The SWORD Project 1.5.4a maintenence release

With overwhelming response to the new SWORD 1.5.4 release, CrossWire has 
received a huge amount of feedback valuable for us in quickly releasing 
this 1.5.4a maintenance release.  We hope we have remedied all problems 
that people have had in upgrading to this new version of the software.

The download may be found on CrossWire's website at:

http://www.crosswire.org/sword/software/biblecs/


With this service release, we are also including new locale translations 
that have been submitted to us, including:

Name=af
Description=Afrikaans

Name=de
Description=Deutsch

Name=en_GB
Description=English (UK)

Name=hu
Description=Magyar

Name=id
Description=Indonesian

Name=sl
Description=Slovenian

If you might be able to provide an additional translation of menu 
options and buttons, please write us at: [email protected] and 
we'll let you know how to go about doing your own translation.


Also, with the recent release, we now have an exciting new batch of 
modules rapidly appearing on our site.  Some of the recent updates and 
additions follow:

   O LITV (Green's Literal Translation)
   O MKJV (Green's Modern King James Version)

[Jay P. Green, Jr., Vice President at Sovereign Grace Publishers, Inc. 
has granted CrossWire permission to freely distribute the LITV and the 
MKJV translations for non-commercial use.  If you have the time, please 
write Mr. Jay P. Green, Jr. and thank him for his support: 
[email protected] ]

The following modules have been updated.

   o MHC (Matthew Henry's Commentary (Complete))
   o RWP (Robertson's Word Pictures of the NT)
   o JFB (Jamieson, Fausset, & Brown's Commentary)
   o BHS (Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia)

With the recent addition of General Book Support to the SWORD engine, we 
have ready our first publicly available General Book:

   O Josephus (Josephus: The Complete Works)

Look for many more in the very near future.  Tools are available to 
import books into this new format.  All of our module making tools are 
available from our servers at:

ftp://ftp.crosswire.org/pub/sword/utils/win32

If you might have the time and talents to generate new books, please 
email us and let us know your interests and we'll help you coordinate 
with others that are working on similar tasks.

Have you ever wanted to learn to read the Bible in another language? 
Our new Glossary modules may be able to help you along.  Please keep 
your eyes on this new section of our website for modules that will allow 
you to hover over any word and will attempt to show popup glossary 
definition.  Many glossary modules are only a few weeks away, including 
French, Spanish, German, Irish, Latin, and many more.

These glossaries, along with all of our modules may be downloaded with 
Install Manager (installed with the software) from CrossWire's remote 
source, using the following remote source settings:

Site Name: CrossWire
Site Machine Name: ftp.crosswire.org
Repository Directory: /pub/sword/raw/

or with a web browser from our website at:

http://www.crosswire.org/sword/modules/


Again, thank you for all of your wonderful, encouraging feedback. 
Please keep it coming!  And if you have the time, we'd love to have you 
join with us in this community effort to create valuable FREE Bible 
study software and tools.


	In the Precious Name of our Saviour Jesus Christ,
		-The SWORD Project Development Team.