BibleWorks

Introduction

BibleWorks provides Bible-related resources.

Bibledit can send references to BibleWorks. This means that when the translator is working in Bibledit on e.g. Mark 1:10, then BibleWorks will show Mark 1:10 too. When the translator then goes to the next verse, BibleWorks will do the same.

In menu Preferences - Reference exchange, there is an option for this.

Bibledit sends these references through Bibledit Windows Outpost. Therefore this program needs to be installed too.

You can use the search functionality in BibleWorks, save the list of references to file, and then open that file in Bibledit. In this way Bibledit takes advantage of the searching capabilities of BibleWorks.

Installation

Ensure that Wine has been installed properly.

Insert the first CD-ROM in the drive and ensure the drive has been mounted.

In the terminal type

wine /media/cdrom/autorun.exe

supposing that /media/cdrom is your cdrom drive.

Follow the installation instructions on the screen and complete the installation. When it asks you to insert another disk, unmount the cdrom drive, swap disks, and mount the drive again.

To configure BibleWorks in wine, type

winecfg

Wine Configuration starts at the Applications tab. Click button Add application, and navigate to drive_c, Program Files, BibleWorks 6 (or BibleWorks 7), and select bw600.exe (or bw700.exe), and choose Open. Set the Windows version to either Windows 2000 or Windows XP. This is needed to prevent a crash when BibleWorks shuts down. For BibleWorks 8 Vista works better.

To run BibleWorks, in the terminal type

wine "c:/Program Files/BibleWorks 6/bw800.exe"

(or c:/Program Files/BibleWorks 7/bw700.exe).

BibleWorks 6 runs fine.

BibleWorks 7 runs rather well, and most of the things work. Only the main toolbar does not draw, and using Unicode in the editor seems difficult. Same applies to BibleWorks 8.