David, Sword does have support for extrabiblical literature through its "general book" facility. You could create general book modules for the works you mentioned, insert keywords to indicate topics and then use Sword's search facilities to find relevant entries. I don't know about other frontends, but BibleTime offers to search in multiple modules at the same time.
Is that not what you need? mg > As a side issue for the group, I had hoped that Sword would have a > better capability than it does to display non biblial texts as I would > like to build a tool that can display Islamic and Buddhist scripture > the Quran and the hadiths in various languagers and a search tool that > lets you search a topic and do a comparission of what the Islamic or > the Buddhist scriptures say about topic xyz. I think this would be very > helpful to those in the field ministering within these people groups.. > But i am told that I have to look elsewhere for the tool to do this or i > have to write it from scratch. > > David Austin (Permissions Director) > ~Join our users in the forum http://www.bible.org/forum > where you can ask questions and get answers > ~Read the NETBIBLE and over 3500 studies at http://www.bible.org _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
