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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