[sword-devel] How to access raw OSIS files

Greg Hellings greg.hellings at gmail.com
Wed Mar 11 12:47:24 MST 2020


On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 6:49 PM Michael H <cmahte at gmail.com> wrote:

> I owe you lunch Greg.
>

I sure wouldn't turn down an offer like that!

--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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