I will respond with the curiosity question of if sword is going to be made to read other formats which is a wish list item in my opinion, what about Bible Explorer files.
In Him, Daniel Adams - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~dpa3 1 Peter 4:10 (NIV)- Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in its various forms. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeremy Bettis Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 7:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [sword-devel] Searching and copyrights. > Could we eventually get copyright holders (NIV, NASB, etc.) to market > Sword > for us and cover all the issues relating to module distribution and > royalty > payment, etc.? If Sword were so polished, we could go to these companies > (I won't make moral statements as to the right to hold these licenses), > and we could get them their own modules, with all the bells and whistles. > They could sell the modules at any price that they thought was fair, but > they would be so inclined to distribute Sword with it because there would > be nothing better. Could sword be augmented to read the file formats of some of the existing Bible software out there? Here is what I mean: * I see the major strength of Sword to be the vast number of translations, commentaries and lexicons that can be used at once and cross referenced. * I don't really see "free" as the most important issue here * Zondervan made available (for a while at least) a free download of a NIV bible in their Zondervan Reference Software package. * If sword could read ZRS files, then I could use a legal NIV along with the many public translations that are on the sword web site. Now I understand that ZRS is a complex file format, and probably secret. (I havn't been able to figure it out with just a quick look). But you can purchase bible texts in the STEP format (is that the right abbr?), which is well documented.
