Ultimately, what GnomeSword is really about is the modules you can
plug into it for study. These are what we know can be found.
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Standard modules
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The bulk of the modules available from the Crosswire repository.
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Beta modules
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Those modules which Crosswire will make available more officially
after they have been evaluated for some time. This is a test
area; some operational glitches are possible.
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You can get direct Module Manager access to the beta area just as
you have for the main module area: Add a new source as a copy of
your existing entry for Crosswire, replacing "raw" with "betaraw"
in the directory slot (and giving it a suitable new name).
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NET Bible
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From www.bible.org.
This is the New English Translation ("NET"; a
double entendre: it is the first
translation intended to be network-accessible).
Both free and for-fee editions are available: The free version
has partial footnotes; the for-fee flavor, full (60,000+) footnotes.
You may obtain these by defining a remote installation source:
Edit->Module Manager, select Sources, Add, then fill in the box:
caption, NET; host, ftp.bible.org; directory, /sword.
Then use Configure to select your new remote source.
Click "Refresh" and proceed to Install.
If you acquire the full-notes (for-fee) version, you will still
have to purchase the unlock key
here.
A copy of NET Bible in HTML format with full footnotes may be
retrieved for free
here,
suitable for viewing in any browser.
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Individual creations
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Anyone wishing to have their personal module creations known
and available is welcome to let us know, and we will list them here.
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Karl Kleinpaste produces a number of modules for himself. Those
available for public consumption can be found by defining a
remote install source at ftp.kleinpaste.org in /pub/sword.
Currently, modules available are:
- Tischendorf Greek NT, 8th ed., edited by Ulrik Petersen,
v2.0, with diacritical marks, and morphology and Strongs markup
- A custom 2-testament Greek Bible, consisting of LXX OT + TischMorph NT
- Several other public domain, non-English Bibles.
- Charles Hodge: 4-volume (one module) Systematic Theology (1871-73)
- Strongs (real) Hebrew and Greek dictionaries (using UTF-8)
- Inverted Strongs Greek dictionary: Paste real Greek into
the dictionary navtext to find nearest equivalent. (Suffers
from the limitation that UTF-8 diacritically-marked letters
do not sort well.)
- The GnomeSword manual
- Several non-English, public domain Bibles (Danish, Italian, Polish)
- A number of map- and image-based modules
- Updated Websters and Nave modules, providing automatic scripture xrefs and internal topic linking
- (Coming soon: City of God [Augustine])
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Highly recommended: The Linux Libertine fonts, particularly for
use with Greek texts -- positively beautiful. And they can
be installed on any system, including Windows and MacOS.
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Crosswires Wiki reference to repositories
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Recently, Crosswire put up this wiki page for quick mentions of
module repositories. (Probably now duplicating much of what is here.)
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Others to be expected...or not
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Some other modules are known to be in progress at this time,
but not yet ready for any distribution. Notably, the Sword
Project team is working toward completion of a NASB Sword
Project module, which will be available for sale from the
Lockman Foundation.
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A common request is for a NIV Sword Project module.
Regrets, no inquiry to
International Bible Society
(holder of the copyright for NIV) has ever been fruitful.
The only way to get NIV support in Sword Project UIs is via
unofficial means using
texts available around the Web.
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Also see the
Sword FAQ
for more information.
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Installation of nonstandard modules
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Standalone modules are packaged as *.zip files. To install
such a module:
cd ~/.sword
unzip ModuleFileName.zip
This will extract a configuration file into ~/.sword/mods.d,
and the data files comprising the content of the module into
a subdirectory of ~/.sword/modules.
