[CS-FSLUG] Mac to Linux: Bible Software

[Karl Kleinpaste]

Timothy Butler <tbutler at ofb.biz> writes:
> Ah, yes, a very fine program. I appreciated your UI design.

Please credit Terry Biggs for GnomeSword's basic UI, who created it in
2000.  He's a pastor from Newark, Ohio who does a lot with computers as
a matter of personal interest, and it was the penultimate personal itch
to scratch for him.  Of course, a great deal has changed over the years.

> Wow, that is very nice. Perhaps I spoke to soon. For papers and such
> as seminary, I'm pretty well bound to UBS or NA, but for my personal
> use, that sounds intriguing. Good idea!

We have a module "WHNU" whose "About" text says:

 | Westcott-Hort with NA27/UBS4 variants (1881)

 | The Westcott-Hort edition of 1881 with complete parsing information
 | for all Greek words.  Readings of Nestle27/UBS4 shown, also with
 | complete parsing information attached

Would that be appropriate for your use?  Unfortunately, it appears to
be unaccented(!).

There is also TR (Stephens 1550 + Scrivener 1894), MorphGNT ("derived
from the morphologically parsed GNT provided by UPenn's CCAT"), and a
Byzantine/Majority Text ("Byzantine Textform, Robinson & Pierpont, ed.
2000 edition").

> For the most part, (for better or for worse) it seems that the world
> revolves around BDAG.  You don't happen to know if there is any work
> being done to bring it to SWORD, do you?

No clue, but I'll ask around.