# 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 allowes 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.

## Options Dialog

The options 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 in workspace area.

Options Dialog

The Options dialog - Startup.

### Fonts

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;.

Options Dialog - fonts

The Options dialog - Fonts.

#### Unicode Fonts (ISO10646)

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 &RMB; on the main index and selecting about this module.

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.

##### Font Installation

Installing fonts consists of three steps

1. Obtaining Unicode fonts

2. Installing fonts to the XFree86 &X-Server;

3. Installing the font for printing (does not work yet).

##### Obtaining Fonts

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:

###### 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.

For A partial list of other Unicode fonts and the ranges covered: Unicode Font List

##### Installing your font to XFree86 (your &X-Server;)

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

##### Installing the font for printing.

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.

### 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.

### Profiles

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;.

### Sword

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

Options Dialog - Sword

The Options dialog - Sword.

#### Sword General

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.

#### 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 brake 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