features & questions

[Isaac]

Dear All,

I have used bpbible on and off for a while, in the past I mostly used
bpbible due to its responsiveness/lean over swordbible etc.

recently I am using bibletime (using kde4 on windows), which works
rather nicely.

my question is: in the sense of features comparision, what are the
features that make bpbible unique? (also I remembered the bpbible used
to be able to install modules from remote directly, we don't have this
functionality in the current version?)

I am also an user of the esv mode on emacs, which works great (http://
www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EsvMode), I am just wondering if something
similar can be done with emacs and bpbible? somehow to have the
features of bpbible in emacs ... ?

thanks a lot!

Best, Isaac

[Jonathan Morgan]

Hi Isaac,

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Isaac <isaa...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear All,

I have used bpbible on and off for a while, in the past I mostly used
bpbible due to its responsiveness/lean over swordbible etc.

recently I am using bibletime (using kde4 on windows), which works
rather nicely.

my question is: in the sense of features comparision, what are the
features that make bpbible unique?

I find it to do a better job of fitting the way I work than other software, and while I have experimented with other programs (including BibleTime) I have never used one of them for long enough to do a detailed comparison.  However, the main unique features I can think of in 0.4.7 are:
* Harmony support.
* Cross-verse search
* Stemming search (e.g. searching for "test" also matches words like "testing").
* Topic Management: Other applications have Bookmark management or similar functionality.  However, where I think BPBible is different is that it attempts to make it easier both to add the current passage to any one of a number of topics, and to find which topics the current passage is associated with.
* Books with Strong's Numbers (e.g. KJV) can display a transliterated or original language word rather than just a number.

However, 0.5, currently in beta, makes a lot of changes.  The principle unique feature that it adds is continuous scrolling, which means you are not limited to just seeing one chapter (Bible) or verse (commentary) at a time.
 

(also I remembered the bpbible used
to be able to install modules from remote directly, we don't have this
functionality in the current version?)

BPBible has never included an installer to download modules from remote sources using an InstallManager or something similar.
It has always required you to download the individual zip files from the web and install them with Drag & Drop or with File > Install Books.
However, it is possible to set it to use the paths of any books you have already installed using InstallManager in BibleTime or SWORD for Windows or any other program.
 

I am also an user of the esv mode on emacs, which works great (http://
www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EsvMode), I am just wondering if something
similar can be done with emacs and bpbible? somehow to have the
features of bpbible in emacs ... ?

The Emacs ESV mode seems to be calling out to the ESV API on the web to get its text.  I don't think there is any easy way to integrate a whole GUI into Emacs without rewriting that GUI to use whatever GUIs/menus/etc. Emacs uses, and I don't think we want to do that.  At present, the text is only put into the form we use it in.

Jon
 

[Isaac Xin Pei]

thanks a lot Jon, now I begin to see clearer about bpbible

another qucik question: is it possible to run bpbible with gui? I am
thinking maybe I can try to bind some python codes/lisp together in
emacs to call the different functions in bpbible?

Best regards,
Isaac

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Isaac Xin Pei,
- "A word fitly spoken Is like apples of gold in network of silver. "
Proverbs 25:11

[Jonathan Morgan]

Hi Isaac,

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Isaac Xin Pei <isaa...@gmail.com> wrote:

thanks a lot Jon, now I begin to see clearer about bpbible

another qucik question: is it possible to run bpbible with gui? I am
thinking maybe I can try to bind some python codes/lisp together in
emacs to call the different functions in bpbible?

It would be theoretically possible to just import specific modules from the BPBible backend code and use them.  However, it hasn't been tried so I don't know whether it would work in practice or how useful the output would be.

Jon