A Unicode font which contains glyphs for NT Greek is required to view the Greek. Such a font may be found on the net, e.g. MS Arial Unicode, with thanks to Microsoft!
At the moment most of the photographs, indexes and other add-ons from the CDs and the first volumes of the Bible Treasury magazine series are not published here. The 40 million words of Bible teaching in the above twenty authors will have to satisfy STEM users for now.
Users of STEM CDs will know that the CDs use ISYS v.4 to provide comprehensive searching capability. This avenue was blocked for those users who upgraded to Windows XP which did not allow ISYS to highlight the search terms in the articles. I decided to take advantage of this enforced republication to make the files more portable, simple and accessible to users other than Windows users by filtering them to HTML; also transliterating the Hebrew and changing the Greek from a proprietary font to Unicode. So far, more than two years later ISYS has not published a version which will handle the Unicode. However in recent months large IT companies: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo etc., have come to public attention trying to be the market leader in computer searching. This looks as though it will revolutionise the search market. Until now there has been a fairly clear line between FREE 'file finding programs' and very expensive 'text retrieval programs'. The free programs have still not crossed this line effectively, however it is certainly not the time for excessive spending in this area.
It may interest some to know why the method of distribution has been changed from CD to Web. To reproduce the previous Windows CDs to work under Windows XP would cost thousands of pounds and require a lot of time to produce - including artwork, instructions etc., and to ensure that the Master CDs were stable and relatively flawless - this is nerve-racking work - also the time necessary to administrate the distribution from day-to-day greatly effects the time available for making more ministry available. There are also more costs which must be passed on to the users which limits those who can use the material - though still immensely cheaper than the books! Web distribution also has costs but it does not require such precision of manufacture, as long as it works it can be improved over time. The availability becomes much more wide and free! A downside is that there are some Christians who for very proper reasons do not wish to use the web. To produce CDs for these users would require disproportionate effort and cost.
Feedback, positive or negative, is earnestly sought. Ideas for improvement are also wanted, especially if they are accompanied by the expertise to put those ideas into practice - but please do not refrain from coming forward with an idea because you cannot help with its implementation.