[CS-FSLUG] Mac to Linux: Bible Software

[Eduardo Sánchez]

On Sunday 02 November 2008 16.47.28 Timothy Butler wrote:
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>
> 	Basically there are two things that seem like big stumbling blocks
> for myself, maybe three or four.[1] The biggest, perhaps, is
> Photoshop. GIMP is nice, but Photoshop it ain't. But everyone knows
> about the discussion on Photoshop. What about Bible software. One
> thing I struggled with the whole time I was on Linux, and this was
> before I became nearly as dependent on Bible software as I am now, is
> that SWORD-based Bible software lacks a lot of key ingredients --
> major modern translations (ESV, NIV, NRSV are the ones I depend on
> for seminary work, NLT and TNIV sometimes for other stuff), scholarly
> Greek manuscripts, or even unscholarly manuscripts with accents, lack
> of quality scholarly lexicons, and the like. I know we have some
> scholars on here, what do you use?
>

I am going to ask the obvious: For that proprietary Bible software, in 
the case that they have Windows versions, have you tried WINE? or, is 
there something like Mac-on-Linux for Mactels? I know this is not a real 
solution, but only a workaround.

Blessings,


Eduardo

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Eduardo Sanchez, B. Th.
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