Forge for SwordSearcher

Christian authors and publishers: make your text available in SwordSearcher format!

Forge is a free external module build tool for SwordSearcher. It is designed for advanced users and publishers who need to be able to import a large amount of text into a SwordSearcher module without using SwordSearcher's internal user editor. Please read the information below before using Forge.

What Forge Does:

Forge takes a source text file containing specially formatted text and builds SwordSearcher 5 commentary, book, or Bible modules. Forge can compile read-only or user modules.

• Read-only modules (default): can not be edited from within SwordSearcher. SwordSearcher will not allow read-only modules to be exported to text files.
• User modules: can be edited as any user-created resource in SwordSearcher. SwordSearcher allows user modules to be exported to text files. (The files exported by SwordSearcher can subsequently be compiled with Forge, if desired.)

Prerequisites:

• You must have a working installation of SwordSearcher 5 for Forge to work. Forge relies on the KJV Bible module included with SwordSearcher 5 to perform various internal functions.
• You must have knowledge of basic HTML and the ability to create and edit the source files. Creating the source data files for Forge to compile usually requires some amount of pre-processing, so some basic scripting skill is also helpful.

More information:

• At the moment, Forge only supports one specific import format, which is described in detail in the included documentation. Please be sure to review the documentation included with Forge before trying to use it. Additional import formats will be supported in the future based on feedback and requests.
• Forge only builds modules for SwordSearcher 5. It can not build modules for older versions of SwordSearcher.
• Forge is provided AS IS with no promise of support. Publishers interested in publishing material in SwordSearcher format are free to use Forge to do so. However, if you need assistance in creating your modules, please consider contacting Brandon Staggs for professional support and/or module compilation work.
• If you have created a module which you wish to share with other SwordSearcher users, the SwordSearcher User Forum is a good place to announce it.
• There are no licensing fees to use Forge to publish your text in SwordSearcher format!

Revision History:

Version 2.0.1.2

• Added automatic verse linking to Forge. It is no longer necessary to tag verse references in Forge source files. The "Automatically link verse references" option, when checked, will find verse links in the source text and automatically link and index them for SwordSearcher. (If you do not wish to use Forge's automatic verse linking feature, you can un-check this option and use <scripref> tags in the source as described in the Forge user manual.)

Version 1.0.2.5

• Fixed parsing error in Bible compilation code which ignored specified verse position in source text.

Version 1.0.1.1

• Initial public release.