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Hello, Timothy. I appreciate your input. using grep with plain text files is definitely a great way to go, but there are some features in Xiphos which are very helpful to me. It may be possible to accomplish the same thing using grep and text files, but I do not have the experience to do so right now. I had the privilege of preaching sermons at a local retirement home here in town for about three years. I have since begun attending a different church, and I have been asked to bring messages to a nursing home in town. I like Xiphos because I can have commentaries linked to the Bible which I am studying. I actually only use one Bible for study, but I like to read through different commentaries to learn more information about different passages of Scripture. I also like Xiphos because I can have many different books, dictionaries, and commentaries in one central location (e.g. The works of Josephus, Matthew Henry's commentary, The Treasury of David, and so forth). Xiphos also allows for making notes (which is not too necessary a feature). This is why I use it so frequently as it really helps when putting notes together for messages. There are some parts of Xiphos which are quite accessible, but the panes for the Bible, commentaries, and dictionaries are not very accessible. If I remember correctly, xiphos has an option for these different panes to be read aloud, but I am not sure how much control (i.e. going backward and forward in the texts) it offers to users. I will have to look into this. I think that if could be made more accessible, Xiphos would be a great program for study. In any case, I am sorry for the long e-mail. I do appreciate yoru input, and I just wanted to give more background as concerning my situation adn what I use Xiphos for. Pleae take care, and thanks for your reply. On 06/06/2012 03:57 PM, timothyhobbs seznam cz wrote: What exactly are you looking for in bible study software? It seems to me that the major features, like side by side viewing across language boundaries, are not exactly meaningfull in a non visual environment. If you want to be able to look up by chapter and verse, grep and a plain text file works surprisingly well. Look at the man page for grep, you can have it give you context of several lines. |