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Access this dialog through menu View / Project notes.
In this dialog settngs can be made that influence which project notes are displayed, and how they are displayed.
The top part of the dialog deals with the notes selection, that is, which notes will be selected for display.
The bottom part of the dialog deals with the notes display, that is, how the notes will be displayed.
A note must satisfy four conditions to be selected for displaying.
The first condition to be satisfied is which reference or references the note belongs to.
The second condition is the date on which the note has been edited.
The third condition is the category to which the note belongs.
The fourth condition is the project to which the note belongs.
For example if you wish to select all the notes in the current chapter that have been edited today, then tick these conditions: "Notes that have the current chapter", and "Notes edited today", and "Notes of category All categories", and "Notes of project any".
Another example. If you wish to select all the notes that fall in category "For church", then tick these conditions: "Notes that have any verse", and "Notes edited at any time", and "Notes of category For church", and "Notes of project any".
"Order center around current reference". When this is ticked, Bibledit makes an attempt to display notes ordered by how close they are to the current reference. That is, for example, if the user display Matthew 10:2, then the notes that are nearest this reference are displayed visibly, and notes further away are moved away a bit.
"Include in title - project". If this has been ticked, then also the name of the project the note belongs to will be shown in the blue link, in the Notes Area.
"Text - summary". Only the first few words of the note are displayed. This allows many notes to be displayed in a small space. This is supposed to give a better overview of which notes are available.
"Text - add text of the references". If this is ticked, Bibledit displays not only the references of the notes, such as Matthew 1:1-2, but it displays the actual text of those references too. This has been found useful in cases that worksheets had to be produced for a team discussing some notes.
Build a concordance of the current version, all books. Display a new window with all the words, one tab sorted by frequency and the other sorted alphabetically. Clickable links to the verses where the words occur.
Greek, English versions of the Bible keyed to the current editor verse. Cross references with clickable links.
Bibledit shows the outline of the book that is being edited.
The outline can be seen in the Outline window, accessible through the View menu.
All the headers and titles that are in the book are visible there, with the chapters and verses they start with and end with.
The header or title that has the cursor will be focused.
If you double-click on any header, or press Enter, the chapter belonging to that will be loaded in the editor.
Notes.
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Headers and titles that are in chapter 0, that means, before chapter 1, do not show up as such, but as chapter 0 without any verse-references.
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There are no heading endmarkers if the heading is followed by another one.
Rearrange all the windows in a nice way, with Bibles on the left 2/3 of the screen, and resources in the right 1/3.
Links to web tools (and on Windows, Bibleworks) that open those tools to the verse that is currently focused in the editor.
This dialog comes up when choosing menu Insert / Footnote or Endnote or Crossreference.
The dialog aids you while inserting bible notes.
The numbering can be set to automatic, or no numbering at all, or a certain character.
You can set whether to automatically insert the current reference in the Bible note. If you do insert it, then you can set whether to include the chapter number, and the verse number, and what the separator between them will be. A suffix can be entered too. It will show how this is going to look in the text.
Note content can be added in the dialog too. Press the "Add content" button. A new area will be added that allows to insert a marker with its content.
The marker to be used can be selected in the combobox.
The content to be inserted can be typed in the text entry.
If "Remember content" is ticked, this content will be remembered for the next time you insert a Bible note.
To get rid of this content area, press the "Remove" button.
Tick this function to tidy the references you insert. You can influence the process in the settings.
It is possible to save a certain configuration in a template. The "New" button will make a new template, and the "Delete" button will delete the current one. If no template name is given, the default one will be used. Data is saved in a template only on pressing the "Ok" button.
The dialogs for inserting Bible notes have been designed to improve efficiency and speed.
When the dialog opens, the first entry gets focused, and you can type text there. On pressing Enter the next entry focuses, and so on, until the Ok button gets focused. Pressing Enter again inserts the note.
The tool can be accessed through menu / Tools / Transfer project notes to text.
This tool does only one thing. It copies the project notes into the currently opened project.
It does that by going through each verse of the project that is now opened in the editor. At each verse it looks at which project notes would display if that verse were visible in the editor. It then copies the text of those notes into the text of the project. It the text of a note is copied into the project, it does not overwrite the data that is already in the project, but it just appends it.
This tool can be useful in cases that somebody wishes to have some way of printing a subset of project notes along with the text, so that checking questions could be printed on the same page as the verses they refer to. To do this, the notes can be imported in some temporal project, and then a "Parallel Bible" could be created that includes that temporal project that now contains the notes.
Opinions vary on whether origin references in footnotes and crossreferences are useful. Some say that they are useful because they indicate the verse to which the note belongs. Others say that these references are just clutter and that the information is clearer without them.
A tool is available that can add or remove the origin references of all the Bible Notes in one go.
See the USFM documentation for footnotes, endnotes and crossreferences for a description of what the origin references are.
In the dialog, tick what type of notes to affect: footnotes, endnotes, crossreferences, or a combination of them. If you tick "Footnotes", for example, and leave the others unticked, then only the footnotes in your project will be affected.
Then choose the action you wish to take, whether to give statistics only, or whether to add the origin references or to remove them.
If you add them, you can set how the origin references will look.
Once all settings are made, press OK to process all verses in your project.
Changes that Bibledit will now make cannot be made undone.
Statistics of what has been found and what has been done will be given once through.
Sometimes Bible notes don't have any markers in them at all, they are just plain text. To add the default markers to the note, choose option "Add missing text labels".
The dialog to generate the word lists is available through the menu, Tools, Generate word lists.
It generates a general word list, a list of Hebrew words, and one of Greek words.
It goes through all the data in the project, collects the entries which have been marked, and then inserts the lists at a location defined by the user. Thus it can generate a glossary or topical index.
There are three possible lists: a general word list, a Hebrew word lists, and a Greek word list.
For each of these lists there are some options that the user can set:
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Process word list: whether to process this particular word list.
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Add an asterisk to each entry, see below.
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Add the asterisk only to the first time this particular entry occurs in the section, see below.
Generating word lists is simple assuming that the right markers are already in the data: Just set the options, click button OK, and wait till it is through.
The word list generator uses the entries that are in the data to collect the words to insert in the list.
An entry for the general word list is inserted between the \w and the \w* markers. The Hebrew and Greek word lists use similar markers. See the USFM documentation for full details
When the word list generator runs, it will remove any asterisks () that were appended to the word. When the option "Add an asterisk to each word entry" has been selected, it will then add an asterisk after the word. If the option "the first time it occurs in a section" has been selected also, it will only add the asterisk where this particular entry occurs for the first time in the section. In this case, if for example the word "talent" occurs several times in a section, it will be given as "talent" the first time, with the asterisk, and as "talent" the other times, without an asterisk. The section headings define the size of a section.
The lists of words can be inserted once or more than once in the data. The general word list will be inserted between the markers \zopenwordlist and \zclosewordlist. These markers ought to be on a separate line. If this couple of markers occurs in several places, the word lists will be inserted in several places too. If it occurs once, only one list will be generated, and if it does not occur at all, no list will be generated.
Any entries that are already between those markers will be preserved. If there are entries between those markers, and there is no corresponding entry in the text, this entry will be commented out.
List of usfm markers that indicate the position of a word list:
\zopenwordlist
\zclosewordlist
\zopengreekwordlist
\zclosegreekwordlist
\zopenhebrewwordlist
\zclosehebrewwordlist
The markers that open and close a word list will need to be manually typed in the text at the right location. They are not part of the stylesheet.
Consider the following situation:
The text contains the following general word list entries: Hallelujah, Rabi, Pentecost.
At some place of the data, the list should be inserted, but it already contains some entries:
\zopenwordlist
\p Hallelujah: Praise the Lord
\p Rabi: Teacher
\p Mamon
\zclosewordlist
After running the word list generator, it will look so:
\zopenwordlist
\p Hallelujah: Praise the Lord
\rem Mamon
\p Pentecost
\p Rabi: Teacher
\zclosewordlist
Note the following: (1) the existing entries have been preserved, (2) a new one has been added, (3) one has been commented out, and (4) the entries have been sorted alphabetically.
Note also that any text before the first colon (:) is considered to be the actual entry. If there is no colon, then the whole text will be considered the entry.
Debugging information.
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