On Wednesday 19 December 2001 15:48, Chris Little wrote: > Been there. Done that. :) But apparently we haven't promoted it > enough, possibly because screenshots of term windows don't look > cool on a webpage. :) > > > How does this relate to Sword? Well, Sword is currently > > available to C++ programs. There should be alternate interfaces > > for other tools. A > > simple command line tool to quote a verse by reference or > > output a concordance like list of references given a search > > key would be handy for a scripted web page or editor macros. > > diatheke does that. http://www.crosswire.org/sword/diatheke/ > There's also ActiveDiatheke, which will do most of the Diatheke > stuff as an ActiveX control, but this hasn't been updated since > 1.5.2. > > The need for a command line interface to Sword was my reason for > writing Diatheke. It is the foundation of our CGI script, our SOAP > interface (just a slightly different CGI script), & our IRC > BibleBot (type !biblehelp in #sword on irc.openprojects.org).
I saw Diatheke in the CVS that I downloaded and was wondering why it was added to the project. > > > A C interface would be more easily wrapped for script > > languages like Python or Perl. > > Correct me if I'm wrong (and I probably am) but don't we keep all > the public interefaces accesible to C? > > > A command line tool would > > also let you search the Scriptures on a 4Mb 386 in console > > mode (although an ncurses frontend would be nicer for that). > > We have an ncurses frontend also > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/irenaeus), but it's about 10 > months since its last release and I'm not sure if it's being > maintained any more. Perhaps someone would like to take this > project over if its author isn't maintain it anymore? Once the > transliterator stuff in ICU is finished, it should be a nice > interface interface for any of our modules. It has had only 81 downloads in 9 months. That may explain why Richard Halcombe is not really that active. Especially since BibleTime is roaring along. I downloaded it and will play with it a while.