E-sword moduals

[Luke35]

I have been using eSword for a year or so with a weekly men's bible study I attend. I enjoy the study note and bookmarking features as each week we read the upcoming Scripture readings for Mass.

Prior to eSword, I used a print copy of the Catholic Study Bible NAB version. The other fellows in the group still use that and I've downloaded that version for eSword.

Two items that I dearly miss from the print version are 1) the Reader's Guide; 2) the voluminous footnotes. Does anyone know if wither of these items are available as add-on modules? The RG may very well be copyrighted, but would the footnotes be as well? There are often tremendous insights and cross references in the footnotes. If I can't get them for eSword, my study mates will at least still have them to refer to, but I was hoping to get them back myself also.

Sorry if this was ever asked elsewhere. I can't refine my search skills well enough to track anything down.

[jblake]

Originally Posted by Luke35;

Two items that I dearly miss from the print version are 1) the Reader's Guide; 2) the voluminous footnotes. Does anyone know if wither of these items are available as add-on modules?

As best as I can tell, both are under copyright.

The only Reader's Guide I'm aware of, that is available as an e-Sword resource, is not very good.

For cross-references, _Treasury of Scripture Knowledge_ might work. It was written by Protestants, for Protestants, so you won't find much in the way of Catholic orientated cross references. _If_ you are willing to do some work, there are several texts that can used to easily create a Catholic orientated cross reference resource.

_Haydock's Commentary_ might serve as a substitute for the footnotes in _Catholic Study Bible NAB_. "Might", not because it isn't good --- it is good --- but, rather, because it was written more than a century ago. As such, it doesn't always reflect current practices.

There are often tremendous insights and cross references in the footnotes.

From my POV the virtue of Study Bibles is the commentary and cross-references that they have.

jonathon

[tommydacatholic]

Greetings to everyone,

I'm glad I found this forum. Because I'm very interested in creating, and obtaining, Catholic esword / e-sword modules. I'm going to create a thread here, which I will link to shortly, and I hope there will be some like-minded Catholics interested in collaborating also.

We should compile a list with all known Catholic modules available so far, be they Bibles, Commentaries, Topic & Study files etc (every file format basically, including both esword version 9 and x8 files: .bbl .bblx .brp .brpx .cmt .cmtx .dev .devx .dct .dctx .map .mapx .har .harx .mem .memx .ovl .ovlx .prl .prlx .not .notx .top .topx .lst & .lstx)

E-Sword is a great program and if used properly could have untold benefits for many people - Priests, Religious, Seminarians, Novices and all us laymen and women including our seperated brothers and sisters in Christ (and those who do not yet know him), to deepen and strenghten our faith and love of God.

Anyone with a suggestion to what modules they would like created should post it, and even consider making it themselves - it's not as complicated or time consuming as one would imagine, plus look at all they people that would gain because of the efforts put in by you. (We've to set big goals - starting with every Catholic translation of the Sacred Scriptures - no just in English, but that's including every langauge. Yes, that's right all you bilinguists or those who you know!)

Whoever is in the process of creating one should let us know, so we can know what to expect and make sure we're not doing something twice - or better yet to work together doing different sections each.

Be generous! Don't cause the knowledge of our faith to be confined to the small few that have it (small when compared to the number that Christ has plans for!).

May God bless you all

[Luke35]

Hello,

Infrequent poster, but I like to lurk and read a lot. I accidentally deleted my subscription to this thread and am hoping that posting to it once again will revive that. If not, does anyone know of a way to manually subscribe to threads without actually posting in them. Sometimes I just like to read others' thoughts without jumping in myself. It's much easier to just get an e-mail notice when a new reply is made, especially when the topic is an older one with much time passed in between posts.

[steventay]

any latest update on it.

[V M Christianus]

If you can understand Spanish, then you gotta check these out:
http://bibliotecae-swordcatolica.blogspot.com/
http://www.eswordcatolico.mex.tl/479...Catolicas.html

[Pinoy Katoliko]

Good day!

Is Mijac around?

Hey Mijac, what happened to your great website offering Catholic modules for E-Sword? How come we can no longer download the resources posted there?

[elmcclintic]

I have been trying to increase my resources on esword all morning and every time I try to download an esnip for Catholic I keep getting the message that the url is bad. What am I doing wrong?

[Apple 0 getic]

has any catholic ever authored a module about gospel reflections instead of commentaries?

[rosc]

Hello,

Just to let you know my experience at eSword's website, biblesupport.com, they are apparently very much anti-Catholic, a large number of files are disguised as teaching about Catholicism, but are in fact derogatory, and when I began enquiring about the possibility of eSword obtaining the license to produce a copy of the NABRE, I was at first blown off, then when I persisted trying to find a developer to pursue the copyright permission, I was then subjected to some lame "reputation demerit" - and then when I complained about the childishness of such a tactic, my permission to post and make reviews was removed (I had posted a few reviews, both positive when the file merited it, and negative when the work was sheerly an attack on Catholicism.)

I also found that eSword has a backdoor (it contacts esword.net) to grab some blacklist file to block "unauthorized" copyrighted/pirated works. Not so much a problem they want to stop pirating of their copyrighted/licensed works, but big problem to have such a "phone-home" backdoor WITHOUT INFORMING USERS.

Needless to say, my brief experience there has not been positive. Shame, when the concept of the program has such potential to be a learning tool.

There is a copy of the NAB from 1987 floating around the net, but none that you can legitimately obtain by purchase, that I've found.

There are plenty of other free bibles for eSword, including the DRB, the "Catholic Public Domain" bible, and many others.

[rosc]

I just found an program that can read several bible formats, including eSword modules, and some others, and I am impressed already because it's available as a linux-native program, as well as Windows and MacOS. I've only been using it a few minutes so I don't want to get overexcited, but, I'm already planning to convert all my esword modules (it comes with a converter built in.)

It's called Bible Analyzer and it's home is http://www.bibleanalyzer.com

It's free and open source (my favorite kind and multi-platform (works on linux, win, mac, as mentioned.)

The biggest draw for me with eSword was the parallel viewer, and Bible Analyzer has that, and much more.

Since it comes with source code, I can make sure there's no backdoors (that's why I use linux itfp and I can actually help in developing it into a better program with the authors (instead of being beholden to a cliquish bigotted closed-source windoze program whose developers apparently do not want help from "outsiders" :PPP)

Thought others might like to take a look into this very promising program

[Cyklist]

Logos is Catholic-friendly and the number of titles is rapidly growing and they have employees that deal only with Roman Catholic books, and is also multi-platform. I have used the Catholic Logos books since the previous version of the software.

[rosc]

Logos doesn't have a linux version (that I can find on their site, maybe it's in a non-obvious location) and doesn't appear to be open source or freeware, both prohibitive to me.

It's a nice looking program though

[Cyklist]

Logos is freeware. Currently the freeware version is 4.6. Freeware version 5.0 is coming in a few weeks: http://www.logos.com/installation Version 5 has speed improvements.

Originally Posted by rosc

and doesn't appear to be open source or freeware, both prohibitive to me.