The options dialog allows many BibleTime and Sword features to be customized.
The startup behavior can be customized. Select from the following options:
Show tip of the day. |
Show startup Logo. |
Restore windows in workspace area. |
The Options dialog - Startup.
The display font used for text can be changed as desired. If you have a module that requires a special font, check here to see if the font is available to BibleTime.
The Options dialog - Fonts.
Sword modules are provided with either iso-8859-1 (Latin-1) or iso-10646 (Unicode) encoding. You can tell how a module is encoded by right mouse button on the main index and selecting about this module.
The 'About this module' window shows what kind of encoding is used.
As long as the modules you are interested in display correctly nothing needs to be done here. If a module you are interested in displays as a series of question marks (???????????????????) the font available to BibleTime does not contain the used in characters in your document.
In the options dialog, choose fonts select in the Unicode area of application. You will need to choose a font that has a iso-10646-1 character set. Try clearlyu as a first step (it is included with most distributions). If your module still does not display, you will need to use a more appropriate font.
If you use a small Unicode font like clearlyu (about 22kb) BibleTime will run faster than if a large font like Bitstream Cyberbit (about 12Mb) is used.
There are a number of fonts that support Unicode encoding, some of these are available at no charge. Few of the fonts available include all of range of symbols defined in the Unicode standard.
Here is a listing of some of the fonts available:
Clearlyu | Included in some distributions. Contains European, Greek, Hebrew, Thai. Does not contain Chinease pictographs, or Arabic |
ftp://ftp.crosswire.org/pub/sword/iso/latest/FONTS. | Several fonts available from the Crosswire Bible Society ftp site. |
Bitstream CyberBit | Covers almost the entire range of Unicode. |
Caslon, Monospace, Cupola, Caliban | Partial coverage, see information on linked site. |
For A partial list of other Unicode fonts and the ranges covered: Unicode Font List
If your distribution includes a font installer (Linux-Mandrake™ supplies Drake Font) try to use the installer. If the font installer does not work, or your distribution does not include one, you will have to install the font manually. Instructions for installing fonts can be found in The Unicode HOWTO. This was tested and works on Linux-Mandrake™ 7.1
There is a known issue with Qt that prevents printing characters outside the range of the Latin-1 character set. This is expected to be fixed with the release of Qt3 and KDE 3. If you want to try anyway, the Font HowTo explains the process for installing fonts to the printing system.
The colors of the objects in display windows can be customized. Objects that can be customized are:
Text |
Highlighted verse |
Footnotes |
Morphological Tags |
Background |
Hyperlinks |
Strong's Numbers |
Words of Jesus |
Some options like "Words of Jesus" only apply to texts which support this special feature.
The Options dialog - Color.
Profiles define the appearance of the work area, for example which windows are open and which texts should be displayed in these windows. Once a profile is created, use the menu item window -> save profile to save a current session into a profile. Use window -> load profile to load a previously saved profile into BibleTime.
Many features provided by the Sword backend can now be customized in BibleTime'
The Options dialog - Sword.
Key Catch for Lexicons
Bibletime can create a key catch for lexicons. This speeds up opening large lexicon modules. The catch file does use some disc space, so if your computer has only a small amount of free space, you might want to disable this feature.
Scrolling Behavior
The default is that a down arrow moves the current position in a text to the next verse. This option allows the down arrow to move the current position in a text to the previous verse.
Specify a language for biblical book names
This feature allows the language used to displayed book names to be changed. For example the King James Version can be displayed with German book names. If your language is not displayed and you would like to create a sword locale for your language, please see the crosswire bible society developers site for details.