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<font face="FreeSerif">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.<br>
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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 </font><font
face="FreeSerif">just</font><font face="FreeSerif"> the text. In
fact sometimes I want to see</font><font face="FreeSerif"> just</font><font
face="FreeSerif"> 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.<br>
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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.<br>
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"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>.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Just a few thoughts for now. Anyone else?</font>
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