Hey,
I've been trying to do something like that for a while,
I got the tora (without nikug or tehamim) and I saw someone put
in wiki the mishana. There are a lot of other texts like perushim to
the tora malbim gmara and so on, but with qustionable license. (I think
I emailed the list about it a while ago asking). Well since I'm no lawyer
the only option was to ignore existing things online and start from
scatch(unless someone else knows of a better option).
My idea was not to only give a plain text but to also use XML to split it
to chapter/verses and then when in example in the mishna there is a verse
from the tora to change it to a link to the right place.
I advanced a bit about it (was half a way around to writing a script that
does it).

btw take a look at project SWORD

Ely Levy
System group
Computer Science
Hebrew University
Jerusalem Israel



On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Daniel wrote:

> > > I was wondering if any classic Jewish texts, chumash mishnah etc are 
> > > available for linux.
> > > I am looking for study material for my daughter who has a test in 
> > > chumash. Has anyone written an application for torah study on linux?
> > I don't know about Hebrew ones.
> > There are few English ones - e.g. search freshmeat for bible or
> > apt-cache search bible. Some of them might work with Hebrew texts, which
> > you can find on the net (e.g. at mechon mamreh). Adapting the texts to
> > work with English software might be non-trivial.
>
> I think that it would be worthwhile to start a working group to produce
> something like this. At the very least one could download all the
> relevant texts, package them and write a few shell scripts to allow
> searching or display of selected parts.
>
> I invite all who are interested in participating in any way to contact
> me - we can start a project.  Tanach is open source (although not "free"
> because you are not allowed to make changes) and very suited to the
> spirit of Linux.
>
> Daniel
>
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