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Welcome to the CrossWire developers' wiki

Check out our current projects page to see how you might use your skills. Please also look at our general volunteering page.

If you want to help in this wiki, please use this form and then send an email to support@crosswire.org to remind us to approve your newly requested account.

Here is the bugs database. Chat with SWORD developers on IRC: #sword on FreeNode.

Front-end Bible study applications

SWORD based front-ends

• The SWORD Project for Windows (internally known as BibleCS)
• The SWORD Project for Android, iOS & iPadOS (internally known as Bishop)
• Eloquent MacOS desktop application
• Xiphos Windows & Linux desktop application
• BibleTime Windows & Linux desktop application
• The Bible Tool web server application
• PocketSword iOS & iPadOS application
• Holy Bible Windows Desktop application
• Ezra Bible App Windows, Linux, MacOS desktop & Android tablet application
• GLosung Gottes Wort für deinen Desktop
• matheteuo flashcards to help study Biblical Hebrew & Greek

JSword based front-ends

• BibleDesktop
• Alkitab Bible Study
• GSword – CCIM Online Bible Studio
• And Bible – for Android OS
• STEP Bible – originally developed at Tyndale House

Front-ends in general

• Choosing a SWORD program
• Front-ends no longer being actively developed

SWORD module sources

• SWORD Module Remote Installation Source Repository Discovery and Module Updating
• Official and Affiliated Module Repositories
• Other Module Sources
• Creating and Maintaining a Module Repository

Public relations, website, user assistance

• Contact us
• CrossWire's copyright policy
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Help, Bugs and Mailing Lists
• SWORD CD

Back-end API development tools

• SWORD Engine (C++)
  • Compiling and installing SWORD
    • on Linux/MacOS/Unix
    • on or for Windows
    • with CMake
  • Code Examples
  • Tutorial:How SWORD works
  • Locale Files
  • SWIG Bindings, C# Bindings on Windows, Android Bindings
  • bug reports with or without appended patches to our tracker
• JSword Engine (Java)
  • Personal Commentary
  • Internationalization

Open Scriptural Information Standard™

• A basic OSIS XML tutorial
• OSIS 2.1.1 schema change requests
• OSIS schema
• List of eXtensions to OSIS used in SWORD

Ancillary software

• BibleSync – for Bible software shared co-navigation
• International Components for Unicode (ICU)

Development proposals and discussions

• Whiteboard

Module development

• How to create SWORD Modules & Module Configuration Files
• Guides to writing
  • OSIS Bibles, OSIS Commentaries,
  • OSIS Genbooks, TEI Dictionaries
• Guide to Validate_OSIS_or_TEI_text
• Guide to Converting SFM Bibles to OSIS
• About Bible Versification schemes
• About File Formats and related Utility Programs
• About Unicode Encodings, Fonts & Text Editors

• Module Development Collaboration
• Notes on particular CrossWire modules
• Module Requests and Text Development
• Module Submission

Getting started in wiki collaboration

A wiki is a place to share documentation and development information.

• New user account [1] are now moderated. Anyone who has been a member for at least 4 days can edit a wiki once they have logged in.
• If you are new to wikis, consult the User's Guide or the MediaWiki FAQ for information on using the wiki software .
• Look to see what might need attention by visiting Wiki Maintenance
• You may experiment with wiki using our Sandbox.
• Another way to navigate the wiki is to click on Category:Categories.