#+TITLE: Diatheke Interface for Bible Browsing in Emacs

* Description
An Emacs Bible viewing interface using the SWORD project's Diatheke
command line program to access SWORD text modules.
* Dependencies
~diatheke~ and a Biblical Text module (uses KJV by default). Also,
Strong's lexicons and morphological databases should be installed:
- StrongsRealGreek
- StrongsRealHebrew
- Robinson
- Packard
- OSHM
- AbbottSmith (lexicon) + AbbottSmithStrongs (index)
- BDBGlosses_Strongs


The utility `installmgr' can be used to install text modules and
lexical and morphological databases.

The program `mkfastmod' should be used to generate indexes so the
lexical search method will work.
  
* Usage
- M-x ~bible-open~
- Invoke from command line as follows (requires installing Ezra SIL font):
  - emacs -g =150x25 -fn \"Ezra SIL-14\" -f bible-open 

** Keybindings
- b - Select book
- c - Select chapter
- d - Toggle XML display (debugging)
- h - Describe mode
- m - Select module
- n - Next chapter
- p - Previous chapter
- q - Quit window
- s - Search
- w - Toggle word study
- x - Split display
* Features
- Chapter-based browsing of the Bible
- Text Formatting
  - Red Letters
  - Strong's Greek (with Lemma)
  - Strong's Hebrew
  - Morphology
- Greek & Hebrew Lexicon definition lookup
- Morphology lookup
- Tooltip display of definitions, morphology
- Searching
* Example
[[file:example4.png]]