|  | Advanced navigation and URLs

You can use more a more advanced way to navigate bibles. This allows you power to display the verse ranges you want.

To enable advanced navigation, select "Customize Toolbar..." from the View menu. Then add the "Reference" item and remove the simple navigation bar if you want. However both will work at the same time.

Typing in a reference

Just type in the reference that you want, eg. "John3:16", then press return. That's it. The power comes when you realise that it can cope with verse lists and ranges. For instance "John3:1-3,16,17,18". You can also append book references with a semi-colon, eg. "Jn3:16;2tim3:16". Notice you can use abbreviations of book names.

This is really useful for looking at several passages at once or printing out a bible study. It is also the same format used for both the MacSword service and URLs.

URLs

MacSword URLs are formatted like this sword://<options>@<module>/<reference>. The module can be any named module like "KJV" or it can be a generic title (one of: Bible, StrongsGreek, StrongsHebrew, MorphGreek, MorphHebrew). Any unknown module will be treated as the default bible module. The reference is what you would type, eg. "j10:10". Finally the options dictate what settings are used these can be any of ("Footnotes", "Headings", "Strong's Numbers", "Morphological Tags", "Hebrew Cantillation", "Hebrew Vowel Points", "Greek Accents", "Lemmas", "Cross-references", "No Verse Numbering", "Verses On One Line", "Words of Christ in Red")

Examples

sword://Bible/gen1 sword://ASV/matt10.40-matt11.1 sword://Bible/matt-john sword://Strong's Numbers@KJV/mark3.16 sword://StrongsGreek/3588