[sword-devel] bishop needs

[Karl Kleinpaste]

Since my future with Apple devices can't continue to include 
PocketSword, I've been using Bishop. Ignoring the search problem that 
Troy says should be fixed soon, there are a bunch of things about it 
that are missing, not specifically PS-like, but more generally in line 
with ready accessibility that I would like to see.

It should be possible to look at 1 Bible without anything else. At the 
moment, I have to look at a set of 3 Bibles, or 1 Bible + original 
language dictionary (how does Bishop choose which one I see?), or 1 
Bible + 1 commentary. Really, sometimes I want to see just the text. In 
fact sometimes I want to see just the commentary, without a Bible. (PS 
does/did this.) This is to say, sometimes I'm just reading, not doing 
deep comparative/semantic/historical/linguistic analysis.

Bishop should handle images, period. I have a number of modules that use 
images in various ways, and they all appear as broken pictures. The 
engine generates proper references in XHTML filters from "<img 
src="/images/xyz.jpg"/>" for both OSIS and ThML; I can only hope that 
whatever filters are used by Bishop can cope as well.

"sword://Module/Key" URLs are not followed. It's really easy to 
implement and it ought to be supported. Cross-refs (e.g. commentary to 
Bible, or footnote to elsewhere in a Bible, or one definition to another 
in a dictionary) are very common. StrongsReal{Greek,Hebrew} use 
cross-refs everywhere, because <this word> is derived from <that word>.

It would be nice if texts' footnote numbering/lettering were displayed 
in text. That makes it easy to figure which reference is to be found in 
the parallel commentary, when that is in use.

I want to be able to open any dictionary -- any at all, including 
Strong's dictionaries. When I select Dictionaries, Bishop shows me 
several dictionary choices that I've installed, but not 
StrongsReal{Greek,Hebrew} that I use 90% of the time.

Just a few thoughts for now. Anyone else?
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