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johncraig2
Stranger Joined: Mar 4, 2004 Post Count: 1 Status: Offline |
Is there a way to display the actual Hebrew and Greek from Strong's or at least an exact transliteration? What a great tool! Thanks, everyone for all of your hard work! |
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Osk
Developer Joined: Sep 17, 2003 Post Count: 209 Status: Offline |
Not currently. We're working on it. |
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Coburn
Regular Joined: Sep 12, 2006 Post Count: 40 Status: Offline |
I have wished for this for years. Nothing electronic comes close to the ability to search and compare in a print lexicon. You lose so much in terms of speed and information. Developers, it is like being forced to use a GUI when you would rather work in a terminal. Let me suggest two features that would be intensely awesome for those of us who work with the original texts: First and foremost, the ability to view the lexicon as an uninterrupted text. There is no substitute for being able to compare related words on the same page. I don't know how to express my emotions on this. Those that make dictionaries and those that use them must be different sorts of folks. We need this feature. I have always envisioned this as working like certain parts of the Windows Help program. A list is displayed, and when you type text in the search bar, the list scrolls to your word. As opposed to bringing it up as an orphan in its own window. I know this is a simple HTML algorithm, but how wonderful if it were applied to Strong's! My wife uses e-Sword on her Windows box, and it has a Webster's dictionary that scrolls that way. Secondly, the ability to search text according to its proper spelling in the original language. Again, I ask you to imagine the nightmare of being strapped to a desk chair in front of a computer running Linux *without an xterm*. You lose so much power and flexibility. It is the same way when you have to scroll through Strong's and search by number. Or, imagine working with English text in an interface *without a search feature*. You know this other language. You can even think in it. But you cannot type in it, or read through the dictionary, without climbing a ladder to reach one word at a time. So, I hope this is a priority, time allowing. Thanks |
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Coburn
Regular Joined: Sep 12, 2006 Post Count: 40 Status: Offline |
And on this same topic, we'd love to see the Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon as soon as humanly possible  |
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Coburn
Regular Joined: Sep 12, 2006 Post Count: 40 Status: Offline |
Not currently. We're working on it. Realized today I could maybe help with this. If it is a matter of inserting the right tags in the text, including typing in the Hebrew and Greek characters, I could do that much. I would need to know the format required. I am literate but not a developer. |
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