Notices

Ok, here's an updated version: katana_0.2.0-0_armel.deb.

A couple of new features in this version:

• The hardware rocker switch pages up/down.
• Typing while viewing a passage opens a combination search/verse selection. Try it!

As before, this depends on Qt 4.6 from extras-devel. Don't enable extras-devel unless you know what you're doing!

Thanks joshn53

Just installed it and it works very well.

Installation
It happened so fast that I thought it was not installed.
First time installing a deb file

Navigation

1. Scrolling is very smooth and fast
2. I like the option of typing the first letter of the Book to enter Chapter list and give the options starting with that letter
3. Works both in portrait and landscape mode
4. Noticed no option to make each verse appear on a line (new line Indent)
5. Ability to choose different versions of the bible already installed on the phone
6. You can choose the Book and Chapter but cannot choose the verse
7. You cannot select and Copy Verses

Search
The search works very well and is quite fast.
It works only when you are searching the whole bible but does not work when searching the New Testament or Old Testament only
Search results are tiny and requires a stylus

I would post my other observation as I use it.
I hope support for pdb files would be added too.
Thanks

As a newbie in Linux. Do we just point out N900 browser to the above link and then install?

You can check this link on how to install a deb file on the N900

Attached are some screenshots

Installed and testing.
Search seems to take a long time but the rest looks very responsive.

Just had a quick look... and love it!!!

You can actually continue typing. For example, press "mat", and it will automatically select Matthew.

That shouldn't be hard to add. It seems that it should be a per-Bible default, but I can't find anything in the Sword library. I'll look into this.

This is actually intentional. In my testing, I found that it was nicer to scroll to the right place, rather than have to pick the specific verse. Quite often, you want to go to the start of the chapter anyway.

We might need a "select" mode, similar to the browser's cursor mode. I'll consider something like this.

Oops! I'll fix this.

Do you have examples of translations that are available in pdb, but not in sword?

anyway of speeding up the search?

Would also be good if the verses had spaces between them or were formatted in a more user friendly way.

The only way to speed up searches is to use something like clucene - I believe that this is what other bible tools do (currently Katana is just using Sword's builtin search.)

Add spacing between verses shouldn't be hard.