[Linux4christians] e-Sword
singingfalls
mohair at singingfalls.com
Wed May 10 10:25:04 EDT 2006
Can't help you there Peter but I want to thank you again for making the
rmps available for Fedora.
In Mashiach,
ox
Michael A. Peters wrote:
> Hi - I'm a big fan of crosswire sword, and I use gnomesword in Linux.
>
> For years now, there have been teases about "locked" modules being made
> available on the developers list "RSN" - but so far, it looks the only
> non-free module is an African Bible.
>
> Since I have a license for CrossOver Office - I decided to try e-sword
> in that.
>
> It installed flawlessly - in a win98 bottle.
> I then purchased a key for the NASB (the entire reason I installed
> e-sword) and it too installed flawlessly, so I'm mostly a happy camper.
>
> What I would like to do though is figure out a way to get the .bbl files
> translated to something that work in sword - for obvious reasons.
>
> They are a binary format, but running strings on them shows that the
> Bible is in there plain text. Interestingly, it isn't in order though,
> and the verses are not marked etc.
>
> Anybody have any ideas on how to do this? I don't mind using e-sword in
> CXO but I would *much much* rather just use Gnomesword - especially
> since cut-n-paste from a WINE app to a Linux app does not work.
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