# Configuring &bibletime;

The &bibletime; user interface can be customized in many ways depending on your needs. To access the configuration dialogs, in the main toolbar select settings. From here select configure toolbars to launch the dialog configure toolbars dialog, or select Configure &bibletime; to launch the options dialog.

## Configure Toolbars Dialog

The Configure Toolbars dialog allows adding and removing actions from the main toolbar of &bibletime;. The order of actions in the main toolbar can also be changed.

Toolbar Configuration Dialog

The Toolbar Configuration dialog.

## Preferences - &bibletime; Dialog

The preferences dialog allows many &bibletime; and &sword; features to be customized.

### Startup

The startup behavior can be customized. Select from the following options:

- Show tip of the day
- Show startup Logo
- Restore windows from the last &bibletime; session

Preferences Dialog

The Preferences dialog - Startup.

### Fonts

&bibletime; uses the &kde; general display font. The &kde; general display font can be changed from the &kcontrolcenter;. If the module you are using does not display correctly with the general display font, use the fonts options dialog to select a different one. &bibletime; now applies font selections to specific languages.

Options Dialog - fonts

The Options dialog - Fonts.

#### What kind of fonts can I use?

&bibletime; can now use any system fonts. These may be Bitmap Fonts, Adobe Type1 Fonts, Adobe Type3 fonts, or TrueType. These fonts may be supplied with your distribution, or may be obtained separately.

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 (???????????????????) or empty boxes the font available to &bibletime; does not contain the characters used in your document.

In the fonts options dialog, choose the desired language from the drop down menu. Select the use custom font checkbox. Now select a font. Clearlyu supports most languages so it is a good first try. If no installed font can be found that displays the module you are interested in, try installing the &kde; localization package for that language.

#### Installing fonts

Detailed font installation instructions are outside the scope of this handbook. If you need detailed font installation information, please read the Font-HOWTO, and The Unicode HOWTO

If your distribution includes a font installer use it, it makes font installation much easier!

If you use a small font like clearlyu (about 22kb) &bibletime; will run faster than if a large font like Bitstream Cyberbit (about 12Mb) is used.

#### Obtaining Fonts

Fonts can be obtained from a number of sources.

- Your 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.

- On line font collections.

Unicode fonts support more characters than other fonts, so are generally a good choice for &bibletime;, some of these fonts are available at no charge. Few of the fonts available include all of range of symbols defined in the Unicode standard, so you may try several before finding what you need

Here is a listing of some of the fonts available:

##### Unicode Fonts

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.

The most complete listing of Unicode fonts that we are aware of is Christoph Singer's "Multilingual Unicode TrueType Fonts in the Internet" with 24 fonts listed.

Another Unicode font list can be found at: Unicode Font List.

### Colors

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.

Options Dialog - Color

The Options dialog - Color.

### Sessions

Sessions define the appearance of the work area, for example which windows are open and which texts should be displayed in these windows. Once a session is created, use the menu item Window -> Save session to save a current session into a session file. Use Window -> Load session to load a previously saved session into &bibletime;.

### Sword

Many features provided by the Sword backend can now be customized in &bibletime;.

Options Dialog - Sword

The Options dialog - Sword.

#### Sword General

Key Cache for Lexicons

&bibletime; can create a key cache for lexicons. This speeds up opening large lexicon modules. The cache 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.

#### Sword Default Modules

Default modules are specified here.

#### Sword Filter Settings

Filters control the appearance of text in the display windows. Here you can chose the default settings for the various filters.

The items controlled by filters are:

- Show line break after each verse

- Show verse numbers

- Show footnotes

- Show Strong's numbers

- Show headings

- Show morphologic tags

- Show lemmas

- Show Hebrew vowel points

- Show Hebrew cantillation marks

- Show Greek accents

## Accelerators

Accelerators 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 Accelerators. All of &bibletime;'s commands can be assigned accelerators here.

### Default accelerators

Action | Key combination
--- | ---
Auto Tile | Ctrl+Alt+T
Auto Cascade | Ctrl+Alt+A
Cascade | Ctrl+A
Close All | Shift+Ctrl+A
Configure Toolbars |
Preferences |
Quit | Ctrl+Q
Remove Selected Item(s) | Ctrl+Alt+D
Reset Main Index | Ctrl+Alt+R
Search in Selected Module(s) | Ctrl+Alt+S
Tile | Ctrl+T