FAQ (frequently asked questions) ISA 2.0  
     
  General  
  Where can I find the help file?  
     
     
  Display settings  
  How to change the Greek font of the screen to lowercase modern Greek?  
  How to set the Hebrew to display right to left?  
     
     
  Translations  
  How to select a different translation (or note) in one of translation/note columns?  
  How to copy and past a version of a translation?  
     
     
  Miscellaneous  
  ISA on Ubuntu (Linux)  
  How to copy text into a Word Processor  
     
     
  Porting ISA to other platforms  
  ISA for Mac?  
  ISA for PDA handheld?  
     
     
     
 

 


 
 


Where can I find the help file?

When looking at the main window of ISA click on (mainmenu)- [Help] - [contents]. Or read it online www.scripture4all.org/ISA2_help


 
 


How to adjust the Greek font of the SCREEN to lowercase modern Greek?

(ISA menu) - [View] - [Modern Greek font (with end sigma)].

or

(ISA menu) - [File] - [Interlinear texts] - [tab Font/sizes]
-left mouse click on "koine3" (column font name) and change it to "Symbol";

 

 


 
 


How to set the Hebrew to display right to left?

(ISA menu) - [View] - [Right to Left]

 

 


 
 

How to select a different translation (or note) in one of translation/note columns?

right-click on (any) of the translation text/columns - you get a popupmenu where you can choose an other (installed) translation or note. See Main Window

 


 
 

How to copy and past a version of a translation?

Double- (left) click on a translation will copy the verse in a Memo field by which it can be copied to the clipboard.

 


 
 

ISA on Ubuntu (Linux)

Download the files of ISA 2 and the additional modules you want.
Install the files with wine with the command:
wine /path/to/the/installer/ISA_basic_v20_RC5.exe

The additional modules install in the same way.



Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 - wine 0.9.59

When you want Wine to use the Windows fonts in ISA2, you need to install these fonts with Synaptic: msttcorefonts or type at the terminal: sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts.
Otherwise you have to select fonts from the standard available fonts.



Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.10 - wine 0.9.49

With this version of Wine you need to do the following before ISA2 will work.
First of all two DLLs are needed:
Copy msxml3.dll and msxml3r.dll from Windows or download them from the web.
To reduce the error dialog boxes, the files riched20.dll and riched32.dll are needed also, but not mandatory.
Put these DLLs in the drive_c/windows/system32 of your .wine folder.

Start 'Configure Wine' from your applications menu or type on the terminal: winecfg
Add ISA.exe (default location: drive_c/Program Files/ISA2) to the Applications tab of the configuration tool.
Select 'ISA.exe' on this tab and switch to the Libraries tab. Add to the list: msxml3, riched20 and riched32.

Now you can use ISA 2. Start it from your application menu when you allow the installer to create shortcuts there, or change to the wine directory, where ISA is installed (~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/ISA/ and start it with wine ISA.exe or use on one line: env WINEPREFIX="/home/gerrit/.wine" wine "C:\Program Files\ISA2\ISA.exe"
Only the help function doesn't work, because a required dll is broken down.
This is tested with wine-0.9.49 and some versions ago.

Wine doesn't have enough fonts to display ISA2 like Windows does. To make like windows, add Times, Arial, Symbol and Courier to: drive_c/windows/fonts, but you are free to make your own choice. Default Times is used to display the Hebrew words and Symbol is used for the Modern greek font mode of the NT text.


(Thanks to Gerrit Uitslag for making this info available.)

 


 
 


How to copy text into a Word Processor?

For now the the only way to export the interlinear is to export an image of it and import this into a Word processor.
Use File > Export > Interlinear as .PNG image, to export a image file (.PNG format) of the interlinear part of the screen.

For the translations you can copy this to the clipboard first (after that you can past it in your word processor): Double- (left) click on a translation will copy the verse in a Memo field by which it can be copied to the clipboard.

When you need to export a range of verses you can use export translations or notes.
http://www.scripture4all.org/ISA2_help/Export_TN.html

 


 
 

ISA for PDA handheld? ISA for Mac?

This is a difficult point. At the moment ISA is pioneering new ways to make the original texts even more accessible with features that are never seen before. For now this takes all of our resources.
Making ISA available to Mac or PDA will cost a lot of time/money which we don't have.

For the PDA it might be possible to think of some simple alternative. But another problem is the screen size of most PDAs used today, are to small for displaying an interlinear. Also the UMPCs are coming on which you can run ISA without any adjustments.

There are no plans for making ISA available for the Mac platform.