[sword-devel] Copying scripture quickly for presentation

[Bill Burton]

Hello,

Sounds like what you want is a presentation mode for Bible CS or other
Sword front end that would have a simple input field to enter the
scripture reference and then would hide the input field displaying the
verse(s) in a large font taking over the whole screen like PowerPoint,
etc.

Another kind of integration might be possible using a web browser for
the presentation.  Both Firefox and IE support a "Full Screen" mode by
going to View, Full Screen or function key F11.  It would be a matter
of writing a script or program as a wrapper around Diatheke (for
instance) to generate the verses to a file and then wrap it with
appropriate HTML and CSS and then invoke the browser with this file as
the argument.  You would have to configure the browser such that
subsequent invocations replace the existing content rather than
opening a new window or tab.

Also possible is a mini web server application interface to Sword.
You can then keep all your user interactions within the web browser.

Hope this helps,
-Bill

On 2/9/07, Jari Strand <strand_jari at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello.
> Our church is using power point presentations to display scripture but this
> requires copy and paste every time which is too slow if you need to show
> something on request. So I was wondering if there are any plans for some
> sort of verse exporter that would generate a html page or even better a
> power point presentation from selected verses?
>
> Thank you. I would probably be writing something like this for SWORD project
> if I'd knew the source that well.
>