1. 1 Bibledit A Scripture Processor for Linux Programmer: Teus Benschop Presenter: Wolfgang Stradner

2. 2 Overview Teus Benschop, a bible translator in Zimbabwe decided 5 years ago to start scripture processing in Linux. Being a programmer himself he developed Bibledit. It is free and runs under General Public License. Bibledit

3. 3 1 Basic Features

4. 4 Text – Notes - Tools 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. Bibledit

5. 5 References References in the toolbar and in the Notes show in the language of the active project. Bibledit

6. 6 Go to Reference 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. Bibledit

7. 7 Find: Quick references 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 scroll with the text, or with the quick reference window or with both. Bibledit

8. 8 Advanced find, choices 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. Bibledit

9. 9 Outline An outline is created in Bibledit for texts with headings. Bibledit

10. 10 Projects - Resources Bibledit will display bible projects in one or more windows (marked by tabs) which can be split (here German-gnb and Englisch-web). The same is true for resources. (Resource tabs are nameless)‏. Bibledit

11. 11 Styles Bibledit works in USFM format and creates and modifyies styles and stylesheets. The active style shows at the status bar. Tools/Styles displays styles in a structured list to be applied to a text. Bibledit

12. 12 Project Notes 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. Bibledit

13. 13 Show project notes Features are provided for filtering project notes as well as how they are sorted and displayed. Bibledit

14. 14 Dialog box help A Contextual help mechanism is provided with all dialog boxes. Bibledit

15. 15 General Help In addition, there is a general help file.help Bibledit

16. 16 2 Resources Bibledit

17. 17 Resources 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. Bibledit

18. 18 Resource Editor Bibledit works with resources which have anchors in the html format in order to let them navigate with projects. 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.... Bibledit

19. 19 Resource Converter... The Resource Converter allows the user to write anchors to text by defining the context (Prefix/Suffix) of chapter and verse numbers. Bibledit

20. 20 Bibledit 3 Printing

21. 21 Print project 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. Bibledit

22. 22 Print: Parallel Bibles 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. Bibledit

23. 23 Print: References 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. Bibledit

24. 24 Print: Compare The PDF output in Bibledit works also for the comparison of two projects: Words which are found only in the first project are in bold, and words which are only in the second project are in strike-through. Bibledit

25. 25 4 Advanced Features Bibledit

26. 26 Keyterms 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). Bibledit

27. 27 Keyterm collections There are several collections from which a keyterm can be chosen. The last option: All Collections shows the keyterms in all lists provided. Bibledit

28. 28 Keyterm chosen 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. Bibledit

29. 29 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,...'

30. 30 Check spelling Spell checking is provided in Bibledit with simple wordlists. Words not found in those lists are red underlined. Bibledit

31. 31 Dictionary/Wordlists 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 by WeSay and Fieldworks can be accessed too. WeSayFieldworks Bibledit

32. 32 Collaboration (git)‏ Two or more persons can work on the same project at the same time in Bibledit. Data exchange collaboration is facilitated by git. This works with USB sticks or by network. Bibledit

33. 33 Merging - Changes Collaboration is regulated by using the Merge tool. It allows comparison between two projects with the changes (marked in bold yellow). By clicking Merge... Bibledit

34. 34 Merging - Choices... allows for each difference (- shows: only in the master project, + shows only in the edited project) to choose which one to accept (clicking on the + or -) and which one to refuse (no action on + or -). Bibledit

35. 35 Choice of features Access to Bibledit features can vary from: Only basic features to Full features. User defined features allows to choose all steps between. Password-protection allows to block those choices. Bibledit

36. 36 Improvements 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. Bibledit

37. 37 Bibledit – Great tool 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. Bibledit