use.<br/><br />
'''Indexing''' - The application is able to index the module for fast search. This may be automatic and not require any user interaction (e.g. clicking a "Create Search Index" button).<br/><br />
'''New Content Available Immediately''' - Modules that are downloaded with the application's module installer are immediately available for use.<br />
<br />
== Image Module Support ==<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| ''' Image Resizing'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| ''' GIF/JPG formats'''<ref>All full-featured SWORD applications should already have support for these types.</ref><br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| ''' PNG format'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<ref> from 1.5.12 upwards</ref> !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| ''' SVG format'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|}<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
== Windowing and Text Display ==<br />
<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Window Layout flexible'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}!! {{no}}!! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Un/Linkable'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}}!! {{n/a}}!! !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Parallel Display'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !!{{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Multiple texts'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}!! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Poetry Layout'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} <ref> 2 level indentation</ref> !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<ref>not indented</ref> !! !! {{no}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Ruby Layout'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! {{no}} !! !! !! !! !! !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Individual fonts'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{part}}<ref>only per module default font</ref> !! !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''module default font'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''per language font'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}}<br />
|}<br />
<references/><br />
{|width="100%" border="1" class="sortable"<br />
!width="15%"|Application<br />
!width="15%"|Window Layout<br />
!width="15%"|Several texts open at same time?<br />
!width="15%"|Poetry Layout<br />
!width="15%"|RtoL & Complex Scripts<br />
!width="1%"|Ruby layout<br />
!width="95"| Font per module<br />
!Other<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[http://www.kiyut.com/products/alkitab/ Alkitab Bible Study]<br />
|Two-pane with tabs and library navigation on right<br />
|yes<br />
|yes<br />
|RtoL - yes<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleDesktop|BibleDesktop (JSword)]]<br />
|Two-pane, one for Bible and one for other modules. The Bible pane allows direct lookup, quick book/chapter pick, search, parallel texts and passage side bar. The other pane allows the picking of a module, a selection of an entry and it's display.<br />
|yes (unlimited, including commentaries)<br />
|yes<br />
|<br />
*RtoL - yes<br />
*Arabic/Farsi number shaping<br />
*Arabic/Farsi show verse references incorrectly.<br />
*Myanmar - fails to render properly.<br />
Rendering is best with the most recent versions of Java.<br />
|no<br />
|yes (and per language)<br />
|<br />
*User can show Bible text in tabs or in windows.<br />
*Show user specified verses or search result. (User is not limited to chapter at a time viewing.)<br />
*Passage side bar allows pruning/growing of all or selected viewed passages.<br />
*Passage side bar allows focus on a selected passages.<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[http://devel.bibletime.info BibleTime] (see also [[Frontends:KioSword|Kio-Sword]])<br />
|Multiple windows with flexible arrangement and library navigation on left<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|RtoL - yes<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[http://bpbible.com BPBible (wxPython)]<br />
| 1-7 tiled subwindows, repositioning/hiding of panes.<br />
| no<br />
| yes (two-level poetry, indented, verse numbers at side)<br />
|RtoL - no<br />
|<br />
|no<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[http://thegoan.com/firebible FireBible (JSword/FireFox)]<br />
|1 or 2 panes (library navigation in Firefox sidebar)<br />
|yes, through multiple Firefox windows or tabs<br />
|yes<br />
|RtoL - yes<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[[Frontends:MacSword|MacSword]]<br />
|Multi-window, each module gets it's window<br />
| yes<br />
| no<br />
|RtoL - yes<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleCS|The SWORD Project for Windows]]<br />
|Three-pane with tabbed library navigation<br />
| only using Parallel display for Bibles<br />
| yes, but not indented<br />
| RtoL - yes<br/>complex scripts depends on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniscribe Uniscribe], and rendering will be best in Windows 2K/XP+; Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic - yes, Myanmar - partial fail<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[http://swordwarrior.net/ SwordBible]<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|RtoL - yes<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[[Frontends:Xiphos|Xiphos (GNOME)]] (formerly [[Frontends:GnomeSword|GnomeSword]])<br />
|Four-pane with library navigation, verse lists, etc. on left, multiple tabs, separate dialogs, saved sessions<br />
| yes<br />
| yes<br />
|<br />
*RtoL - yes<br />
*Arabic - yes<br />
*Myanmar - yes (with pango-graphite)<br />
|<br />
|yes<br />
|<br />
|}<br />
*'''RtoL & Complex Scripts''' - Indicates problems in an application's rendering of complex scripts, provided an adequate font is installed. Complex scripts may include Indic and other Brahmic scripts such as Myanmar, Tamil, & Devanagri, as well as scripts that require contextual shaping such as Arabic, and scripts that require rendering in non-left-to-right order such as Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, & Mongolian.<br />
*'''Ruby Layout''' - A not-yet-released SWORD 1.5.12 feature. Used for Japanese texts.<br />
*'''Other''' - Distinctives regarding how the application presents the modules.<br />
<br />
== Search and Dictionary ==<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|}<br />
<br />
{|width="100%" border="1" class="sortable"<br />
!width="18%"|Application<br />
!width="18%"|Indexed Search Features<br />
!width="9%"|Cross Verse Proximity Search<br />
!width="9%"|GenBook and Commentary search<br />
!width="9%"|several module search<br />
!Dictionary Look-up<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists | Study Notes --><br />
|[http://www.kiyut.com/products/alkitab/ Alkitab Bible Study]<br />
|<br />
*Lucene search syntax<br />
*Indexed, searchable fields: text, Strong's Numbers, Cross References, Notes and Headings.<br />
|yes<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|Strong's + parsing (automatic) and Manual look-up<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleDesktop|BibleDesktop (JSword)]]<br />
|<br />
*Lucene search syntax<br />
*Indexed, searchable fields: text, Strong's Numbers, Cross References, Notes and Headings.<br />
|yes<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|Strong's + parsing (automatic) and Manual look-up <br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[http://devel.bibletime.info BibleTime] (see also [[Frontends:KioSword|Kio-Sword]])<br />
|CLucene<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|Strong's + parsing (automatic)<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[http://bpbible.com BPBible (wxPython)]<br />
|Custom<br />
|yes (allowing phrases across verse boundaries)<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|Strong's + parsing (automatic) full list of topics with topic entry box<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://thegoan.com/firebible FireBible (JSword/FireFox)]<br />
|<br />
*Lucene search syntax<br />
*Indexed, searchable fields: text, Strong's Numbers, Cross References, Notes and Headings.<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|no<br />
|Manual look-up<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[[Frontends:MacSword|MacSword]]<br />
| Apple SearchKit<br />
|no<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|Strong's, Morph (automatic)<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleCS|The SWORD Project for Windows]]<br />
|CLucene<br />
|no<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|Strong's + parsing (automatic) and glossary (on click)<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[http://swordwarrior.net/ SwordBible]<br />
|no<br />
|no<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
| Strong's, Morph and glossary on click<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[[Frontends:Xiphos|Xiphos (GNOME)]] (formerly [[Frontends:GnomeSword|GnomeSword]])<br />
|CLucene<br />
|no<br />
|yes<br />
|yes (create lists of modules to search)<br />
|Strong's + parsing automatic, glossary (on click)<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Bookmarking, Tagging, Listing and Notes ==<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|}<br />
{|width="100%" border="1" class="sortable"<br />
!width="18%"|Application<br />
!width="9%"|Permanent Bookmarks, Tags or Verse Lists<br />
!width="9%"|Nestable <br />
!width="9%"|With Comments<br />
!width="9%"|Exportable<br />
!width="9%"|Study Notes<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists | Study Notes --><br />
|[http://www.kiyut.com/products/alkitab/ Alkitab Bible Study]<br />
|manual and search result<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|yes<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleDesktop|BibleDesktop (JSword)]]<br />
|manual and search result<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|yes<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[http://devel.bibletime.info BibleTime] (see also [[Frontends:KioSword|Kio-Sword]])<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
| yes<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[http://bpbible.com BPBible (wxPython)]<br />
|manual and search result<br />
|yes<br />
|yes<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://thegoan.com/firebible FireBible (JSword/FireFox)]<br />
|manual and search result<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[[Frontends:MacSword|MacSword]]<br />
|manual and search result<br />
|yes<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|yes<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleCS|The SWORD Project for Windows]]<br />
|manual and search result<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|<br />
|yes<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[http://swordwarrior.net/ SwordBible]<br />
|<br />
|no<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|yes<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[[Frontends:Xiphos|Xiphos (GNOME)]] (formerly [[Frontends:GnomeSword|GnomeSword]])<br />
|manual and search result<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|no<br />
|yes<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Localization ==<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|}<br />
{|width="100%" border="1" class="sortable"<br />
!width="18%"|Application<br />
!width="9%"|Localization Support<br />
!width="9%"|GUI RtoL Support<br />
!width="9%"|GUI Languages <br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://www.kiyut.com/products/alkitab/ Alkitab Bible Study]<br />
|yes<br />
|yes<br />
|English, Indonesian<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleDesktop|BibleDesktop (JSword)]]<br />
|yes<br />
|yes<br />
|English, German, Farsi, Chinese, Vietnamese<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://devel.bibletime.info BibleTime] (see also [[Frontends:KioSword|Kio-Sword]])<br />
|yes<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://bpbible.com BPBible (wxPython)]<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|English, Vietnamese<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://thegoan.com/firebible FireBible (JSword/FireFox)]<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|English<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[[Frontends:MacSword|MacSword]]<br />
|yes<br />
|?<br />
|English, German, Frensh, Finnish, Spanish, Swedish, Polish, Portuguese<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleCS|The SWORD Project for Windows]]<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|Afrikaans, Česky, Deutsch, English, Suomi, Magyar, Bahasa Indonesia, 日本語, Polski, Português, Slovenščina<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://swordwarrior.net/ SwordBible]<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|English<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[[Frontends:Xiphos|Xiphos (GNOME)]] (formerly [[Frontends:GnomeSword|GnomeSword]])<br />
|yes<br />
|yes <br />
|English, German, French, Finnish, Farsi, Czech, Hebrew, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Other ==<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|}<br />
{|width="100%" border="1" class="sortable"<br />
!width="18%"|Application<br />
!width="9%"|Extramodular Content<br />
!width="9%"|Other<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://www.kiyut.com/products/alkitab/ Alkitab Bible Study]<br />
|Bible Reading Plan<br />
|word-by-word comparison of Bible versions<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleDesktop|BibleDesktop (JSword)]]<br />
| Bible Reading Plan<br />
| word-by-word comparison of Bible versions<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://devel.bibletime.info BibleTime] (see also [[Frontends:KioSword|Kio-Sword]])<br />
|Bible Study HOWTO<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://bpbible.com BPBible (wxPython)]<br />
|gospel harmonies; Guess the Verse game; <br />
|display Strong's headwords;<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://thegoan.com/firebible FireBible (JSword/FireFox)]<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[[Frontends:MacSword|MacSword]]<br />
|<br />
|read aloud<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleCS|The SWORD Project for Windows]]<br />
|<br />
| parallel verse display, transliteration<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://swordwarrior.net/ SwordBible]<br />
|Verse lists with prefilled topics, One year daily reading plans<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[[Frontends:Xiphos|Xiphos (GNOME)]] (formerly [[Frontends:GnomeSword|GnomeSword]])<br />
|<br />
|Read Aloud, pseudo-interlinear display of Strong's/morphology, transliteration into Latin characters <br />
|}</div>Eelikhttps://wiki.crosswire.org/index.php?title=Choosing_a_SWORD_program&diff=5503Choosing a SWORD program2009-03-03T13:24:20Z<p>Eelik: /* Operating Systems and Portability */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Introduction=<br />
This page is under development. As such it may not be helpful until it is near completion. For that reason, please don't link it on another page until then. To become complete it needs fair and balanced™ coverage of the SWORD programs.<br />
<br />
Do feel free to edit this page to make it more complete and better organized.<br />
<br />
The purpose of this page is to help an end user decide which SWORD program is the best for them. The first consideration is which programs are available for the user. This can be found at [http://www.crosswire.org 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.<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
=Features Common to All SWORD Applications=<br />
For the most part all the SWORD programs have the same features.<br />
* Use Unicode <br />
* Released under an open source license<br />
* powerful search syntax - wildcard, regex and often also clucene indexed searches (fuzzy and proximity searches + searches for Strong's, stemming etc) within preset and customised scopes.<br />
* Strong's, morphological info, cross references and footnotes<br />
* All frontends listed beleow are undergoing more or less active development.<br />
* verse and block layout<br />
* image support in all types of modules<br />
* localisation - all frontends are designed to be readily translatable. Many are translated in various languages.<br />
<br />
=Side-by-Side Comparison of Leading SWORD Applications=<br />
== Legend ==<br />
To keep the lists below compact, the SWORD programs are identified by abbreviations. Here is an explanation of each of them:<br />
*'''ABS''' - [http://www.kiyut.com/products/alkitab/ AlKitab Bible Study] based on JSword, uses Java 5+<br />
*'''BD''' - [[Frontends:BibleDesktop|BibleDesktop]] based on JSword, uses Java 1.4.2+<br />
*'''BT''' - [http://devel.bibletime.info BibleTime] uses cross-platform Qt toolkit<br />
*'''BPB''' - [http://bpbible.com BPBible] uses wxPython<br />
*'''FB''' - [http://thegoan.com/firebible FireBible] based on JSword, runs in FireFox as an extension<br />
*'''MS''' - [[Frontends:MacSword|MacSword]]<br />
*'''SPW''' - [[Frontends:BibleCS|The SWORD Project for Windows]]<br />
*'''SB''' - [http://swordwarrior.net/ SwordBible]<br />
*'''Xiph''' - [[Frontends:Xiphos|Xiphos]] (formerly [[Frontends:GnomeSword|GnomeSword]])<br />
<br />
A blank entry means that the feature is not present or it is unknown whether it is present.<br />
<br />
This is a work in progress. The footnotes will be changed to be automatically numbered.<br />
<br />
== Operating Systems and Portability==<br />
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{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Runs on Windows 95/98/NT/ME'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}}<ref>Not Win9x</ref> !! !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"{{<br />
| '''Runs on Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! Soon !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Runs on Mac OS X 10.3+'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<ref>version 1.3.x</ref>!! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Runs on Mac OS X 10.4+'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! Soon !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<ref>version 1.4.x</ref>!! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Runs on Linux'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Runs on other Unix'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<ref>BSD, Solaris</ref><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Can be installed run from USB drive'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} <br />
! {{yes}}<ref>[http://www.crosswire.org/~dmsmith/bd/ 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.</ref><br />
! {{no}} <br />
! {{yes}}<ref>[http://PortableApps.com/BPBiblePortable PortableApps.com edition] for Windows only. Leaves no trace on host computer.</ref><br />
! {{yes}}<ref>Using [http://PortableApps.com/FirefoxPortable Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition] from PortableApps.com, for Windows only, but depends on a local installation of Java. Leaves no trace on host computer. Other platforms are possible.</ref><br />
! {{yes}}<ref>Leaves traces on host computer.</ref><br />
! {{yes}}<ref>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.</ref><br />
! {{no}}<br />
! {{no}}<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
== Module Support ==<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Daily Devotions Start with Today'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Daily Devotions Show Friendly Dates'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Shows Testament Introductions'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{no}} !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Shows Book Introductions'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Shows Chapter Introductions'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Personal Commentary'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<ref name="exportable">exportable as a SWORD module</ref><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Journal'''<br />
<!-- ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<ref name="exportable"/><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Right to Left Texts'''<br />
<!-- ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Complex Scripts'''<br />
<!-- ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
'''Right to Left texts''' - Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and other modules Right-to-Left scripts are displayed from right-to-left and correctly shaped.<br/><br />
'''Daily Devotions''' - While all SWORD applications support Daily Devotions modules, some open a Daily Devotion to the current day.<br/><br />
'''Introductions''' - Some modules contain Testament, Book and Chapter introductions. Some SWORD applications do not handle them.<br/><br />
'''User Editable Module Content''' - The application supports the Personal Commentary and may allow other types of module creation.<br/><br />
'''Complex Scripts''' - The application can display correctly Indic and derrived scripts (or other scripts of similar layout) - subject to availability of adequate fonts and standardised Unicode<br />
<br />
== Module Management ==<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Integrated Module Manager'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref name="plugins">via plugins</ref>!! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}}<ref> has a installer for locally available zipped modules</ref> !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Module Unlocking Support'''<ref>The application allows the user to supply the unlock key. The user does not have to manually edit the module's conf file.</ref><br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref name="plugins">via plugins</ref>!! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Multiple Download Repositories'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref name="plugins">via plugins</ref>!! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{n/a}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Local Repositories (e.g. CrossWire CD)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Downloaded Modules Are Available Immediately'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<ref>After repository refresh</ref>!! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User is Warned of Internet Access'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User is Warned of Download Size'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{n/a}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User can continue working while download is in progress'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{n/a}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Download can be canceled'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{n/a}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User is warned if module already exists.'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User is notified of module updates'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User is notified of new modules'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Indexing'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Hiding/Showing Installed Modules'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Modules sorted by Language/Type'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{part}}<ref>only by Module type</ref> !! !! !! {{part}}<ref>only by Module type</ref> !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
'''Locked Modules (via GUI)''' - The application allows the user to supply the unlock key. The user does not have to manually edit the module's conf file.<br/><br />
'''Multiple Repositories''' - The application has an integrated module installer that allows installation from more than one SWORD module repository.<br/><br />
'''Archiving/Hiding''' - The application can remove and safely store currently non required modules or otherwise remove them from sight, keeping them available for future use.<br/><br />
'''Indexing''' - The application is able to index the module for fast search. This may be automatic and not require any user interaction (e.g. clicking a "Create Search Index" button).<br/><br />
'''New Content Available Immediately''' - Modules that are downloaded with the application's module installer are immediately available for use.<br />
<br />
== Image Module Support ==<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| ''' Image Resizing'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| ''' GIF/JPG formats'''<ref>All full-featured SWORD applications should already have support for these types.</ref><br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| ''' PNG format'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<ref> from 1.5.12 upwards</ref> !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| ''' SVG format'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! !! <br />
|}<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
== Windowing and Text Display ==<br />
<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Window Layout flexible'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}!! {{no}}!! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Un/Linkable'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}}!! {{n/a}}!! !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Parallel Display'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !!{{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Multiple texts'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}!! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Poetry Layout'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} <ref> 2 level indentation</ref> !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<ref>not indented</ref> !! !! {{no}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Ruby Layout'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! {{no}} !! !! !! !! !! !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Individual fonts'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{yes}}<ref>only per module default font</ref> !! !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''module default font'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''per language font'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}}<br />
|}<br />
<references/><br />
{|width="100%" border="1" class="sortable"<br />
!width="15%"|Application<br />
!width="15%"|Window Layout<br />
!width="15%"|Several texts open at same time?<br />
!width="15%"|Poetry Layout<br />
!width="15%"|RtoL & Complex Scripts<br />
!width="1%"|Ruby layout<br />
!width="95"| Font per module<br />
!Other<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[http://www.kiyut.com/products/alkitab/ Alkitab Bible Study]<br />
|Two-pane with tabs and library navigation on right<br />
|yes<br />
|yes<br />
|RtoL - yes<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleDesktop|BibleDesktop (JSword)]]<br />
|Two-pane, one for Bible and one for other modules. The Bible pane allows direct lookup, quick book/chapter pick, search, parallel texts and passage side bar. The other pane allows the picking of a module, a selection of an entry and it's display.<br />
|yes (unlimited, including commentaries)<br />
|yes<br />
|<br />
*RtoL - yes<br />
*Arabic/Farsi number shaping<br />
*Arabic/Farsi show verse references incorrectly.<br />
*Myanmar - fails to render properly.<br />
Rendering is best with the most recent versions of Java.<br />
|no<br />
|yes (and per language)<br />
|<br />
*User can show Bible text in tabs or in windows.<br />
*Show user specified verses or search result. (User is not limited to chapter at a time viewing.)<br />
*Passage side bar allows pruning/growing of all or selected viewed passages.<br />
*Passage side bar allows focus on a selected passages.<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[http://devel.bibletime.info BibleTime] (see also [[Frontends:KioSword|Kio-Sword]])<br />
|Multiple windows with flexible arrangement and library navigation on left<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|RtoL - yes<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[http://bpbible.com BPBible (wxPython)]<br />
| 1-7 tiled subwindows, repositioning/hiding of panes.<br />
| no<br />
| yes (two-level poetry, indented, verse numbers at side)<br />
|RtoL - no<br />
|<br />
|no<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[http://thegoan.com/firebible FireBible (JSword/FireFox)]<br />
|1 or 2 panes (library navigation in Firefox sidebar)<br />
|yes, through multiple Firefox windows or tabs<br />
|yes<br />
|RtoL - yes<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[[Frontends:MacSword|MacSword]]<br />
|Multi-window, each module gets it's window<br />
| yes<br />
| no<br />
|RtoL - yes<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleCS|The SWORD Project for Windows]]<br />
|Three-pane with tabbed library navigation<br />
| only using Parallel display for Bibles<br />
| yes, but not indented<br />
| RtoL - yes<br/>complex scripts depends on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniscribe Uniscribe], and rendering will be best in Windows 2K/XP+; Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic - yes, Myanmar - partial fail<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[http://swordwarrior.net/ SwordBible]<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|RtoL - yes<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[[Frontends:Xiphos|Xiphos (GNOME)]] (formerly [[Frontends:GnomeSword|GnomeSword]])<br />
|Four-pane with library navigation, verse lists, etc. on left, multiple tabs, separate dialogs, saved sessions<br />
| yes<br />
| yes<br />
|<br />
*RtoL - yes<br />
*Arabic - yes<br />
*Myanmar - yes (with pango-graphite)<br />
|<br />
|yes<br />
|<br />
|}<br />
*'''RtoL & Complex Scripts''' - Indicates problems in an application's rendering of complex scripts, provided an adequate font is installed. Complex scripts may include Indic and other Brahmic scripts such as Myanmar, Tamil, & Devanagri, as well as scripts that require contextual shaping such as Arabic, and scripts that require rendering in non-left-to-right order such as Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, & Mongolian.<br />
*'''Ruby Layout''' - A not-yet-released SWORD 1.5.12 feature. Used for Japanese texts.<br />
*'''Other''' - Distinctives regarding how the application presents the modules.<br />
<br />
== Search and Dictionary ==<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|}<br />
<br />
{|width="100%" border="1" class="sortable"<br />
!width="18%"|Application<br />
!width="18%"|Indexed Search Features<br />
!width="9%"|Cross Verse Proximity Search<br />
!width="9%"|GenBook and Commentary search<br />
!width="9%"|several module search<br />
!Dictionary Look-up<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists | Study Notes --><br />
|[http://www.kiyut.com/products/alkitab/ Alkitab Bible Study]<br />
|<br />
*Lucene search syntax<br />
*Indexed, searchable fields: text, Strong's Numbers, Cross References, Notes and Headings.<br />
|yes<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|Strong's + parsing (automatic) and Manual look-up<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleDesktop|BibleDesktop (JSword)]]<br />
|<br />
*Lucene search syntax<br />
*Indexed, searchable fields: text, Strong's Numbers, Cross References, Notes and Headings.<br />
|yes<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|Strong's + parsing (automatic) and Manual look-up <br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[http://devel.bibletime.info BibleTime] (see also [[Frontends:KioSword|Kio-Sword]])<br />
|CLucene<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|Strong's + parsing (automatic)<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[http://bpbible.com BPBible (wxPython)]<br />
|Custom<br />
|yes (allowing phrases across verse boundaries)<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|Strong's + parsing (automatic) full list of topics with topic entry box<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://thegoan.com/firebible FireBible (JSword/FireFox)]<br />
|<br />
*Lucene search syntax<br />
*Indexed, searchable fields: text, Strong's Numbers, Cross References, Notes and Headings.<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|no<br />
|Manual look-up<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[[Frontends:MacSword|MacSword]]<br />
| Apple SearchKit<br />
|no<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|Strong's, Morph (automatic)<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleCS|The SWORD Project for Windows]]<br />
|CLucene<br />
|no<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|Strong's + parsing (automatic) and glossary (on click)<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[http://swordwarrior.net/ SwordBible]<br />
|no<br />
|no<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
| Strong's, Morph and glossary on click<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[[Frontends:Xiphos|Xiphos (GNOME)]] (formerly [[Frontends:GnomeSword|GnomeSword]])<br />
|CLucene<br />
|no<br />
|yes<br />
|yes (create lists of modules to search)<br />
|Strong's + parsing automatic, glossary (on click)<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Bookmarking, Tagging, Listing and Notes ==<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|}<br />
{|width="100%" border="1" class="sortable"<br />
!width="18%"|Application<br />
!width="9%"|Permanent Bookmarks, Tags or Verse Lists<br />
!width="9%"|Nestable <br />
!width="9%"|With Comments<br />
!width="9%"|Exportable<br />
!width="9%"|Study Notes<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists | Study Notes --><br />
|[http://www.kiyut.com/products/alkitab/ Alkitab Bible Study]<br />
|manual and search result<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|yes<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleDesktop|BibleDesktop (JSword)]]<br />
|manual and search result<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|yes<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[http://devel.bibletime.info BibleTime] (see also [[Frontends:KioSword|Kio-Sword]])<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
| yes<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[http://bpbible.com BPBible (wxPython)]<br />
|manual and search result<br />
|yes<br />
|yes<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://thegoan.com/firebible FireBible (JSword/FireFox)]<br />
|manual and search result<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[[Frontends:MacSword|MacSword]]<br />
|manual and search result<br />
|yes<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|yes<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleCS|The SWORD Project for Windows]]<br />
|manual and search result<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|<br />
|yes<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[http://swordwarrior.net/ SwordBible]<br />
|<br />
|no<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|yes<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[[Frontends:Xiphos|Xiphos (GNOME)]] (formerly [[Frontends:GnomeSword|GnomeSword]])<br />
|manual and search result<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|no<br />
|yes<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Localization ==<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|}<br />
{|width="100%" border="1" class="sortable"<br />
!width="18%"|Application<br />
!width="9%"|Localization Support<br />
!width="9%"|GUI RtoL Support<br />
!width="9%"|GUI Languages <br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://www.kiyut.com/products/alkitab/ Alkitab Bible Study]<br />
|yes<br />
|yes<br />
|English, Indonesian<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleDesktop|BibleDesktop (JSword)]]<br />
|yes<br />
|yes<br />
|English, German, Farsi, Chinese, Vietnamese<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://devel.bibletime.info BibleTime] (see also [[Frontends:KioSword|Kio-Sword]])<br />
|yes<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://bpbible.com BPBible (wxPython)]<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|English, Vietnamese<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://thegoan.com/firebible FireBible (JSword/FireFox)]<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|English<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[[Frontends:MacSword|MacSword]]<br />
|yes<br />
|?<br />
|English, German, Frensh, Finnish, Spanish, Swedish, Polish, Portuguese<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleCS|The SWORD Project for Windows]]<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|Afrikaans, Česky, Deutsch, English, Suomi, Magyar, Bahasa Indonesia, 日本語, Polski, Português, Slovenščina<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://swordwarrior.net/ SwordBible]<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|English<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[[Frontends:Xiphos|Xiphos (GNOME)]] (formerly [[Frontends:GnomeSword|GnomeSword]])<br />
|yes<br />
|yes <br />
|English, German, French, Finnish, Farsi, Czech, Hebrew, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Other ==<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|}<br />
{|width="100%" border="1" class="sortable"<br />
!width="18%"|Application<br />
!width="9%"|Extramodular Content<br />
!width="9%"|Other<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://www.kiyut.com/products/alkitab/ Alkitab Bible Study]<br />
|Bible Reading Plan<br />
|word-by-word comparison of Bible versions<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleDesktop|BibleDesktop (JSword)]]<br />
| Bible Reading Plan<br />
| word-by-word comparison of Bible versions<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://devel.bibletime.info BibleTime] (see also [[Frontends:KioSword|Kio-Sword]])<br />
|Bible Study HOWTO<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://bpbible.com BPBible (wxPython)]<br />
|gospel harmonies; Guess the Verse game; <br />
|display Strong's headwords;<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://thegoan.com/firebible FireBible (JSword/FireFox)]<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[[Frontends:MacSword|MacSword]]<br />
|<br />
|read aloud<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleCS|The SWORD Project for Windows]]<br />
|<br />
| parallel verse display, transliteration<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://swordwarrior.net/ SwordBible]<br />
|Verse lists with prefilled topics, One year daily reading plans<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[[Frontends:Xiphos|Xiphos (GNOME)]] (formerly [[Frontends:GnomeSword|GnomeSword]])<br />
|<br />
|Read Aloud, pseudo-interlinear display of Strong's/morphology, transliteration into Latin characters <br />
|}</div>Eelikhttps://wiki.crosswire.org/index.php?title=Choosing_a_SWORD_program&diff=5499Choosing a SWORD program2009-03-03T13:21:27Z<p>Eelik: /* Module Management */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Introduction=<br />
This page is under development. As such it may not be helpful until it is near completion. For that reason, please don't link it on another page until then. To become complete it needs fair and balanced™ coverage of the SWORD programs.<br />
<br />
Do feel free to edit this page to make it more complete and better organized.<br />
<br />
The purpose of this page is to help an end user decide which SWORD program is the best for them. The first consideration is which programs are available for the user. This can be found at [http://www.crosswire.org 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.<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
=Features Common to All SWORD Applications=<br />
For the most part all the SWORD programs have the same features.<br />
* Use Unicode <br />
* Released under an open source license<br />
* powerful search syntax - wildcard, regex and often also clucene indexed searches (fuzzy and proximity searches + searches for Strong's, stemming etc) within preset and customised scopes.<br />
* Strong's, morphological info, cross references and footnotes<br />
* All frontends listed beleow are undergoing more or less active development.<br />
* verse and block layout<br />
* image support in all types of modules<br />
* localisation - all frontends are designed to be readily translatable. Many are translated in various languages.<br />
<br />
=Side-by-Side Comparison of Leading SWORD Applications=<br />
== Legend ==<br />
To keep the lists below compact, the SWORD programs are identified by abbreviations. Here is an explanation of each of them:<br />
*'''ABS''' - [http://www.kiyut.com/products/alkitab/ AlKitab Bible Study] based on JSword, uses Java 5+<br />
*'''BD''' - [[Frontends:BibleDesktop|BibleDesktop]] based on JSword, uses Java 1.4.2+<br />
*'''BT''' - [http://devel.bibletime.info BibleTime] uses cross-platform Qt toolkit<br />
*'''BPB''' - [http://bpbible.com BPBible] uses wxPython<br />
*'''FB''' - [http://thegoan.com/firebible FireBible] based on JSword, runs in FireFox as an extension<br />
*'''MS''' - [[Frontends:MacSword|MacSword]]<br />
*'''SPW''' - [[Frontends:BibleCS|The SWORD Project for Windows]]<br />
*'''SB''' - [http://swordwarrior.net/ SwordBible]<br />
*'''Xiph''' - [[Frontends:Xiphos|Xiphos]] (formerly [[Frontends:GnomeSword|GnomeSword]])<br />
<br />
A blank entry means that the feature is not present or it is unknown whether it is present.<br />
<br />
This is a work in progress. The footnotes will be changed to be automatically numbered.<br />
<br />
== Operating Systems and Portability==<br />
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{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Runs on Windows 95/98/NT/ME'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}}<ref>Not Win9x</ref> !! !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"{{<br />
| '''Runs on Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Runs on Mac OS X 10.3+'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<ref>version 1.3.x</ref>!! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Runs on Mac OS X 10.4+'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<ref>version 1.4.x</ref>!! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Runs on Linux'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Runs on other Unix'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<ref>BSD, Solaris</ref><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Can be installed run from USB drive'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} <br />
! {{yes}}<ref>[http://www.crosswire.org/~dmsmith/bd/ 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.</ref><br />
! {{no}} <br />
! {{yes}}<ref>[http://PortableApps.com/BPBiblePortable PortableApps.com edition] for Windows only. Leaves no trace on host computer.</ref><br />
! {{yes}}<ref>Using [http://PortableApps.com/FirefoxPortable Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition] from PortableApps.com, for Windows only, but depends on a local installation of Java. Leaves no trace on host computer. Other platforms are possible.</ref><br />
! {{yes}}<ref>Leaves traces on host computer.</ref><br />
! {{yes}}<ref>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.</ref><br />
! {{no}}<br />
! {{no}}<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
== Module Support ==<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Daily Devotions Start with Today'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Daily Devotions Show Friendly Dates'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Shows Testament Introductions'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{no}} !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Shows Book Introductions'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Shows Chapter Introductions'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Personal Commentary'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<ref name="exportable">exportable as a SWORD module</ref><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Journal'''<br />
<!-- ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<ref name="exportable"/><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Right to Left Texts'''<br />
<!-- ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Complex Scripts'''<br />
<!-- ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
'''Right to Left texts''' - Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and other modules Right-to-Left scripts are displayed from right-to-left and correctly shaped.<br/><br />
'''Daily Devotions''' - While all SWORD applications support Daily Devotions modules, some open a Daily Devotion to the current day.<br/><br />
'''Introductions''' - Some modules contain Testament, Book and Chapter introductions. Some SWORD applications do not handle them.<br/><br />
'''User Editable Module Content''' - The application supports the Personal Commentary and may allow other types of module creation.<br/><br />
'''Complex Scripts''' - The application can display correctly Indic and derrived scripts (or other scripts of similar layout) - subject to availability of adequate fonts and standardised Unicode<br />
<br />
== Module Management ==<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Integrated Module Manager'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref name="plugins">via plugins</ref>!! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}}<ref> has a installer for locally available zipped modules</ref> !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Module Unlocking Support'''<ref>The application allows the user to supply the unlock key. The user does not have to manually edit the module's conf file.</ref><br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref name="plugins">via plugins</ref>!! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Multiple Download Repositories'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref name="plugins">via plugins</ref>!! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{n/a}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Local Repositories (e.g. CrossWire CD)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Downloaded Modules Are Available Immediately'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<ref>After repository refresh</ref>!! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User is Warned of Internet Access'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User is Warned of Download Size'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{n/a}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User can continue working while download is in progress'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{n/a}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Download can be canceled'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{n/a}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User is warned if module already exists.'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User is notified of module updates'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User is notified of new modules'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Indexing'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Hiding/Showing Installed Modules'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Modules sorted by Language/Type'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{part}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
'''Locked Modules (via GUI)''' - The application allows the user to supply the unlock key. The user does not have to manually edit the module's conf file.<br/><br />
'''Multiple Repositories''' - The application has an integrated module installer that allows installation from more than one SWORD module repository.<br/><br />
'''Archiving/Hiding''' - The application can remove and safely store currently non required modules or otherwise remove them from sight, keeping them available for future use.<br/><br />
'''Indexing''' - The application is able to index the module for fast search. This may be automatic and not require any user interaction (e.g. clicking a "Create Search Index" button).<br/><br />
'''New Content Available Immediately''' - Modules that are downloaded with the application's module installer are immediately available for use.<br />
<br />
== Image Module Support ==<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| ''' Image Resizing'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| ''' GIF/JPG formats'''<ref>All full-featured SWORD applications should already have support for these types.</ref><br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| ''' PNG format'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<ref> from 1.5.12 upwards</ref> !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| ''' SVG format'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! !! <br />
|}<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
== Windowing and Text Display ==<br />
<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Window Layout flexible'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}!! {{no}}!! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Un/Linkable'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}}!! {{n/a}}!! !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Parallel Display'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !!{{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Multiple texts'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}!! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Poetry Layout'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} <ref> 2 level indentation</ref> !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<ref>not indented</ref> !! !! {{no}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Ruby Layout'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! {{no}} !! !! !! !! !! !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Individual fonts'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{yes}}<ref>only per module default font</ref> !! !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''module default font'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''per language font'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}}<br />
|}<br />
<references/><br />
{|width="100%" border="1" class="sortable"<br />
!width="15%"|Application<br />
!width="15%"|Window Layout<br />
!width="15%"|Several texts open at same time?<br />
!width="15%"|Poetry Layout<br />
!width="15%"|RtoL & Complex Scripts<br />
!width="1%"|Ruby layout<br />
!width="95"| Font per module<br />
!Other<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[http://www.kiyut.com/products/alkitab/ Alkitab Bible Study]<br />
|Two-pane with tabs and library navigation on right<br />
|yes<br />
|yes<br />
|RtoL - yes<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleDesktop|BibleDesktop (JSword)]]<br />
|Two-pane, one for Bible and one for other modules. The Bible pane allows direct lookup, quick book/chapter pick, search, parallel texts and passage side bar. The other pane allows the picking of a module, a selection of an entry and it's display.<br />
|yes (unlimited, including commentaries)<br />
|yes<br />
|<br />
*RtoL - yes<br />
*Arabic/Farsi number shaping<br />
*Arabic/Farsi show verse references incorrectly.<br />
*Myanmar - fails to render properly.<br />
Rendering is best with the most recent versions of Java.<br />
|no<br />
|yes (and per language)<br />
|<br />
*User can show Bible text in tabs or in windows.<br />
*Show user specified verses or search result. (User is not limited to chapter at a time viewing.)<br />
*Passage side bar allows pruning/growing of all or selected viewed passages.<br />
*Passage side bar allows focus on a selected passages.<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[http://devel.bibletime.info BibleTime] (see also [[Frontends:KioSword|Kio-Sword]])<br />
|Multiple windows with flexible arrangement and library navigation on left<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|RtoL - yes<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[http://bpbible.com BPBible (wxPython)]<br />
| 1-7 tiled subwindows, repositioning/hiding of panes.<br />
| no<br />
| yes (two-level poetry, indented, verse numbers at side)<br />
|RtoL - no<br />
|<br />
|no<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[http://thegoan.com/firebible FireBible (JSword/FireFox)]<br />
|1 or 2 panes (library navigation in Firefox sidebar)<br />
|yes, through multiple Firefox windows or tabs<br />
|yes<br />
|RtoL - yes<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[[Frontends:MacSword|MacSword]]<br />
|Multi-window, each module gets it's window<br />
| yes<br />
| no<br />
|RtoL - yes<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleCS|The SWORD Project for Windows]]<br />
|Three-pane with tabbed library navigation<br />
| only using Parallel display for Bibles<br />
| yes, but not indented<br />
| RtoL - yes<br/>complex scripts depends on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniscribe Uniscribe], and rendering will be best in Windows 2K/XP+; Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic - yes, Myanmar - partial fail<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[http://swordwarrior.net/ SwordBible]<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|RtoL - yes<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[[Frontends:Xiphos|Xiphos (GNOME)]] (formerly [[Frontends:GnomeSword|GnomeSword]])<br />
|Four-pane with library navigation, verse lists, etc. on left, multiple tabs, separate dialogs, saved sessions<br />
| yes<br />
| yes<br />
|<br />
*RtoL - yes<br />
*Arabic - yes<br />
*Myanmar - yes (with pango-graphite)<br />
|<br />
|yes<br />
|<br />
|}<br />
*'''RtoL & Complex Scripts''' - Indicates problems in an application's rendering of complex scripts, provided an adequate font is installed. Complex scripts may include Indic and other Brahmic scripts such as Myanmar, Tamil, & Devanagri, as well as scripts that require contextual shaping such as Arabic, and scripts that require rendering in non-left-to-right order such as Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, & Mongolian.<br />
*'''Ruby Layout''' - A not-yet-released SWORD 1.5.12 feature. Used for Japanese texts.<br />
*'''Other''' - Distinctives regarding how the application presents the modules.<br />
<br />
== Search and Dictionary ==<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|}<br />
<br />
{|width="100%" border="1" class="sortable"<br />
!width="18%"|Application<br />
!width="18%"|Indexed Search Features<br />
!width="9%"|Cross Verse Proximity Search<br />
!width="9%"|GenBook and Commentary search<br />
!width="9%"|several module search<br />
!Dictionary Look-up<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists | Study Notes --><br />
|[http://www.kiyut.com/products/alkitab/ Alkitab Bible Study]<br />
|<br />
*Lucene search syntax<br />
*Indexed, searchable fields: text, Strong's Numbers, Cross References, Notes and Headings.<br />
|yes<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|Strong's + parsing (automatic) and Manual look-up<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleDesktop|BibleDesktop (JSword)]]<br />
|<br />
*Lucene search syntax<br />
*Indexed, searchable fields: text, Strong's Numbers, Cross References, Notes and Headings.<br />
|yes<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|Strong's + parsing (automatic) and Manual look-up <br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[http://devel.bibletime.info BibleTime] (see also [[Frontends:KioSword|Kio-Sword]])<br />
|CLucene<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|Strong's + parsing (automatic)<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[http://bpbible.com BPBible (wxPython)]<br />
|Custom<br />
|yes (allowing phrases across verse boundaries)<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|Strong's + parsing (automatic) full list of topics with topic entry box<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://thegoan.com/firebible FireBible (JSword/FireFox)]<br />
|<br />
*Lucene search syntax<br />
*Indexed, searchable fields: text, Strong's Numbers, Cross References, Notes and Headings.<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|no<br />
|Manual look-up<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[[Frontends:MacSword|MacSword]]<br />
| Apple SearchKit<br />
|no<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|Strong's, Morph (automatic)<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleCS|The SWORD Project for Windows]]<br />
|CLucene<br />
|no<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|Strong's + parsing (automatic) and glossary (on click)<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[http://swordwarrior.net/ SwordBible]<br />
|no<br />
|no<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
| Strong's, Morph and glossary on click<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[[Frontends:Xiphos|Xiphos (GNOME)]] (formerly [[Frontends:GnomeSword|GnomeSword]])<br />
|CLucene<br />
|no<br />
|yes<br />
|yes (create lists of modules to search)<br />
|Strong's + parsing automatic, glossary (on click)<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Bookmarking, Tagging, Listing and Notes ==<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|}<br />
{|width="100%" border="1" class="sortable"<br />
!width="18%"|Application<br />
!width="9%"|Permanent Bookmarks, Tags or Verse Lists<br />
!width="9%"|Nestable <br />
!width="9%"|With Comments<br />
!width="9%"|Exportable<br />
!width="9%"|Study Notes<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists | Study Notes --><br />
|[http://www.kiyut.com/products/alkitab/ Alkitab Bible Study]<br />
|manual and search result<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|yes<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleDesktop|BibleDesktop (JSword)]]<br />
|manual and search result<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|yes<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[http://devel.bibletime.info BibleTime] (see also [[Frontends:KioSword|Kio-Sword]])<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
| yes<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[http://bpbible.com BPBible (wxPython)]<br />
|manual and search result<br />
|yes<br />
|yes<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://thegoan.com/firebible FireBible (JSword/FireFox)]<br />
|manual and search result<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[[Frontends:MacSword|MacSword]]<br />
|manual and search result<br />
|yes<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|yes<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleCS|The SWORD Project for Windows]]<br />
|manual and search result<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|<br />
|yes<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[http://swordwarrior.net/ SwordBible]<br />
|<br />
|no<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|yes<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[[Frontends:Xiphos|Xiphos (GNOME)]] (formerly [[Frontends:GnomeSword|GnomeSword]])<br />
|manual and search result<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|no<br />
|yes<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Localization ==<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|}<br />
{|width="100%" border="1" class="sortable"<br />
!width="18%"|Application<br />
!width="9%"|Localization Support<br />
!width="9%"|GUI RtoL Support<br />
!width="9%"|GUI Languages <br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://www.kiyut.com/products/alkitab/ Alkitab Bible Study]<br />
|yes<br />
|yes<br />
|English, Indonesian<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleDesktop|BibleDesktop (JSword)]]<br />
|yes<br />
|yes<br />
|English, German, Farsi, Chinese, Vietnamese<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://devel.bibletime.info BibleTime] (see also [[Frontends:KioSword|Kio-Sword]])<br />
|yes<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://bpbible.com BPBible (wxPython)]<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|English, Vietnamese<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://thegoan.com/firebible FireBible (JSword/FireFox)]<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|English<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[[Frontends:MacSword|MacSword]]<br />
|yes<br />
|?<br />
|English, German, Frensh, Finnish, Spanish, Swedish, Polish, Portuguese<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleCS|The SWORD Project for Windows]]<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|Afrikaans, Česky, Deutsch, English, Suomi, Magyar, Bahasa Indonesia, 日本語, Polski, Português, Slovenščina<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://swordwarrior.net/ SwordBible]<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|English<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[[Frontends:Xiphos|Xiphos (GNOME)]] (formerly [[Frontends:GnomeSword|GnomeSword]])<br />
|yes<br />
|yes <br />
|English, German, French, Finnish, Farsi, Czech, Hebrew, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Other ==<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|}<br />
{|width="100%" border="1" class="sortable"<br />
!width="18%"|Application<br />
!width="9%"|Extramodular Content<br />
!width="9%"|Other<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://www.kiyut.com/products/alkitab/ Alkitab Bible Study]<br />
|Bible Reading Plan<br />
|word-by-word comparison of Bible versions<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleDesktop|BibleDesktop (JSword)]]<br />
| Bible Reading Plan<br />
| word-by-word comparison of Bible versions<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://devel.bibletime.info BibleTime] (see also [[Frontends:KioSword|Kio-Sword]])<br />
|Bible Study HOWTO<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://bpbible.com BPBible (wxPython)]<br />
|gospel harmonies; Guess the Verse game; <br />
|display Strong's headwords;<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://thegoan.com/firebible FireBible (JSword/FireFox)]<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[[Frontends:MacSword|MacSword]]<br />
|<br />
|read aloud<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleCS|The SWORD Project for Windows]]<br />
|<br />
| parallel verse display, transliteration<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://swordwarrior.net/ SwordBible]<br />
|Verse lists with prefilled topics, One year daily reading plans<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[[Frontends:Xiphos|Xiphos (GNOME)]] (formerly [[Frontends:GnomeSword|GnomeSword]])<br />
|<br />
|Read Aloud, pseudo-interlinear display of Strong's/morphology, transliteration into Latin characters <br />
|}</div>Eelikhttps://wiki.crosswire.org/index.php?title=Choosing_a_SWORD_program&diff=5493Choosing a SWORD program2009-03-03T13:15:44Z<p>Eelik: /* Legend */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Introduction=<br />
This page is under development. As such it may not be helpful until it is near completion. For that reason, please don't link it on another page until then. To become complete it needs fair and balanced™ coverage of the SWORD programs.<br />
<br />
Do feel free to edit this page to make it more complete and better organized.<br />
<br />
The purpose of this page is to help an end user decide which SWORD program is the best for them. The first consideration is which programs are available for the user. This can be found at [http://www.crosswire.org 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.<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
=Features Common to All SWORD Applications=<br />
For the most part all the SWORD programs have the same features.<br />
* Use Unicode <br />
* Released under an open source license<br />
* powerful search syntax - wildcard, regex and often also clucene indexed searches (fuzzy and proximity searches + searches for Strong's, stemming etc) within preset and customised scopes.<br />
* Strong's, morphological info, cross references and footnotes<br />
* All frontends listed beleow are undergoing more or less active development.<br />
* verse and block layout<br />
* image support in all types of modules<br />
* localisation - all frontends are designed to be readily translatable. Many are translated in various languages.<br />
<br />
=Side-by-Side Comparison of Leading SWORD Applications=<br />
== Legend ==<br />
To keep the lists below compact, the SWORD programs are identified by abbreviations. Here is an explanation of each of them:<br />
*'''ABS''' - [http://www.kiyut.com/products/alkitab/ AlKitab Bible Study] based on JSword, uses Java 5+<br />
*'''BD''' - [[Frontends:BibleDesktop|BibleDesktop]] based on JSword, uses Java 1.4.2+<br />
*'''BT''' - [http://devel.bibletime.info BibleTime] uses cross-platform Qt toolkit<br />
*'''BPB''' - [http://bpbible.com BPBible] uses wxPython<br />
*'''FB''' - [http://thegoan.com/firebible FireBible] based on JSword, runs in FireFox as an extension<br />
*'''MS''' - [[Frontends:MacSword|MacSword]]<br />
*'''SPW''' - [[Frontends:BibleCS|The SWORD Project for Windows]]<br />
*'''SB''' - [http://swordwarrior.net/ SwordBible]<br />
*'''Xiph''' - [[Frontends:Xiphos|Xiphos]] (formerly [[Frontends:GnomeSword|GnomeSword]])<br />
<br />
A blank entry means that the feature is not present or it is unknown whether it is present.<br />
<br />
This is a work in progress. The footnotes will be changed to be automatically numbered.<br />
<br />
== Operating Systems and Portability==<br />
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{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Runs on Windows 95/98/NT/ME'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}}<ref>Not Win9x</ref> !! !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"{{<br />
| '''Runs on Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Runs on Mac OS X 10.3+'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<ref>version 1.3.x</ref>!! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Runs on Mac OS X 10.4+'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<ref>version 1.4.x</ref>!! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Runs on Linux'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Runs on other Unix'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<ref>BSD, Solaris</ref><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Can be installed run from USB drive'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} <br />
! {{yes}}<ref>[http://www.crosswire.org/~dmsmith/bd/ 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.</ref><br />
! {{no}} <br />
! {{yes}}<ref>[http://PortableApps.com/BPBiblePortable PortableApps.com edition] for Windows only. Leaves no trace on host computer.</ref><br />
! {{yes}}<ref>Using [http://PortableApps.com/FirefoxPortable Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition] from PortableApps.com, for Windows only, but depends on a local installation of Java. Leaves no trace on host computer. Other platforms are possible.</ref><br />
! {{yes}}<ref>Leaves traces on host computer.</ref><br />
! {{yes}}<ref>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.</ref><br />
! {{no}}<br />
! {{no}}<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
== Module Support ==<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Daily Devotions Start with Today'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Daily Devotions Show Friendly Dates'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Shows Testament Introductions'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{no}} !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Shows Book Introductions'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Shows Chapter Introductions'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Personal Commentary'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<ref name="exportable">exportable as a SWORD module</ref><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Journal'''<br />
<!-- ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<ref name="exportable"/><br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Right to Left Texts'''<br />
<!-- ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Complex Scripts'''<br />
<!-- ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
'''Right to Left texts''' - Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and other modules Right-to-Left scripts are displayed from right-to-left and correctly shaped.<br/><br />
'''Daily Devotions''' - While all SWORD applications support Daily Devotions modules, some open a Daily Devotion to the current day.<br/><br />
'''Introductions''' - Some modules contain Testament, Book and Chapter introductions. Some SWORD applications do not handle them.<br/><br />
'''User Editable Module Content''' - The application supports the Personal Commentary and may allow other types of module creation.<br/><br />
'''Complex Scripts''' - The application can display correctly Indic and derrived scripts (or other scripts of similar layout) - subject to availability of adequate fonts and standardised Unicode<br />
<br />
== Module Management ==<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Integrated Module Manager'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref name="plugins">via plugins</ref>!! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}}<ref> has a installer for locally available zipped modules</ref> !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Module Unlocking Support'''<ref>The application allows the user to supply the unlock key. The user does not have to manually edit the module's conf file.</ref><br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref name="plugins">via plugins</ref>!! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Multiple Download Repositories'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}}<ref name="plugins">via plugins</ref>!! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{n/a}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Local Repositories (e.g. CrossWire CD)'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Downloaded Modules Are Available Immediately'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<ref>After repository refresh</ref>!! {{no}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User is Warned of Internet Access'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User is Warned of Download Size'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{n/a}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User can continue working while download is in progress'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{n/a}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Download can be canceled'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{n/a}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User is warned if module already exists.'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{n/a}} !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User is notified of module updates'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''User is notified of new modules'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Indexing'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Hiding/Showing Installed Modules'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Modules sorted by Language/Type'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{part}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
'''Locked Modules (via GUI)''' - The application allows the user to supply the unlock key. The user does not have to manually edit the module's conf file.<br/><br />
'''Multiple Repositories''' - The application has an integrated module installer that allows installation from more than one SWORD module repository.<br/><br />
'''Archiving/Hiding''' - The application can remove and safely store currently non required modules or otherwise remove them from sight, keeping them available for future use.<br/><br />
'''Indexing''' - The application is able to index the module for fast search. This may be automatic and not require any user interaction (e.g. clicking a "Create Search Index" button).<br/><br />
'''New Content Available Immediately''' - Modules that are downloaded with the application's module installer are immediately available for use.<br />
<br />
== Image Module Support ==<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| ''' PNG format'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}<ref> from 1.5.12 upwards</ref> !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| ''' JPG format'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| ''' SVG format'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! !! <br />
<br />
<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| ''' Image Resizing'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}}<br />
|}<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
== Windowing and Text Display ==<br />
<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Window Layout flexible'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}!! {{no}}!! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Un/Linkable'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}}!! {{n/a}}!! !! !! !! {{yes}}<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Parallel Display'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !!{{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Multiple texts'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}}!! {{yes}} !! {{no}} !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Poetry Layout'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Ruby Layout'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''Individual fonts'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! {{yes}} !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{yes}}<ref>only per module default font</ref> !! !! {{yes}} <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''module default font'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''per language font'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! {{yes}} !! !! {{no}} !! !! !! {{no}} !! !! {{no}}<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{|width="100%" border="1" class="sortable"<br />
!width="15%"|Application<br />
!width="15%"|Window Layout<br />
!width="15%"|Several texts open at same time?<br />
!width="15%"|Poetry Layout<br />
!width="15%"|RtoL & Complex Scripts<br />
!width="1%"|Ruby layout<br />
!width="95"| Font per module<br />
!Other<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[http://www.kiyut.com/products/alkitab/ Alkitab Bible Study]<br />
|Two-pane with tabs and library navigation on right<br />
|yes<br />
|yes<br />
|RtoL - yes<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleDesktop|BibleDesktop (JSword)]]<br />
|Two-pane, one for Bible and one for other modules. The Bible pane allows direct lookup, quick book/chapter pick, search, parallel texts and passage side bar. The other pane allows the picking of a module, a selection of an entry and it's display.<br />
|yes (unlimited, including commentaries)<br />
|yes<br />
|<br />
*RtoL - yes<br />
*Arabic/Farsi number shaping<br />
*Arabic/Farsi show verse references incorrectly.<br />
*Myanmar - fails to render properly.<br />
Rendering is best with the most recent versions of Java.<br />
|no<br />
|yes (and per language)<br />
|<br />
*User can show Bible text in tabs or in windows.<br />
*Show user specified verses or search result. (User is not limited to chapter at a time viewing.)<br />
*Passage side bar allows pruning/growing of all or selected viewed passages.<br />
*Passage side bar allows focus on a selected passages.<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[http://devel.bibletime.info BibleTime] (see also [[Frontends:KioSword|Kio-Sword]])<br />
|Multiple windows with flexible arrangement and library navigation on left<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|RtoL - yes<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[http://bpbible.com BPBible (wxPython)]<br />
| 1-7 tiled subwindows, repositioning/hiding of panes.<br />
| no<br />
| yes (two-level poetry, indented, verse numbers at side)<br />
|RtoL - no<br />
|<br />
|no<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[http://thegoan.com/firebible FireBible (JSword/FireFox)]<br />
|1 or 2 panes (library navigation in Firefox sidebar)<br />
|yes, through multiple Firefox windows or tabs<br />
|yes<br />
|RtoL - yes<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[[Frontends:MacSword|MacSword]]<br />
|Multi-window, each module gets it's window<br />
| yes<br />
| no<br />
|RtoL - yes<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleCS|The SWORD Project for Windows]]<br />
|Three-pane with tabbed library navigation<br />
| only using Parallel display for Bibles<br />
| yes, but not indented<br />
| RtoL - yes<br/>complex scripts depends on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniscribe Uniscribe], and rendering will be best in Windows 2K/XP+; Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic - yes, Myanmar - partial fail<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[http://swordwarrior.net/ SwordBible]<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|RtoL - yes<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Layout | Several Texts | Poetry Layout | Complex Scripts | Ruby Layout | Other --><br />
|[[Frontends:Xiphos|Xiphos (GNOME)]] (formerly [[Frontends:GnomeSword|GnomeSword]])<br />
|Four-pane with library navigation, verse lists, etc. on left, multiple tabs, separate dialogs, saved sessions<br />
| yes<br />
| yes<br />
|<br />
*RtoL - yes<br />
*Arabic - yes<br />
*Myanmar - yes (with pango-graphite)<br />
|<br />
|yes<br />
|<br />
|}<br />
*'''RtoL & Complex Scripts''' - Indicates problems in an application's rendering of complex scripts, provided an adequate font is installed. Complex scripts may include Indic and other Brahmic scripts such as Myanmar, Tamil, & Devanagri, as well as scripts that require contextual shaping such as Arabic, and scripts that require rendering in non-left-to-right order such as Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, & Mongolian.<br />
*'''Ruby Layout''' - A not-yet-released SWORD 1.5.12 feature. Used for Japanese texts.<br />
*'''Other''' - Distinctives regarding how the application presents the modules.<br />
<br />
== Search and Dictionary ==<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|}<br />
<br />
{|width="100%" border="1" class="sortable"<br />
!width="18%"|Application<br />
!width="18%"|Indexed Search Features<br />
!width="9%"|Cross Verse Proximity Search<br />
!width="9%"|GenBook and Commentary search<br />
!width="9%"|several module search<br />
!Dictionary Look-up<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists | Study Notes --><br />
|[http://www.kiyut.com/products/alkitab/ Alkitab Bible Study]<br />
|<br />
*Lucene search syntax<br />
*Indexed, searchable fields: text, Strong's Numbers, Cross References, Notes and Headings.<br />
|yes<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|Strong's + parsing (automatic) and Manual look-up<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleDesktop|BibleDesktop (JSword)]]<br />
|<br />
*Lucene search syntax<br />
*Indexed, searchable fields: text, Strong's Numbers, Cross References, Notes and Headings.<br />
|yes<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|Strong's + parsing (automatic) and Manual look-up <br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[http://devel.bibletime.info BibleTime] (see also [[Frontends:KioSword|Kio-Sword]])<br />
|CLucene<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|Strong's + parsing (automatic)<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[http://bpbible.com BPBible (wxPython)]<br />
|Custom<br />
|yes (allowing phrases across verse boundaries)<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|Strong's + parsing (automatic) full list of topics with topic entry box<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://thegoan.com/firebible FireBible (JSword/FireFox)]<br />
|<br />
*Lucene search syntax<br />
*Indexed, searchable fields: text, Strong's Numbers, Cross References, Notes and Headings.<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|no<br />
|Manual look-up<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[[Frontends:MacSword|MacSword]]<br />
| Apple SearchKit<br />
|no<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|Strong's, Morph (automatic)<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleCS|The SWORD Project for Windows]]<br />
|CLucene<br />
|no<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|Strong's + parsing (automatic) and glossary (on click)<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[http://swordwarrior.net/ SwordBible]<br />
|no<br />
|no<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
| Strong's, Morph and glossary on click<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[[Frontends:Xiphos|Xiphos (GNOME)]] (formerly [[Frontends:GnomeSword|GnomeSword]])<br />
|CLucene<br />
|no<br />
|yes<br />
|yes (create lists of modules to search)<br />
|Strong's + parsing automatic, glossary (on click)<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Bookmarking, Tagging, Listing and Notes ==<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|}<br />
{|width="100%" border="1" class="sortable"<br />
!width="18%"|Application<br />
!width="9%"|Permanent Bookmarks, Tags or Verse Lists<br />
!width="9%"|Nestable <br />
!width="9%"|With Comments<br />
!width="9%"|Exportable<br />
!width="9%"|Study Notes<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists | Study Notes --><br />
|[http://www.kiyut.com/products/alkitab/ Alkitab Bible Study]<br />
|manual and search result<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|yes<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleDesktop|BibleDesktop (JSword)]]<br />
|manual and search result<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|yes<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[http://devel.bibletime.info BibleTime] (see also [[Frontends:KioSword|Kio-Sword]])<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
| yes<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[http://bpbible.com BPBible (wxPython)]<br />
|manual and search result<br />
|yes<br />
|yes<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://thegoan.com/firebible FireBible (JSword/FireFox)]<br />
|manual and search result<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[[Frontends:MacSword|MacSword]]<br />
|manual and search result<br />
|yes<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|yes<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleCS|The SWORD Project for Windows]]<br />
|manual and search result<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|<br />
|yes<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[http://swordwarrior.net/ SwordBible]<br />
|<br />
|no<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|yes<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Search Features | Dictionary Look-up | Verse Lists --><br />
|[[Frontends:Xiphos|Xiphos (GNOME)]] (formerly [[Frontends:GnomeSword|GnomeSword]])<br />
|manual and search result<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|no<br />
|yes<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Localization ==<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|}<br />
{|width="100%" border="1" class="sortable"<br />
!width="18%"|Application<br />
!width="9%"|Localization Support<br />
!width="9%"|GUI RtoL Support<br />
!width="9%"|GUI Languages <br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://www.kiyut.com/products/alkitab/ Alkitab Bible Study]<br />
|yes<br />
|yes<br />
|English, Indonesian<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleDesktop|BibleDesktop (JSword)]]<br />
|yes<br />
|yes<br />
|English, German, Farsi, Chinese, Vietnamese<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://devel.bibletime.info BibleTime] (see also [[Frontends:KioSword|Kio-Sword]])<br />
|yes<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://bpbible.com BPBible (wxPython)]<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|English, Vietnamese<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://thegoan.com/firebible FireBible (JSword/FireFox)]<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|English<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[[Frontends:MacSword|MacSword]]<br />
|yes<br />
|?<br />
|English, German, Frensh, Finnish, Spanish, Swedish, Polish, Portuguese<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleCS|The SWORD Project for Windows]]<br />
|yes<br />
|no<br />
|Afrikaans, Česky, Deutsch, English, Suomi, Magyar, Bahasa Indonesia, 日本語, Polski, Português, Slovenščina<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://swordwarrior.net/ SwordBible]<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|English<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[[Frontends:Xiphos|Xiphos (GNOME)]] (formerly [[Frontends:GnomeSword|GnomeSword]])<br />
|yes<br />
|yes <br />
|English, German, French, Finnish, Farsi, Czech, Hebrew, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Other ==<br />
{|border="1" class="sortable"<br />
! width="250px" | Feature <br />
! title="AlKitab Bible Study" | ABS<br />
! title="Bible Desktop" | BD<br />
! title="BibleTime" | BT<br />
! title="BPBible" | BPB<br />
! title="FireBible" | FB<br />
! title="MacSword" | MS<br />
! title="The SWORD Project for Windows" | SPW<br />
! title="SwordBible" | SB<br />
! title="Xiphos" | Xiph<br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|-valign="top"<br />
| '''a'''<br />
<!--ABS !! BD !! BT !! BPB !! FB !! MS !! SPW !! SB !! Xiph --><br />
! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! <br />
|}<br />
{|width="100%" border="1" class="sortable"<br />
!width="18%"|Application<br />
!width="9%"|Extramodular Content<br />
!width="9%"|Other<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://www.kiyut.com/products/alkitab/ Alkitab Bible Study]<br />
|Bible Reading Plan<br />
|word-by-word comparison of Bible versions<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleDesktop|BibleDesktop (JSword)]]<br />
| Bible Reading Plan<br />
| word-by-word comparison of Bible versions<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://devel.bibletime.info BibleTime] (see also [[Frontends:KioSword|Kio-Sword]])<br />
|Bible Study HOWTO<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://bpbible.com BPBible (wxPython)]<br />
|gospel harmonies; Guess the Verse game; <br />
|display Strong's headwords;<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://thegoan.com/firebible FireBible (JSword/FireFox)]<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[[Frontends:MacSword|MacSword]]<br />
|<br />
|read aloud<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[[Frontends:BibleCS|The SWORD Project for Windows]]<br />
|<br />
| parallel verse display, transliteration<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[http://swordwarrior.net/ SwordBible]<br />
|Verse lists with prefilled topics, One year daily reading plans<br />
|<br />
|-valign="top" <!-- App | Devel | OS | Layout | Search | Dictionary | Lists | Localization |RtoL |Special --><br />
|[[Frontends:Xiphos|Xiphos (GNOME)]] (formerly [[Frontends:GnomeSword|GnomeSword]])<br />
|<br />
|Read Aloud, pseudo-interlinear display of Strong's/morphology, transliteration into Latin characters <br />
|}</div>Eelikhttps://wiki.crosswire.org/index.php?title=EnduserFAQ&diff=4052EnduserFAQ2008-10-01T20:13:03Z<p>Eelik: /* Do you have a Sword program for my phone or PDA? */</p>
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<div>==Public Community Forums and other places for help==<br />
CrossWire has public forums for our users to exchange tips and help each other. It is likely your question has been asked previously on our forums. You might even find some unexpected gems or post a few of your own: http://crosswire.org/forums<br />
<br />
http://www.crosswire.org is our main page. Scroll down to see the list of software and links to their home pages. Many applications have their own support systems and FAQs.<br />
<br />
We have a support mailing list, sword-support at crosswire.org. Other users can not see your question and answer it and users can not get benefit from previous answers. Therefore the forums are recommended. If you for some reason can not or do not want to use forums you can send private email to our support list. Whatever support tool you use, please read this FAQ and other documentation first.<br />
<br />
==End user FAQ==<br />
Here are some commonly asked questions about the CrossWire Bible Society and The SWORD Project and answers to them.<br />
<br />
CrossWire is a non-commercial organization which produces Bible related Free Software. We have several software products. We also have numerous text modules (Bible translations, commentaries, lexicons, ...) which can be used with our software. All products are made by individual volunteers who may or may not know each other's work. Therefore it is important that you first know which product you have questions about. Then you can select the category and question below. If your question is not answered here and you have to ask us directly, please attach as much information about your problem as possible, especially about the product you are using. Considering the volume of mail we receive daily and the few workers we have to answer support emails, vague email and email that asks questions clearly answered on this page are likely to go unanswered.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Questions about text modules===<br />
<br />
====Do you or will you have NIV/NASB/NLT/Message/NKJV/other translation?====<br />
NASB is under work and will be sold commercially by the Lockman publishing company. Most other copyright holders, including the publisher of the NIV, have not been interested in publishing their material in our format even when they could get money out of it. Strange world, isn't it?<br />
<br />
Some people recommend using a couple of good modern freely available translations instead. The ESV and NET are both high quality translations. <br />
<br />
The ESV is a word-for-word "essentially literal" translation which continues the KJV legacy but is based on modern textual criticism. It is freely [http://www.crosswire.org/sword/modules/ModInfo.jsp?modName=ESV downloadable from our repositories].<br />
<br />
The NET uses a more dynamic equivalence principle and is downloadable from [http://www.bible.org/page.php?page_id=3086 bible.org] in either a free (with registration) version containing limited notes or a premium ($20) version with the full NET translation note set.<br />
<br />
====Do you have the original King James/Authorized Version?====<br />
The original Authorized Version, also known as the King James Version, was published in 1611. This text is nearly unreadable. For an example of it, see [[KJV 1611]]. What we have is the 1769 version, that is the basis of today's printed versions, and that most people wrongly call the original.<br />
<br />
====What happened to the Portuguese module?====<br />
It was removed because it was not what it claimed to be and had errors. Negotiations are underway to provide another translation. You can find more information by using Google with "site:crosswire.org portuguese" or "sword-devel portuguese".<br />
<br />
Here is a quote from our forum discussions: "<i>...there is no such thing as the "João Ferreira de Almeida Atualizada". It's a corrupted copyrighted text, probably renamed to hide its source. There are numerous discussions of this issue to be found around the web, for example: http://pt.wikisource.org/wiki/Discuss%C3%A3o:Ferreira_de_Almeida_Atualizada<br />
<br />
I have checked the "João Ferreira de Almeida Atualizada" text against a number of Portuguese translations (both in print and in electronic editions). It is clearly derivative of copyrighted texts but I have not found any text by that title to exist. You don't have to take my word for it, but you will be wasting your time if you don't.</i>"<br />
<br />
====Where are the deuterocanonical books and the apocrypha?====<br />
Sword does not currently support any books other than the 66 OT/NT protocanonical books. The reason is technical, not theological. The SWORD Project is ecumenical, benefiting from the labor of workers from a broad gamut of Christian churches. Work is currently underway to support a broader canon.<br />
<br />
====May I use Sword Modules on my website?==== <br />
While our software can be freely redistributed, many modules have been licensed to Crosswire for distribution. To use those modules, you will need to obtain permission for yourself. <br />
<br />
====How do I convert Sword modules to text?==== <br />
We would like to discourage this. Please work with us in making our software better. <br />
<br />
But, if you really need the text, each module has a conf file which will tell you about the origin of the text. Please obtain the source the same way we did. You may not convert the modules that have been licensed to CrossWire for distribution. The KJV module is the only one for which we maintain the source, which you can obtain [http://www.crosswire.org/~dmsmith/kjv2006 here].<br />
<br />
====How do I convert modules from other Bible software (e.g. e-Sword, BibleWorks, or OLB) into Sword modules?====<br />
The SWORD Project does not support the conversion of texts from other Bible software vendors. By that, we mean that we neither encourage you or others to convert material from other software because it may violate licensing or copyright restrictions. Nor can we provide any assistance to those who choose to convert such material.<br />
<br />
====I have purchased and lost a key to a locked module. Can you tell me what it is?====<br />
The SWORD Project does not sell or handle locked module keys. You should contact the module vendor for help in this matter.<br />
<br />
====My Personal module shows some strange text, why?====<br />
For a while, there was a bug in the configuration file (mods.d\personal.conf) of the Personal module. You can download and re-install the latest version but you will lose any personal notes you have made. Alternatively, you can just replace the configuration file with the new one or open it in any text editor to remove the line reading "SourceType=ThML".<br />
<br />
===Questions about what we do for free or for money===<br />
<br />
====Would you send me free Bibles or other material?====<br />
No, we cannot send you free Bibles or other literature. Even though you may have read on other sites that we are able to help you get free material, that is not true. There is no money involved in our work and we handle only electronic material. All our products are freely downloadable on our web site (or their own web sites) and that is all we do.<br />
<br />
====Can I donate to your ministry?====<br />
While we appreciate offers of donations, the SWORD Project does not solicit or accept such offers. We have been blessed already by the donation of those resources which we do use. If you feel the need to donate to ministries outside your local church, you might consider [http://www.compassion.com/ Compassion International], [http://www.habitat.org/ Habitat for Humanity], [http://www.wycliffe.org/ Wycliffe Bible Translators], or [http://www.ccel.org Christian Classics Ethereal Library].<br />
<br />
====Would you donate to my ministry?====<br />
As our project does not solicit or accept donations and does not itself produce any profit, we do not have monetary or other resources to offer to other ministries either (besides downloadable resources).<br />
<br />
====Can I sell advertising on your website?====<br />
No, we do not allow advertising on our website, as you might have noticed.<br />
<br />
====Will you allow me to link to your website on my website in exchange for linking mine on yours?====<br />
You may link to our website, including to our [http://www.crosswire.org/study BibleTool]. However, we do not do link exchanges.<br />
<br />
====Where's my CD?====<br />
*NEEDS ATTENTION*<br />
<br />
<br />
===Questions about the platforms our software runs upon ===<br />
<br />
Our software is designed from ground up to be multiplatform. You will be able to use the same modules on practically all commonly used computers and operating systems. You can run it on many mobile gadgets, you can run it as web applications. <br />
<br />
<br />
==== Do you have a Sword program for my phone or PDA? ====<br />
<br />
* For PocketPC, we have [http://www.crosswire.org/swordreader/ SWORD Reader].<br />
* For Zaurus and iPaq handhelds running QPE, we have [http://www.crosswire.org/qpsword/ QPSword].<br />
* Recently a version for Apple iPhone has been requested by a number of users. We hope to offer an iPhone Bible program in the future, but none is currently available. (See the next Q/A.)<br />
* Palm users are encouraged to consider the non-Sword Bible program [http://palmbibleplus.sourceforge.net/ Palm Bible+].<br />
* For phones with Java ME capability, users are encouraged to consider the non-Sword Bible program [http://go-bible.org/ Go Bible].<br />
* For phones with Symbian OS (but without Java ME), we do not yet have a suggested solution.<br />
<br />
==== Do you have a programme for iPhone? ====<br />
Until 10/2008 the iPhone SDK license did not allow us to create GPL licensed software for it. This has changed and there are some plans for iPhone software.<br />
<br />
====Are there software packages for EeePC?====<br />
See [http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/index.php/Misc:EeePC this page].<br />
<br />
====Do you have a "portable" version of your software that I can run from a USB disk/stick (or some other place)?====<br />
The SWORD Project for Windows is entirely installed under one folder, including the modules. You can copy it anywhere as it is and run the program from there. You can even move the folder from one computer to another or to a networked drive.<br />
<br />
BPBible has a [http://portableapps.com/node/12598 PortableApps edition]; this is still in development but should work. This integrates properly with the [http://portableapps.com/ PortableApps] suite.<br />
<br />
If you routinely use Windows, Linux and/or Mac, you may want to consider [http://www.crosswire.org/~dmsmith/bd Portable BibleDesktop].<br />
<br />
====I love your [http://www.crosswire.org/study/| Bible Tool]. May I install it on my church's website?====<br />
Yes. But while our software can be used in any way you wish, many of our modules may not.<br />
<br />
===Questions about the use of our software===<br />
<br />
If you don't find an answer to your question here and want to ask directly, PLEASE TELL US WHAT SOFTWARE YOU ARE USING. There are many products related to CrossWire. The most common is The Sword Project for Windows. It's extremely difficult to answer a question such as "I'm trying to open a Bible but it doesn't work" if we don't even know which application you are using. It also helps if you attach as much exact information about your problem as possible, for example, "After I have opened the program I select action A from the menu and click button B, but it does nothing". NOT something like "I can't do C".<br />
<br />
Many problems are due to outdated software or text modules. Please check first which version you are running. Notice also your operating system and version.<br />
<br />
====How do I uninstall?====<br />
The SWORD Project for Windows has an uninstaller which should be in the same place as the program. You can also just delete the folder and possible menu entries.<br />
<br />
====When I read the Syriac Peshitta, Hebrew Bible, or (another module), all I see are boxes.====<br />
You need to install a Unicode font with the full range of characters used in the module you are trying to read.<br />
<br />
====I've found a bug. How do I report it?====<br />
Please email sword-bugs@crosswire.org with any bug reports. Please try to provide as much information as possible when filing a bug report: Tell us which version of Sword you are using, your operating system, what you were trying to do, what you expected to happen, what happened, how to reproduce the bug, etc.<br />
<br />
====Why doesn't your program do such and such? I'd like to see this feature added. If it had this feature it would be more competitive with other programs.====<br />
Yes, it would be nice, but this is a volunteer based project, and we do this in our free time. Help if you can and give feedback. We know that complaining is always a temptation, but instead, please pray for us. That is the best way to help the project.<br />
<br />
====How do I do something in MacSword? BibleTime? GnomeSword? BibleDesktop? The SWORD Project for Windows?====<br />
There are links to each of the projects on [[Main Page]] of this Wiki. Please read their attached documentation and the other supporting material for the project you are using. You may need to go to their website to find this. Many problems will be solved by reading the documentation and following the instructions. After that use the support forum/list/pages of that project. After that you can ask your question in our forum or our support list.<br />
<br />
====Somebody sells your software on the Internet. Is this ok?====<br />
It's not forbidden to sell [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html Free Software]. However, according to the licence, the source code must be included. Some people also sell free software without revealing that it is also available for free, and we do not condone such action.</div>Eelikhttps://wiki.crosswire.org/index.php?title=EnduserFAQ&diff=4051EnduserFAQ2008-10-01T20:11:53Z<p>Eelik: /* Do you have a programme for iPhone? */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Public Community Forums and other places for help==<br />
CrossWire has public forums for our users to exchange tips and help each other. It is likely your question has been asked previously on our forums. You might even find some unexpected gems or post a few of your own: http://crosswire.org/forums<br />
<br />
http://www.crosswire.org is our main page. Scroll down to see the list of software and links to their home pages. Many applications have their own support systems and FAQs.<br />
<br />
We have a support mailing list, sword-support at crosswire.org. Other users can not see your question and answer it and users can not get benefit from previous answers. Therefore the forums are recommended. If you for some reason can not or do not want to use forums you can send private email to our support list. Whatever support tool you use, please read this FAQ and other documentation first.<br />
<br />
==End user FAQ==<br />
Here are some commonly asked questions about the CrossWire Bible Society and The SWORD Project and answers to them.<br />
<br />
CrossWire is a non-commercial organization which produces Bible related Free Software. We have several software products. We also have numerous text modules (Bible translations, commentaries, lexicons, ...) which can be used with our software. All products are made by individual volunteers who may or may not know each other's work. Therefore it is important that you first know which product you have questions about. Then you can select the category and question below. If your question is not answered here and you have to ask us directly, please attach as much information about your problem as possible, especially about the product you are using. Considering the volume of mail we receive daily and the few workers we have to answer support emails, vague email and email that asks questions clearly answered on this page are likely to go unanswered.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Questions about text modules===<br />
<br />
====Do you or will you have NIV/NASB/NLT/Message/NKJV/other translation?====<br />
NASB is under work and will be sold commercially by the Lockman publishing company. Most other copyright holders, including the publisher of the NIV, have not been interested in publishing their material in our format even when they could get money out of it. Strange world, isn't it?<br />
<br />
Some people recommend using a couple of good modern freely available translations instead. The ESV and NET are both high quality translations. <br />
<br />
The ESV is a word-for-word "essentially literal" translation which continues the KJV legacy but is based on modern textual criticism. It is freely [http://www.crosswire.org/sword/modules/ModInfo.jsp?modName=ESV downloadable from our repositories].<br />
<br />
The NET uses a more dynamic equivalence principle and is downloadable from [http://www.bible.org/page.php?page_id=3086 bible.org] in either a free (with registration) version containing limited notes or a premium ($20) version with the full NET translation note set.<br />
<br />
====Do you have the original King James/Authorized Version?====<br />
The original Authorized Version, also known as the King James Version, was published in 1611. This text is nearly unreadable. For an example of it, see [[KJV 1611]]. What we have is the 1769 version, that is the basis of today's printed versions, and that most people wrongly call the original.<br />
<br />
====What happened to the Portuguese module?====<br />
It was removed because it was not what it claimed to be and had errors. Negotiations are underway to provide another translation. You can find more information by using Google with "site:crosswire.org portuguese" or "sword-devel portuguese".<br />
<br />
Here is a quote from our forum discussions: "<i>...there is no such thing as the "João Ferreira de Almeida Atualizada". It's a corrupted copyrighted text, probably renamed to hide its source. There are numerous discussions of this issue to be found around the web, for example: http://pt.wikisource.org/wiki/Discuss%C3%A3o:Ferreira_de_Almeida_Atualizada<br />
<br />
I have checked the "João Ferreira de Almeida Atualizada" text against a number of Portuguese translations (both in print and in electronic editions). It is clearly derivative of copyrighted texts but I have not found any text by that title to exist. You don't have to take my word for it, but you will be wasting your time if you don't.</i>"<br />
<br />
====Where are the deuterocanonical books and the apocrypha?====<br />
Sword does not currently support any books other than the 66 OT/NT protocanonical books. The reason is technical, not theological. The SWORD Project is ecumenical, benefiting from the labor of workers from a broad gamut of Christian churches. Work is currently underway to support a broader canon.<br />
<br />
====May I use Sword Modules on my website?==== <br />
While our software can be freely redistributed, many modules have been licensed to Crosswire for distribution. To use those modules, you will need to obtain permission for yourself. <br />
<br />
====How do I convert Sword modules to text?==== <br />
We would like to discourage this. Please work with us in making our software better. <br />
<br />
But, if you really need the text, each module has a conf file which will tell you about the origin of the text. Please obtain the source the same way we did. You may not convert the modules that have been licensed to CrossWire for distribution. The KJV module is the only one for which we maintain the source, which you can obtain [http://www.crosswire.org/~dmsmith/kjv2006 here].<br />
<br />
====How do I convert modules from other Bible software (e.g. e-Sword, BibleWorks, or OLB) into Sword modules?====<br />
The SWORD Project does not support the conversion of texts from other Bible software vendors. By that, we mean that we neither encourage you or others to convert material from other software because it may violate licensing or copyright restrictions. Nor can we provide any assistance to those who choose to convert such material.<br />
<br />
====I have purchased and lost a key to a locked module. Can you tell me what it is?====<br />
The SWORD Project does not sell or handle locked module keys. You should contact the module vendor for help in this matter.<br />
<br />
====My Personal module shows some strange text, why?====<br />
For a while, there was a bug in the configuration file (mods.d\personal.conf) of the Personal module. You can download and re-install the latest version but you will lose any personal notes you have made. Alternatively, you can just replace the configuration file with the new one or open it in any text editor to remove the line reading "SourceType=ThML".<br />
<br />
===Questions about what we do for free or for money===<br />
<br />
====Would you send me free Bibles or other material?====<br />
No, we cannot send you free Bibles or other literature. Even though you may have read on other sites that we are able to help you get free material, that is not true. There is no money involved in our work and we handle only electronic material. All our products are freely downloadable on our web site (or their own web sites) and that is all we do.<br />
<br />
====Can I donate to your ministry?====<br />
While we appreciate offers of donations, the SWORD Project does not solicit or accept such offers. We have been blessed already by the donation of those resources which we do use. If you feel the need to donate to ministries outside your local church, you might consider [http://www.compassion.com/ Compassion International], [http://www.habitat.org/ Habitat for Humanity], [http://www.wycliffe.org/ Wycliffe Bible Translators], or [http://www.ccel.org Christian Classics Ethereal Library].<br />
<br />
====Would you donate to my ministry?====<br />
As our project does not solicit or accept donations and does not itself produce any profit, we do not have monetary or other resources to offer to other ministries either (besides downloadable resources).<br />
<br />
====Can I sell advertising on your website?====<br />
No, we do not allow advertising on our website, as you might have noticed.<br />
<br />
====Will you allow me to link to your website on my website in exchange for linking mine on yours?====<br />
You may link to our website, including to our [http://www.crosswire.org/study BibleTool]. However, we do not do link exchanges.<br />
<br />
====Where's my CD?====<br />
*NEEDS ATTENTION*<br />
<br />
<br />
===Questions about the platforms our software runs upon ===<br />
<br />
Our software is designed from ground up to be multiplatform. You will be able to use the same modules on practically all commonly used computers and operating systems. You can run it on many mobile gadgets, you can run it as web applications. <br />
<br />
<br />
==== Do you have a Sword program for my phone or PDA? ====<br />
<br />
* For PocketPC, we have [http://www.crosswire.org/swordreader/ SWORD Reader].<br />
* For Zaurus and iPaq handhelds running QPE, we have [http://www.crosswire.org/qpsword/ QPSword].<br />
* Recently a version for Apple iPhone has been requested by a number of users. We hope to offer an iPhone Bible program in the future, but none is currently available.<br />
* Palm users are encouraged to consider the non-Sword Bible program [http://palmbibleplus.sourceforge.net/ Palm Bible+].<br />
* For phones with Java ME capability, users are encouraged to consider the non-Sword Bible program [http://go-bible.org/ Go Bible].<br />
* For phones with Symbian OS (but without Java ME), we do not yet have a suggested solution.<br />
<br />
==== Do you have a programme for iPhone? ====<br />
Until 10/2008 the iPhone SDK license did not allow us to create GPL licensed software for it. This has changed and there are some plans for iPhone software.<br />
<br />
====Are there software packages for EeePC?====<br />
See [http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/index.php/Misc:EeePC this page].<br />
<br />
====Do you have a "portable" version of your software that I can run from a USB disk/stick (or some other place)?====<br />
The SWORD Project for Windows is entirely installed under one folder, including the modules. You can copy it anywhere as it is and run the program from there. You can even move the folder from one computer to another or to a networked drive.<br />
<br />
BPBible has a [http://portableapps.com/node/12598 PortableApps edition]; this is still in development but should work. This integrates properly with the [http://portableapps.com/ PortableApps] suite.<br />
<br />
If you routinely use Windows, Linux and/or Mac, you may want to consider [http://www.crosswire.org/~dmsmith/bd Portable BibleDesktop].<br />
<br />
====I love your [http://www.crosswire.org/study/| Bible Tool]. May I install it on my church's website?====<br />
Yes. But while our software can be used in any way you wish, many of our modules may not.<br />
<br />
===Questions about the use of our software===<br />
<br />
If you don't find an answer to your question here and want to ask directly, PLEASE TELL US WHAT SOFTWARE YOU ARE USING. There are many products related to CrossWire. The most common is The Sword Project for Windows. It's extremely difficult to answer a question such as "I'm trying to open a Bible but it doesn't work" if we don't even know which application you are using. It also helps if you attach as much exact information about your problem as possible, for example, "After I have opened the program I select action A from the menu and click button B, but it does nothing". NOT something like "I can't do C".<br />
<br />
Many problems are due to outdated software or text modules. Please check first which version you are running. Notice also your operating system and version.<br />
<br />
====How do I uninstall?====<br />
The SWORD Project for Windows has an uninstaller which should be in the same place as the program. You can also just delete the folder and possible menu entries.<br />
<br />
====When I read the Syriac Peshitta, Hebrew Bible, or (another module), all I see are boxes.====<br />
You need to install a Unicode font with the full range of characters used in the module you are trying to read.<br />
<br />
====I've found a bug. How do I report it?====<br />
Please email sword-bugs@crosswire.org with any bug reports. Please try to provide as much information as possible when filing a bug report: Tell us which version of Sword you are using, your operating system, what you were trying to do, what you expected to happen, what happened, how to reproduce the bug, etc.<br />
<br />
====Why doesn't your program do such and such? I'd like to see this feature added. If it had this feature it would be more competitive with other programs.====<br />
Yes, it would be nice, but this is a volunteer based project, and we do this in our free time. Help if you can and give feedback. We know that complaining is always a temptation, but instead, please pray for us. That is the best way to help the project.<br />
<br />
====How do I do something in MacSword? BibleTime? GnomeSword? BibleDesktop? The SWORD Project for Windows?====<br />
There are links to each of the projects on [[Main Page]] of this Wiki. Please read their attached documentation and the other supporting material for the project you are using. You may need to go to their website to find this. Many problems will be solved by reading the documentation and following the instructions. After that use the support forum/list/pages of that project. After that you can ask your question in our forum or our support list.<br />
<br />
====Somebody sells your software on the Internet. Is this ok?====<br />
It's not forbidden to sell [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html Free Software]. However, according to the licence, the source code must be included. Some people also sell free software without revealing that it is also available for free, and we do not condone such action.</div>Eelikhttps://wiki.crosswire.org/index.php?title=EnduserFAQ&diff=3699EnduserFAQ2008-07-16T17:03:54Z<p>Eelik: /* Questions about our software */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Public Community Forums and other places for help==<br />
CrossWire has public forums for our users to exchange tips and help each other. It is likely your question has been asked previously on our forums. You might even find some unexpected gems or post a few of your own: http://crosswire.org/forums<br />
<br />
http://www.crosswire.org is our main page. Scroll down to see the list of software and links to their home pages. Many applications have their own support systems and FAQs.<br />
<br />
We have a support mailing list, sword-support at crosswire.org. Other users can not see your question and answer it and users can not get benefit from previous answers. Therefore the forums are recommended. If you for some reason can not or do not want to use forums you can send private email to our support list. Whatever support tool you use, please read this FAQ and other documentation first.<br />
<br />
==End user FAQ==<br />
Here are some commonly asked questions about the CrossWire Bible Society and The SWORD Project and answers to them.<br />
<br />
CrossWire is a non-commercial organization which produces Bible related Free Software. We have several software products. We also have numerous text modules (Bible translations, commentaries, lexicons, ...) which can be used with our software. All products are made by individual volunteers who may or may not know each other's work. Therefore it is important that you first know which product you have questions about. Then you can select the category and question below. If your question is not answered here and you have to ask us directly, please attach as much information about your problem as possible, especially about the product you are using. Considering the volume of mail we receive daily and the few workers we have to answer support emails, vague email and email that asks questions clearly answered on this page are likely to go unanswered.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Questions about text modules===<br />
<br />
====Do you or will you have NIV/NASB/NLT/Message/NKJV/other translation?====<br />
NASB is under work and will be sold commercially by the Lockman publishing company. Most other copyright holders, including the publisher of the NIV, have not been interested in publishing their material in our format even when they could get money out of it. Strange world, isn't it?<br />
<br />
Some people recommend using a couple of good modern freely available translations instead. The ESV and NET are both high quality translations. <br />
<br />
The ESV is a word-for-word "essentially literal" translation which continues the KJV legacy but is based on modern textual criticism. It is freely [http://www.crosswire.org/sword/modules/ModInfo.jsp?modName=ESV downloadable from our repositories].<br />
<br />
The NET uses a more dynamic equivalence principle and is downloadable from [http://www.bible.org/page.php?page_id=3086 bible.org] in either a free (with registration) version containing limited notes or a premium ($20) version with the full NET translation note set.<br />
<br />
====Do you have the original King James/Authorized Version?====<br />
The original Authorized Version, also known as the King James Version, was published in 1611. This text is nearly unreadable. For an example of it, see [[KJV 1611]]. What we have is the 1769 version, that is the basis of today's printed versions, and that most people wrongly call the original.<br />
<br />
====What happened to the Portuguese module?====<br />
It was removed because it was not what it claimed to be and had errors. Negotiations are underway to provide another translation. You can find more information by using Google with "site:crosswire.org portuguese" or "sword-devel portuguese".<br />
<br />
Here is a quote from our forum discussions: "<i>...there is no such thing as the "João Ferreira de Almeida Atualizada". It's a corrupted copyrighted text, probably renamed to hide its source. There are numerous discussions of this issue to be found around the web, for example: http://pt.wikisource.org/wiki/Discuss%C3%A3o:Ferreira_de_Almeida_Atualizada<br />
<br />
I have checked the "João Ferreira de Almeida Atualizada" text against a number of Portuguese translations (both in print and in electronic editions). It is clearly derivative of copyrighted texts but I have not found any text by that title to exist. You don't have to take my word for it, but you will be wasting your time if you don't.</i>"<br />
<br />
====Where are the deuterocanonical books and the apocrypha?====<br />
Sword does not currently support any books other than the 66 OT/NT protocanonical books. The reason is technical, not theological. The SWORD Project is ecumenical, benefiting from the labor of workers from a broad gamut of Christian churches. Work is currently underway to support a broader canon.<br />
<br />
====May I use Sword Modules on my website?==== <br />
While our software can be freely redistributed, many modules have been licensed to Crosswire for distribution. To use those modules, you will need to obtain permission for yourself. <br />
<br />
====How do I convert Sword modules to text?==== <br />
We would like to discourage this. Please work with us in making our software better. <br />
<br />
But, if you really need the text, each module has a conf file which will tell you about the origin of the text. Please obtain the source the same way we did. You may not convert the modules that have been licensed to CrossWire for distribution. The KJV module is the only one for which we maintain the source, which you can obtain [http://www.crosswire.org/~dmsmith/kjv2006 here].<br />
<br />
====How do I convert modules from other Bible software (e.g. e-Sword, BibleWorks, or OLB) into Sword modules?====<br />
The SWORD Project does not support the conversion of texts from other Bible software vendors. By that, we mean that we neither encourage you or others to convert material from other software because it may violate licensing or copyright restrictions. Nor can we provide any assistance to those who choose to convert such material.<br />
<br />
====I have purchased and lost a key to a locked module. Can you tell me what it is?====<br />
The SWORD Project does not sell or handle locked module keys. You should contact the module vendor for help in this matter.<br />
<br />
====My Personal module shows some strange text, why?====<br />
For a while, there was a bug in the configuration file (mods.d\personal.conf) of the Personal module. You can download and re-install the latest version but you will lose any personal notes you have made. Alternatively, you can just replace the configuration file with the new one or open it in any text editor to remove the line reading "SourceType=ThML".<br />
<br />
===Questions about what we do for free or for money===<br />
<br />
====Would you send me free Bibles or other material?====<br />
No, we cannot send you free Bibles or other literature. Even though you may have read on other sites that we are able to help you get free material, that is not true. There is no money involved in our work and we handle only electronic material. All our products are freely downloadable on our web site (or their own web sites) and that is all we do.<br />
<br />
====Can I donate to your ministry?====<br />
While we appreciate offers of donations, the SWORD Project does not solicit or accept such offers. We have been blessed already by the donation of those resources which we do use. If you feel the need to donate to ministries outside your local church, you might consider [http://www.compassion.com/ Compassion International], [http://www.habitat.org/ Habitat for Humanity], [http://www.wycliffe.org/ Wycliffe Bible Translators], or [http://www.ccel.org Christian Classics Ethereal Library].<br />
<br />
====Would you donate to my ministry?====<br />
As our project does not solicit or accept donations and does not itself produce any profit, we do not have monetary or other resources to offer to other ministries either (besides downloadable resources).<br />
<br />
====Can I sell advertising on your website?====<br />
No, we do not allow advertising on our website, as you might have noticed.<br />
<br />
====Will you allow me to link to your website on my website in exchange for linking mine on yours?====<br />
You may link to our website, including to our [http://www.crosswire.org/study BibleTool]. However, we do not do link exchanges.<br />
<br />
====Where's my CD?====<br />
*NEEDS ATTENTION*<br />
<br />
<br />
===Questions about our software===<br />
<br />
If you don't find an answer to your question here and want to ask directly, PLEASE TELL US WHAT SOFTWARE YOU ARE USING. There are many products related to CrossWire. The most common is The Sword Project for Windows. It's extremely difficult to answer a question such as "I'm trying to open a Bible but it doesn't work" if we don't even know which application you are using. It also helps if you attach as much exact information about your problem as possible, for example, "After I have opened the program I select action A from the menu and click button B, but it does nothing". NOT something like "I can't do C".<br />
<br />
Many problems are due to outdated software or text modules. Please check first which version you are running. Notice also your operating system and version.<br />
<br />
<br />
====How do I uninstall?====<br />
The SWORD Project for Windows has an uninstaller which should be in the same place as the program. You can also just delete the folder and possible menu entries.<br />
<br />
====Do you have a "portable" version of your software that I can run from a USB disk/stick (or some other place)?====<br />
The SWORD Project for Windows is entirely installed under one folder, including the modules. You can copy it anywhere as it is and run the program from there. You can even move the folder from one computer to another or to a networked drive.<br />
<br />
BPBible has a [http://portableapps.com/node/12598 PortableApps edition]; this is still in development but should work. This integrates properly with the [http://portableapps.com/ PortableApps] suite.<br />
<br />
If you routinely use Windows, Linux and/or Mac, you may want to consider [http://www.crosswire.org/~dmsmith/bd Portable BibleDesktop].<br />
<br />
====When I read the Syriac Peshitta, Hebrew Bible, or (another module), all I see are boxes.====<br />
You need to install a Unicode font with the full range of characters used in the module you are trying to read.<br />
<br />
====I love your Bible Tool. May I install it on my church's website?====<br />
Yes. But while our software can be used in any way you wish, many of our modules may not.<br />
<br />
====Do you have a Sword program for my phone? my pda? my handheld?====<br />
Take a look to the left for the list of end user Bible tools. If we have it, it is listed there.<br />
Recently a version for Apple iPhone have been requested. Unfortunately there are licencing issues which have stopped this. Search in Internet for "sword-devel iPhone" to find out more.<br />
<br />
====Are there software packages for EeePC?====<br />
See [http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/index.php/Misc:EeePC this page].<br />
<br />
====I've found a bug. How do I report it?====<br />
Please email sword-bugs@crosswire.org with any bug reports. Please try to provide as much information as possible when filing a bug report: Tell us which version of Sword you are using, your operating system, what you were trying to do, what you expected to happen, what happened, how to reproduce the bug, etc.<br />
<br />
====Why doesn't your program do such and such? I'd like to see this feature added. If it had this feature it would be more competitive with other programs.====<br />
Yes, it would be nice, but this is a volunteer based project, and we do this in our free time. Help if you can and give feedback. We know that complaining is always a temptation, but instead, please pray for us. That is the best way to help the project.<br />
<br />
====How do I do something in MacSword? BibleTime? GnomeSword? BibleDesktop? The SWORD Project for Windows?====<br />
There are links to each of the projects on the left. Please read their attached documentation and the other supporting material for the project you are using. You may need to go to their website to find this. Many problems will be solved by reading the documentation and following the instructions. After that use the support forum/list/pages of that project. After that you can ask your question in our forum or our support list.<br />
<br />
====Somebody sells your software on the Internet. Is this ok?====<br />
It's not forbidden to sell [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html Free Software]. However, according to the licence, the source code must be included. Some people also sell free software without revealing that it is also available for free, and we do not condone such action.</div>Eelikhttps://wiki.crosswire.org/index.php?title=EnduserFAQ&diff=3698EnduserFAQ2008-07-16T16:55:13Z<p>Eelik: /* Do you have a Sword program for my phone? my pda? my handheld? */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Public Community Forums and other places for help==<br />
CrossWire has public forums for our users to exchange tips and help each other. It is likely your question has been asked previously on our forums. You might even find some unexpected gems or post a few of your own: http://crosswire.org/forums<br />
<br />
http://www.crosswire.org is our main page. Scroll down to see the list of software and links to their home pages. Many applications have their own support systems and FAQs.<br />
<br />
We have a support mailing list, sword-support at crosswire.org. Other users can not see your question and answer it and users can not get benefit from previous answers. Therefore the forums are recommended. If you for some reason can not or do not want to use forums you can send private email to our support list. Whatever support tool you use, please read this FAQ and other documentation first.<br />
<br />
==End user FAQ==<br />
Here are some commonly asked questions about the CrossWire Bible Society and The SWORD Project and answers to them.<br />
<br />
CrossWire is a non-commercial organization which produces Bible related Free Software. We have several software products. We also have numerous text modules (Bible translations, commentaries, lexicons, ...) which can be used with our software. All products are made by individual volunteers who may or may not know each other's work. Therefore it is important that you first know which product you have questions about. Then you can select the category and question below. If your question is not answered here and you have to ask us directly, please attach as much information about your problem as possible, especially about the product you are using. Considering the volume of mail we receive daily and the few workers we have to answer support emails, vague email and email that asks questions clearly answered on this page are likely to go unanswered.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Questions about text modules===<br />
<br />
====Do you or will you have NIV/NASB/NLT/Message/NKJV/other translation?====<br />
NASB is under work and will be sold commercially by the Lockman publishing company. Most other copyright holders, including the publisher of the NIV, have not been interested in publishing their material in our format even when they could get money out of it. Strange world, isn't it?<br />
<br />
Some people recommend using a couple of good modern freely available translations instead. The ESV and NET are both high quality translations. <br />
<br />
The ESV is a word-for-word "essentially literal" translation which continues the KJV legacy but is based on modern textual criticism. It is freely [http://www.crosswire.org/sword/modules/ModInfo.jsp?modName=ESV downloadable from our repositories].<br />
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The NET uses a more dynamic equivalence principle and is downloadable from [http://www.bible.org/page.php?page_id=3086 bible.org] in either a free (with registration) version containing limited notes or a premium ($20) version with the full NET translation note set.<br />
<br />
====Do you have the original King James/Authorized Version?====<br />
The original Authorized Version, also known as the King James Version, was published in 1611. This text is nearly unreadable. For an example of it, see [[KJV 1611]]. What we have is the 1769 version, that is the basis of today's printed versions, and that most people wrongly call the original.<br />
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====What happened to the Portuguese module?====<br />
It was removed because it was not what it claimed to be and had errors. Negotiations are underway to provide another translation. You can find more information by using Google with "site:crosswire.org portuguese" or "sword-devel portuguese".<br />
<br />
Here is a quote from our forum discussions: "<i>...there is no such thing as the "João Ferreira de Almeida Atualizada". It's a corrupted copyrighted text, probably renamed to hide its source. There are numerous discussions of this issue to be found around the web, for example: http://pt.wikisource.org/wiki/Discuss%C3%A3o:Ferreira_de_Almeida_Atualizada<br />
<br />
I have checked the "João Ferreira de Almeida Atualizada" text against a number of Portuguese translations (both in print and in electronic editions). It is clearly derivative of copyrighted texts but I have not found any text by that title to exist. You don't have to take my word for it, but you will be wasting your time if you don't.</i>"<br />
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====Where are the deuterocanonical books and the apocrypha?====<br />
Sword does not currently support any books other than the 66 OT/NT protocanonical books. The reason is technical, not theological. The SWORD Project is ecumenical, benefiting from the labor of workers from a broad gamut of Christian churches. Work is currently underway to support a broader canon.<br />
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====May I use Sword Modules on my website?==== <br />
While our software can be freely redistributed, many modules have been licensed to Crosswire for distribution. To use those modules, you will need to obtain permission for yourself. <br />
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====How do I convert Sword modules to text?==== <br />
We would like to discourage this. Please work with us in making our software better. <br />
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But, if you really need the text, each module has a conf file which will tell you about the origin of the text. Please obtain the source the same way we did. You may not convert the modules that have been licensed to CrossWire for distribution. The KJV module is the only one for which we maintain the source, which you can obtain [http://www.crosswire.org/~dmsmith/kjv2006 here].<br />
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====How do I convert modules from other Bible software (e.g. e-Sword, BibleWorks, or OLB) into Sword modules?====<br />
The SWORD Project does not support the conversion of texts from other Bible software vendors. By that, we mean that we neither encourage you or others to convert material from other software because it may violate licensing or copyright restrictions. Nor can we provide any assistance to those who choose to convert such material.<br />
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====I have purchased and lost a key to a locked module. Can you tell me what it is?====<br />
The SWORD Project does not sell or handle locked module keys. You should contact the module vendor for help in this matter.<br />
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====My Personal module shows some strange text, why?====<br />
For a while, there was a bug in the configuration file (mods.d\personal.conf) of the Personal module. You can download and re-install the latest version but you will lose any personal notes you have made. Alternatively, you can just replace the configuration file with the new one or open it in any text editor to remove the line reading "SourceType=ThML".<br />
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===Questions about what we do for free or for money===<br />
<br />
====Would you send me free Bibles or other material?====<br />
No, we cannot send you free Bibles or other literature. Even though you may have read on other sites that we are able to help you get free material, that is not true. There is no money involved in our work and we handle only electronic material. All our products are freely downloadable on our web site (or their own web sites) and that is all we do.<br />
<br />
====Can I donate to your ministry?====<br />
While we appreciate offers of donations, the SWORD Project does not solicit or accept such offers. We have been blessed already by the donation of those resources which we do use. If you feel the need to donate to ministries outside your local church, you might consider [http://www.compassion.com/ Compassion International], [http://www.habitat.org/ Habitat for Humanity], [http://www.wycliffe.org/ Wycliffe Bible Translators], or [http://www.ccel.org Christian Classics Ethereal Library].<br />
<br />
====Would you donate to my ministry?====<br />
As our project does not solicit or accept donations and does not itself produce any profit, we do not have monetary or other resources to offer to other ministries either (besides downloadable resources).<br />
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====Can I sell advertising on your website?====<br />
No, we do not allow advertising on our website, as you might have noticed.<br />
<br />
====Will you allow me to link to your website on my website in exchange for linking mine on yours?====<br />
You may link to our website, including to our [http://www.crosswire.org/study BibleTool]. However, we do not do link exchanges.<br />
<br />
====Where's my CD?====<br />
*NEEDS ATTENTION*<br />
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<br />
===Questions about our software===<br />
<br />
If you don't find an answer to your question here and want to ask directly, PLEASE TELL US WHAT SOFTWARE YOU ARE USING. There are many products related to CrossWire. The most common is The Sword Project for Windows. It's extremely difficult to answer a question such as "I'm trying to open a Bible but it doesn't work" if we don't even know which application you are using. It also helps if you attach as much exact information about your problem as possible, for example, "After I have opened the program I select action A from the menu and click button B, but it does nothing". NOT something like "I can't do C".<br />
<br />
Many problems are due to outdated software or text modules. Please check first which version you are running. Notice also your operating system and version.<br />
<br />
<br />
====How do I uninstall?====<br />
The SWORD Project for Windows has an uninstaller which should be in the same place as the program. You can also just delete the folder and possible menu entries.<br />
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====Do you have a "portable" version of your software that I can run from a USB disk/stick (or some other place)?====<br />
The SWORD Project for Windows is entirely installed under one folder, including the modules. You can copy it anywhere as it is and run the program from there. You can even move the folder from one computer to another or to a networked drive.<br />
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BPBible has a [http://portableapps.com/node/12598 PortableApps edition]; this is still in development but should work. This integrates properly with the [http://portableapps.com/ PortableApps] suite.<br />
<br />
If you routinely use Windows, Linux and/or Mac, you may want to consider [http://www.crosswire.org/~dmsmith/bd Portable BibleDesktop].<br />
<br />
====When I read the Syriac Peshitta, Hebrew Bible, or (another module), all I see are boxes.====<br />
You need to install a Unicode font with the full range of characters used in the module you are trying to read.<br />
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====I love your Bible Tool. May I install it on my church's website?====<br />
Yes. But while our software can be used in any way you wish, many of our modules may not.<br />
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====Do you have a Sword program for my phone? my pda? my handheld?====<br />
Take a look to the left for the list of end user Bible tools. If we have it, it is listed there.<br />
Recently a version for Apple iPhone have been requested. Unfortunately there are licencing issues which have stopped this. Search in Internet for "sword-devel iPhone" to find out more.<br />
<br />
====I've found a bug. How do I report it?====<br />
Please email sword-bugs@crosswire.org with any bug reports. Please try to provide as much information as possible when filing a bug report: Tell us which version of Sword you are using, your operating system, what you were trying to do, what you expected to happen, what happened, how to reproduce the bug, etc.<br />
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====Why doesn't your program do such and such? I'd like to see this feature added. If it had this feature it would be more competitive with other programs.====<br />
Yes, it would be nice, but this is a volunteer based project, and we do this in our free time. Help if you can and give feedback. We know that complaining is always a temptation, but instead, please pray for us. That is the best way to help the project.<br />
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====How do I do something in MacSword? BibleTime? GnomeSword? BibleDesktop? The SWORD Project for Windows?====<br />
There are links to each of the projects on the left. Please read their attached documentation and the other supporting material for the project you are using. You may need to go to their website to find this. Many problems will be solved by reading the documentation and following the instructions. After that use the support forum/list/pages of that project. After that you can ask your question in our forum or our support list.<br />
<br />
====Somebody sells your software on the Internet. Is this ok?====<br />
It's not forbidden to sell [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html Free Software]. However, according to the licence, the source code must be included. Some people also sell free software without revealing that it is also available for free, and we do not condone such action.</div>Eelikhttps://wiki.crosswire.org/index.php?title=Testing_of_new_modules&diff=3186Testing of new modules2008-06-17T05:00:04Z<p>Eelik: /* Bibles */</p>
<hr />
<div>This is a new page. We should have some common criteria which we put down to testing a module.<br />
<br />
All modules listed on [[Modules in the beta repository]] will require testing.<br />
<br />
==All modules==<br />
Conf file should be encoded correctly with the same encoding as the module. "About" section should not have formatting or tags which are not mentioned in the [[DevTools:Modules#Creating_a_.conf_File|.conf wiki section]].<br />
<br />
All features should be listed in the conf file of the module. If not, all frontends can't use the features. (TODO: how to know what the features should be?)<br />
<br />
Try to find a piece of text for each feature. Does it work with all frontends which support that feature?<br />
<br />
==Bibles==<br />
Open the first and the last verse of each book. (TODO: list of books and their last chapter:verse?) Compare them to a module you know is correct to see if they have the correct text (if you know or at least can guess the words of the language).<br />
<br />
Select some random verses from each book and see if they are correct.<br />
<br />
If you find a missing verse go back in the module to see if a verse or a bunch of verses has been moved to the end of the previous verse. In this case the original text had a different versification scheme than the KJV one we use ATM. It would be a good practice to notify this in the conf file "About" section.<br />
<br />
==Genbooks==<br />
Try to navigate in the tree structure. Try to find a more "original" source text or some other source from which you can see what the book should contain. Comparing several frontends is helpful. For example there have been problems with certain modules when some frontends try to get the key list in certain way. Some frontends may fail there while others succeed.<br />
<br />
==Lexicons==<br />
Try to access the first and the last entry. If a frontend offers more than one way to move between the entries try all of them. Broken modules may have for example infinite loops.</div>Eelikhttps://wiki.crosswire.org/index.php?title=Testing_of_new_modules&diff=2990Testing of new modules2008-06-06T15:25:38Z<p>Eelik: </p>
<hr />
<div>This is a new page. We should have some common criteria which we put down to testing a module.<br />
<br />
==All modules==<br />
Conf file should be encoded correctly with the same encoding as the module. "About" section should not have formatting or tags which are not mentioned in the [[DevTools:Modules#Creating_a_.conf_File|.conf wiki section]].<br />
<br />
All features should be listed in the conf file of the module. If not, all frontends can't use the features. (TODO: how to know what the features should be?)<br />
<br />
Try to find a piece of text for each feature. Does it work with all frontends which support that feature?<br />
<br />
==Bibles==<br />
Open the first and the last verse of each book. (TODO: list of books and their last chapter:verse?) Compare them to a module you know is correct to see if they have the correct text (if you know or at least can guess the words of the language).<br />
<br />
Select some random verses from each book and see if they are correct.<br />
<br />
==Genbooks==<br />
Try to navigate in the tree structure. Try to find a more "original" source text or some other source from which you can see what the book should contain. Comparing several frontends is helpful. For example there have been problems with certain modules when some frontends try to get the key list in certain way. Some frontends may fail there while others succeed.<br />
<br />
==Lexicons==<br />
Try to access the first and the last entry. If a frontend offers more than one way to move between the entries try all of them. Broken modules may have for example infinite loops.</div>Eelikhttps://wiki.crosswire.org/index.php?title=Frontends:FeatureList&diff=2968Frontends:FeatureList2008-05-25T11:36:47Z<p>Eelik: /* Other */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Sword Frontend Ideal Feature List=<br />
<br />
==General UI features==<br />
* Bible reading<br />
* Parallel view for Bibles<br />
* Parallel view for commentaries<br />
* Search for all modules<br />
* Hyperlinked scripture references<br />
* Full unicode support/proper encoding support for all interface elements and all modules<br />
* Font choice on a global level and on a per language and/or per module level<br />
* Transcoding and transliteration support (probably implemented with ICU).<br />
<br />
==Module support==<br />
For bibles, the following should be able to be turned on and off (if included in the underlying module and if the frontend does not implement that feature in some other way):<br />
* Headings<br />
* Cross references (display & toggle)<br />
* Footnotes (display & toggle)<br />
* Strong's Numbers (display & toggle)<br />
* Morphology (display & toggle)<br />
* Toggling and/or simultaneous display of textual variants<br />
* Red letters of Christ<br />
* Toggling of Hebrew cantillation (important), vowels (less important), & morpheme segmentation (important?) and of Greek accents (fairly unimportant)<br />
<br />
Genbooks, dictionaries and commentaries should all be supported.<br />
<br />
==User resources==<br />
The frontend should support user created material. Users should be able to put references in to any passage in the bible, or to any other module.<br />
Users should be able to create both commentaries and hierarchical books (and possibly dictionaries, i.e. topical notes).<br />
<br />
Users should also be able to manage (create, edit, save) verse lists, possibly with comments on each verse.<br />
<br />
Users should be able to manage bookmarks in a tree list.<br />
<br />
==Search Features==<br />
Search should have the following features:<br />
* Multiword search<br />
* Phrase search<br />
* Search Ranges (user definable)<br />
* Implemented for all modules<br />
* Multiple modules simultaneously<br />
* Search history<br />
<br />
The search should also be able to complete a search very quickly (<5 seconds). <br />
It should by default match on full words (that is, searching for eat doesn't match verses with meat).<br />
This will probably be done using (C)lucene.<br />
<br />
Ideally the different Sword search engines would be supported.<br />
<br />
==Usability==<br />
The frontend should be easy for users to use. Most of its features (and all of its major features) should be able to be used without having to look at the manual.<br />
Also, it should not contain bugs or crash.<br />
* These kind of statements are so bogus that they actually mean nothing. All software should be easy to use and bugfree. [[User:Eelik|Eelik]] 05:34, 25 May 2008 (MDT)<br />
<br />
==Module installer features==<br />
The frontend should allow remote installation of modules from both the Crosswire website, and any other websites the user adds to their list. <br />
It should also allow the user to install the downloaded zips. Preferably, it should be able to install any of the forms of zip downloadable from the Crosswire website - raw zip, windows or mac.<br />
<br />
==Other==<br />
The ideal frontend should be open source (preferably GPL).<br />
* Any frontend using the Sword library MUST be GPL. [[User:Eelik|Eelik]] 05:36, 25 May 2008 (MDT)</div>Eelikhttps://wiki.crosswire.org/index.php?title=Frontends:FeatureList&diff=2967Frontends:FeatureList2008-05-25T11:34:44Z<p>Eelik: /* Usability */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Sword Frontend Ideal Feature List=<br />
<br />
==General UI features==<br />
* Bible reading<br />
* Parallel view for Bibles<br />
* Parallel view for commentaries<br />
* Search for all modules<br />
* Hyperlinked scripture references<br />
* Full unicode support/proper encoding support for all interface elements and all modules<br />
* Font choice on a global level and on a per language and/or per module level<br />
* Transcoding and transliteration support (probably implemented with ICU).<br />
<br />
==Module support==<br />
For bibles, the following should be able to be turned on and off (if included in the underlying module and if the frontend does not implement that feature in some other way):<br />
* Headings<br />
* Cross references (display & toggle)<br />
* Footnotes (display & toggle)<br />
* Strong's Numbers (display & toggle)<br />
* Morphology (display & toggle)<br />
* Toggling and/or simultaneous display of textual variants<br />
* Red letters of Christ<br />
* Toggling of Hebrew cantillation (important), vowels (less important), & morpheme segmentation (important?) and of Greek accents (fairly unimportant)<br />
<br />
Genbooks, dictionaries and commentaries should all be supported.<br />
<br />
==User resources==<br />
The frontend should support user created material. Users should be able to put references in to any passage in the bible, or to any other module.<br />
Users should be able to create both commentaries and hierarchical books (and possibly dictionaries, i.e. topical notes).<br />
<br />
Users should also be able to manage (create, edit, save) verse lists, possibly with comments on each verse.<br />
<br />
Users should be able to manage bookmarks in a tree list.<br />
<br />
==Search Features==<br />
Search should have the following features:<br />
* Multiword search<br />
* Phrase search<br />
* Search Ranges (user definable)<br />
* Implemented for all modules<br />
* Multiple modules simultaneously<br />
* Search history<br />
<br />
The search should also be able to complete a search very quickly (<5 seconds). <br />
It should by default match on full words (that is, searching for eat doesn't match verses with meat).<br />
This will probably be done using (C)lucene.<br />
<br />
Ideally the different Sword search engines would be supported.<br />
<br />
==Usability==<br />
The frontend should be easy for users to use. Most of its features (and all of its major features) should be able to be used without having to look at the manual.<br />
Also, it should not contain bugs or crash.<br />
* These kind of statements are so bogus that they actually mean nothing. All software should be easy to use and bugfree. [[User:Eelik|Eelik]] 05:34, 25 May 2008 (MDT)<br />
<br />
==Module installer features==<br />
The frontend should allow remote installation of modules from both the Crosswire website, and any other websites the user adds to their list. <br />
It should also allow the user to install the downloaded zips. Preferably, it should be able to install any of the forms of zip downloadable from the Crosswire website - raw zip, windows or mac.<br />
<br />
==Other==<br />
The ideal frontend should be open source (preferably GPL).</div>Eelikhttps://wiki.crosswire.org/index.php?title=Frontends:FeatureList&diff=2966Frontends:FeatureList2008-05-25T11:32:53Z<p>Eelik: /* Search Features */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Sword Frontend Ideal Feature List=<br />
<br />
==General UI features==<br />
* Bible reading<br />
* Parallel view for Bibles<br />
* Parallel view for commentaries<br />
* Search for all modules<br />
* Hyperlinked scripture references<br />
* Full unicode support/proper encoding support for all interface elements and all modules<br />
* Font choice on a global level and on a per language and/or per module level<br />
* Transcoding and transliteration support (probably implemented with ICU).<br />
<br />
==Module support==<br />
For bibles, the following should be able to be turned on and off (if included in the underlying module and if the frontend does not implement that feature in some other way):<br />
* Headings<br />
* Cross references (display & toggle)<br />
* Footnotes (display & toggle)<br />
* Strong's Numbers (display & toggle)<br />
* Morphology (display & toggle)<br />
* Toggling and/or simultaneous display of textual variants<br />
* Red letters of Christ<br />
* Toggling of Hebrew cantillation (important), vowels (less important), & morpheme segmentation (important?) and of Greek accents (fairly unimportant)<br />
<br />
Genbooks, dictionaries and commentaries should all be supported.<br />
<br />
==User resources==<br />
The frontend should support user created material. Users should be able to put references in to any passage in the bible, or to any other module.<br />
Users should be able to create both commentaries and hierarchical books (and possibly dictionaries, i.e. topical notes).<br />
<br />
Users should also be able to manage (create, edit, save) verse lists, possibly with comments on each verse.<br />
<br />
Users should be able to manage bookmarks in a tree list.<br />
<br />
==Search Features==<br />
Search should have the following features:<br />
* Multiword search<br />
* Phrase search<br />
* Search Ranges (user definable)<br />
* Implemented for all modules<br />
* Multiple modules simultaneously<br />
* Search history<br />
<br />
The search should also be able to complete a search very quickly (<5 seconds). <br />
It should by default match on full words (that is, searching for eat doesn't match verses with meat).<br />
This will probably be done using (C)lucene.<br />
<br />
Ideally the different Sword search engines would be supported.<br />
<br />
==Usability==<br />
The frontend should be easy for users to use. Most of its features (and all of its major features) should be able to be used without having to look at the manual.<br />
Also, it should not contain bugs or crash.<br />
<br />
==Module installer features==<br />
The frontend should allow remote installation of modules from both the Crosswire website, and any other websites the user adds to their list. <br />
It should also allow the user to install the downloaded zips. Preferably, it should be able to install any of the forms of zip downloadable from the Crosswire website - raw zip, windows or mac.<br />
<br />
==Other==<br />
The ideal frontend should be open source (preferably GPL).</div>Eelikhttps://wiki.crosswire.org/index.php?title=Frontends:FeatureList&diff=2965Frontends:FeatureList2008-05-25T11:30:17Z<p>Eelik: /* User resources */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Sword Frontend Ideal Feature List=<br />
<br />
==General UI features==<br />
* Bible reading<br />
* Parallel view for Bibles<br />
* Parallel view for commentaries<br />
* Search for all modules<br />
* Hyperlinked scripture references<br />
* Full unicode support/proper encoding support for all interface elements and all modules<br />
* Font choice on a global level and on a per language and/or per module level<br />
* Transcoding and transliteration support (probably implemented with ICU).<br />
<br />
==Module support==<br />
For bibles, the following should be able to be turned on and off (if included in the underlying module and if the frontend does not implement that feature in some other way):<br />
* Headings<br />
* Cross references (display & toggle)<br />
* Footnotes (display & toggle)<br />
* Strong's Numbers (display & toggle)<br />
* Morphology (display & toggle)<br />
* Toggling and/or simultaneous display of textual variants<br />
* Red letters of Christ<br />
* Toggling of Hebrew cantillation (important), vowels (less important), & morpheme segmentation (important?) and of Greek accents (fairly unimportant)<br />
<br />
Genbooks, dictionaries and commentaries should all be supported.<br />
<br />
==User resources==<br />
The frontend should support user created material. Users should be able to put references in to any passage in the bible, or to any other module.<br />
Users should be able to create both commentaries and hierarchical books (and possibly dictionaries, i.e. topical notes).<br />
<br />
Users should also be able to manage (create, edit, save) verse lists, possibly with comments on each verse.<br />
<br />
Users should be able to manage bookmarks in a tree list.<br />
<br />
==Search Features==<br />
Search should have the following features:<br />
* Multiword search<br />
* Phrase search<br />
* Search Ranges<br />
<br />
The search should also be able to complete a search very quickly (<5 seconds). <br />
It should by default match on full words (that is, searching for eat doesn't match verses with meat).<br />
This will probably be done using (C)lucene.<br />
<br />
==Usability==<br />
The frontend should be easy for users to use. Most of its features (and all of its major features) should be able to be used without having to look at the manual.<br />
Also, it should not contain bugs or crash.<br />
<br />
==Module installer features==<br />
The frontend should allow remote installation of modules from both the Crosswire website, and any other websites the user adds to their list. <br />
It should also allow the user to install the downloaded zips. Preferably, it should be able to install any of the forms of zip downloadable from the Crosswire website - raw zip, windows or mac.<br />
<br />
==Other==<br />
The ideal frontend should be open source (preferably GPL).</div>Eelikhttps://wiki.crosswire.org/index.php?title=Frontends:FeatureList&diff=2964Frontends:FeatureList2008-05-25T11:28:48Z<p>Eelik: /* Module support */</p>
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<div>=Sword Frontend Ideal Feature List=<br />
<br />
==General UI features==<br />
* Bible reading<br />
* Parallel view for Bibles<br />
* Parallel view for commentaries<br />
* Search for all modules<br />
* Hyperlinked scripture references<br />
* Full unicode support/proper encoding support for all interface elements and all modules<br />
* Font choice on a global level and on a per language and/or per module level<br />
* Transcoding and transliteration support (probably implemented with ICU).<br />
<br />
==Module support==<br />
For bibles, the following should be able to be turned on and off (if included in the underlying module and if the frontend does not implement that feature in some other way):<br />
* Headings<br />
* Cross references (display & toggle)<br />
* Footnotes (display & toggle)<br />
* Strong's Numbers (display & toggle)<br />
* Morphology (display & toggle)<br />
* Toggling and/or simultaneous display of textual variants<br />
* Red letters of Christ<br />
* Toggling of Hebrew cantillation (important), vowels (less important), & morpheme segmentation (important?) and of Greek accents (fairly unimportant)<br />
<br />
Genbooks, dictionaries and commentaries should all be supported.<br />
<br />
==User resources==<br />
The frontend should support user created material. Users should be able to put references in to any passage in the bible, or to any other module.<br />
Users should be able to create both commentaries and hierarchical books (and possibly dictionaries, i.e. topical notes).<br />
<br />
Users should also be able to create verse lists, possibly with comments on each verse.<br />
<br />
==Search Features==<br />
Search should have the following features:<br />
* Multiword search<br />
* Phrase search<br />
* Search Ranges<br />
<br />
The search should also be able to complete a search very quickly (<5 seconds). <br />
It should by default match on full words (that is, searching for eat doesn't match verses with meat).<br />
This will probably be done using (C)lucene.<br />
<br />
==Usability==<br />
The frontend should be easy for users to use. Most of its features (and all of its major features) should be able to be used without having to look at the manual.<br />
Also, it should not contain bugs or crash.<br />
<br />
==Module installer features==<br />
The frontend should allow remote installation of modules from both the Crosswire website, and any other websites the user adds to their list. <br />
It should also allow the user to install the downloaded zips. Preferably, it should be able to install any of the forms of zip downloadable from the Crosswire website - raw zip, windows or mac.<br />
<br />
==Other==<br />
The ideal frontend should be open source (preferably GPL).</div>Eelikhttps://wiki.crosswire.org/index.php?title=Frontends:FeatureList&diff=2963Frontends:FeatureList2008-05-25T11:26:34Z<p>Eelik: /* General UI features */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Sword Frontend Ideal Feature List=<br />
<br />
==General UI features==<br />
* Bible reading<br />
* Parallel view for Bibles<br />
* Parallel view for commentaries<br />
* Search for all modules<br />
* Hyperlinked scripture references<br />
* Full unicode support/proper encoding support for all interface elements and all modules<br />
* Font choice on a global level and on a per language and/or per module level<br />
* Transcoding and transliteration support (probably implemented with ICU).<br />
<br />
==Module support==<br />
For bibles, the following should be able to be turned on and off (if included in the underlying module):<br />
* Headings<br />
* Cross references (display & toggle)<br />
* Footnotes (display & toggle)<br />
* Strong's Numbers (display & toggle)<br />
* Morphology (display & toggle)<br />
* Toggling and/or simultaneous display of textual variants<br />
* Toggling of Hebrew cantillation (important), vowels (less important), & morpheme segmentation (important?) and of Greek accents (fairly unimportant)<br />
<br />
Genbooks, dictionaries and commentaries should all be supported.<br />
<br />
==User resources==<br />
The frontend should support user created material. Users should be able to put references in to any passage in the bible, or to any other module.<br />
Users should be able to create both commentaries and hierarchical books (and possibly dictionaries, i.e. topical notes).<br />
<br />
Users should also be able to create verse lists, possibly with comments on each verse.<br />
<br />
==Search Features==<br />
Search should have the following features:<br />
* Multiword search<br />
* Phrase search<br />
* Search Ranges<br />
<br />
The search should also be able to complete a search very quickly (<5 seconds). <br />
It should by default match on full words (that is, searching for eat doesn't match verses with meat).<br />
This will probably be done using (C)lucene.<br />
<br />
==Usability==<br />
The frontend should be easy for users to use. Most of its features (and all of its major features) should be able to be used without having to look at the manual.<br />
Also, it should not contain bugs or crash.<br />
<br />
==Module installer features==<br />
The frontend should allow remote installation of modules from both the Crosswire website, and any other websites the user adds to their list. <br />
It should also allow the user to install the downloaded zips. Preferably, it should be able to install any of the forms of zip downloadable from the Crosswire website - raw zip, windows or mac.<br />
<br />
==Other==<br />
The ideal frontend should be open source (preferably GPL).</div>Eelikhttps://wiki.crosswire.org/index.php?title=EnduserFAQ&diff=2834EnduserFAQ2008-02-01T14:27:05Z<p>Eelik: /* What happened to the Portuguese module? */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Public Community Forums and other places for help==<br />
CrossWire has public forums for our users to exchange tips and help each other. It is likely your question has been asked previously on our forums. You might even find some unexpected gems or post a few of your own: http://crosswire.org/forums<br />
<br />
http://www.crosswire.org is our main page. Scroll down to see the list of software and links to their home pages. Many applications have their own support systems and FAQs.<br />
<br />
We have a support mailing list, sword-support at crosswire.org. Other users can not see your question and answer it and users can not get benefit from previous answers. Therefore the forums are recommended. If you for some reason can not or do not want to use forums you can send private email to our support list. Whatever support tool you use, please read this FAQ and other documentation first.<br />
<br />
==End user FAQ==<br />
Here are some commonly asked questions about the CrossWire Bible Society and The SWORD Project and answers to them.<br />
<br />
CrossWire is a non-commercial organization which produces Bible related Free Software. We have several software products. We also have numerous text modules (Bible translations, commentaries, lexicons, ...) which can be used with our software. All products are made by individual volunteers who may or may not know each other's work. Therefore it is important that you first know which product you have questions about. Then you can select the category and question below. If your question is not answered here and you have to ask us directly, please attach as much information about your problem as possible, especially about the product you are using. Considering the volume of mail we receive daily and the few workers we have to answer support emails, vague email and email that asks questions clearly answered on this page are likely to go unanswered.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Questions about text modules===<br />
<br />
====Do you or will you have NIV/NASB/NLT/Message/NKJV/other translation?====<br />
NASB is under work and will be sold commercially by the Lockman publishing company. Most other copyright holders, including the publisher of the NIV, have not been interested in publishing their material in our format even when they could get money out of it. Strange world, isn't it?<br />
<br />
Some people recommend using a couple of good modern freely available translations instead. The ESV and NET are both high quality translations. <br />
<br />
The ESV is a word-for-word "essentially literal" translation which continues the KJV legacy but is based on modern textual criticism. It is freely [http://www.crosswire.org/sword/modules/ModInfo.jsp?modName=ESV downloadable from our repositories].<br />
<br />
The NET uses a more dynamic equivalence principle and is downloadable from [http://www.bible.org/page.php?page_id=3086 bible.org] in either a free (with registration) version containing limited notes or a premium ($20) version with the full NET translation note set.<br />
<br />
====What happened to the Portuguese module?====<br />
It was removed because it was not what it claimed to be and had errors. Negotiations are underway to provide another translation. You can find more information by using Google with "site:crosswire.org portuguese" or "sword-devel portuguese".<br />
<br />
Here is a quote from our forum discussions: "<i>...there is no such thing as the "João Ferreira de Almeida Atualizada". It's a corrupted copyrighted text, probably renamed to hide its source. There are numerous discussions of this issue to be found around the web, for example: http://pt.wikisource.org/wiki/Discuss%C3%A3o:Ferreira_de_Almeida_Atualizada<br />
<br />
I have checked the "João Ferreira de Almeida Atualizada" text against a number of Portuguese translations (both in print and in electronic editions). It is clearly derivative of copyrighted texts but I have not found any text by that title to exist. You don't have to take my word for it, but you will be wasting your time if you don't.</i>"<br />
<br />
====Where are the deuterocanonical books and the apocrypha?====<br />
Sword does not currently support any books other than the 66 OT/NT protocanonical books. The reason is technical, not theological. The SWORD Project is ecumenical, benefiting from the labor of workers from a broad gamut of Christian churches. Work is currently underway to support a broader canon.<br />
<br />
====May I use Sword Modules on my website?==== <br />
While our software can be freely redistributed, many modules have been licensed to Crosswire for distribution. To use those modules, you will need to obtain permission for yourself. <br />
<br />
====How do I convert Sword modules to text?==== <br />
We would like to discourage this. Please work with us in making our software better. <br />
<br />
But, if you really need the text, each module has a conf file which will tell you about the origin of the text. Please obtain the source the same way we did. You may not convert the modules that have been licensed to CrossWire for distribution. The KJV module is the only one for which we maintain the source, which you can obtain [http://www.crosswire.org/~dmsmith/kjv2006 here].<br />
<br />
====How do I convert modules from other Bible software (e.g. e-Sword, BibleWorks, or OLB) into Sword modules?====<br />
The SWORD Project does not support the conversion of texts from other Bible software vendors. By that, we mean that we neither encourage you or others to convert material from other software because it may violate licensing or copyright restrictions. Nor can we provide any assistance to those who choose to convert such material.<br />
<br />
====I have purchased and lost a key to a locked module. Can you tell me what it is?====<br />
The SWORD Project does not sell or handle locked module keys. You should contact the module vendor for help in this matter.<br />
<br />
====My Personal module shows some strange text, why?====<br />
For a while, there was a bug in the configuration file (mods.d\personal.conf) of the Personal module. You can download and re-install the latest version but you will lose any personal notes you have made. Alternatively, you can just replace the configuration file with the new one or open it in any text editor to remove the line reading "SourceType=ThML".<br />
<br />
===Questions about what we do for free or for money===<br />
<br />
====Would you send me free Bibles or other material?====<br />
No, we cannot send you free Bibles or other literature. Even though you may have read on other sites that we are able to help you get free material, that is not true. There is no money involved in our work and we handle only electronic material. All our products are freely downloadable on our web site (or their own web sites) and that is all we do.<br />
<br />
====Can I donate to your ministry?====<br />
While we appreciate offers of donations, the SWORD Project does not solicit or accept such offers. We have been blessed already by the donation of those resources which we do use. If you feel the need to donate to ministries outside your local church, you might consider [http://www.compassion.com/ Compassion International], [http://www.habitat.org/ Habitat for Humanity], [http://www.wycliffe.org/ Wycliffe Bible Translators], or [http://www.ccel.org Christian Classics Ethereal Library].<br />
<br />
====Would you donate to my ministry?====<br />
As our project does not solicit or accept donations and does not itself produce any profit, we do not have monetary or other resources to offer to other ministries either (besides downloadable resources).<br />
<br />
====Can I sell advertising on your website?====<br />
No, we do not allow advertising on our website, as you might have noticed.<br />
<br />
====Will you allow me to link to your website on my website in exchange for linking mine on yours?====<br />
You may link to our website, including to our [http://www.crosswire.org/study BibleTool]. However, we do not do link exchanges.<br />
<br />
====Where's my CD?====<br />
*NEEDS ATTENTION*<br />
<br />
<br />
===Questions about our software===<br />
<br />
If you don't find an answer to your question here and want to ask directly, PLEASE TELL US WHAT SOFTWARE YOU ARE USING. There are many products related to CrossWire. The most common is The Sword Project for Windows. It's extremely difficult to answer a question such as "I'm trying to open a Bible but it doesn't work" if we don't even know which application you are using. It also helps if you attach as much exact information about your problem as possible, for example, "After I have opened the program I select action A from the menu and click button B, but it does nothing". NOT something like "I can't do C".<br />
<br />
Many problems are due to outdated software or text modules. Please check first which version you are running. Notice also your operating system and version.<br />
<br />
<br />
====How do I uninstall?====<br />
The SWORD Project for Windows has an uninstaller which should be in the same place as the program. You can also just delete the folder and possible menu entries.<br />
<br />
====Do you have a "portable" version of your software that I can run from a USB disk/stick (or some other place)?====<br />
The SWORD Project for Windows is entirely installed under one folder, including the modules. You can copy it anywhere as it is and run the program from there. You can even move the folder from one computer to another or to a networked drive.<br />
<br />
If you routinely use Windows, Linux and/or Mac, you may want to consider [http://www.crosswire.org/~dmsmith/bd Portable BibleDesktop].<br />
<br />
====When I read the Syriac Peshitta, Hebrew Bible, or (another module), all I see are boxes.====<br />
You need to install a Unicode font with the full range of characters used in the module you are trying to read.<br />
<br />
====I love your Bible Tool. May I install it on my church's website?====<br />
Yes. But while our software can be used in any way you wish, many of our modules may not.<br />
<br />
====Do you have a Sword program for my phone? my pda? my handheld?====<br />
Take a look to the left for the list of end user Bible tools. If we have it, it is listed there.<br />
<br />
====I've found a bug. How do I report it?====<br />
Please email sword-bugs@crosswire.org with any bug reports. Please try to provide as much information as possible when filing a bug report: Tell us which version of Sword you are using, your operating system, what you were trying to do, what you expected to happen, what happened, how to reproduce the bug, etc.<br />
<br />
====Why doesn't your program do such and such? I'd like to see this feature added. If it had this feature it would be more competitive with other programs.====<br />
Yes, it would be nice, but this is a volunteer based project, and we do this in our free time. Help if you can and give feedback. We know that complaining is always a temptation, but instead, please pray for us. That is the best way to help the project.<br />
<br />
====How do I do something in MacSword? BibleTime? GnomeSword? BibleDesktop? The SWORD Project for Windows?====<br />
There are links to each of the projects on the left. Please read their attached documentation and the other supporting material for the project you are using. You may need to go to their website to find this. Many problems will be solved by reading the documentation and following the instructions. After that use the support forum/list/pages of that project. After that you can ask your question in our forum or our support list.<br />
<br />
====Somebody sells your software on the Internet. Is this ok?====<br />
It's not forbidden to sell [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html Free Software]. However, according to the licence, the source code must be included. Some people also sell free software without revealing that it is also available for free, and we do not condone such action.</div>Eelikhttps://wiki.crosswire.org/index.php?title=DevTools:SWORD&diff=2694DevTools:SWORD2007-11-22T11:13:32Z<p>Eelik: </p>
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<div>= Documentation =<br />
<br />
== Locale file layout ==<br />
<br />
Locales require a few things. Let's step thru the German locale:<br />
<br />
excerpts from /sword/locales/de.conf:<br />
<br />
[Meta]<br />
Name=de<br />
Description=German<br />
<br />
The above information is used to define the locale. They should be<br />
fairly obvious. Name should be taken from a standard abbrev, probably<br />
returned from echo $LANG. Please understand that this, and all entries<br />
are case sensitive.<br />
<br />
The following entries are translation strings for anything you might<br />
want. REQUIRED are the book names of the Bible. Other things might be<br />
option name, value, tip, translations, or any text returned from the<br />
engine. It may not work right now, but if it doesn't, please post a<br />
message that you found a constant string in the engine not being<br />
tranlated.<br />
<br />
[Text]<br />
Genesis=1. Mose<br />
Exodus=2. Mose<br />
Leviticus=3. Mose<br />
<br />
# <snipped rest of book names><br />
<br />
[Book Abbrevs]<br />
1 C=46<br />
1 CHRONICLES=13<br />
1 CORINTHIANS=46<br />
1 JN=62<br />
<br />
These are the abbreviations for each book and are REQUIRED for the<br />
locale to work correctly in the engine. They are actually more than<br />
just abbreviations; they tell the parser how to incrementally parse<br />
versekey text. Notice that 1 Chronicles would come, alphabetically<br />
before 1 corinthians. The above entries say: book 46 (1 Corinthians)<br />
has precidence up thru "1 C", any character beyond that will<br />
unabiguate the entry anyway, so the default 1 CHRONICLES or 1<br />
CORINTHIANS entries would take over from there.<br />
<br />
IMPORTANT:<br />
<br />
1) There MUST be at least 1 abbreviation entry for each book name<br />
comprised of a toupper (uppercase function) of the entire string<br />
EXACTLY as you have translated it in the [Text] section.<br />
<br />
2) The English abbreviation entries MUST remain in the locale.<br />
The precidence entries may be tweeked, especially if you find them<br />
interferring with your precidence entries, but the entire book name--<br />
as stated in the first requirement above, must remain for English book<br />
names.<br />
<br />
Following are the REQUIRED entries from our excerpt book names above.<br />
<br />
GENESIS=1<br />
EXODUS=2<br />
LEVITICUS=3<br />
<br />
# <snip rest of english abbrevs><br />
<br />
1. MOSE=1<br />
2. MOSE=2<br />
3. MOSE=3<br />
<br />
That's it for requirements. Tuning your locale can be important for the <br />
user experience. Many [Book Abbrevs] entries may be added to assign <br />
precidence if, for example, you find you are getting taken to the wrong <br />
entries from text like: "Ma 1:1" (would be Malachi by default because of <br />
alphabetical precidence, but might want Matthew or Mark).<br />
<br />
You can test your locale with the sword/tests/parsekey test program (this <br />
program is in the sword source along with several other programs that are <br />
used to validate the configuration files) and try different strings to see <br />
how they parse.<br />
<br />
Notice especially that indicating a range is usually done with '-', for example Gen 1-Gen 2. Therefore the '-' character in book names will cause problems with the applications. Currently there is no solution to this. Also other non-alphabetic characters are problematic.<br />
<br />
---<br />
Submissions should be sent to patches@crosswire.org</div>Eelikhttps://wiki.crosswire.org/index.php?title=Talk:DevTools:Modules&diff=2678Talk:DevTools:Modules2007-10-28T17:15:37Z<p>Eelik: </p>
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<div>I haven't seen any of the CC licenses in any module so far and I have not seen this discussed on sword-devel. While these licenses make sense these cryptic strings do not. I think these should be openly discussed. -- DM Smith, 9/20/07<br />
<br />
The CC license abbreviations are standard and each character pair represents a restriction placed on the text. The links go to the "deeds" associated with each license and explain the details more completely. Perseus licenses all of their stuff under the by-nc-sa license, which is itself a bit controversial since these are obviously public domain works, with few exceptions, and Perseus doesn't have any legal right to impose restrictions on use after they've done their distribution. Nevertheless, since we're not commercial, we intend to share our modifications, and giving source attribution is just being fair, I don't have a problem with complying with their license terms. Not to mention, I don't have any desire to pick a fight with Perseus since I think their work is great. -- Osk 2007-09-21<br />
<br />
I think that we need to make the conditions of distribution clear. These cryptic strings would probably mean nothing to the majority of people seeing them. Perhaps these should be more explicit. For a possible example: "Covered by the Creative Commons License <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/">by-nc-nd</a>." -- DM 2007-09-21<br />
<br />
How do "Creative Commons: by-nc-nd" and similar strings sound? They give someone actually looking at our metadata enough info to know to look at CC. I don't see a need for any more since the license strings are really not intended to be presented to users. -- Osk 2007-09-22<br />
<br />
===conf file: GlobalOptionFilter===<br />
The text here does not represent swmgr.cpp correctly - should it?<br />
*OSISLemma<br />
*OSISMorphSegmentation<br />
*UTF8HebrewPoints vs. Vowels<br />
*GreekLexAttribs<br />
*PapyriPlain<br />
[[User:Eelik|Eelik]] 11:15, 28 October 2007 (MDT)</div>Eelikhttps://wiki.crosswire.org/index.php?title=DevTools:Modules&diff=2674DevTools:Modules2007-10-26T15:50:35Z<p>Eelik: /* .conf File Layout */</p>
<hr />
<div>= Module Development=<br />
A SWORD module consists of a set of binary files in any of an increasing number of formats created for SWORD plus a .conf file that specifies the location and attributes of the module.<br />
<br />
The .conf file is located in a standard location, such as the mods.d directory of the SWORD install directory, that may be specified to The SWORD Engine in a number of ways that are outside the scope of this document. This file can be created with a standard text editor like notepad, emacs, vi, or pico. Its contents are described below in section II.<br />
<br />
The module files themselves usually require an amount of pre-processing before they are ready to be imported to SWORD. How you go about this pre-processing is something you will need to decide for yourself. You may be able to do all of your pre-processing with simple search & replace operations in notepad or more complex regular expression search & replace operations in emacs, but the majority of modules will probably require even more complex editing using a scripting language such as Perl plus a fair amount of manual correction. On the other hand, some modules may come in a standard format such as ThML or OSIS encoded files, which does not require any modification, assuming they are valid documents. Document pre-processing is outside the scope of this document, but we will explain how you need to format documents to prepare them for import to SWORD, both in terms of encoding and markup.<br />
<br />
Once you have a document ready for import, you will need to run it through an importer to create the SWORD module files, which will then be placed in the module directory you specify in your .conf file.<br />
<br />
After this, you may test your work and consider submitting it to The SWORD Project for public distribution from our website.<br />
<br />
=Creating a .conf File=<br />
==.conf File Layout==<br />
The conf file tells the Sword engine how to treat installed module files, etc. which kind of markup they contain, and so forth.<br />
<br />
Below is a listing of the possible directives in that file. Each of these directives of the form key=value. Some keys can be repeated. Some can have values that span more than 1 line with '\' at the end of a line indicating that the text on the next line continues the value. Some values allow RTF and some allow HTML &lt;a href="xxx"&gt;label&lt;/a&gt;hypertext links. HTML is not allowed otherwise.<br />
<br />
Note on RTF, only the following are allowed:<br />
* \qc - for centering<br />
* \par - for paragraph breaks<br />
* \pard - for resetting paragraph attributes, i.e. turning off centering.<br />
* \q{num}? - for unicode characters, where {num} is a signed, 16-bit representation of the code point and where ? is the ASCII character used in case unicode is not supported. This should only be used in modules that have an Encoding=UTF-8, but using the actual UTF-8 character is preferred.<br />
<br />
Enumerated values are shown in bold. These should be used exactly as given and no other values should be used.<br />
<br />
<table width="100%" border="1"><br />
<tr><br />
<th>Element</th><br />
<th>Values (type or enumerated)</th><br />
<th>Default Value</th><br />
<th>Allows</th><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<th colspan="4">Required Elements</th><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>[name]</td><br />
<td>Each conf file begins with [name], replacing "name" with be a short well known abbreviation. This must be on the first line, and start the first line. It can only contain A-Z, a-z and 0-9.<br/><br />
<br />
The name of the file should be the lowercase of this name followed by .conf. For example, [MyModule] would be mymodule.conf.</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>DataPath</td><br />
<td>&lt;relative system path&gt;<br />
<br />
DataPath is the path to the module relative to the SWORD module root directory. This path should start with "./modules". If the DataPath indicates a directory it should end with a '/'. Otherwise the module name is both the directory and the prefix for each file in that directory.<br />
<br />
Typical paths are for a module named [mymodule] are:<br />
./modules/texts/rawtext/mymodule/<br />
./modules/texts/ztext/mymodule/<br />
./modules/comments/zcom/mymodule/<br />
./modules/comments/hrefcom/mymodule/<br />
./modules/comments/rawcom/mymodule/<br />
./modules/comments/rawcom4/mymodule/<br />
./modules/comments/rawfiles/mymodule/<br />
./modules/lexdict/zld/mymodule/mymodule<br />
./modules/lexdict/rawld/mymodule/mymodule<br />
./modules/lexdict/rawld/devotionals/mymodule/mymodule<br />
./modules/lexdict/rawld/glossaries/mymodule/mymodule<br />
./modules/lexdict/rawld4/mymodule/mymodule<br />
./modules/genbook/rawgenbook/mymodule/mymodule<br />
<br />
But when it really comes down to it, a valid path could be:<br/><br />
./xxx/ or ./xxx/mymodule<br />
</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr> <br />
<td>Description</td><br />
<td>&lt;string&gt;<br/><br />
<br />
This is a short (1 line) title of the module.</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr> <br />
<td>ModDrv</td><br />
<td><br />
<b>RawText</b> (for uncompressed Bibles)<br/><br />
<b>zText</b> (for compressed Bibles)<br/><br />
<b>RawCom</b> (for uncompressed Commentaries)<br/><br />
<b>RawCom4</b> (for uncompressed Commentaries having entries greater than 32K bytes)<br/><br />
<b>zCom</b> (for compressed Commentaries)<br/><br />
<b>HREFCom</b> (currently no module uses this type)<br/><br />
<b>RawFiles</b> (for Personal Commentary)<br/><br />
<b>RawLD</b> (for uncompressed Dictionaries)<br/><br />
<b>RawLD4</b> (for uncompressed Dictionaries having entries greater than 32K bytes)<br/><br />
<b>zLD</b> (for compressed Dictionaries)<br/><br />
<b>RawGenBook</b> (for uncompressed tree keyed modules)<br />
</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<th colspan="4">Elements required for proper module access</th><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>CompressType</td><br />
<td><b>ZIP</b><br/><br />
<b>LZSS</b><br />
<br />
Used to indicate how a compressed modules (zText, zCom, & zLD) is compressed.<br />
ZIP is the preferred format. And as of today, no compressed modules use LZSS.<br />
</td><br />
<td>LZSS</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>BlockType</td><br />
<td><br />
<b>BOOK</b><br/><br />
<b>CHAPTER</b><br/><br />
<b>VERSE</b><br/><br />
<br />
Used for zText and zCom to indicate how much of the work is compressed into a block. The trade off is size for speed, with BOOK taking the least overall space and the longest time and VERSE taking the greatest overall space and the least time. While BlockType has a default, it is a best practice to specify it. Most Bibles use BOOK and larger Commentaries use CHAPTER. To date, no module uses VERSE.<br />
</td><br />
<td>CHAPTER</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr> <br />
<td>BlockCount</td><br />
<td>&lt;integer&gt;<br/><br />
<br />
Used for zLD to indicate the number of entries in a compressed block. Higher values will make the module slower, but smaller.</td><br />
<td>200</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr> <br />
<td>KeyType</td><br />
<td><b>TreeKey</b><br/><br />
<b>VerseKey</b><br/><br />
<br />
Used for RawGenBook to indicate whether the module contains a book or a Bible. At this time VerseKey is being developed as the solution for alternate versification.</td><br />
<td>TreeKey</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>CipherKey</td><br />
<td>&lt;string&gt;<br/><br />
Contains the unlock key for enciphered modules. A good key is something that is hard to guess. Typically in a format matching the pattern: /[0-9]{4}[A-Za-z]{4}[0-9]{4}[A-Za-z]{4}/. Internally the key can be any byte sequence from 1 to 255 bytes in length. But this file needs it to be readable, plain text, without leading or trailing spaces. Leave a blank line ("CipherKey=") to indicate that the module is enciphered but has no unlock key. (Omit for unlocked modules.)</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<th colspan="4">Elements required for proper rendering</th><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>GlobalOptionFilter</td><br />
<td><br />
<b>GBFStrongs</b> (For GBF texts having Strong's Numbers)<br/><br />
<b>GBFFootnotes</b> (For GBF texts having footnotes)<br/><br />
<b>GBFScripref</b> (For GBF texts having cross references)<br/><br />
<b>GBFMorph</b> (For GBF texts having morphology information)<br/><br />
<b>GBFHeadings</b> (For GBF texts having headings)<br/><br />
<b>GBFRedLetterWords</b> (For GBF texts marking the Words of Christ)<br/><br />
<b>ThMLStrongs</b> (For THML texts having Strong's Numbers)<br/><br />
<b>ThMLFootnotes</b> (For THML texts having footnotes)<br/><br />
<b>ThMLScripref</b> (For THML texts having cross references)<br/><br />
<b>ThMLMorph</b> (For THML texts having morphology information)<br/><br />
<b>ThMLHeadings</b> (For THML texts having headings)<br/><br />
<b>ThMLVariants</b> (For THML texts having variant readings)<br/><br />
<b>ThMLLemma</b> (For THML texts having lemmas)<br/><br />
<b>UTF8Cantillation</b> (For Hebrew texts having cantillation marks)<br/><br />
<b>UTF8GreekAccents</b> (For Greek texts having accents)<br/><br />
<b>UTF8HebrewVowels</b> (For Hebrew texts having vowel points)<br/><br />
<b>OSISStrongs</b> (For OSIS texts having Strong's Numbers)<br/><br />
<b>OSISFootnotes</b> (For OSIS texts having informational notes)<br/><br />
<b>OSISScripref</b> (For OSIS texts having cross reference type notes)<br/><br />
<b>OSISMorph</b> (For OSIS texts having morphology information)<br/><br />
<b>OSISHeadings</b> (For OSIS texts having non-canonical headings)<br/><br />
<b>OSISRedLetterWords</b> (For OSIS texts marking the Words of Christ)<br/><br />
<br />
Each of these filters removes/hides the text's feature, when activated by the application.<br />
These filters are applied in the order that they are listed in the conf.<br />
</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
<td>Repeats</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Direction</td><br />
<td><br />
<b>LtoR</b> (<u>L</u>eft to <u>R</u>ight)<br/><br />
<b>RtoL</b> (<u>R</u>ight to <u>L</u>eft)<br/><br />
<b>BiDi</b> (<u>Bi</u>-<u>Di</u>rectional)<br/><br />
<br />
Indicate whether the language's script is a left to right script or a right to left script. Languages such as Hebrew, Arabic, Urdu, Farsi have a RtoL script. When a module contains more than one direction, such as a Hebrew/English dictionary, set this value to BiDi. If the RtoL script is transliterated into a LtoR script, set the value to LtoR.<br />
</td><br />
<td>LtoR</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>SourceType</td><br />
<td><br />
<b>Plaintext</b><br/><br />
<b>GBF</b> General Bible Format: http://www.ebible.org/bible/gbf.htm<br/><br />
<b>ThML</b> Theological Markup Language: http://www.ccel.org/ThML<br/><br />
<b>OSIS</b> Open Scriptural Information Standard: http://www.bibletechnologies.net<br/><br />
<b>TEI</b> Text Encoding Initiative: http://www.tei-c.org/P4X/DI.html<br/><br />
<br />
These are various ways that the text can be encoded. The preferred encoding is OSIS. TEI is preferred for dictionaries until OSIS supports dictionaries.<br/><br />
<br />
In SWORD, for modules encoded with ThML, OSIS or TEI, each verse, dictionary entry, and book division needs to be well-formed XML or it will result in display problems in some frontends.<br />
</td><br />
<td>Plaintext</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr> <br />
<td>Encoding</td><br />
<td><br />
<b>UTF-8</b><br/><br />
<b>Latin-1</b> (cp1252; see the warning)<br/><br />
<br />
The preferred encoding of texts is UTF-8. Latin-1 is defined by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252 cp1252] which is a superset of ISO 8859-1.<br />
<br />
<b>Warning</b>: "Latin-1" is an ambiguously used term. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-1 ISO 8859-1] for technical details; in reality latin-1 is regularly used as a synonym for ISO-8859-1. Frontend implementors should use cp1252 explicitly, not latin-1 provided for example by some programming language libraries. Module authors should use only UTF-8.<br />
<br />
This encoding indicates how the conf and the module are encoded.<br />
</td><br />
<td>Latin-1<br/>(cp1252; see the warning)</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>DisplayLevel</td><br />
<td>&lt;integer&gt;</td><br />
<td>1</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr> <br />
<td>Font</td><br />
<td>&lt;string&gt;<br/><br />
Specify the font to be used for display of the module if it is available. Omit this line to use the default font. Do not make use of font-specific encodings in your documents, but use Unicode instead and the Private Use Area if necessary for codepoints that are not handled by Unicode.<br />
</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr> <br />
<td>OSISqToTick</td><br />
<td>true/false<br/><br />
When set to false indicates that OSIS quote elements without a marker attribute are not to produce a quotation mark. This is useful for languages (e.g. Thai) and texts (e.g. KJV) that do not have quotation marks. It is also useful for modules that mark the "Words of Christ" on a verse by verse basis, when the quote spans more than one verse.</td><br />
<td>true</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<th colspan="4">Elements to indicate features</th><br />
</tr><br />
<tr> <br />
<td>Feature</td><br />
<td><br />
<b>StrongsNumbers</b> (for modules that include Strong's numbers)<br/><br />
<b>GreekDef</b> (for modules with Strong's number encoded Greek definitions)<br/><br />
<b>HebrewDef</b> (for modules with Strong's number encoded Hebrew definitions)<br/><br />
<b>GreekParse</b> (for modules with Greek morphology expansions)<br/><br />
<b>HebrewParse</b> (for modules with Hebrew morphology expansions)<br/><br />
<b>DailyDevotion</b> (for daily devotionals using one of the LD drivers and keyed with MM.DD)<br/><br />
<b>Glossary</b> (for collections of glosses using one of the LD drivers)<br/><br />
<b>Images</b> (for modules that contain images of any type)<br />
</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
<td>Repeats</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr> <br />
<td>GlossaryFrom</td><br />
<td>&lt;xml:lang identifier&gt;<br/><br />
Glossaries map one language to another. This value indicates the language being translated from.<br />
See Lang below for a discussion of valid values.</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>GlossaryTo</td><br />
<td>&lt;xml:lang identifier&gt;<br/><br />
Glossaries map one language to another. This value indicates the language being translated to.<br />
See Lang below for a discussion of valid values.</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr> <br />
<th colspan="4">General informatic and installer elements</th><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>About</td><br />
<td>&lt;string&gt;<br/><br />
A lengthier description and may include copyright, source, etc. information, possibly duplicating information in other elements.</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
<td>Continuation<br/>RTF</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr> <br />
<td>Version</td><br />
<td>&lt;version string&gt;<br/><br />
Gives the module's revision number. Incrementing it when changes are made alerts users of the SWORD Installers to the presence of updated modules. Please start with version 1.0 and increment by 0.1 for minor updates and by larger values for more major updates such as a new text source. Changes to this conf file should also increment the version number. Do not use non-numbers, such as 1.4a or 1.1.3.</td><br />
<td>1.0</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>History_x.x</td><br />
<td>&lt;string&gt;<br/><br />
Used to alert users to what has changed between different versions. Each time a version is incremented a history line with that version number should explain the change.</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
<td>Repeats</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr> <br />
<td>MinimumVersion</td><br />
<td>&lt;version string&gt;<br/><br />
Identifies the minimum version of the Sword library required for this module.</td><br />
<td>1.5.1a</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Category</td><br />
<td><br />
<b>Daily Devotional</b> (for modules with Feature=DailyDevotion)<br/><br />
<b>Glossaries</b> (for modules with Feature=Glossary)<br/><br />
<b>Cults / Unorthodox / Questionable Material</b><br/><br />
<b>Essays</b> (for essays)<br/><br />
<b>Maps</b> (for modules that primarily consist of maps)<br/><br />
<b>Images</b> (for modules that primarily consist of images)<br/><br />
This is used by installers to further categorize the modules beyond what can be figured out by the ModDrv and Feature.<br />
</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr> <br />
<td>LCSH</td><br />
<td>&lt;tree/string&gt;<br/><br />
Library of Congress Subject Heading. You may search the [http://catalog.loc.gov Library of Congress catalog] or use it as a guide for determining an appropriate LCSH for books that are not in the Library of Congress.</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Lang</td><br />
<td>&lt;xml:lang identifier&gt;<br/><br />
This is the primary language code of the module and should include a value according to RFC 4646 using ISO639 codes when possible. ISO 639-1 codes are the preferred code (e.g. en for English). If there is none for the given language, use an ISO 639-2/T code (e.g. ceb for Cebuano). Failing that, use ISO 639-3, which covers over 7000 languages. See: http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/codes.asp for ISO 639-1, 639-2/T and 639-3 codes.<br/><br />
<br />
If a text is country specific, such as the Anglicized NIV, include the [http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/list-en1.html ISO 3166-1 country code] after the language code and an underscore (e.g. en_GB for UK English).</td><br />
<td>en</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr> <br />
<td>InstallSize</td><br />
<td>&lt;integer (indicating bytes)&gt;</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>SwordVersionDate</td><br />
<td>&lt;ISO date string (yyyy-mm-dd)&gt;<br />
Indicates the date that the module was changed.</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Obsoletes</td><br />
<td>&lt;name of module&gt;<br/><br />
Each instance of this element names a module that is made obsolete by this module, usually indicated by the former name of the module.</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
<td>Repeats</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr> <br />
<th colspan="4">Copyright &amp; Licensing related elements</th><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Copyright</td><br />
<td>&lt;string&gt;<br/><br />
Contains the copyright notice for the work, including the year of copyright and the owner of the copyright.</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
<td>Continuation</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>CopyrightHolder</td><br />
<td>&lt;string&gt;<br/><br />
Contains the name of the copyright holder.</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr> <br />
<td>CopyrightDate</td><br />
<td>&lt;integer (indicating year)&gt;</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>CopyrightNotes</td><br />
<td>&lt;string&gt;</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
<td>Continuation</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr> <br />
<td>CopyrightContactName</td><br />
<td>&lt;string&gt;<br/><br />
Contains the name of the copyright holder.</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
<td>Continuation</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr> <br />
<td>CopyrightContactNotes</td><br />
<td>&lt;string&gt;</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
<td>Continuation</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>CopyrightContactAddress</td><br />
<td>&lt;string&gt;<br/><br />
Contains the mailing address of the copyright holder.</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
<td>Continuation</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr> <br />
<td>CopyrightContactEmail</td><br />
<td>&lt;string&gt;<br/><br />
Contains the email address of the copyright holder, preferably in the form:<br/> name at xyz dot com.</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr> <br />
<td>ShortPromo</td><br />
<td>&lt;string&gt;<br/><br />
A link to the home page for the module, perhaps with an encouragement to visit the site.</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
<td>HTML Link</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr> <br />
<td>ShortCopyright</td><br />
<td>&lt;string&gt;</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>DistributionLicense</td><br />
<td><br />
<b>Public Domain</b><br/><br />
<b>Copyrighted</b><br/><br />
<b>Copyrighted; Permission to distribute granted to CrossWire</b><br/><br />
<b>Copyrighted; Free non-commercial distribution</b><br/><br />
<b>Copyrighted; Freely distributable</b><br/><br />
<b>Creative Commons: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd by-nc-nd]</b><br/><br />
<b>Creative Commons: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa by-nc-sa]</b><br/><br />
<b>Creative Commons: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc by-nc]</b><br/><br />
<b>Creative Commons: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd by-nd]</b><br/><br />
<b>Creative Commons: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa by-sa]</b><br/><br />
<b>Creative Commons: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by by]</b><br/><br />
<br/><br />
Use one of these strings verbatim. The actual copyright and/or license information is held in other elements. The last six licenses are [http://creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons] licenses.<br/>In the event you use a text licensed as "GPL", use "Creative Commons: by-sa". This captures the spirit of the GPL using license terms that can actually apply to a text document.</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr> <br />
<td>DistributionNotes</td><br />
<td>&lt;string&gt;<br/><br />
Indicates any additional notes about distribution of the module.</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
<td>Continuation</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>TextSource</td><br />
<td>&lt;string, probably a URL&gt;<br/><br />
Indicates, either in prose (such as "CCEL") or as a URL of the source of the text</td><br />
<td>&nbsp;</td><br />
<td>Continuation</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
=Creating a module=<br />
The SWORD Project currently requires that all submitted texts be Unicode (specifically UTF-8) encoded documents. We recommend that texts be marked up in OSIS, but will still accept those marked up in either ThML or GBF. TEI is currently under development for Dictionaries.<br />
<br />
==Preparing a Text for Import==<br />
<br />
===Encoding===<br />
For English language texts that only make use of ASCII characters, no change to the source encoding will be required. For other European language and most other languages, there probably exist simple encoding converters for ISO and national standards to UTF-8. For more complex source encodings, you may need to create your own converter or adapt an existing one. Some currently available conversion tools that you may find useful, depending on your platform and needs, include:<br />
<br />
uconv (part of ICU), available compiled for Win32 at http://crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/sword/utils/win32/uconv.zip or in source format from ICU at http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/.<br />
font2uni from CCEL, available at http://www.ccel.org/info/gkheb/.<br />
<br />
uconv is best suited for standard encodings and font2uni is best suited for font-specific encodings. When creating XML texts, the only entities that should be used are &amp;amp; for '&amp;' and &amp;lt; for '&lt;'. All other entities should be encoded as their UTF-8 equivalents.<br />
<br />
===Markup===<br />
Internally, SWORD can process text in one of four formats: OSIS, TEI, ThML, and GBF. From these formats, it can convert to other formats, including RTF and HTML, for display. OSIS 2.1 is now the preferred format for Bibles and commentaries. At the moment OSIS does not have thorough support for complex dictionaries. For that reason we support TEI for dictionaries.<br />
<br />
You may find documentation for each of these standards at their respective websites:<br/><br />
*Open Scriptural Information Standard (OSIS) : http://www.bibletechnologies.net/<br/><br />
*Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) : http://www.tei-c.org/P4X/DI.html<br/><br />
*Theological Markup Format (ThML) : http://www.ccel.org/ThML/<br/><br />
*General Bible Format (GBF) : http://www.ebible.org/bible/gbf.htm<br/><br />
<br />
In SWORD, for modules encoded with ThML and OSIS, each verse, dictionary entry, and book division needs to be well-formed XML or it will result in display problems in some frontends. SWORD only handles the subset of the ThML tags that we have found necessary, but we are willing to supporting additional tags, as the need arises.<br />
<br />
Supported ThML tags include: &lt;sync&gt; (with type parameters of Strongs, morph, & lemma), &lt;scripRef&gt;, and &lt;note&gt; (plus closing tags where appropriate). HTML tags that ThML inherits, which may be used in SWORD modules include &lt;div&gt; (with types of sechead for section headings and title for titles, &lt;i&gt;, &lt;br&gt;, and &lt;b&gt;. Additional HTML tags may be interpreted by those SWORD frontends that render HTML, but will not be translated to RTF for the Win32 frontend.<br />
<br />
GBF is deprecated and no GBF modules will be accepted by the SWORD Project. Supported GBF tags include: &lt;WG&gt;, &lt;WH&gt;, &lt;WTG&gt;, &lt;WTH&gt;, &lt;RX&gt;, &lt;RF&gt;, &lt;FI&gt;, &lt;FB&gt;, &lt;FN&gt;, &lt;FR&gt;, &lt;FS&gt;, &lt;FU&gt;, &lt;FO&gt;, &lt;FV&gt;, &lt;CA&gt;, &lt;CL&gt;, &lt;CG&gt;, &lt;CM&gt;, &lt;CT&gt;, &lt;JR&gt;, &lt;JC&gt;, &lt;JL&gt;, &lt;TT&gt;, and &lt;TS&gt; (plus closing tags where appropriate). In addition, SWORD allows full use of UTF-8 rather than merely ASCII as the GBF standard specifies.<br />
<br />
===Import formats===<br />
====ThML and OSIS Formatted General Books====<br />
With ThML and OSIS formatted general books, provided your document is well-formed and valid XML according to the ThML DTD or the OSIS 2.1 Schema, you should not need to do any further processing. You can use your XML file with thml2gbs and xml2gbs. For OSIS encoded Bibles use osis2mod.<br />
<br />
====vpl Format====<br />
vpl or verse-per-line format may only be used in creating Bibles. This format requires that each line start with a verse reference that SWORD can understand, such as "Genesis 1:1" or "Jn 3:16". Most English abbreviations are acceptable. Following the verse reference, the verse itself should be written, in any kind of markup. For example:<br />
<br />
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.<br />
Genesis 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.<br />
<br />
This format is used with the utility vpl2mod, discussed below. To import Bibles that have have combined verses, you will need to use imp format, instead of vpl.<br />
<br />
====imp Format====<br />
The imp or import format is the most versatile of the import formats and may be used in creating all types of modules (Bibles, commentaries, dictionaries, daily devotionals, glossaries, general books, etc.) in any supported format (GBF, ThML, OSIS or TEI). Each entry in an imp file may take as many lines as are needed. The first line of the entry will have a format such as "$$$&lt;key&gt;" and will be followed by all lines of text that should be included with that entry. So our above example in imp format would be written as:<br />
$$$Genesis 1:1<br />
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.<br />
$$$Genesis 1:2<br />
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.<br />
<br />
Commentaries would follow the same format, but would probably include a greater number of lines of text. If your Bible or commentary uses a single entry to handle multiple verses, simply give a list or range of verses as the key (e.g. "$$$Genesis 1:1-5", "$$$Exodus 1", "$$$Leviticus 1:1,5"). Lexicons, dictionaries, glossaries and daily devotionals would take a form such as:<br />
$$$Adam<br />
Adam was the first man created by God.<br />
$$$Eve<br />
Eve was the first woman created by God.<br />
<br />
For daily devotionals, you must encode the key as "$$$mm.dd", such as "$$$01.01" for January 1st and "$$$12.31" for December 31st.<br />
<br />
General books are encoded with each book division as a separate entry. The entries are then listed as a tree hierarchy with keys similar to a file system directory structure. For example, if you were encoding the Josephus' Works, you might have a structure like this:<br />
$$$/War<br />
The War of the Jews<br />
$$$/War/Book 1<br />
Book 1 of the War of the Jews<br />
$$$/War/Book 1/Chapter 1<br />
Chapter 1 of Book 1 of the War of the Jews<br />
$$$/War/Book 1/Chapter 1/Section 1<br />
Section 1 of Chapter 1 of Book 1 of the War of the Jews<br />
$$$/War/Book 1/Chapter 1/Section 2<br />
Section 2 of Chapter 1 of Book 1 of the War of the Jews<br />
<br />
==Importing==<br />
Now that your text is ready to be imported, you will need to use one of the command line utilities for converting documents to SWORD format. Depending on the format of your document at this point, you will need to use the appropriate importer.<br />
*If your text is a valid ThML document, use thml2gbs.<br />
*If your text is a valid OSIS Bible, use osis2mod.<br />
*If your text is a valid OSIS document, use xml2gbs.<br />
*If your text is a vpl format Bible, use vpl2mod.<br />
*If your text is an imp format Bible or commentary, use imp2vs.<br />
*If your text is an imp format dictionary, lexicon, glossary, or daily devotional, use imp2ld.<br />
*If your text is an imp format general book, use imp2gbs.<br />
<br />
You may find these files in the SWORD Project source distribution or compiled for Win32 at http://crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/sword/utils/win32/. Each utility has brief usage information that can be viewed by running it once without any arguments.<br />
<br />
==Additional Utilities==<br />
There are additional utilities that may be used on SWORD modules:<br />
<br />
===Compressing Modules===<br />
To compress a Bible, commentary, or LD module, use the mod2zmod utility. First you will need to install the module so that it can be accessed using the SWORD engine. Next, run:<br />
mod2zmod &lt;modname&gt; &lt;datapath&gt; [blockType [compressType]]<br />
blockType can be 4 = book (default), 3 = chapter, or 1 = verse and indicates the granularity of the compression blocks. The larger the block is, the longer it will take to access a piece of the text, but the smaller the resulting module will be. compressType can be either 1 = LZSS (default) or 2 = Zip.<br />
<br />
You may wish to try different compression settings to find out which is best for your module. Typically, we use chapter compression for large commentaries, book compression for Bibles, and the Zip compression algorithm.<br />
<br />
===Locking Modules===<br />
To lock a rawText Bible or rawCom commentary module, use the cipherraw utility. Just run:<br />
cipherraw &lt;/path/to/module&gt; '&lt;key&gt;'<br />
<br />
===Checking for Missing Verses===<br />
You can use the utility emptyvss to find verses in a module that contain no text, since this may indicate errors in the module. Just run:<br />
emptyvss &lt;module name&gt;<br />
on an installed module to generate a list.<br />
<br />
===Miscellaneous tools===<br />
Further miscellaneous tools that are 'not ready for public consumption' but may be useful to modules authors are found in [[DevTools:Misc]]. These includes scripts and programs that are used for the preparation and conversion of various specific modules.<br />
<br />
==Submitting content to the SWORD Project==<br />
After you have tested your module, you may wish to submit it to the SWORD Project for public release so that other people can benefit from your work. All modules submitted to the SWORD Project for distribution either on the internet or on CDs should include both the module as a single document and the .conf file.<br />
<br />
The module itself should be an uncompiled, plain text document in either vpl (verse-per-line), imp (import), ThML, OSIS or TEI format, ready to be run through one of the import tools.<br />
<br />
Before any module will be considered for posting, we expect that the following minimum set of tags be included in its .conf file: DataPath, ModDrv, Lang, Description, About, DistributionLicense, and TextSource. We also strongly prefer that an LCSH line be included with the .conf file, but will look the LCSH up ourselves if you have trouble deciding on a value. (You can look at other .conf files for examples.)<br />
<br />
When you feel your module is ready to be submitted, you may email it to modules@crosswire.org. If you are unable to email it or would prefer to send the files by some other means, you may contact us at the same email address, and we can discuss other arrangements.<br />
<br />
=Related Pages=<br />
===Guide to Writing [[OSIS Bibles]]===<br />
<br />
===[[DevTools:OSISBookNames|OSIS Book Name Abbreviations]]===<br />
===List of Known [[Module Repositories]]===<br />
===[[Module Requests]]===<br />
===[[New Modules]]===</div>Eelikhttps://wiki.crosswire.org/index.php?title=Module_Requests&diff=2671Module Requests2007-10-26T10:07:35Z<p>Eelik: /* Bible Versions */</p>
<hr />
<div>Here is a place to request modules you would like to be made. If the copyright holder has been contacted, the permissions granted or not can be put here. <br />
<br />
New modules are made largely on the basis of content availability and distributability. If you have a link to new material in the public domain, adding it here is a good way of notifying us of its availability. However there is no guarantee that anyone will be interested in creating a module from that material. If you want to see a new module, your quickest results will come from encoding it in OSIS yourself and submitting that to us.<br />
<br />
If you would like to see the addition of text currently under copyright and have not made any attempt to get permission for distribution, there is no point to adding it here and the addition will likely be removed. If you only have a link to non-text material (images, PDFs, etc.), there is no point to adding it here and it will likely be removed.<br />
<br />
====Bible Versions====<br />
*Cherokee New Testament [http://cherokeenewtestament.com/] '''Public Domain''' -- check back occasionally to see whether the text version is completed<br />
<br />
*KJV 1611 version. There is a restricted pdf version in http://ebooks.ebookmall.com/ebook/182558-ebook.htm. There exist some reprints in paper - has anyone scanned it?<br />
<br />
====Books====<br />
* [[Foxe's Book of Martyrs by John Foxe]] ([http://books.google.com/books?id=gCUeSAoqOSEC&dq=&pg=PP1&ots=EwFbQI-cOy&sig=Ciue6KwFnRP_7jDxSRSw1nDEpcw&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Faq%3Do%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dcom.ubuntu%253Aen-US%253Aofficial%26q%3DFoxes%2BBook%2Bof%2BMartyrs%26btnG%3DSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title#PPR9,M1 1] and [http://www.ccel.org/f/foxe/martyrs/home.html 2])<br />
<br />
====Commentaries====<br />
<ul><br />
<li>Calvin's Commentaries [http://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/commentaries.i.html]<br />
<br/><br />
Work is in progress. Current approach is to combine ThML files from CCEL and convert to OSIS. <br />
This work is mostly done - see: http://crosswire.org/svn/sword-tools/trunk/modules/calvinscommentaries/<br />
<br/><br />
<br/><br />
The next step requires a module importer for OSIS commentaries -- the current OSIS importer assumes that the document is formatted as a Bible.<br />
</li><br />
</ul><br />
<br />
====Devotionals====<br />
<br />
====Lexicons====<br />
*Unabridged Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon -- worth researching; The text exists in electronic format, at least licensed. It's important that this not be the "Abridged BDBG" which is Larry Pierce's junk module.</div>Eelikhttps://wiki.crosswire.org/index.php?title=Talk:EnduserFAQ&diff=2663Talk:EnduserFAQ2007-10-10T14:00:39Z<p>Eelik: </p>
<hr />
<div>==Discussion about FAQ==<br />
FAQ is for those end user questions which have been asked frequently in sword-support list or some other support forum. It is not for asking random questions. This discussion page is for meta-discussion about the FAQ, not for asking random questions.<br />
<br />
Edit the FAQ only if you know what you are doing. Most of those questions which deserve to be there are there already. Give new proposals for the FAQ here (in this discussion page) first. Small factual or orthographical corrections are welcome without discussion.<br />
<br />
Questions should be as general as possible. Names of programs, modules etc. should be given only as examples (preferably in the answer) unless the question/answer is strictly about a specific named subject and cannot be generalized.<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Module-specific questions ===<br />
<br />
It might be good to have a question "How do I report a problem with a module". I think the right answer it to point them to Jira and file a bug under Modules. But that requires membership. Chris, if you don't mind, I'll leave this up to you, since you are the Module "Pumpkin Holder".<br />
<br />
As to the naming of specific modules, I agree that the questions should be more general. It might be reasonable to list specific ones in the answer if they are a frequent subject of the question.<br />
<br />
-- DM<br />
<br />
===Accented texts===<br />
I'm working on a couple of good texts (MorphGNT & Tisch from morphgnt.org) which I hope to post tonight. I know accented LXXes exist, but I don't know their quality or look forward to merging with our existing database. I also don't know of accented copies of most of our other Greek texts, so we'd still be stuck telling people that what they see is all we have. -- Osk<br />
<br />
I think this renders the question/answer unnecessary. Let's see if people ask about the nonexisting accents when those modules have been public for some time. --[[User:Eelik|Eelik]] 08:00, 10 October 2007 (MDT)<br />
<br />
===Can I publish a text in Sword format?===<br />
Every now and then someone asks if it's possible to publish a work in our format. It has been asked at least about translations and commentaries. We could give a short positive answer in FAQ and give some links to helpful pages. It is so-and-so if this an end user or developer question but mostly the people who ask this seem not to be developers. --[[User:Eelik|Eelik]] 08:00, 10 October 2007 (MDT)</div>Eelikhttps://wiki.crosswire.org/index.php?title=Talk:EnduserFAQ&diff=2557Talk:EnduserFAQ2007-09-14T15:03:28Z<p>Eelik: /* Accented texts */</p>
<hr />
<div>Why was the link the to Z-XML Sword Converter removed?<br />
<br />
http://joomla.zykloide.de/Joomla_1.0.10-Stable-Full_Package/component/option,com_docman/task,cat_view/gid,21/<br />
<br />
http://www.bibleworkplace.de/content/view/1/4/<br />
--[[User:84.159.172.31|84.159.172.31]] 05:00, 24 June 2007 (MDT)<br />
<br />
I wondered why many other changes were reverted also. Some of them did enhance the quality of the FAQ.<br />
<br />
I understand that we have to keep the FAQ as Frequently Asked Questions. It should not be Questions Which Someone Has Asked Once or Never Asked Questions Which Someone Wants To Answer Here. There are already some questions/answers there which are not very frequent. It makes the page more difficult to use for end users. All really Frequently asked questions are there.<br />
<br />
From now on, if someone wants to add/remove a question, I suggest that we discuss it here in this talk page.<br />
<br />
Questions about Z-XML converter are not frequent. If it's included it could be inserted under general converter section (question about e-sword should be changed to be more general).<br />
<br />
-- Eeli Kaikkonen<br />
<br />
<br />
I don't remember seeing the Z-XML converter myself, but I would probably have removed it if I had. I apologize that I can't fully elaborate since I don't recall my particular objections to the Z-XML converter, but I didn't consider it something we ought to recommend that users use. (One way or another, it is NOT reasonable to consider it an End-User tool, and the FAQ, being for End-Users, is not an appropriate place to link to it.) I'll elaborate on my reservations if I get a chance to take another look at the program. In any case, we have a Zefania to OSIS converter that (IMNSHO) does a better job even though it's still a work in progress (but what isn't).<br />
<br />
-- Osk<br />
<br />
Some of the stuff I added was reverted and some removed. As a community process, I expect that some of that will happen. However, I didn't like that they were anonymously made. I suggest that we make our changes while logged in and add a brief comment to each edit.<br />
<br />
-- DM<br />
<br />
<br />
Where is the Zefania to OSIS converter? --[[User:84.159.195.26|84.159.195.26]] 12:33, 25 June 2007 (MDT)<br />
<br />
The recent OSIS converters I wrote are sitting [http://crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/sword/utils/perl/ here]. I'm still going to hold off on any major announcement for a couple of reasons: First, they still need a little work. Second, I don't want people flooding me with modules they created with these converters since I've already got everything I would consider posting converted (whether or not I've actually gotten it online yet).<br />
<br />
-- Osk<br />
<br />
Reverting some other's changes may possibly happen if someone copies the text, edits it and later commits it without checking first. We just have to be careful.<br />
<br />
Some wiki FAQs are meant to be edited by end users. That can confuse some users so that they add their questions here though the purpose is that the developers gather the proper questions. This whole thing would be much easier if we just required logging in. I don't see any reason why anonymous editing would be important. Well, I'm not logged in either... --Eeli<br />
<br />
I put back in my changes. I'll also see if mediawiki allows us to have some pages require login. I don't know if that is something that we want to do. This page should be our "official" answers to "frequent" questions, not a place to ask questions.<br />
<br />
-- DM<br />
<br />
==Converting resources==<br />
<br />
a) e-Sword is closed source. Technically, it is not a commercial program (The e-Sword license prohibits commercial distribution). Some resources are commercially distributed, which is allowed by the license. Other resources are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike NonCommercial 2.0 license. <br />
<br />
I agree. Questions and answers should be general. I noticed this myself but have done nothing for it. --Eeli<br />
<br />
b) I'd suggest having a page on converting to/from file formats, linked to from the FAQ.<br />
Change Q 2.1.5 "How do I convert e-Sword modules to Sword modules?" to "How do I convert material to Sword modules?"<br />
Then, on the page "converting file formats", list the various file formats, and either that the project does not support the conversion of material in the file format to Sword modules, or list the process/tool(s) that are used. <br />
<br />
This is also a good point and more information about conversion tools would be good. --Eeli<br />
<br />
c) Between EULAs and licenses,it is hard for end users to know what can be legally converted, and what cannot be legally converted to other file formats. [Project Gutenburg can be legally converted. BibleWorks resources can not be legally converted. Z-XML resources can go either way.]. A simple statement such as "The EULA for BibleWorks prohibits format shifting. The Sword Project supports Intellectual Property Rights, and as a consequence does not support the conversion of material for this program (BibleWorks) into a format usable by The Sword Project." can be used for the different programs that people ask about. <br />
<br />
14:00, 12 July 2007 (MDT)[[User:Jblake|Jblake]]<br />
<br />
Would you like me to be "brave" and:<br />
* Create a page that addresses converting to/from various file formats;<br />
* Create a page that covers conversion utilities;<br />
* Create a page that addresses copyright, licenses, and EULAs;[[User:Jblake|Jblake]] 13:40, 17 August 2007 (MDT)<br />
<br />
<br />
Those all would be great. I think all extra material is useful. We can link them from the FAQ page. --Eeli<br />
<br />
:Started. I just realized that my notes are on my Windows machine, which won't boot up. :( Ijust have to find out which of the CDs I have them backup on. (This is when I need a program like "floppy drive cataloger, except for CDs and DVDs rather than floppy disks.) [[User:Jblake|Jblake]] 15:56, 17 August 2007 (MDT)<br />
<br />
== Module-specific questions ==<br />
<br />
I just removed a question placed in the FAQ about why the Swahili Bible doesn't contain the book of Philippians. (I don't happen to know the answer, but I'll check into it.) Anyway, we should probably such module-specific questions out of the FAQ, even if it means creating another FAQ-type page for those questions. I know there are some questions currently address specific modules, but that's a fault in the questions themselves, which happen to address general issues by naming specific modules.<br />
<br />
-- Osk<br />
<br />
It might be good to have a question "How do I report a problem with a module". I think the right answer it to point them to Jira and file a bug under Modules. But that requires membership. Chris, if you don't mind, I'll leave this up to you, since you are the Module "Pumpkin Holder".<br />
<br />
As to the naming of specific modules, I agree that the questions should be more general. It might be reasonable to list specific ones in the answer if they are a frequent subject of the question.<br />
<br />
-- DM<br />
<br />
===Accented texts===<br />
I suggest we add an entry for accented texts, it has been asked every now and then.<br />
"Why can't I see accents in Greek texts?"<br />
<br />
"The modules in our main repository do not have accents. There are some accented modules in Kleinpaste's repository (see http://crosswire.org/wiki/index.php/Module_Repositories)."<br />
<br />
Better solution would be to make all modules accented, I still don't understand why they are not. But this not the place to discuss about that:) [[User:Eelik|Eelik]] 01:51, 11 September 2007 (MDT)<br />
<br />
<br />
I'm okay with adding that question, provided the response is something more along the lines of "Because the modules don't contain accent data."<br />
<br />
Of the 5 Greek modules offered in the CrossWire repository, Kleinpaste's repository contains an equivalent to only one (Tisch > TischUP). Tisch isn't even the most popular Greek module, so the answer would essentially come back to "Because the modules don't contain accent data." I'm also uncomfortable directing users to modules that may not be thoroughly tested.<br />
<br />
The reason for which we don't have accents available on all of the Greek modules is because the problems in adding them are complex. First, they're simply not all available with accents. Some texts with accents are not freely distributable. Texts with accents are not necessarily as reliable as the ones we have currently, so we would need to evaluate text quality. And the merger texts with different feature sets (e.g. an accented text with a text that contains Strong's numbers and/or morphology) isn't necessarily trivial--especially if the texts have different versifications.<br />
<br />
-- Osk<br />
<br />
Not telling about alternatives sounds patronizing to me. Of course it is reasonable to tell that they are not so well tested and may contain errors. But after that anyone can think for himself if that module is good enough for him. Kleinpaste's repository has also LXX so plural form is proper here.<br />
<br />
How about something like this:<br />
<br />
"Because the modules don't contain accent data. There are some accented modules in Kleinpaste's repository (see http://crosswire.org/wiki/index.php/Module_Repositories) but they are not necessarily thoroughly tested and may contain errors." [[User:Eelik|Eelik]] 09:03, 14 September 2007 (MDT)</div>Eelikhttps://wiki.crosswire.org/index.php?title=Talk:EnduserFAQ&diff=2552Talk:EnduserFAQ2007-09-11T07:51:50Z<p>Eelik: /* Accented texts */</p>
<hr />
<div>Why was the link the to Z-XML Sword Converter removed?<br />
<br />
http://joomla.zykloide.de/Joomla_1.0.10-Stable-Full_Package/component/option,com_docman/task,cat_view/gid,21/<br />
<br />
http://www.bibleworkplace.de/content/view/1/4/<br />
--[[User:84.159.172.31|84.159.172.31]] 05:00, 24 June 2007 (MDT)<br />
<br />
I wondered why many other changes were reverted also. Some of them did enhance the quality of the FAQ.<br />
<br />
I understand that we have to keep the FAQ as Frequently Asked Questions. It should not be Questions Which Someone Has Asked Once or Never Asked Questions Which Someone Wants To Answer Here. There are already some questions/answers there which are not very frequent. It makes the page more difficult to use for end users. All really Frequently asked questions are there.<br />
<br />
From now on, if someone wants to add/remove a question, I suggest that we discuss it here in this talk page.<br />
<br />
Questions about Z-XML converter are not frequent. If it's included it could be inserted under general converter section (question about e-sword should be changed to be more general).<br />
<br />
-- Eeli Kaikkonen<br />
<br />
<br />
I don't remember seeing the Z-XML converter myself, but I would probably have removed it if I had. I apologize that I can't fully elaborate since I don't recall my particular objections to the Z-XML converter, but I didn't consider it something we ought to recommend that users use. (One way or another, it is NOT reasonable to consider it an End-User tool, and the FAQ, being for End-Users, is not an appropriate place to link to it.) I'll elaborate on my reservations if I get a chance to take another look at the program. In any case, we have a Zefania to OSIS converter that (IMNSHO) does a better job even though it's still a work in progress (but what isn't).<br />
<br />
-- Osk<br />
<br />
Some of the stuff I added was reverted and some removed. As a community process, I expect that some of that will happen. However, I didn't like that they were anonymously made. I suggest that we make our changes while logged in and add a brief comment to each edit.<br />
<br />
-- DM<br />
<br />
<br />
Where is the Zefania to OSIS converter? --[[User:84.159.195.26|84.159.195.26]] 12:33, 25 June 2007 (MDT)<br />
<br />
The recent OSIS converters I wrote are sitting [http://crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/sword/utils/perl/ here]. I'm still going to hold off on any major announcement for a couple of reasons: First, they still need a little work. Second, I don't want people flooding me with modules they created with these converters since I've already got everything I would consider posting converted (whether or not I've actually gotten it online yet).<br />
<br />
-- Osk<br />
<br />
Reverting some other's changes may possibly happen if someone copies the text, edits it and later commits it without checking first. We just have to be careful.<br />
<br />
Some wiki FAQs are meant to be edited by end users. That can confuse some users so that they add their questions here though the purpose is that the developers gather the proper questions. This whole thing would be much easier if we just required logging in. I don't see any reason why anonymous editing would be important. Well, I'm not logged in either... --Eeli<br />
<br />
I put back in my changes. I'll also see if mediawiki allows us to have some pages require login. I don't know if that is something that we want to do. This page should be our "official" answers to "frequent" questions, not a place to ask questions.<br />
<br />
-- DM<br />
<br />
==Converting resources==<br />
<br />
a) e-Sword is closed source. Technically, it is not a commercial program (The e-Sword license prohibits commercial distribution). Some resources are commercially distributed, which is allowed by the license. Other resources are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike NonCommercial 2.0 license. <br />
<br />
I agree. Questions and answers should be general. I noticed this myself but have done nothing for it. --Eeli<br />
<br />
b) I'd suggest having a page on converting to/from file formats, linked to from the FAQ.<br />
Change Q 2.1.5 "How do I convert e-Sword modules to Sword modules?" to "How do I convert material to Sword modules?"<br />
Then, on the page "converting file formats", list the various file formats, and either that the project does not support the conversion of material in the file format to Sword modules, or list the process/tool(s) that are used. <br />
<br />
This is also a good point and more information about conversion tools would be good. --Eeli<br />
<br />
c) Between EULAs and licenses,it is hard for end users to know what can be legally converted, and what cannot be legally converted to other file formats. [Project Gutenburg can be legally converted. BibleWorks resources can not be legally converted. Z-XML resources can go either way.]. A simple statement such as "The EULA for BibleWorks prohibits format shifting. The Sword Project supports Intellectual Property Rights, and as a consequence does not support the conversion of material for this program (BibleWorks) into a format usable by The Sword Project." can be used for the different programs that people ask about. <br />
<br />
14:00, 12 July 2007 (MDT)[[User:Jblake|Jblake]]<br />
<br />
Would you like me to be "brave" and:<br />
* Create a page that addresses converting to/from various file formats;<br />
* Create a page that covers conversion utilities;<br />
* Create a page that addresses copyright, licenses, and EULAs;[[User:Jblake|Jblake]] 13:40, 17 August 2007 (MDT)<br />
<br />
<br />
Those all would be great. I think all extra material is useful. We can link them from the FAQ page. --Eeli<br />
<br />
:Started. I just realized that my notes are on my Windows machine, which won't boot up. :( Ijust have to find out which of the CDs I have them backup on. (This is when I need a program like "floppy drive cataloger, except for CDs and DVDs rather than floppy disks.) [[User:Jblake|Jblake]] 15:56, 17 August 2007 (MDT)<br />
<br />
== Module-specific questions ==<br />
<br />
I just removed a question placed in the FAQ about why the Swahili Bible doesn't contain the book of Philippians. (I don't happen to know the answer, but I'll check into it.) Anyway, we should probably such module-specific questions out of the FAQ, even if it means creating another FAQ-type page for those questions. I know there are some questions currently address specific modules, but that's a fault in the questions themselves, which happen to address general issues by naming specific modules.<br />
<br />
-- Osk<br />
<br />
It might be good to have a question "How do I report a problem with a module". I think the right answer it to point them to Jira and file a bug under Modules. But that requires membership. Chris, if you don't mind, I'll leave this up to you, since you are the Module "Pumpkin Holder".<br />
<br />
As to the naming of specific modules, I agree that the questions should be more general. It might be reasonable to list specific ones in the answer if they are a frequent subject of the question.<br />
<br />
-- DM<br />
<br />
===Accented texts===<br />
I suggest we add an entry for accented texts, it has been asked every now and then.<br />
"Why can't I see accents in Greek texts?"<br />
<br />
"The modules in our main repository do not have accents. There are some accented modules in Kleinpaste's repository (see http://crosswire.org/wiki/index.php/Module_Repositories)."<br />
<br />
Better solution would be to make all modules accented, I still don't understand why they are not. But this not the place to discuss about that:) [[User:Eelik|Eelik]] 01:51, 11 September 2007 (MDT)</div>Eelikhttps://wiki.crosswire.org/index.php?title=Talk:EnduserFAQ&diff=2551Talk:EnduserFAQ2007-09-11T07:51:20Z<p>Eelik: </p>
<hr />
<div>Why was the link the to Z-XML Sword Converter removed?<br />
<br />
http://joomla.zykloide.de/Joomla_1.0.10-Stable-Full_Package/component/option,com_docman/task,cat_view/gid,21/<br />
<br />
http://www.bibleworkplace.de/content/view/1/4/<br />
--[[User:84.159.172.31|84.159.172.31]] 05:00, 24 June 2007 (MDT)<br />
<br />
I wondered why many other changes were reverted also. Some of them did enhance the quality of the FAQ.<br />
<br />
I understand that we have to keep the FAQ as Frequently Asked Questions. It should not be Questions Which Someone Has Asked Once or Never Asked Questions Which Someone Wants To Answer Here. There are already some questions/answers there which are not very frequent. It makes the page more difficult to use for end users. All really Frequently asked questions are there.<br />
<br />
From now on, if someone wants to add/remove a question, I suggest that we discuss it here in this talk page.<br />
<br />
Questions about Z-XML converter are not frequent. If it's included it could be inserted under general converter section (question about e-sword should be changed to be more general).<br />
<br />
-- Eeli Kaikkonen<br />
<br />
<br />
I don't remember seeing the Z-XML converter myself, but I would probably have removed it if I had. I apologize that I can't fully elaborate since I don't recall my particular objections to the Z-XML converter, but I didn't consider it something we ought to recommend that users use. (One way or another, it is NOT reasonable to consider it an End-User tool, and the FAQ, being for End-Users, is not an appropriate place to link to it.) I'll elaborate on my reservations if I get a chance to take another look at the program. In any case, we have a Zefania to OSIS converter that (IMNSHO) does a better job even though it's still a work in progress (but what isn't).<br />
<br />
-- Osk<br />
<br />
Some of the stuff I added was reverted and some removed. As a community process, I expect that some of that will happen. However, I didn't like that they were anonymously made. I suggest that we make our changes while logged in and add a brief comment to each edit.<br />
<br />
-- DM<br />
<br />
<br />
Where is the Zefania to OSIS converter? --[[User:84.159.195.26|84.159.195.26]] 12:33, 25 June 2007 (MDT)<br />
<br />
The recent OSIS converters I wrote are sitting [http://crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/sword/utils/perl/ here]. I'm still going to hold off on any major announcement for a couple of reasons: First, they still need a little work. Second, I don't want people flooding me with modules they created with these converters since I've already got everything I would consider posting converted (whether or not I've actually gotten it online yet).<br />
<br />
-- Osk<br />
<br />
Reverting some other's changes may possibly happen if someone copies the text, edits it and later commits it without checking first. We just have to be careful.<br />
<br />
Some wiki FAQs are meant to be edited by end users. That can confuse some users so that they add their questions here though the purpose is that the developers gather the proper questions. This whole thing would be much easier if we just required logging in. I don't see any reason why anonymous editing would be important. Well, I'm not logged in either... --Eeli<br />
<br />
I put back in my changes. I'll also see if mediawiki allows us to have some pages require login. I don't know if that is something that we want to do. This page should be our "official" answers to "frequent" questions, not a place to ask questions.<br />
<br />
-- DM<br />
<br />
==Converting resources==<br />
<br />
a) e-Sword is closed source. Technically, it is not a commercial program (The e-Sword license prohibits commercial distribution). Some resources are commercially distributed, which is allowed by the license. Other resources are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike NonCommercial 2.0 license. <br />
<br />
I agree. Questions and answers should be general. I noticed this myself but have done nothing for it. --Eeli<br />
<br />
b) I'd suggest having a page on converting to/from file formats, linked to from the FAQ.<br />
Change Q 2.1.5 "How do I convert e-Sword modules to Sword modules?" to "How do I convert material to Sword modules?"<br />
Then, on the page "converting file formats", list the various file formats, and either that the project does not support the conversion of material in the file format to Sword modules, or list the process/tool(s) that are used. <br />
<br />
This is also a good point and more information about conversion tools would be good. --Eeli<br />
<br />
c) Between EULAs and licenses,it is hard for end users to know what can be legally converted, and what cannot be legally converted to other file formats. [Project Gutenburg can be legally converted. BibleWorks resources can not be legally converted. Z-XML resources can go either way.]. A simple statement such as "The EULA for BibleWorks prohibits format shifting. The Sword Project supports Intellectual Property Rights, and as a consequence does not support the conversion of material for this program (BibleWorks) into a format usable by The Sword Project." can be used for the different programs that people ask about. <br />
<br />
14:00, 12 July 2007 (MDT)[[User:Jblake|Jblake]]<br />
<br />
Would you like me to be "brave" and:<br />
* Create a page that addresses converting to/from various file formats;<br />
* Create a page that covers conversion utilities;<br />
* Create a page that addresses copyright, licenses, and EULAs;[[User:Jblake|Jblake]] 13:40, 17 August 2007 (MDT)<br />
<br />
<br />
Those all would be great. I think all extra material is useful. We can link them from the FAQ page. --Eeli<br />
<br />
:Started. I just realized that my notes are on my Windows machine, which won't boot up. :( Ijust have to find out which of the CDs I have them backup on. (This is when I need a program like "floppy drive cataloger, except for CDs and DVDs rather than floppy disks.) [[User:Jblake|Jblake]] 15:56, 17 August 2007 (MDT)<br />
<br />
== Module-specific questions ==<br />
<br />
I just removed a question placed in the FAQ about why the Swahili Bible doesn't contain the book of Philippians. (I don't happen to know the answer, but I'll check into it.) Anyway, we should probably such module-specific questions out of the FAQ, even if it means creating another FAQ-type page for those questions. I know there are some questions currently address specific modules, but that's a fault in the questions themselves, which happen to address general issues by naming specific modules.<br />
<br />
-- Osk<br />
<br />
It might be good to have a question "How do I report a problem with a module". I think the right answer it to point them to Jira and file a bug under Modules. But that requires membership. Chris, if you don't mind, I'll leave this up to you, since you are the Module "Pumpkin Holder".<br />
<br />
As to the naming of specific modules, I agree that the questions should be more general. It might be reasonable to list specific ones in the answer if they are a frequent subject of the question.<br />
<br />
-- DM<br />
<br />
===Accented texts===<br />
I suggest we add an entry for accented texts, it has been asked every now and then.<br />
"Why can't I see accents in Greek texts?"<br />
<br />
"The modules in our main repository do not have accents. There are some accented modules in Kleinpaste's repository (see http://crosswire.org/wiki/index.php/Module_Repositories)."<br />
<br />
Better solution would be to make all modules accented, I still don't understand why they are not. But this not the place to discuss about that:)</div>Eelikhttps://wiki.crosswire.org/index.php?title=Talk:EnduserFAQ&diff=2458Talk:EnduserFAQ2007-08-17T20:47:33Z<p>Eelik: /* Converting resources */</p>
<hr />
<div>Why was the link the to Z-XML Sword Converter removed?<br />
<br />
http://joomla.zykloide.de/Joomla_1.0.10-Stable-Full_Package/component/option,com_docman/task,cat_view/gid,21/<br />
<br />
http://www.bibleworkplace.de/content/view/1/4/<br />
--[[User:84.159.172.31|84.159.172.31]] 05:00, 24 June 2007 (MDT)<br />
<br />
I wondered why many other changes were reverted also. Some of them did enhance the quality of the FAQ.<br />
<br />
I understand that we have to keep the FAQ as Frequently Asked Questions. It should not be Questions Which Someone Has Asked Once or Never Asked Questions Which Someone Wants To Answer Here. There are already some questions/answers there which are not very frequent. It makes the page more difficult to use for end users. All really Frequently asked questions are there.<br />
<br />
From now on, if someone wants to add/remove a question, I suggest that we discuss it here in this talk page.<br />
<br />
Questions about Z-XML converter are not frequent. If it's included it could be inserted under general converter section (question about e-sword should be changed to be more general).<br />
<br />
-- Eeli Kaikkonen<br />
<br />
<br />
I don't remember seeing the Z-XML converter myself, but I would probably have removed it if I had. I apologize that I can't fully elaborate since I don't recall my particular objections to the Z-XML converter, but I didn't consider it something we ought to recommend that users use. (One way or another, it is NOT reasonable to consider it an End-User tool, and the FAQ, being for End-Users, is not an appropriate place to link to it.) I'll elaborate on my reservations if I get a chance to take another look at the program. In any case, we have a Zefania to OSIS converter that (IMNSHO) does a better job even though it's still a work in progress (but what isn't).<br />
<br />
-- Osk<br />
<br />
Some of the stuff I added was reverted and some removed. As a community process, I expect that some of that will happen. However, I didn't like that they were anonymously made. I suggest that we make our changes while logged in and add a brief comment to each edit.<br />
<br />
-- DM<br />
<br />
<br />
Where is the Zefania to OSIS converter? --[[User:84.159.195.26|84.159.195.26]] 12:33, 25 June 2007 (MDT)<br />
<br />
The recent OSIS converters I wrote are sitting [http://crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/sword/utils/perl/ here]. I'm still going to hold off on any major announcement for a couple of reasons: First, they still need a little work. Second, I don't want people flooding me with modules they created with these converters since I've already got everything I would consider posting converted (whether or not I've actually gotten it online yet).<br />
<br />
-- Osk<br />
<br />
Reverting some other's changes may possibly happen if someone copies the text, edits it and later commits it without checking first. We just have to be careful.<br />
<br />
Some wiki FAQs are meant to be edited by end users. That can confuse some users so that they add their questions here though the purpose is that the developers gather the proper questions. This whole thing would be much easier if we just required logging in. I don't see any reason why anonymous editing would be important. Well, I'm not logged in either... --Eeli<br />
<br />
I put back in my changes. I'll also see if mediawiki allows us to have some pages require login. I don't know if that is something that we want to do. This page should be our "official" answers to "frequent" questions, not a place to ask questions.<br />
<br />
-- DM<br />
<br />
==Converting resources==<br />
<br />
a) e-Sword is closed source. Technically, it is not a commercial program (The e-Sword license prohibits commercial distribution). Some resources are commercially distributed, which is allowed by the license. Other resources are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike NonCommercial 2.0 license. <br />
<br />
I agree. Questions and answers should be general. I noticed this myself but have done nothing for it. --Eeli<br />
<br />
b) I'd suggest having a page on converting to/from file formats, linked to from the FAQ.<br />
Change Q 2.1.5 "How do I convert e-Sword modules to Sword modules?" to "How do I convert material to Sword modules?"<br />
Then, on the page "converting file formats", list the various file formats, and either that the project does not support the conversion of material in the file format to Sword modules, or list the process/tool(s) that are used. <br />
<br />
This is also a good point and more information about conversion tools would be good. --Eeli<br />
<br />
c) Between EULAs and licenses,it is hard for end users to know what can be legally converted, and what cannot be legally converted to other file formats. [Project Gutenburg can be legally converted. BibleWorks resources can not be legally converted. Z-XML resources can go either way.]. A simple statement such as "The EULA for BibleWorks prohibits format shifting. The Sword Project supports Intellectual Property Rights, and as a consequence does not support the conversion of material for this program (BibleWorks) into a format usable by The Sword Project." can be used for the different programs that people ask about. <br />
<br />
14:00, 12 July 2007 (MDT)[[User:Jblake|Jblake]]<br />
<br />
Would you like me to be "brave" and:<br />
* Create a page that addresses converting to/from various file formats;<br />
* Create a page that covers conversion utilities;<br />
* Create a page that addresses copyright, licenses, and EULAs;[[User:Jblake|Jblake]] 13:40, 17 August 2007 (MDT)<br />
<br />
<br />
Those all would be great. I think all extra material is useful. We can link them from the FAQ page. --Eeli<br />
<br />
== Module-specific questions ==<br />
<br />
I just removed a question placed in the FAQ about why the Swahili Bible doesn't contain the book of Philippians. (I don't happen to know the answer, but I'll check into it.) Anyway, we should probably such module-specific questions out of the FAQ, even if it means creating another FAQ-type page for those questions. I know there are some questions currently address specific modules, but that's a fault in the questions themselves, which happen to address general issues by naming specific modules.<br />
<br />
-- Osk<br />
<br />
It might be good to have a question "How do I report a problem with a module". I think the right answer it to point them to Jira and file a bug under Modules. But that requires membership. Chris, if you don't mind, I'll leave this up to you, since you are the Module "Pumpkin Holder".<br />
<br />
As to the naming of specific modules, I agree that the questions should be more general. It might be reasonable to list specific ones in the answer if they are a frequent subject of the question.<br />
<br />
-- DM</div>Eelikhttps://wiki.crosswire.org/index.php?title=Talk:EnduserFAQ&diff=2438Talk:EnduserFAQ2007-07-12T21:18:24Z<p>Eelik: /* Converting resources */</p>
<hr />
<div>Why was the link the to Z-XML Sword Converter removed?<br />
<br />
http://joomla.zykloide.de/Joomla_1.0.10-Stable-Full_Package/component/option,com_docman/task,cat_view/gid,21/<br />
<br />
http://www.bibleworkplace.de/content/view/1/4/<br />
--[[User:84.159.172.31|84.159.172.31]] 05:00, 24 June 2007 (MDT)<br />
<br />
I wondered why many other changes were reverted also. Some of them did enhance the quality of the FAQ.<br />
<br />
I understand that we have to keep the FAQ as Frequently Asked Questions. It should not be Questions Which Someone Has Asked Once or Never Asked Questions Which Someone Wants To Answer Here. There are already some questions/answers there which are not very frequent. It makes the page more difficult to use for end users. All really Frequently asked questions are there.<br />
<br />
From now on, if someone wants to add/remove a question, I suggest that we discuss it here in this talk page.<br />
<br />
Questions about Z-XML converter are not frequent. If it's included it could be inserted under general converter section (question about e-sword should be changed to be more general).<br />
<br />
-- Eeli Kaikkonen<br />
<br />
<br />
I don't remember seeing the Z-XML converter myself, but I would probably have removed it if I had. I apologize that I can't fully elaborate since I don't recall my particular objections to the Z-XML converter, but I didn't consider it something we ought to recommend that users use. (One way or another, it is NOT reasonable to consider it an End-User tool, and the FAQ, being for End-Users, is not an appropriate place to link to it.) I'll elaborate on my reservations if I get a chance to take another look at the program. In any case, we have a Zefania to OSIS converter that (IMNSHO) does a better job even though it's still a work in progress (but what isn't).<br />
<br />
-- Osk<br />
<br />
Some of the stuff I added was reverted and some removed. As a community process, I expect that some of that will happen. However, I didn't like that they were anonymously made. I suggest that we make our changes while logged in and add a brief comment to each edit.<br />
<br />
-- DM<br />
<br />
<br />
Where is the Zefania to OSIS converter? --[[User:84.159.195.26|84.159.195.26]] 12:33, 25 June 2007 (MDT)<br />
<br />
The recent OSIS converters I wrote are sitting [http://crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/sword/utils/perl/ here]. I'm still going to hold off on any major announcement for a couple of reasons: First, they still need a little work. Second, I don't want people flooding me with modules they created with these converters since I've already got everything I would consider posting converted (whether or not I've actually gotten it online yet).<br />
<br />
-- Osk<br />
<br />
Reverting some other's changes may possibly happen if someone copies the text, edits it and later commits it without checking first. We just have to be careful.<br />
<br />
Some wiki FAQs are meant to be edited by end users. That can confuse some users so that they add their questions here though the purpose is that the developers gather the proper questions. This whole thing would be much easier if we just required logging in. I don't see any reason why anonymous editing would be important. Well, I'm not logged in either... --Eeli<br />
<br />
I put back in my changes. I'll also see if mediawiki allows us to have some pages require login. I don't know if that is something that we want to do. This page should be our "official" answers to "frequent" questions, not a place to ask questions.<br />
<br />
-- DM<br />
<br />
==Converting resources==<br />
<br />
a) e-Sword is closed source. Technically, it is not a commercial program (The e-Sword license prohibits commercial distribution). Some resources are commercially distributed, which is allowed by the license. Other resources are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike NonCommercial 2.0 license. <br />
<br />
I agree. Questions and aswers should be general. I noticed this myself but have done nothing for it. --Eeli<br />
<br />
<br />
b) I'd suggest having a page on converting to/from file formats, linked to from the FAQ.<br />
Change Q 2.1.5 "How do I convert e-Sword modules to Sword modules?" to "How do I convert material to Sword modules?"<br />
Then, on the page "converting file formats", list the various file formats, and either that the project does not support the conversion of material in the file format to Sword modules, or list the process/tool(s) that are used. <br />
<br />
This is also a good point and more information about conversion tools would be good. --Eeli<br />
<br />
c) Between EULAs and licenses,it is hard for end users to know what can be legally converted, and what cannot be legally converted to other file formats. [Project Gutenburg can be legally converted. BibleWorks resources can not be legally converted. Z-XML resources can go either way.]. A simple statement such as "The EULA for BibleWorks prohibits format shifting. The Sword Project supports Intellectual Property Rights, and as a consequence does not support the conversion of material for this program (BibleWorks) into a format usable by The Sword Project." can be used for the different programs that people ask about. <br />
<br />
14:00, 12 July 2007 (MDT)[[User:Jblake|Jblake]]<br />
<br />
== Module-specific questions ==<br />
<br />
I just removed a question placed in the FAQ about why the Swahili Bible doesn't contain the book of Philippians. (I don't happen to know the answer, but I'll check into it.) Anyway, we should probably such module-specific questions out of the FAQ, even if it means creating another FAQ-type page for those questions. I know there are some questions currently address specific modules, but that's a fault in the questions themselves, which happen to address general issues by naming specific modules.<br />
<br />
-- Osk<br />
<br />
It might be good to have a question "How do I report a problem with a module". I think the right answer it to point them to Jira and file a bug under Modules. But that requires membership. Chris, if you don't mind, I'll leave this up to you, since you are the Module "Pumpkin Holder".<br />
<br />
As to the naming of specific modules, I agree that the questions should be more general. It might be reasonable to list specific ones in the answer if they are a frequent subject of the question.<br />
<br />
-- DM</div>Eelikhttps://wiki.crosswire.org/index.php?title=EnduserFAQ&diff=2430EnduserFAQ2007-07-08T08:08:38Z<p>Eelik: </p>
<hr />
<div>==Public Community Forums and other places for help==<br />
CrossWire has public forums for our users to exchange tips and help each other. It is likely your question has been asked previously on our forums. You might even find some unexpected gems or post a few of your own: http://crosswire.org/forums<br />
<br />
http://www.crosswire.org is our main page. Scroll down to see the list of software and links to their home pages. Many applications have their own support systems and FAQs.<br />
<br />
We have a support mailing list, sword-support at crosswire.org. Other users can not see your question and answer it and users can not get benefit from previous answers. Therefore the forums are recommended. If you for some reason can not or do not want to use forums you can send private email to our support list. Whatever support tool you use, please read this FAQ and other documentation first.<br />
<br />
==End user FAQ==<br />
Here are some commonly asked questions about the CrossWire Bible Society and The SWORD Project and answers to them.<br />
<br />
CrossWire is a non-commercial organization which produces Bible related Free Software. We have several software products. We also have numerous text modules (Bible translations, commentaries, lexicons, ...) which can be used with our software. All products are made by individual volunteers who may or may not know each other's work. Therefore it is important that you first know which product you have questions about. Then you can select the category and question below. If your question is not answered here and you have to ask us directly, please attach as much information about your problem as possible, especially about the product you are using. Considering the volume of mail we receive daily and the few workers we have to answer support emails, vague email and email that asks questions clearly answered on this page are likely to go unanswered.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Questions about text modules===<br />
<br />
====Do you or will you have NIV/NASB/NLT/Message/NKJV/other translation?====<br />
NASB is under work and will be sold commercially by the Lockman publishing company. Most other copyright holders, including the publisher of the NIV, have not been interested in publishing their material in our format even when they could get money out of it. Strange world, isn't it?<br />
<br />
Some people recommend using a couple of good modern freely available translations instead. The ESV and NET are both high quality. <br />
<br />
The ESV is a word-for-word "essentially literal" translation which continues the KJV legacy but is based on modern textual criticism. It is freely [http://www.crosswire.org/sword/modules/ModInfo.jsp?modName=ESV downloadable from our repositories].<br />
<br />
The NET uses more dynamic equivalence principle and is downloadable from [http://www.bible.org/page.php?page_id=3086 bible.org] in either a free (with registration) version containing limited notes or a premium ($20) version with the full NET translation note set.<br />
<br />
====What happened to the Portuguese module?====<br />
It was removed because it was not what it claimed to be and had errors. Negotiations are underway to provide another translation.<br />
<br />
====Where are the deuterocanonical books and the apocrypha?====<br />
Sword does not currently support any books other than the 66 OT/NT protocanonical books. The reason is technical, not theological. The SWORD Project is ecumenical, benefiting from the labor of workers from a broad gamut of Christian churches. Work is currently underway to support a broader canon.<br />
<br />
====May I use Sword Modules on my website?==== <br />
While our software can be freely redistributed, many modules have been licensed to Crosswire for distribution. To use those modules, you will need to obtain permission for yourself. <br />
<br />
====How do I convert Sword modules to text?==== <br />
We would like to discourage this. Please help work with us, making our software better. <br />
<br />
But, if you really need the text: Each module has a conf file which will tell you about the origin of the text. Please obtain the source the same way we did. You may not convert the modules that have been licensed to Crosswire for distribution. The KJV module is the only one for which we maintain the source, which you can obtain [http://www.crosswire.org/~dmsmith/kjv2006 here].<br />
<br />
====How do I convert e-Sword modules to Sword modules?====<br />
The SWORD Project does not support the conversion of texts from commercial Bible software vendors.<br />
<br />
====I have purchased and lost a key to a locked module. Can you tell me what it is?====<br />
The SWORD Project does not sell or handle locked module keys. You should contact the module vendor for help in this matter.<br />
<br />
====My Personal module shows some strange text, why?====<br />
For a while, there was a bug in the configuration file (mods.d\personal.conf) of the Personal module. You can download and re-install the latest version but you will lose any personal notes you have made. Alternatively, you can just replace the configuration file with the new one or open it in any text editor to remove the line reading "SourceType=ThML".<br />
<br />
<br />
===Questions about what we do for free or for money===<br />
<br />
====Would you send me free Bibles or other material?====<br />
It is very unfortunate that some web sites have "information" according to which we are able to help you get free material. That is not true. There is no money involved in our work and we handle only electronic material. All our products are freely downloadable on our web site (or their own web sites) and that is all we do.<br />
<br />
====Can I donate to your ministry?====<br />
While we appreciate offers of donations, the SWORD Project does not solicit or accept such offers. We have been blessed already by the donation of those resources which we do use. If you feel the need to donate to ministry outside your local church, you might consider [http://www.compassion.com/ Compassion International], [http://www.habitat.org/ Habitat for Humanity], [http://www.wycliffe.org/ Wycliffe Bible Translators], or [http://www.ccel.org Christian Classics Ethereal Library].<br />
<br />
====Would you donate to my ministry?====<br />
As our project does not solicit or accept donations and does not itself produce any profit, we do not have monetary or other resources to offer to other ministries either (besides downloadable resources).<br />
<br />
====Can I sell advertising on your website?====<br />
No, we do not allow advertising on our website, as you might have noticed.<br />
<br />
====Will you allow me to link to your website on my website in exchange for linking mine on yours?====<br />
You may link to our website, including to our [http://www.crosswire.org/study BibleTool]. However, we do not do link exchanges.<br />
<br />
====Where's my CD?====<br />
*NEEDS ATTENTION*<br />
<br />
<br />
===Questions about our software===<br />
<br />
If you don't find an answer to your question here and want to ask directly, PLEASE TELL US WHAT SOFTWARE YOU ARE USING. There are many products related to CrossWire. The most common is The Sword Project for Windows. It's extremely difficult to answer a question like "I'm trying to open a Bible but it doesn't work" if we don't even know which application you are using. It also helps if you attach as much exact information about your problem as possible, like "After I have opened the program I select action A from the menu and click button B, but it does nothing". NOT something like "I can't do C".<br />
<br />
Many problems are due to outdated software or text modules. Please check first which version you are running. Notice also your operating system and version.<br />
<br />
<br />
====How do I uninstall?====<br />
The SWORD Project for Windows has an uninstaller which should be in the same place as the program. You can also just delete the folder and possible menu entries.<br />
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====Is it possible to install The SWORD Project for Windows and text modules on a USB disk/stick (or some other place)?====<br />
The SWORD Project for Windows is entirely installed under one folder, including the modules. You can copy it anywhere as it is and run the program from there. You can even move the folder from one computer to another or to a networked drive.<br />
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====When I read the Syriac Peshitta, Hebrew Bible, or (another module), all I see are boxes?====<br />
You need to install a Unicode font with the full range of characters used in the module you are trying to read.<br />
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====I love your Bible Tool. May I install it on my church's website?====<br />
Yes. But while our software can be used in any way you wish, many of our modules may not.<br />
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====Do you have a Sword program for my phone? my pda? my handheld?====<br />
Take a look to the left for the list of end user Bible tools. If we have it it is listed there.<br />
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====I've found a bug. How do I report it?====<br />
Use the bug reporting facilities of the project you found the bug in. Some projects use [http://www.crosswire.org/bugs/secure/Dashboard.jspa Crosswire's bug tracker], especially [http://www.crosswire.org/bugs/secure/BrowseProject.jspa?id=10011 text modules] and [http://www.crosswire.org/bugs/secure/BrowseProject.jspa?id=10004 The Sword Project for Windows (a.k.a. BibleCS)]. Examine the existing bug reports. If your bug is not there create an account and write a report. Remember to give enough information: unambiguous identification of the product, version number, operating system, what you were trying to do, what you expected to happen, what happened, how to reproduce the bug etc.<br />
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====Why doesn't your program do such and so? I'd like it to do it. It should to be competitive.====<br />
Yes, it would be nice, but this is volunteer based project and we do this in our free time. Help if you can and give feedback but don't complain too much. The best you can do is pray for us.<br />
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====How do I do something in MacSword? BibleTime? GnomeSword? BibleDesktop? The SWORD Project for Windows?====<br />
There are links to each of the projects on the left. Please read their attached documentation and other supporting material of the project you are using. You may need to go to their website to find this. Many problems will be solved by reading the documentation. After that use the support forum/list/pages of that project. After that you can ask your question in our forum or our support list.<br />
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====Somebody sells your software in net, is it right?====<br />
It's not forbidden to sell [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html Free Software]. However, according to licence the source code must be included. Some people also sell free software without revealing that it is also available for free, and we do not condone such action.</div>Eelik