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Bibledit

A Scripture Processorfor Linux

Programmer: Teus Benschop Presenter: Wolfgang Stradner

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Overview

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

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

References in the toolbar and in the Notes show in the language of theactive project.

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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.

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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 scrollwith the text, or with the quick reference window or with both.

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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.

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Outline

An outline is created in Bibledit for texts with headings.

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Projects - Resources

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 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

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

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

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Dialog box help

A Contextual help mechanism is provided with all dialog boxes.

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General Help

In addition, there is a general help file.

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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.

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Resource Editor Bibledit works with

resources 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

... 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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 wordswhich are only in the second project are in strike-through.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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

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

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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 byWeSay and Fieldworks can beaccessed too.

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Collaboration (git) Two or more

persons 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

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

... 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 Access to Bibledit

features 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 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 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.

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