Introducing a New Product

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Bibledit
A Scripture Processor for Linux Programmer Teus
Benschop Presenter Wolfgang Stradner
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Overview
Bibledit
Teus Benschop, a bible translator in Zimbabwe
decided 5 years ago tostart scripture processing
in Linux. Being a programmer himself hedeveloped
Bibledit. It is free and runs under General
Public License.
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Bibledit
1 Basic Features
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Text Notes - Tools
Bibledit
In Bibledit the screen splits into the text
(upper left), project notes (lower left)which
can be hidden (pulling down the separation line)
and tools area (right). The text area also
contains the bible notes.
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References
Bibledit
References in the toolbar and in the Notes show
in the language of theactive project.
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Go to Reference
Bibledit
There are 3 tools for references The reference
tool in the toolbar, including next/previous
book/chapter/verse, the free Goto reference to
type in references and the Aided Goto reference
to choose one by one.
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Find Quick references
Bibledit
For a search (find) references of the hits show
in the toolarea. An additional quick references
window can be switched on. The list of references
can scrollwith the text, or with the quick
reference window or with both.
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Advanced find, choices
Bibledit
There are basic and advanced find configurations
and one for the BibleTime appli- cation. In the
Advanced tab, you can specify different kinds of
search features, such as the area selection
allowing to select the part of the text to search
in.
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Outline
Bibledit
An outline is created in Bibledit for texts with
headings.
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Projects - Resources
Bibledit
Bibledit will display bible projects in one or
more windows (marked bytabs) which can be split
(here German-gnb and Englisch-web).The same is
true for resources. (Resource tabs are nameless)?.
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Styles
Bibledit
Bibledit works in USFM format and creates and
modifyies styles andstylesheets. The active
style shows at the status bar. Tools/Styles
displays styles in a structured list to be
applied to a text.
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Project Notes
Bibledit
You are allowed to format existing or new notes
that you are editing (in the pro-ject notes
area). You can choose categories, add references,
and so on (in the tools area). The date, author
and a logbook are stored with the note as well.
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Show project notes
Bibledit
Features are provided for filtering project
notes as well as how they are sorted and
displayed.
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Dialog box help
Bibledit
A Contextual help mechanism is provided with all
dialog boxes.
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General Help
Bibledit
In addition, there is a general help file.
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Bibledit
2 Resources
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Resources
Bibledit
Resources such as the Translator's Handbooks
series (pictured here) can be imported and
displayed in the tools area. Resources are
synchronized with the project text.
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Resource Editor
Bibledit
Bibledit works withresources which
haveanchors in the htmlformat in order to
letthem navigate withprojects. If anchors
exist in a resource, the Resources Editor
allows to identify them. If they do not exist,
Bibledit has another tool to write anchors. ...
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Resource Converter
Bibledit
... The Resource Converter allows the user to
write anchors to text by defining the context
(Prefix/Suffix) of chapter and verse numbers.
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Bibledit
3 Printing
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Print project
Bibledit
The Print dialog enables the user to chose the
text to output to PDF by a reference range and
how references in bible notes are written. The
PDF file can then be viewed or printed by your
default PDF document viewer.
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Print Parallel Bibles
Bibledit
Selected bibles can be output to PDF with the
Bible notes included. The portions can be chosen,
verses 0 in/ex-cluded and all parallel verses
kept together on the page.
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Print References
Bibledit
By selecting References in the print dialog, the
user can choose one or more projects for
comparison. The word (Zhezu) for which the list
was created (as a result of a search) is in bold.
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Print Compare
Bibledit
The PDF output in Bibledit works also for the
comparison of two projectsWords which are found
only in the first project are in bold, and
wordswhich are only in the second project are in
strike-through.
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Bibledit
4 Advanced Features
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Keyterms
Bibledit
Biblical keyterms can be checked in Bibledit.
For this purpose a keyterm and a collection are
chosen in the tools area (right) and in the notes
area the references to this keyterm are shown
(in red).
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Keyterm collections
Bibledit
There are several collections from which a
keyterm can be chosen. The last option All
Collections shows the keyterms in all lists
provided.
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Keyterm chosen
Bibledit
Here Kirisi has been chosen for the keyterm
Christ. Those chosen keyterm shows up in yellow
as well in the text as in the list of references.
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Keyterms in a verse
Bibledit
For each verse, all the keyterms it contains can
be shown. Here the keyterms of Collosians 2.20
are displayed This vers is (in WEB) '20 If
you died with Christ from the elements of the
world, why, as though living in the world, do
you subject yourselves to ordinances, ...'
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Check spelling
Bibledit
Spell checking is provided in Bibledit with
simple wordlists. Words not found in those lists
are red underlined.
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Dictionary/Wordlists
Bibledit
Dictionaries can be shared across
projects. Using Enchant gives access to wordlist
of installed spell checkers such as Aspell,
Hspell, Ispell, MySpell. Additional
dictionaries built byWeSay and Fieldworks can
beaccessed too.
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Collaboration (git)?
Bibledit
Two or morepersons can work on the same
projectat the sametime in Bibledit. Data
exchangecollaboration is facilitated by git
.This works with USB sticks or bynetwork.
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Merging - Changes
Bibledit
Collaboration is regulated by using the Merge
tool. It allows comparison between two projects
with the changes (marked in bold yellow). By
clicking Merge ...
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Merging - Choices
Bibledit
... allows for each difference (- shows only
in the master project, showsonly in the edited
project) to choose which one to accept (clicking
on the or -) and which one to refuse (no
action on or -).
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Choice of features
Bibledit
Access to Bibleditfeatures can vary from
Only basic featurestoFull features. User
defined featuresallows to choose all steps
between. Password-protection allows to
block those choices.
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Improvements
Bibledit
Bibledit also has some weak points- The help
file is written by the programmer and not always
complete.- There are only a few users who give
little feedback to the programmer.- In Linux
there are many different distributions. Sometimes
there is a conflict between new versions of
distributions, of packages and of Bibledit.
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Bibledit Great tool
Bibledit
Bibledit is a fast developing scripture
processing tool in Linux. It also works in
different distribution of Linux and also on low
power computers like the XO, Asus eee and the
Acer Aspire One.