How to start Sword?

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Sat Aug 16 22:45:25 UTC 2008


On 08/16/2008 03:21 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 2008/8/17 NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>:
>> Try gnomesword
>>
>> sudo apt-get install gnomesword
>>
>> works well in kde as well. I did find that if you click on an empty Book
>> View it crashes with a segmentation fault (both in Gnome and KDE), but
>> it does render Arabic quite nicely, so it probably will do Hebrew as well.
>>
> 
> Gnomesword does render the Hebrew nicely, but I cannot find an option
> to list the names of the books in Hebrew. I suppose that I would have
> to install Gnome and set my UI as Hebrew to have Gnomesword render the
> book names in Hebrew.
> 
> As you mention Arabic, maybe you would know if a Koran is available
> for Sword? I looked on this page:
> http://www.crosswire.org/sword/modules/ModDisp.jsp?modType=Bibles
> But they only seem to have Tanack and New Testaments.
> 
> Thanks!
> 

No idea - I just loaded it to help answer your question :-)

Try here:
http://www.crosswire.org/sword/index.jsp
which is the main Sword project page.






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