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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