# Menubar

At the top of the GnomeSword main window is the menubar. Almost all of the functions are available by activating the appropriate menu item. The functions have been grouped according to their type. For example, the file operations have been grouped into the File menu.

## Menubar

&appname; menubar

# Toolbars

The function of the Toolbar is to provide control over the Bible Pane. Activation of the Toolbar option is done by moving the mouse cursor over the desired toolbar button and selecting it. A tooltip will appear if the mouse cursor is held stationary over a toolbar button, describing the function of the button.

## ToolBar

The Toolbar

The Toolbar consists of the following functions:

- History View Toggle

- Bible Book Selector

- Bible Chapter Selector

- Bible Verse Selector

- Bible Passage Summary

## History Forward/Backward Selector

Switches between current and previous passage selections.

## Bible Book Selector

Selects the Biblical book to be displayed in the Bible Text Pane and Commentary Pane. Changes take immediate effect.

## Bible Chapter Selector

Selects the Biblical chapter of current book to be displayed in the Bible Text Pane and Commentary Pane. Changes take immediate effect.

## Bible Verse Selector

Selects the Biblical verse of current chapter to be displayed in the Bible Text Pane and Commentary Pane. Changes take immediate effect.

## Bible Passage Summary

Allows manual editing of passages which are displayed in the Bible Text Pane and Commentary Pane. Changes take effect once Enter is typed.

Ensure that edited book,chapter and verse naming is correct, otherwise the wrong or no information will be displayed.

# The Sidebar

## Sidepane

The Sidepane

On the left hand side of GnomeSword there is the Side Pane. Here the user can switch between the different Sword modules, view bookmarks, do simple searches and view verse lists. To switch between all Side Pane functions, shortcuts have been placed at the bottom of the Side Pane. Clicking on the shortcut activates the option.

## Sidepane Shortcuts

Sidepane shortcuts

# The Bible Text Pane

## The Bible Textpane

The Bible textpane

Positioned to the right of the Shortcut bar is the Bible text pane. All your different translations will be displayed for full viewing. When starting GnomeSword either your default Bible translation or the translation last used will be displayed.

## Opening A Specific Bible Translation

In order to change the current Bible translation to another of your choice:

- right-click in the Bible Text Pane. In the popup menu choose FileOpen Module and select your specific translation that you want to view.

- under the Modules option in the Sidebar, choose Biblical Textslanguage choice and select your specific translation.

## Using the Parallel View Mode

A nice function in GnomeSword is the ability to view your specified bible text in parallel in five translations of your choice. The Parallel View mode can be accessed by selecting Parallel View just below the Bible Text Pane, next to the Standard View tab. Please note that you can only view one verse at a time. You can change the verse by selecting another verse, chapter, or book at the toolbar. Also note that modules that are Old Testament or New Testament only (eg Westminster Leningrad Codex and Byzantine Majority Text ) will not be able to display books, chapters, or verses that they don't have.

### Bible textpane - parallel view

Bible textpane - parallel view

Additionally, a separate Parallel View window can be selected from the right click menu with Detach/Attach. Your Bible pane will return to its normal single text view, and the new Parallel View window will show the complete chapter, in all 5 translations.

### Parallel View - separate window

Parallel View - separate window

## Opening A Separate Bible Translation

In order to view a Bible translation separate from the GnomeSword interface:

- Under the Modules option in the Sidebar,choose Biblical Textslanguage choice . Then right-click on your specific translation and choose the Open in dialog option.

## Finding Out About The Current Translation

To find out about the Bible translation currently being displayed:

- right-click in the Bible Text pane. In the popup menu choose About module name.

## Module Options

Most Bible translations have additional options which the user can select.

- Words Of Christ In Red

- Strong's Numbers

- Morphological Tags

- Footnotes

- Scripture Cross-Reference

- Headings

Translations in other languages such as Greek or Hebrew have specific options which deal only with the specific language.

In order to access these options:

- right-click in the Bible Text pane. In the popup menu (example shown), choose Module Options and select the specific option.

### Module Options

Module Options

## View Options

There are several additional modes that can be selected from the menubar's View pulldown.

### View Options

View Options

- Verse Style - Toggles between Bible text display in separate verses, or in paragraphs instead. This is set on a per-module basis.

- Pin Tabs - When more than one tab is open, each one's verse is navigated separately in the disabled case. If tab pinning is enabled, then all tabs navigate together, keeping all translations on the same verse.

- Read Aloud - If you enable this, then GnomeSword will funnel all selected verses through the festival text-to-speech system. Festival is a widely-available TTS, often installed by default in Linux distributions.

  Also, mouse-selected text may be read aloud from Bibles, commentaries, and general books, using the right-click menu, regardless of whether Read Aloud is selected.

- Show Verse Numbers - Normally enabled, this toggle can be disabled to prevent display of verse numbers within the text.

- Highlight Current Verse - Initially disabled, this toggle replaces mere alternate colorization of the current verse with a substitute high-contrast highlight. The colors used may be selected from the Preferences dialog.

## Specific Word Meanings

In order to check the meaning of a specific word, click on the desired word you wish to lookup. The word should then highlight itself and the explanation should be displayed, if available, in the Dictionary Pane.

## Finding A Specific Word

To find a specific word within a passage:

- right-click in the Bible Text Pane. In the popup menu, choose Edit-> Find. A separate dialog will appear, which will allow single or multi word searches. Fill out dialog and click the Find button.

# Viewer Pane

## Viewer Panel

Viewer Panel

The Viewer Pane is where the user sees Strong's numbers, morphological tags, footnotes, and cross-references that the Bible Text Pane provides.

Footnote content is normally transient in the Viewer Pane: It is displayed while your mouse hovers over the footnote indicator *n in the Bible text, and then disappears when your mouse moves off. But some translations' footnotes (e.g. NET Bible's) can be very large, so that not all the text is visible. To anchor the text so that you can scroll it in the Viewer Pane, middle-click the indicator and move to the Viewer Pane.

Cross-reference indicators *x also display transiently in the Viewer Pane. Left-clicking the indicator will send the set of references to the Verse List in the Sidebar, where you can click them individually for reading in the Viewer Pane.

# The Commentary Pane

## The Commentary Pane

Commentary Pane

The Commentary pane is where the commentary modules are displayed. This provides easy reading, reference and access to different commentaries currently installed. The passage viewed by the Commentary pane is directly controlled by the current passage viewed in the Bible Text pane, so in order to change to a different passage commentary, select the desired passage on the Toolbar.

If there are images that are part of a commentary, general book, or dictionary/lexicon, they may be clicked to invoke a viewer on that single image, in order to get a better view. This is particularly useful if image resizing has been enabled with the result that images are made very small in the subwindow. (This feature requires underlying Sword support beyond its 1.5.9 public release, at revision "SVN 2035" or later.)

By changing to passage settings on the Toolbar, the contents in the Bible Text pane and the Commentary Pane will be changed.

## Finding Out About The Commentary Module

To find out about the commentary currently being displayed:

- right-click in the Commentary Pane. In the popup menu choose About module name.

## Commentary Headings.

Most commentaries have additional headings which enable introductory information about the book and chapter currently being displayed in the Bible Text pane. In order to view them:

- right-click in the Commentary Pane. In the popup menu choose Display Book Heading or Display Chapter Heading.

# Dictionary Pane

## The Dictionary Pane

The Dictionary Pane

# Keyboard Shortcuts

Several keyboard shortcuts exist in GnomeSword:

- Ctrl-L focuses and selects the main verse navbar text. You can then immediately type in new verse selection text, or the arrow keys can be used to select the spinners (left/right) and change them (up/down). Be aware that GnomeSword, as is the case with most Sword applications, understands many abbreviations: "G" is adequate to specify Genesis, for example, and any book name by itself implies 1:1.
- Alt-C brings the Commentary View forward when previously obscured by the Book View.
- Alt-G is the opposite of Alt-C, and the arrow keys can then drive the navbar buttons.