[sword-devel] How to access raw OSIS files

Michael H cmahte at gmail.com
Tue Mar 10 16:48:28 MST 2020


I owe you lunch Greg.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 6:37 PM Philip White <philipwhite at cedarville.edu>
wrote:

> Ahh, that C API looks like what I would want.
>
> I didn't mean to disparage or be uppity by stating my preference for
> standardization; I greatly appreciate what this project (I use And
> Bible on my phone). This is by far the smaller of my two concerns. I
> may also suffer from not-invented-here syndrome.
>
> I did not know about diatheke before you mentioned it. The tool I
> envision is a less-like, Bible module viewer with stuff like strong's
> numbers and morphology codes, and the ability to view commentaries
> inline. Specifically, the personal commentary, so that I can see my
> own notes along with verses. The only reason for using a terminal as a
> UI is to avoid large libraries like QT4 or GTK (although, after using
> BibleTime for a bit, I've been impressed with the startup time - not
> so much with compile times though). The main thing that got me wanting
> to make this is that any software that allows editing personal
> commentaries has a builtin editor, rather than opening an external
> editor like vim. My thought is to use the EDITOR environment variable.
> It is possible that I could achieve everything I want with shell
> scripts and diatheke; I'll have to think about that more.
>
> Incidentally, I am on linux, but not Ubuntu. NixOS is my preferred distro.
>
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