capecove

Hello JPG and thank you for this suggestion. I am willing to give plenty of potentialities a whirl!

I would like to try to implement this, but I am completely unaware of the file structure of these files. I might just, for the sake of fun and laughs, try to open one of these files in a text/hex editor and see what I find.

I work commonly with CSS, HTML and eBook programming processes as well as relational database programming and once upon a time (decades ago now) created shareware applications for the PC. SO, I suppose I will see if I can figure this out.

If there is a good tutorial for this sort of thing on these forums, would you pass that my way?

Thank you again!


Jason

Long shot.

Perhaps if you change the abbreviation name in the file to NET1x it will work. I say this because in the e-Sword version abbreviation names have been reserved for official resources in the past, and maybe that is the case here.

Hello folks...

I recently purchased e-Sword X (current version reporting as Version 7.0 (26)) to be a "backup" to my other Bible study software which has been having some issues since a recent update the manufacturer of the software completed to it - I assume they will eventually fix it. I am on a 2019 model iMac i5 with 40GB of RAM and running up to date Catalina.

I have been using the NET (Bible.org) for years, even have a commercial use license for it, which is a blessing in our modern era. For many reasons, I appreciate it. In my particular personal experience, I feel that it is an effective tool for communicating to groups of people or for those folks who take a more "leisurely" approach to pursuing the Greek. As a result, I use it very often - essentially daily.

Since the noteless NET (first edition at least, I know essentially nothing about this second edition stuff) is freely distributable (most of the folks who I minister to couldn't care less about the translators notes, it is all they can handle to read the Word without any other "stuff"), and has been included in the PC e-Sword universe for freely available download, I assumed that I would see the exact same type of module for the Mac side of things. However, amazingly, I am not seeing that at all. I cannot find a pre-prepared module with the NET First Edition available (for Mac users) anywhere - with or without notes - even for commercial purchase.

So, I did some research and learned of the PC to Mac converter. Since I have an older Windows laptop and the NET noteless edition resides on the e-Sword on that laptop, I went through the motions of preparing a module myself. I have done the process 12 times now and it always goes very fine, though it does take some time. In the end I am provided with a 23 mb .bbli file. In fact, the exact file name the convertor creates is "netbible_ref.bbli". I copy it to a flash drive and then get it onboard my iMac. I go through the process of importing the file (File\Resources\Import, selecting the bbli file showing there on my dekstop). e-Sword X acts like all is fine, the import completes without an error, the dialog vanishes and then DELETES (or moves?) the original .bbli file I placed on the desktop of my iMac when I copied it from the flash drive.

Fine. So, I close e-Sword X and then reopen, hit the Bibles dropdown at the top and do not see it. You can see a screenshot of my Bibles dropdown attached if it interests you. So, I reboot the iMac, same result - it does not appear in the list. I recopy the file from the flash drive to the desktop and try the process again, same exact result: it appears to go smoothly and without trouble but then the Bible does not appear in the dropdown list. SO, I try to import it as a user file (Files\User Files\Import) with the same result.

Therefore, I recreate the conversion on the PC and go through this all again. Same result. You know what Einstein said about insanity, don't you? 

I need help. Does anyone have any experience with this sort of thing? I sent a support email to the folks at e-Sword X (that was last week) and have heard zero from them regarding this.

I need to get the first edition of the NET translation going here or I am going to have to move to another backup option. Passages of Scripture are vital to my ambassadorship of Christ, I really need to try to get this going. Perhaps you can help?

Thank you for your time and have a wonderful day...