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<p>Thanks Karl,</p>
<p>So, I'll try to discuss these each.</p>
<p>I agree about the "just read one Bible". I've always tried to
keep Bishop a simple reader, with deep features if you want them.
I use it each morning when I read the Bible.</p>
<p>You can select 1, 2, or 3 Bibles for the "Bibles" view. If you
only want 1 Bible, you can just set the other two to nothing. I
usually keep NASB, WLC, NA28. Bishop is smart enough to not
include a Bible if no verses are available, so this setup will
show English and Greek if you are reading New Testament, or
English and Hebrew if you are reading Old Testament. But you can
simply select 1 Bible and set the others to nothing.</p>
<p>Are you asking for a quick toggle between 1 or multiple Bibles?
I can imagine that being useful. What kind of UI can you think of
to make that work? Maybe a 4th 'View' mode: split 'Bible' into
'Bible Single', 'Bible Parallel'?</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/17/25 11:16 AM, Karl Kleinpaste
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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>
<br>
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>
<br>
"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>
<br>
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>
<br>
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>
<br>
Just a few thoughts for now. Anyone else?</font> <br>
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