[sword-devel] bishop needs - Reading mode

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Thanks Karl,

So, I'll try to discuss these each.

I agree about the "just read one Bible".  I've always tried to keep 
Bishop a simple reader, with deep features if you want them. I use it 
each morning when I read the Bible.

You can select 1, 2, or 3 Bibles for the "Bibles" view.  If you only 
want 1 Bible, you can just set the other two to nothing.  I usually keep 
NASB, WLC, NA28.  Bishop is smart enough to not include a Bible if no 
verses are available, so this setup will show English and Greek if you 
are reading New Testament, or English and Hebrew if you are reading Old 
Testament.  But you can simply select 1 Bible and set the others to nothing.

Are you asking for a quick toggle between 1 or multiple Bibles? I can 
imagine that being useful.  What kind of UI can you think of to make 
that work?  Maybe a 4th 'View' mode: split 'Bible' into 'Bible Single', 
'Bible Parallel'?


On 12/17/25 11:16 AM, Karl Kleinpaste wrote:
> 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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