Does anyone have a macro for MS Publisher 2007?

Send a request to Rick. Historically, he has distributed it only on request.

e-Sword Hotkey can only read user created e-Sword resources.

jonathon

Well, the Book of Joshua is well and truly completed, and now I am about half way through 2Samuel. So about 9.5 books of the OT complete, and have actually completed 8,260 verses to date.

Since New Zealand won the Cup, you can go back to working on this. Or did the French invasion formation during the haka scare you too much. (Doesn't the IRB realize that what the French did, was a mark of respect? )

jonathon

I have updated e-Sword Tooltip Tool (T3) to support the Apocrypha with Tooltips. This the first release, and I hope that I have not broken anything in the process. The books added are that supported by e-Sword: 1 Esdras, 2 Esdras, Tobit, Judith, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, 3 Maccabees, 4 Maccabees, Prayer of Manasseh, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch.

Did you also include Psalm 151?

jonathon

This type of thing isn't well documented. And in a future version of e-Sword, if Rick disallows the use of RTF headers in commentaries, which I'm using to make the font display properly, people will have to use other software to view this commentary.

Not "if", but "when".

I would not be able to get it to work. So in that sense, this commentary is "fragile".

You are doing things with e-Sword that Rick neither anticipated, or envisioned.

jonathon

Are embedded pictures also supported now in cmtx files,

If the test with topx and refx files goes well, that functionality will be extended to other resource types that use RTF for presentation markup.

jonathon

Will there be a way to point to other Audio resources other than SermonAudio.com

At one point, Rick was exploring embedding audio content within the resource.

I thought e-Sword wasn't going to push any particular doctrinal stance.  Has this changed?

Historically, official e-Sword (and Pocket e-Sword) resources are from the doctrinal and theological positions that Rick is both familiar with, and can endorse. Unlike some Biblical software developers, Rick has added functionality to e-Sword, that ensures that content he theologically disagrees with, can be utilized from within e-Sword.  The e-Sword EULA has not imposed doctrinal or theological constrains onto its users.

[Part of the reason it took so long to include the entire Anagignoskomena, is because he literally was unfamiliar with those books, and didn't know what was canonical, and what was not canonical.  it is all very well to read on Internet site x that book blah, blah, blah is in a specific canon, but until one has picked up, and read a Bible that conforms to that specific canon, there is no guarantee that the claim is valid.  For the EOC81(BC), all claims about what it contains, and what it excludes are null and void, because it is an open canon, whose contents depend, quite literally, upon the Priest that uses it. (Laity are prohibited from using it, except under the direct, specific guidance of their Spiritual Father).  The Haile Selassie Edition of the Bible is the authoritative edition of the EOC81(NC).  Converting the versification scheme it uses, to something that e-Sword can utilize, is a major task.]

SermonAudio.com both targets the branch of Christianity that Rick is a part of, and is one of the largest collections of audio sermons on the Net.  Those two factors mean that it is the audio sermon source that the "typical" e-Sword user will be the most comfortable with.

If this works well, Rick might be persuaded to add other sites that offer audio sermons. The ideal situation is to list three or four sites of audio sermons, and provide the ability to add other sites.

jonathon

Rick just said it "may" in the future. Not that it will.

The Life Application Study Bible Notes for e-Sword won't have the same content as the hard copy has, until he can include the maps within the commentary.  Having them in a mapx resource doesn't work nearly as well.  I _think_ that there is another publisher that also wants map/graphic images to be included in the commentary resource.

jonathon

A more mundane question, I use the e-sword macros for MS Word quite a bit, they don't seem to work with version 10, will there be new macros available?

http://www.e-sword.net/extras.html has the e-Sword 9.8 macros.


jonathon

Has there been instances of corruption since the switch to SQLite database instead of Access?

Corrupted files is only part of the issue.

A: Use different Study Note files for different purposes.

• The Study Note file for Wednesday Night Bible Study;
• The Study Note file for Sunday School Class;
• The Study Note file from Perry Stone's talks on TV;
• The Study Note file for each, individual of my various theological paper I'm working on;

I have half a dozen topical files that I update/add content to/edit, as my understanding of the subject changes. Another half a dozen or so are used to transcribe sermons, Bible study sessions, and the like to e-Sword. (These topical files are partners to the study note files.)

If I could, I'd do the same thing with the journal.

The partial solution is to simply use a word processor for all that content, and import it into e-Sword when the resource is "finished". For journals, that would be at the end of each liturgical year. Or secular year, for those that don't adhere to a liturgical calendar. (I am looking at electronic journals and diaries as things of value to others. Furthermore, being digital, sharing the e-text editions with third parties is much simpler, and easier than when using pen and paper.)

B: Distribution.

Some individuals, groups, and organizations distribute their content as Study Note files or Topical files, with the express purpose that people go through the material, and edit it according to the results of their personal Bible Study. One group that I'm aware of, collects these edited resources, merges them together, and distributes the final product to all group participants. In situations like that, you really don't want unrelated material to be merged --- especially if it is of a personal, private nature.

jonathon

It would be good if the STEP reader icon was returned to being next to the Graphic Viewer icon where it used to be.

+1

OTOH, that would make that screen look more cluttered.

jonathon

If one day e-Sword supported a tagging system for finding resources in the Reference Library, that would be super cool.

One of the reasons I was advocating resources should contain the metadata table, was so that users could tag them. Not just topical files, but also Bible translations. Living Oracles gets tagged as start in "church of Christ", NiRV gets tagged as "feminist", etc. Commentaries get tagged as"dispensationalism", "preterist", "amillennial", post-millennial", etc.

jonathon

Here is an interesting issue, and I'm not sure this is unique to e-Sword v10.

i) That issue has been present in e-Sword for a very long time;
ii) I've come across it in other database driven Biblical software;
iii) The "graceful" fix is for a hard-coded "fallback" translation that does contain every verse that is liable to be linked to. This "fallback" translation would be the first translation consulted, and if found, the requested translation would be searched. If the verses isn't found, an error message stating that the requested verse is not part of a Canon known to e-Sword is trhown up. However, for this to not be too annoying, e-Sword also has to be able to convert between the various versification schemes. Vulgate Psalm versification v Hebrew psalm versification, Greek Esther 9:19a, etc.

jonathon

Hmm, I suppose one folder (my documents\esword) is easier to backup than two (program files and my documents).

From my pov the only argument in favour of a different directory for each resource type is inodes.

• How many people are going to include more resources than there are inodes in a directory?
• Is it worth changing e-Sword to meet the technical requirements of a very small minority of e-Sword users?

I am assuming that the results of the poll about number of installed resources, that was done two years ago, is still applicable.

jonathon

It is slow to install and slow to start the first time as well.

The first time I started it on a WinXP box, it took 45 minutes.
Subsequent starts take 423 seconds.

• eMachine T3256
• 3200 AMD Athalon XP Processor;
• 512 MB RAM;
• 1,819 files (3.88 GB) in the e-Sword resource directory;

jonathon

As it turned out, there was a problem with the commentary itself. Other than that, I've seen no performance issues.

The same effect is present, albeit much less noticeable in the NET Bible and the REB Bible.

jonathon