Configuring &bibletime;In this section you find a description of the different possibilities
to configure &bibletime;: The Configure BibleTime Dialog
and the Configure Toolbars
dialog. Both can be accessed under Settings in the main menu.Configure BibleTime DialogThe &bibletime; user interface can be customized in many ways
depending on your needs. You can access the configuration dialog by
selecting SettingsConfigure &bibletime;.DisplayThe startup behavior can be customized. Select from the following options:
Show tip of the dayShow startup logoDisplay templates define the rendering of text (colors, size etc.). Various built-in templates are available.
If you select one, you will see a preview on the right pane.LanguagesHere you can specify which language should be used for the biblical booknames. Set
this to your native language, if it is available, and you'll feel at home.By default, &bibletime; uses the &kde; general display font which can
be specified in the &kcontrolcenter;. You can override this font if neccessary.
Some languages require special fonts to be displayed correctly, and this dialog
allows you to specify a custom font for each language.Options Dialog - fonts
The Options dialog - Fonts.
&bibletime; can now use all fonts supported by KDE/QT.
As long as the works you are interested in display correctly nothing
needs to be done here. If a work only displays as a series
of question marks (??????) or empty boxes, then you know that the standard
KDE display font does not contain the characters used in this work.To correct this, choose this work's language from the drop down menu.
Select the use custom font checkbox. Now select a font. For example, a font
that supports many languages is Code2000. If no installed font can display
the work you are interested in, try installing the &kde; localization
package for that language.Installing fontsDetailed font installation instructions are outside the scope of this handbook.
&kde;'s KControl Center contains
an excellent and easy to use font installation module.
Please read
its documentation. For further information you might want to refer to the
Unicode HOWTO.If you use a small font like Clearlyu (about 22kb), &bibletime;
will run faster than with a large font like
Bitstream Cyberbit (about 12Mb).Obtaining FontsFonts can be obtained from a number of sources:Your Linux distribution.Your distribution's localization packages.An existing Microsoft Windows installation on the same computer.A font collection, such as are available from Adobe or Bitstream.Online font collections.Unicode fonts support more characters than other fonts, and some of these fonts are
available at no charge. None of available fonts includes all characters
defined in the Unicode standard, so you may want to use different fonts for different
languages.
Unicode FontsCode2000Perhaps the best free Unicode font, covering a wide range of characters.
SIL unicode fontsExcellent unicode fonts from the Summer Institute of Linguistics.FreeFontA new free unicode font initiative.Crosswire's font directorySeveral fonts available from the Crosswire Bible Society Ftp site.Bitstream CyberBitCovers almost the entire range of Unicode, but might slow &bibletime; down because of its size.ClearlyuIncluded in some distributions. Contains European, Greek, Hebrew, Thai.Caslon, Monospace, Cupola, CalibanPartial coverage, see information on linked site.
There are good Unicode font lists on the net, as the one by Christoph Singer
(Multilingual Unicode TrueType Fonts
in the Internet), or the one by Alan Wood
(
Unicode character ranges and the Unicode fonts that support them).
DeskMany features provided by the Sword backend can now be customized in
&bibletime;. These features are documented right in the dialog. You also have
the possibility to specify standard works that should be used when no specific work
is specified in a reference. An example: The standard Bible is used to display the content of
crossreferences in the Bible. When you hover over then, the Mag will show the content of the verses
referred to, according to the standard Bible you specified.HotKeysHotKeys are special key commands that can be used in the place of
the menu items and icons. A number of &bibletime;'s commands have
predefined HotKeys (see this section
for a complete listing). Most of &bibletime;'s commands can be assigned
HotKeys here. This is very helpful to quickly access the functions that you need the most.Configure Toolbars dialogYou can adapt the toolbar to your needs. Please use the following entry in the main menu:
Settings
Configure toolbarsConfigure toolbarsYou will see this dialog, which allows adding and removing buttons from
the main toolbar of &bibletime;. The order of the buttons can also be changed.
Toolbar configuration dialog
The Toolbar configuration dialog.
Use the 4 buttons in the middle of the window to move buttons to the toolbar,
away from the toolbar or to sort them on the toolbar according to your preference.
Please see this section for further information.