# Program operation

## Program overview

This is what a typical &bibletime; session looks like: The &bibletime; application window You can easily see the different parts of the application. The top left window is used to open installed works in the Bookshelf tab, and with the Bookmarks tab you can manage your bookmarks. The little "Mag" window below the Bookshelf is used to display extra information that is embedded in documents. When you move your mouse over a footnote marker, for example, then the Mag will display the actual content of the footnote. The toolbar gives you quick access to important functions, and the Desk on the right side is where you do your real work.

Let us now proceed by looking at the different parts of the application individually.

## Parts of the &bibletime; application window

### The Bookshelf

The Bookshelf lists all installed works, sorted by category and language. It also has a category called "Bookmarks". This is where you can store and access your own bookmarks.

#### Opening works

To open a work from the bookshelf for reading, simply double-click with the left mouse button on the desired category (Bibles, Commentaries, Lexicons, Books, Devotionals or Glossaries) to display its contents. Then just double-click on one of the works to open it for reading. A read window will appear in the Desk area.

If you are reading a certain work, and want to open another work at the passage you are reading, you can use a shortcut. Simply click with the left mouse button on the verse/passage reference (pointer changes to hand) and drag it to the Bookshelf. Drop it on the work you want to open, and it will be opened for reading at the specified location. You can also drag a verse reference into an existing read window, then it will jump to the specified location.

#### Additional information about works

If you click with the right mouse button on the symbol of a work, you will see a menu with additional entries that are relevant for this work. "About this work" opens a window with lots of interesting information about the selected work. "Unlock this work" opens a small dialog for encrypted documents, where you can enter the unlock key to access the work. For additional information on locked works, please see the Locked Modules page on the &cbs; web site.

#### Searching in works

You can search in a work by clicking with the right mouse button on its symbol and selecting "Search in work(s)". By pressing &Shift; and clicking on other works you can select more than one. Then follow the same procedure to open the search dialog. You will be searching in all of these documents. A complete description of the operation of the search features can be found on the Searching in Works section.

#### Working with bookmarks

Drag & Drop Works Here

Click with the right mouse button on the bookmark category of the bookshelf and select "Create new folder" to create a new bookmark subfolder. You can use normal drag & drop functions to drag verse references from read windows or search results to the bookmark folder, and to rearrange bookmarks between folders.

You can also import bookmarks from other people or export bookmarks to share them. To do this, open the context menu of the bookmark folder as described above, and select "Export bookmarks". This will bring up a dialog box for you to save the bookmark collection. You can import bookmarks in a similar way.

You can also click with the right on folders and bookmarks to change their names and descriptions.

### The Mag(nifying glass)

This little window in the lower left corner of the &bibletime; window is purely passive. Whenever your mouse cursor is located over some text with additional information (e.g., Strong's numbers), then this additional information will be displayed in the Mag, and not in the text itself. Just try it out.

### The Desk

The Desk is where the real work with &bibletime; takes place. Here you can open works from the Bookshelf, read them, search in them, and even save your annotations in the personal commentary module (see below).

#### Reading works

As we have already seen, you can open works for reading simply by clicking on their symbol in the Bookshelf. A read window will open in the Desk's area. Every read window has a toolbar. There you can find tools to navigate in the work that this read window is connected to, as well as history buttons like the ones that you know from your browser.

#### Auto Scrolling

The currently active window can be auto scrolled up or down. Start scrolling by press Shift+Down. You can increase the scrolling speed by pressing Shift+Down multiple times. To pause scrolling press Space. To start scrolling again at the previous speed press Space again. To slow down scrolling or scroll the other direction press Shift+Up one or more times. Pressing any other key or changing the active window will stop the scrolling.

#### Read window placement

Of course, you can open multiple works at the same time. There are several possibilities for arranging the read windows on the desk. Please have a look at the entry Window in the main menu. There you can see that you can either control the placement of the read windows completely yourself, or have &bibletime; handle the placement automatically. To achieve this, you have to select one of the automatic placement modes available at Window Arrangement mode . Just try it out, it's simple and works.

#### Editing your own commentary

To be able to store your own comments about parts of the Bible, you have install a certain work from the library of the &cbs;. This work is called "Personal commentary".

Open the personal commentary by clicking on its symbol in the Bookshelf with a left mouse button. You can edit this commentary by just clicking on any verse. A dialog opens which allows you to add or edit text for that verse.

If Edit this work is deactivated, please check if you have write permission for the files of the personal commentary.

Drag & drop works here. Drop a verse reference and the text of the verse will be inserted.

## Searching in works

### Searching text in an open read window

You can look for a word or phrase in the open read window (e.g. the chapter of a bible that you're reading) just like you are used to from other programs. This function can be reached either by clicking with the right mouse button and selecting Find..., or by using the shortcut &Ctrl;F. Read on to learn how you can search in entire works.

### Accessing the search dialog

You can search in a work by clicking with the right mouse button on its symbol in the Bookshelf and selecting Search in work(s). By holding &Shift; or &Ctrl; and clicking on other work's names you can select more than one. Then follow the same procedure to open the search dialog. You will be searching in all of these works at the same time.

You can also access the search dialog by clicking on Search from the main menu, and selecting the appropriate entry.

A third possibility to start searches is to click on the search symbol in an open read window.

### Search configuration

Search Text Dialog Options Tab

#### Selecting works

At the top of the options tab you will find Choose(works). If you would like to search in multiple works, click on this button and you will be offered a menu where you can select the works you want to search in.

#### Using Search Scopes

You can narrow the scope of your search to certain parts of the Bible by selecting one of the predefined scopes from the list in Search scope. You can define your own search ranges by clicking the Setup ranges button.

#### Basic Search Syntax Introduction

Enter the search phrase separated by spaces. By default the search function will return results that match all the words. If you want to find any of the words entered, select the Some words button. If you want to perform a more complex search, select the Free button. You can see examples of searches by clicking on full syntax.

You can use wildcards: '*' matches any number of characters, while '?' will match any single character. The use of parenthesis allows you to group your search terms, e.g. '(Jesus OR spirit) AND God'.

To search text other than the main text, enter the text type followed by ':', and then the search term. Refer to the table below for examples.

Available text types:

#### Search Types

Prefix | Meaning | Example
heading: | searches headings | heading:Jesus
footnote: | searches footnotes | footnote:Moses
strong: | searches Strong's Numbers | strong:G535
morph: | searches morphology codes | morph:N-GSM

You can right click on an installed work and select About to find which of the above search criteria may work for you. Not all works have the built in features for performing this type of search.

&bibletime; uses the Lucene search engine to perform your searches. It has many advanced features, and you can read more about it here: http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/index.html.

### Search results

Here you can see how many instances of the search string were found, sorted by works. Clicking on a work with the right mouse button allows you to copy, save, or print all verses that were found in a certain work at once. This also works when you click on one or more of the references to copy, save or print them. Clicking on a particular reference opens that verse up in context in the preview window below.

Drag a reference and drop it on a work symbol on the Bookshelf to open the work at that verse in a new read window.

Drag a reference and drop it on an open read window, and it will jump to that verse.

Select references and drag them to the Bookshelf to create bookmarks.

#### Search result analysis

Click on Search analysis to open the search analysis display. This gives a simple graphic analysis of the number of instances the search string was found in each book of the Bible, and you can also save the analysis.

Search Analysis Dialog Box

## The Bookshelf Manager

The Bookshelf Manager is a tool to manage your Bookshelf. You can install new works to your Bookshelf, and update or remove existing works from your Bookshelf. Access it by clicking Settings Bookshelf Manager in the main menu.

### Install works

With this facility, you can connect to a repository of works (called "library"), and transfer one or more works to your local Bookshelf. These libraries may be local (e.g. a &sword; CD), or remote (e.g. Crosswire's online repository of &sword; modules, or another site offering &sword; modules). &bibletime; will automatically maintain a list of remote libraries and the works available from them.

To begin the installation process, select one or more libraries that you want to install works from. Then click on the Next button. Then select one or more languages and click the Next button. You will see a list of categories. Double-click on a category to see works for that category. Select one or more works and then click on the Install Works. After the works are installed, click on the Finish.

### Update works

If there are any works that can be updated, they will be shown. Select one or more work and click the Update Works. After the works are updated, click on the Finish.

### Remove works

This facility allows you to delete one or more of the works from your Bookshelf too free up disk space. Simply choose the works` and click on the Remove works button.

## Exporting and Printing

In many places, you can open a context menu by clicking with the right mouse button. Depending on context, it will allow you to Select, Copy (to clipboard), Save or Print text. This works for example in the read windows, when you click on the normal text or the verse reference, or in the search result page when you click on a work or one or more verse references. It is pretty straightforward, so just try it out.

Printing from &bibletime; is rather basic and is intended as a utility. If you are composing a document or presentation containing text from &bibletime; works, we suggest that you use one of the presentation or editing tools on your system to format your document, rather than printing from &bibletime; directly.