David Austin wrote:
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.
Have you seen the Quran modules? I'll admit the display isn't that great in the Windows frontend, but there is the facility for browsing and searching. FWIW, we've got the only Arabic Quran text I've ever seen in Bible software. Other non-Biblical material shouldn't be any more difficult to incorporate.
Once we do multiple versification support, there's a possibility that such non-Biblical material could be presented to the user through an interface more similar to the Bible interface in the Windows frontend. (I think it may already be the same interface in BibleTime.) Technically, there's no reason it couldn't be now, but there may not be sufficient motivation to implement such features.
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