[mobile-devel] and-bible on Android - Strongs refs

Matthew Talbert ransom1982 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 13 04:33:49 MST 2010


On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Martin Denham <mjdenham at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Matthew,
> Is this something that other people do too?  Which software currently supports this use?
>    "search the entire module for occurrences of that Greek/Hebrew word"
> This is an interesting use I had not thought of.  I believe that to search for all occurrences of a Strong's ref we may not be able to use standard Sword indexes created by Sword based apps because, and I may be wrong, I think they only index the raw bible text and this is also what and-bible currently does but I think we can extend and-bible indexing to make it more like JSwords which includes information like Strongs references.  To get indexing to work on a mobile I cut out anything I deemed superfluous.

"standard" sword indexes (such as those created by mkfastmod or
Xiphos) *do* include strong's references in the "lemma" field. You can
search for them in Xiphos by typing in:
lemma:g1223

Matthew



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