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<chapter id="hdbk-config"><title>Configuring &bibletime;</title>
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<para>In this section you find a description of the different possibilities
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to configure &bibletime;: The <link linkend="hdbk-config-bt">Configure BibleTime Dialog
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</link> and the <link linkend="hdbk-config-toolbar">Configure Toolbars</link>
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dialog. Both can be accessed under <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> in the main menu.</para>
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<sect1 id="hdbk-config-bt"><title>Configure BibleTime Dialog</title>
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<para>The &bibletime; user interface can be customized in many ways
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depending on your needs. You can access the configuration dialog by
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selecting <menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu></menuchoice>
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<guimenuitem>Configure &bibletime;</guimenuitem>.</para>
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<sect2 id="hdbk-config-bt-display"><title><guimenu>Display</guimenu></title>
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<para>The startup behavior can be customized. Select from the following options:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Show tip of the day</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Show startup logo</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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<para>Display templates define the rendering of text (colors, size etc.). Various built-in templates are available.
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If you select one, you will see a preview on the right pane.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="hdbk-config-bt-languages"><title><guimenu>Languages</guimenu></title>
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<para>Here you can specify which language should be used for the biblical booknames. Set
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this to your native language, if it is available, and you'll feel at home.</para>
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<para>By default, &bibletime; uses the &kde; general display font which can
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be specified in the &kcontrolcenter;. You can override this font if neccessary.
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Some languages require special fonts to be displayed correctly, and this dialog
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allows you to specify a custom font for each language.</para>
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<mediaobject><imageobject>
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<imagedata fileref="ss_configfonts.png" format="PNG"/>
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</imageobject>
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<textobject><phrase>Options Dialog - fonts</phrase></textobject>
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<caption><para>The Options dialog - Fonts.</para></caption>
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</mediaobject>
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<para>&bibletime; can now use all fonts supported by KDE/QT.
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As long as the works you are interested in display correctly nothing
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needs to be done here. If a work only displays as a series
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of question marks (??????) or empty boxes, then you know that the standard
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KDE display font does not contain the characters used in this work.</para>
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<para>To correct this, choose this work's language from the drop down menu.
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Select the use custom font checkbox. Now select a font. For example, a font
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that supports many languages is Code2000. If no installed font can display
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the work you are interested in, try installing the &kde; localization
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package for that language.</para>
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<sect3 id="hdbk-config-bt-addfont"><title>Installing fonts</title>
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<para>Detailed font installation instructions are outside the scope of this handbook.
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&kde;'s <ulink url="help:/kcontrol/index.html">KControl Center</ulink> contains
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an excellent and easy to use font installation module.
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Please read <ulink url="help:/kcontrol/kcmfontinst/index.html">
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its documentation</ulink>. For further information you might want to refer to the
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<ulink url="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Unicode-HOWTO.html#toc4">
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Unicode HOWTO</ulink>.</para>
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<tip><para>If you use a small font like Clearlyu (about 22kb), &bibletime;
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will run faster than with a large font like <trademark class="registered">
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Bitstream Cyberbit</trademark> (about 12Mb).</para></tip>
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</sect3>
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<sect3 id="hdbk-config-bt-ob-font"><title>Obtaining Fonts</title>
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<para>Fonts can be obtained from a number of sources:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Your Linux distribution.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Your distribution's localization packages.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>An existing <trademark class="registered">Microsoft Windows</trademark> installation on the same computer.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>A font collection, such as are available from Adobe or Bitstream.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Online font collections.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>Unicode fonts support more characters than other fonts, and some of these fonts are
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available at no charge. None of available fonts includes all characters
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defined in the Unicode standard, so you may want to use different fonts for different
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languages.</para>
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<table>
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<title>Unicode Fonts</title>
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<tgroup cols="2">
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<tbody>
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<row><entry><ulink url="http://home.att.net/~jameskass/CODE2000.ZIP">Code2000</ulink></entry>
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<entry>Perhaps the best free Unicode font, covering a wide range of characters.</entry></row>
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<row><entry><ulink url="http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&cat_id=FontDownloads">
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SIL unicode fonts</ulink></entry>
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<entry>Excellent unicode fonts from the Summer Institute of Linguistics.</entry></row>
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<row><entry><ulink url="http://www.nongnu.org/freefont/">FreeFont</ulink></entry>
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<entry>A new free unicode font initiative.</entry></row>
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<row><entry><ulink url="ftp://ftp.crosswire.org/pub/sword/iso/latest/FONTS">Crosswire's font directory</ulink></entry>
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<entry>Several fonts available from the Crosswire Bible Society Ftp site.</entry></row>
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<row><entry><ulink url="ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/extras/fonts/windows/">Bitstream CyberBit</ulink></entry>
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<entry>Covers almost the entire range of Unicode, but might slow &bibletime; down because of its size.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>Clearlyu</entry>
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<entry>Included in some distributions. Contains European, Greek, Hebrew, Thai.</entry></row>
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<row><entry><ulink url="http://bibliofile.mc.duke.edu/gww/fonts/Unicode.html">Caslon, Monospace, Cupola, Caliban</ulink></entry>
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<entry>Partial coverage, see information on linked site.</entry></row>
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</tbody>
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</tgroup>
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</table>
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<para>There are good Unicode font lists on the net, as the one by Christoph Singer
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(<ulink url="http://www.slovo.info/unifonts.htm">Multilingual Unicode TrueType Fonts
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in the Internet</ulink>), or the one by Alan Wood
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(<ulink url="http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fontsbyrange.html">
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Unicode character ranges and the Unicode fonts that support them</ulink>).
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</para>
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</sect3>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="hdbk-config-bt-desk"><title><guimenu>Desk</guimenu></title>
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<para>Many features provided by the Sword backend can now be customized in
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&bibletime;. These features are documented right in the dialog. You also have
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the possibility to specify standard works that should be used when no specific work
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is specified in a reference. An example: The standard Bible is used to display the content of
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crossreferences in the Bible. When you hover over then, the Mag will show the content of the verses
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referred to, according to the standard Bible you specified.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="hdbk-config-bt-hotkeys"><title><guimenu>HotKeys</guimenu></title>
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<para>HotKeys are special key commands that can be used in the place of
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the menu items and icons. A number of &bibletime;'s commands have
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predefined HotKeys (see <link linkend="hdbk-reference-hotkeys">this section</link>
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for a complete listing). Most of &bibletime;'s commands can be assigned
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HotKeys here. This is very helpful to quickly access the functions that you need the most.</para>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="hdbk-config-toolbar"><title>Configure Toolbars dialog</title>
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<para>You can adapt the toolbar to your needs. Please use the following entry in the main menu:
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><menuchoice>
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<guimenu>
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<inlinemediaobject><imageobject>
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<imagedata fileref="i_configuretoolbars.png" format="PNG"/></imageobject>
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</inlinemediaobject>Settings
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</guimenu>
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<guimenuitem>Configure toolbars</guimenuitem></menuchoice></term>
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<listitem><para>Configure toolbars</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</para>
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<para>You will see this dialog, which allows adding and removing buttons from
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the main toolbar of &bibletime;. The order of the buttons can also be changed.
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</para>
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<mediaobject>
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<imageobject>
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<imagedata fileref="ss_configtoolbar.png" format="PNG"/>
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</imageobject>
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<textobject><phrase>Toolbar configuration dialog</phrase></textobject>
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<caption><para>The Toolbar configuration dialog.</para></caption>
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</mediaobject>
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<para>Use the 4 buttons in the middle of the window to move buttons to the toolbar,
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away from the toolbar or to sort them on the toolbar according to your preference.
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</para>
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<para>Please see <link linkend="hdbk-reference-menus-settings-toolbars">this section</link> for further information.</para>
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</sect1>
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</chapter>
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