Ideas for future development

[Adelphos]

This thread is dedicated to discussing various ideas people have for the future development of BibleWorks.

How 'bout adding to the Verse History listbox the ability to sort the entries. As it stands now, I must go to my text editor to do so.

Scott
http://www.lamblion.net

[wezlo]

Jim,

The idea with Unicode is that every font will have every character used by every language, so yes, characters used in transliteration would also have to be present. I'm not sure however, if all of the bugs have been worked out with Unicode. Perhaps someone else on the list can jump in and offer more info.

Charlie

Check out the sword project (www.crosswire.org), and download the windows version. You can then download the hebrew module and see what unicode looks like in action. I've been using it to copy hebrew into OpenOffice.org and it works great.

Please note, sword is nice for people who don't need powerful tools, I'd never use it as my primary tool as it's not powerful enough for me - but it's a great showcase of unicode in-particular...

[lay down all]

I'd like to see the orginal texts used of the Greek, Coptic, Ethiopian, Armenian, Slavonic Orthodox Churches in Bibleworks one day.

Also to be able to search for a Greek word in the Church Fathers in the LXX and New Testament and vice versa.

Maybe even original texts of later Church fathers, like Justin Martyr.

Also i've noticed in the NET versions footnotes that we sometimes have links to other Scripture which we can click to, i think it would be a great advantage if we could use these in our own notes.

[Thomas_Freeman]

One of the advantages to diagramming is the ability to see your grammar options. I have attempted at times to show all the options on one page (using colors, extension lines, etc.). It would really be nice to have layers where you could overlay your options on top of the base diagram. I strongly encourage Bibleworks to consider this!

[Joshua Luna]

Just an idea... but an editable "workflow" template for sermon creation. I have not worked with other apps that do have this so I cannot give much for suggestions other than I think it could be useful for those of us who use Biblework for creating sermons, classroom setting lectures, or articles.

I primarily use BW for study and research, but with the plans for the new WYSIWYG editor it kind of dawned on me that some workflow tools to go along with the new editor could be enough to prevent me from going out to Word until, well, unless I need to to specially format something for print.

Anything that gets me using BW more and streamlines the interface is good. It is a very difficult task to incorperate a lot of tools, features, and new functions and keeping it user friendly. I know you are not necessarily trying to compete with the "sermon making software" market and obviously a large part of the BW demographic may not use it. But it could be handy for those of us who would use it.

And no request/idea from me would not be perfect with a request for hyperlinking internally to user created notes This an the BHS/NA27 textual notes... and...

[pastorlew]

Adding new commentaries would be nice.

[Christopher S Wiley]

Adding new commentaries would be nice.

I really wouldn't like doctrinal commentaries but textual ones. I think the focus of Bibleworks is language studies.

[jhntruevine]

I agree with that!

[pastorlew]

I hear the UBS handbooks are excellent for exegetical studies. Would they be a good addition to BW?

[landuk]

why don't you cotain korean version!

my only hope!