xulsword is a Bible reading and study tool intended to be easy to use, yet very powerful at the same time. It utilizes popular Open Source technologies such as Node.js, React and The SWORD Project, and will always be a free program. It is designed for full internationalization, including right-to-left languages. Potential users include those who are not necessarily computer savvy, those who might be new to the Bible, and those who may not have (or may not want to use) an internet connection.

• Direct text download. Allows easy download of hundreds of texts in hundreds of languages with the "Add New Module" interface (located under the File menu, or else just press F2).
• Complete internationalization including right-to-left languages.
• Very readable texts. Texts can be nicely formatted to appear on screen the way they look in printed form. Text flows from column to column. Font, font size, line spacing etc are adjustable for each text.
• Easy Bible browsing. Go to any heading in the entire Bible with a single click using a Bible navigator widget which also gives a visual representation of the Bible.
• Print capability. A powerful print feature allows Bible texts and related information to be easily printed, and includes print preview.
• Recursive popup windows. Dictionary links, cross references, footnotes and more appear in multilevel recursive popup windows that allow instant access to a variety of information without necessitating a complex user interface layout.
• Integrated audio. Allows you to listen to the Bible and read along. Export audio for other uses, such as mp3 players.
• Textual Links. Bible texts and footnotes can include quick links to associated dictionaries, which may include pictures, maps and tables.
• Powerful bookmark and personal annotation features. Annotate texts with personal notes, create and organize bookmarks, notes and verse lists. Make quality printouts of your notes and verse lists, or export them to share with other xulsword users.
• Secure texts. Texts can be encrypted and secured to prevent others from tampering with them.
• Built using the most reliable and well supported Open Source tech available. Although originally built using Mozilla's XUL markup and being dependent on XULRunner, xulsword is now written completely in Javascript (with the exception of the C++ SWORD engine). Under the hood, XUL is now rendered by a Javascript React library, and XULRunner has been replaced by Node.js.

• Compatible with a wide variety of Bibles, commentaries, glossaries, books, and devotionals which are already freely available in the SWORD standard.
• Powerful search capability.
• Parallel and interlinear version display.
• Much more...

Linux (Ubuntu Xenial/Bionic): Run build.sh

Cross-compiled to Linux 64/32 bit: On MS-Windows, Linux, or MAC install VirtualBox and Vagrant and run:

$ vagrant up

Linux builds will appear in the /build-out directory.

Install Firefox and Homebrew. Then run build.sh.

The following programs need to be in the command path:

• Git
• 7-zip (command line version)
• Perl
• Microsoft SDK (GRMSDKX_EN_DVD.iso for 64 bit builds) You may need to run Setup/SDKSetup.exe (instead of setup.exe) to allow compiler installation. Unfortunately this version of cvtres.exe is broken which adds custom launcher icons. The official fix creates yet another bug by deleting amnintrin.h so that nothing compiles... Workaround in progress...

• Get the xulsword code from GitHub.
• Get the XulRunner runtime (version 41.0b9).
• Get Clucene (version 0.9.21b).
• Get SWORD (svn revision 3203) source code.
• Check or add paths in xulsword/build/build_settings.txt for XULRunner, CluceneSource, SwordSource, MicrosoftVS and MicrosoftSDK.
• Run xulsword/build/build.pl
• Start the program by running xulsword/build/run-xulsword-dev.pl (which is created when you build xulsword). The development version of the program has a hidden button which displays useful debugging features when clicked. This invisible button is located JUST under the top menu bar at the FAR right of the xulsword window. Debugging buttons will appear in that same area when the invisible button is clicked.

Translations may have associated audio readings of the text. These audio files can be packaged in zip files for easy installation into xulsword. After installation, audio icons will appear above the associated texts to play their audio recording. Audio files may be exported from xulsword with File -> Export Audio.

An audio module is a zip archive with a directory structure containing ogg audio files like:

/audio/<audio-code>/<osis-bible-book-name>/001.ogg

The audio-code can be chosen three different ways:

• Usually, it is simply the name of a SWORD Bible module (and module names are case sensitive, so make sure the directory name exactly matches the module name).
• Sometimes, when audio files need to target more than one Bible module (for instance two modules of the same translation using different scripts), then any unique audio-code may be used, but in this case all SWORD modules associated with the audio files need to have AudioCode=<audio-code> in their .conf files.
• It is also possible to use the ISO-639 language code as the audio-code, which will then associate the audio files with all SWORD modules shareing that language code.

An ogg file should cover an entire Bible chapter. It's perfectly ok if only certain chapters have audio files. It's possible to have multiple chapters recorded in a single audio file, but this is not recommended because users will only be notified of the existence of the first chapter's recording (the audio icon will only appear in the first chapter which is covered by the audio file).

Audio files can be exported from xulsword, so it's also a good idea to tag the audio files. But xulsword itself does not require or utilise audio file tags.

The PHP extension brings libxulsword's API into php.

Compile the extension by going to the xulsword/Cpp/phpsword directory and running:

$ phpize
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

This will install the extension to your php shared extensions directory.

Next, to enable the extension you can add the following to your php.ini:

[PHP]
extension=phpsword.so

And then restart PHP:

$ sudo apache2ctl restart

Finally, to access phpsword from PHP, do something like this:

if (!extension_loaded("phpsword")) {
    header('Location: ' . $redirect_URL);
    exit;
}

$Sword = new phpsword($repository_path);

$My_modlist = $Sword->getModuleList();