It is easier to delete a row of project notes since the remaining notes redisplay immediately.
Accessing the references history also goes through Ctrl-G.
Spelling checker in the USFM view.
Imports Bibles from the Online Bible.
Requires a local web server such as Apache.
Requires libcurl4.
12 December 2009
After export to OpenDocument, if any markers were unformatted, the user gets notified of that.
The --debug argument can be passed on the command line to allow debugging in gdb.
The relevant files of the GoBibleCreator were included with the Bibledit package.
All the windows can be resized and can float freely within the Bibledit frame.
Chmsee is no longer needed because the USFM documentation is now available in .htm files.
A couple of bugs was fixed. Hopefully yours too!
When a note was created or edited, and this note would normally not have displayed, it will display on that single occasion. This avoids a situation that a user creates or edits a note, then saves it, then it disappears.
Next-generation Bible text editor replaces the current one. Expect perfect undo and redo operations, and other goodies.
6 October 2009
A couple of bugs were fixed, one of them related to importing raw text.
The KJV Bible from the Sword project was made part of Bibledit.
The keyterms per verse and their renderings show again. The system was extended.
The window that shows the keyterms in a verse has clickable keyterms and Strong's numbers.
The references window has been redone. It now looks and feels like a web page.
The translator can display a window with related verses.
The related verses window shows the keyterms in the verse.
The related verses window shows the Strong's numbers in the verse and where these occur elsewhere in the Bible.
The related verses window shows the parallel passages in the Old and New Testament.
The references window shows the verse text of the active editor, and of the King James Bible.
The management of hidden references is now done from the references window itself.
The Quick References area was removed and its functionality was integrated into the References Window.
The buttons for go-back and go-forward got a history menu.
An Import Assistant was added replacing all the separate import routines.
The import of the kosher Yemenite Hebrew text produced by Mechon Mamre was moved to the Maintenance dialog.
Requires program "chmsee" for viewing .chm help files.
Works with BibleWorks 8, with older versions, and probably with newer ones too.
The Bibledit Windows Outpost code has been released under the GPL, and the compiled Windows executable is included with the package.
A couple of bugs in relation with the GoBibleCreator were fixed.
Honours the book selection during search or during replace.
The Bibledit Windows Outpost no longer shows on startup.
The search limits were fixed for search and for replace.
Can send references to the Online Bible.
Can receive the current reference from BibleWorks, and from Paratext and applications that can exchange references with it, and from the Online Bible.
Requires libdbus-glib-1-dev.
Can send verse references to Xiphos.
Can send verse references to and receive them from BibleTime.
Dialogs that are too tall for a small screen are automatically scaled to fit.
The "Verses" window has been removed. Its functionality is available much better in Xiphos, BibleTime, the Online Bible, and BibleWorks.
Dan created an autobuilder for windows builds, see http://buildbot.biblesint.org/waterfall.
11 July 2009
New undo engine.
The text editor got a redo function.
For faster navigation, it can remember the most recent verse per chapter, and most recent chapter per book.
A sample Resource was added.
Depends on libwebkit-1.0 for better display of web pages.
Drops libcurl dependency.
Easier Resource editor.
Snapshots were introduced speeding up Revert, Changes, Merge, and Backup.
On shutdown, the number of snapshots is trimmed based on their age.
The local git repository is used solely for collaboration.
A menu entry was added for sending and receiving Bibles to and from the remote repository.
A backup assistant provides various sorts of backups.
A restore assistant helps with restoring backups.
Simplified selection of Bibles for inclusion in the Parallel Bible.
A bunch of bugs was fixed.
One central Export Assistant handles all exports.
An OSIS file can be created in the variant that is fit for the Go Bible Creator.
It can create a Go Bible for use on a cell phone.
A Resource can have a variable home page that depends on the book now opened in the Editor.
Can backup and restore Resources.
Minor improvements here and there.
The scrolling position of the merge window sticks even during edits.
Communication with BibleTime over dcop was disabled. New system not yet implemented.
The temporal directory was moved back to where it belongs, in /tmp/bibledit.
When exporting books in USFM format, the user can select the desired books. And the files are now numbered.
Bulk spelling check.
Export of keyterms and their renderings.
An improved system for checking keyterms.
15 April 2009
When the mouse glides over the Check menu, the References Window no longer opens unexpectedly.
A serious security hole was fixed.
Windows can either be attached or detached. Setting in Preferences.
By default windows are attached.
A new USFM to OSIS converter was written.
Some help was added for selecting the language for a Sword module.
Once a month the local git repository will be cleaned up, pruned and repacked for better performance and less disk usage.
The Shona language was added for the book names and their abbreviations.
A remote repository setup assistant replaced the git setup dialog. Remote repository needs to be setup again by the user, because some may cease to work.
The user can ask Bibledit to go to the next or to the previous spelling mistake.
The merge window shows the differences between the two projects at the character level.
Updated revert dialog: Less clutter, and changes show at the character level.
Any comparison function that outputs pdf compares at the character level.
The on-screen changes viewer shows the number of modifications.
The stylesheets are stored in xml format, no longer in a sqlite database.
A comment can be added when backing up.
The name of the person who created a backup is included with the backup itself.
The selected books in menu Check / Passages is limited to the relevant ones only.
The references produced by menu Check / Passages come in the references area as well.
Improvement in raw text recognition on import.
Better alignment of the verses in the Check / Passages web page output.
About a dozen of bugs were fixed.
The text area assumes the full size of the window when all other areas are empty.
30 January 2009
Documentation was updated.
Project note categories can be reordered.
Can import text files from compressed archives.
Bugs and compiler warnings were fixed.
Windows more reliably restore their positions from the previous session.
Imports books from the Online Bible.
Improvements in layout of right-to-left scripts.
A file with numeral localizations can be used to convert chapter and verse numbers to their localized forms.
Text loads faster in the editor.
Can show the verses of other projects in a separate window.
All windows are now truly separate, with more natural focusing behaviour.
Huge speed improvement while merging.
Can view changes made within the project between two dates.
Footnotes, endnotes, crossreferences are no longer removed when comparing texts.
The text editor can be switched to plain USFM view mode.
Redo works in plain USFM view mode.
There is a setting for whether notes should be disregarded when comparing.
Importing raw text has an option to only consider the first number in a paragraph as a verse number.
When comparing data for printing, the bold property is switched off, so that the bold of the addition appears visibly.
The user can no longer opt for running more than one instance of bibledit.
Importing raw text now happens inside the plain USFM editor.
When merging two projects, and copying everything from the master project to the edited project, it only copies chapters if they differ.
The USFM code and digits are coloured in the plain USFM editor.
When checking USFM, the endmarkers for footnote and crossreference markup are optional.
When the references window is hidden, and a find operation is done, the window presents itself.
The logfile can be copied to clipboard, even if new messages keep streaming in.
The layout of right-to-left text was improved.
Bug fix in the navigation.
The keyboard accelerator for viewing USFM code was changed to Ctrl-\, because the Ctrl-U it had before clashed with the Ctrl-U for underline in the notes editor.
The name of the focused project appears in the menu window.
13 December 2008.
Can view the keyterms that occur in a verse, and their localizations.
The editors, the project notes, and all tools including the resources have been moved to independent and detached windows, which can freely move over the screen.
Bugs were fixed.
29 September 2008
If the remote git repository is on a USB drive, and is not available, then it does not keep retrying.
Another stab was given to the problem that the window becomes wide, hopefully this time fatal.
Status information is properly shared within the collaborating team, project shared dictionaries too.
A couple of regressions were fixed.
The Ctrl-Z accelerator for Undo was fixed.
The verse tracker was improved.
Formatted project notes editor.
Spelling is checked sooner after any change in the editor.
A usfm-to-pdf formatter was added.
The non-free XEP formatter was removed.
A couple of improvements were made to the collaboration setup process.
18 June 2008
Expanded dictionary editor.
Can print a book with each verse starting a new paragraph.
Styles in OpenOffice have the marker prefixed to the name, e.g. "v Verse number".
If multiple books are exported to OpenDocument, it asks whether to save them to multiple files.
It multiple references are selected in the reference area, then all of these are displayed in the quick reference area.
New check: Sentence structure.
Word count in editable dictionary.
A project note can be deleted by right-clicking on it.
The arrow keys can navigate between notes in the editor.
Unified print dialog at menu File / Print.
Diagnostics button in Help / System log.
Can print several ranges of verses in one go.
The date since which to view changes is initialized better.
Can import raw text.
Gecko does not behave well on Fedora Core 9, Macintosh, OLPC, etc., therefore GtkHtml3 is used instead.
Compiles on Fedora Core 9.
The resource viewer uses a html cache allowing for faster retrieval of remote data and offline browsing.
While merging changes, every change can be approved of by the user.
Improved dialog for importing raw text.
The status report uses a legend for the tasks so as to save space on paper.
The tasks of a range of books or chapters or verses can be set in the status editor.
The reference discovery mechanism was made more robust.
When a footnote or xref is clicked on, the screen scrolls to it properly rather than jumping to the very end of the screen.
A tool was introduced that can transfer all relevant project notes to the text, allowing for printing of project notes together with the text on one sheet.
The git repository is cleaned and pruned automatically once in 30 days, providing great savings in disk space.
When the cursor is on a heading or title, the verse number is taken from the following line, instead of the previous one.
5 May 2008
One project can be set to be dependent upon another one, through a filter. Useful for making diglots.
Improved installation for the Asus Eee PC.
User can insert a variety of left and right single and double quotation marks.
The text replacement function on printing and export gets initialized with sensible values.
Support for the following USFM markers: !$, //, \ca (passes marker through), \cl, \cp, \fig (the "span" property), \pro, \w, \wh, \wg, \ndx. Support will only be there if a new stylesheet is created.
The list of words marked with \ndx can be generated automatically (it already worked for \w, \wh, \wg).
Bibledit's site was moved to http://www.nongnu.org/bibledit.
If no paragraph follows the \c marker, but a \v marker, then the editor inserts the \nb marker.
Database vacuum operations only run once in 30 days.
The filters support also TECkit and free scripts.
It can print any references in footnotes, endnotes and crossreferences in full.
A bunch of bugs in merging, resizing the window, backup and comparing were resolved.
Spelling checker.
22 March 2008
Git sets user.email and user.name for on the XO machine.
Some regressions were fixed here and there.
The Cancel button works again in the various progress windows.
Git was chosen as the sole means of collaboration. Other means have been removed because of the effort needed to maintain them.
Git remote updates are always done.
Alt-R is the new shortcut key for menu Preferences, as Alt-P is in use on the XO machine to go to the previous activity.
If a project is renamed, the project notes for this project also get the new name, and the old project no longer remains there with one book, but instead disappears completely from the radar.
A bug was fixed where at times it asked to delete an "empty chapter", a chapter that was not in the book.
Bug "footnote pasting causes long delay" was fixed.
More than one text editor can be displayed simultaneously.
A wiki was added to the bibledit site.
Offers to restart after a change in the layout of the screen.
Compiles on Ubuntu Dapper.
Merges chapters from an "edited" project into a "main" project.
Some regressions were fixed.
If a project is copied to another one, that other one switches its remote repository off.
Scripting was removed.
Runs again on the Macintosh.
Installs and runs on the Asus Eee PC, and makes a menu entry.
12 February 2008.
A bug was fixed where cross references ceased to be visibly numbered after it had reached the z for the caller.
If a footnote, endnote or crossreference is entered, the editor scrolls to the note text.
The graphical interface can be set so as to focus the references in the tools area when a cross reference is inserted.
A basic project planner was added.
The tool for mass updating notes now allows for inserting the book in the origin references of the notes.
The Resource Viewer has been integrated and it uses the Gecko engine for rendering.
Resources can be viewed in a split screen and in a tabbed view.
By default it does not use Windows Outpost.
The dependency on the dillo browser has been dropped, it now uses bibledit-help for in-dialog help.
Supports --xembed for on the XO machine.
A resource converter was build for the new resource system, and the previous converter was removed.
31 December 2007.
Subversion was dropped.
The new content manager is git.
Some bugs were fixed.
An option was added to not automatically synchronize the local data with the git repository, but only after manual review.
Improvements in exporting to sword.
Some fatal bugs in the usfm to xsl-fo converter prompted a rewrite for greater robustness.
Pasting text into footnotes was improved.
If a project is closed while other ones are still opening, bibledit no longer crashes.
Some bugs in the formatted editor were resolved, and some improvements were made.
Highlighting of words searched for take a long time in long verses. Measures have been taken so that Bibledit remains responsive during that time.
A regression in copy, paste and undo was fixed.
The user can insert a soft-hyphen character to manually control where words break in the printout.
The status of the project can be set at the verse level.
Produces a project status report.
26 October 2007.
Displays synoptic parallels in the NT, and parallel passages in the OT.
A few bugs were solved.
The repeating words check will not trigger a hit if these words are joined by a certain text.
Cancelling "My checks" was fixed.
Comparing projects and printing them now can select the portion to print.
The user can set the .pdf viewer that will be used.
A setting for displaying the chapter number in the running header of the left and/or right page of a printed Bible.
Markers h, h1, h2 and h3 are correctly interpreted during printing.
Book name and chapter number are at the outside margin, and the page number is at the inside margin.
A bug was fixed that added chapter 0 before the \id line.
The chapter number in the running heading was fixed in case no \c 1 marker was given.
When several projects are opened, the current verse no longer gets lost.
A bug in export to Sword was fixed.
Displaying the project notes was made faster.
Export to AbiWord was removed because AbiWord is not capable of displaying large files.
The editor now is a native USFM editor with formatted view.
Inserting a new chapter no longer goes through the menu, but by applying the \c style.
Editing the chapter number no longer is possible from the menu, but the user changes the number in the editor.
Deleting the chapter no longer is in the menu, but the user just deletes all text from the editor.
Inserting footnotes, endnotes, and crossreferences, no longer is in the menu, but the just just applies the appropriate style.
There is no unformatted view anymore. Instead the USFM code can be viewed through the menu.
Running of Bibledit on the XO machine was reviewed and updated.
Clicking on a notecaller focuses the appropriate note or text.
Properly handles non-standard note styles.
23 July 2007.
The number of features in the user interface can be set.
The layout of the project notes selection and display dialog was optimized.
Several bugs and feature requests were attended to.
Two checks for references were added.
Depends on libgtkhtml-3.8.
Supports tables in the printout.
License was changed to GPL version 3.
Improved support for right-to-left scripts.
Exports to Abiword.
The various styles show in OpenOffice's interface.
Remembers the position of the notes entry window.
Replaces text upon printing and export.
Can display OT places quoted in the NT.
7 June 2007.
A linking problem on Mac OS 10.4 was resolved.
Internal code for styles and stylesheets was reorganized and made faster.
The chapter no longer shows in the editable text.
The \v style is set to superscript by default.
Parsing of commandline arguments was moved to the popt library for improved stability.
Reading and writing xml was partly moved to libxml2 for better conformance and stability.
Also recognizes the colon while parsing references, e.g., it would parse "Mat. 1:1" in addition to "Mat. 1.1".
Fix to the tool for automatic insertion of origin references.
Internal code for the settings was reorganized and made much faster and is now stored in xml for better readibility.
Uses Unix domain sockets for communication between the various bibledit binaries, for higher speed.
Removed the startup and shutdown splashscreen.
27 March 2007.
There is an easy way to change the type and numbering of a Bible note.
The Bible notes display the type of numbering: automatic, none, or character.
Documentation and stylesheets were updated to USFM 2.05.
Automatic generation of word lists using the markers \w, \wh and \wg, and some markers in user space.
The colour of the text in the editors can be set, and of the background.
Improved printing of illustrations.
A crowd of minor improvements were made to the user interface, and a couple of bugs were removed.
Several levels of stylesheets can be created, like basic, advanced, full, SIL best practice, etc.
The general keywords of the Old Testament from scripturechecks were added to Bibledit.
The helpfile was reorganized.
Can display the text of the verses of the project notes.
Displays the outline of the book.
Can display only the summary of the Bible notes.
24 February 2007.
The height of the window for Bible notes can be set as a percentage of the editor's height.
If there are no Bible notes, there will be no window for it, so giving more space to the Text area.
Support for editing or viewing multiple projects at the same time.
A verse-synchronized Bibledit Resource Viewer was added, for viewing resources like commentaries and so on.
The Resource Viewer views files imported from the Online Bible.
The Resource Viewer views imported USFM files.
The Resource Viewer views certain files imported from Translator's Workplace.
If the user changes the size of the Bible notes area, then this change will stay, and is stored per project.
Both columns of the dialog for printing a portion scroll together, making selecting a portion easier.
Some errors while running bibledit on Mac OS X were fixed.
Fonts can be set independently for each project and for the project notes.
18 January 2007.
Bug fixes and improvements.
The automatic renumbering of the endnotes was improved.
Makes incremental backups and other backups.
Logs changes in the references of a Bible note.
Uses a local or remote Subversion repository for backing up data and tracking changes in history.
The Windows port of Bibledit is assigned low priority, so that more time can be spent on developing Bibledit for Linux.
Supports collaboration through a remote Subversion repository.
Shows changes made in a project since a certain date and time or since the most recent review.
The text of a chapter can be reverted to any date in history on which this chapter was changed.
A bug was fixed that prevented Bibldit from causing BibleWorks to scroll if BibleWorks runs on another host.
Improvements were made to the book selection dialog and the print portion selection dialog.
28 November 2006.
Minor bugs got fixed and improvements were made to the gui.
Easier system for creating your own languages, versifications, and mappings.
A bug that became visible on Ubuntu 6.10 was fixed.
A mass update tool for project notes was introduced.
Depencencies on resources that are not on the OLPC was dropped.
Lots of keyterms are now in Bibledit.
A bug was fixed in the recognition of references in footnotes and crossreferences.
More robust concurrent database reading.
Supports the database from the "Key Terms in Biblical Hebrew" project.
Some styles got a "print" property, allowing them not to be printed, e.g. for not printing footnotes though they are in the text.
A project can be set to be editable or not.
The layout of the parallel Bible was a bit improved for readibility, by using bold and negative text indents for each version.
The chapter and verse selection dialog was improved.
Added: A check on spacing after the text belonging to selected markers.
Importing usfm text can overwrite existing text.
When printing a project notes in superscript no longer disturb the height of the line containing them.
Prints endnotes.
Internal rewrite to clear things up and allow for future expansion.
26 October 2006.
The usual thing™: Fixing of minor bugs and improvements to the user interface.
Support for colours in the stylesheet.
Stylesheet system, including import and export, was changed considerably and simplified.
The bug of a blocking webserver, not accepting connections, was solved.
Keeps the window position, size and state better.
Has "My checks" to run several checks at once.
A highlighting bug was fixed.
No longer depends on library scripturechecks.
Some problems were fixed that occurred if no project was loaded.
Changes ' or / in a projectname to an underscore.
Custom verse systems can be easily added, either through the internet at Scripture Checks or manually in Bibledit.
A tool has been added to insert or remove all origin references of footnotes, endnotes and crossreferences.
Names and abbreviations of the Bible books can be localized. Enter your own language at Scripture Checks.
Can cause BART, TW, etc., to scroll with Bibledit even if they run in a virtual machine or another computer.
When the cursor is in a Bible note, and that note has references, the text of the references shows in the quick reference area.
While inserting a Bible note, such as a cross reference, it can tidy the references and translate the booknames to localized abbreviations.
Installs an icon in the menu to start Bibledit.
Improvements in detecting Outpost behind a firewalled Windows installation.
Automatically installs XEP if it finds the XEP installer files and Java.
Reordering books is no longer possible at printing time only, but now throughout Bibledit.
A Windows Installer is available.
Localized names of the books are now used.
A major++ internal rewrite was done to clear up dust, make things faster, and allow for future expansion. Any bugs as a result of this, not yet hunted down and killed, are licensed to you under the GPL.
4 September 2006.
When entering Bible notes, the user can set the size of the content entry.
When pressing "New" while entering Bible notes, the current layout of the dialog is preserved instead of zeroed.
When a Bible note is erased, it will be taken out completely.
When scrolling through the Text Area, the cursor tries to stay at 30% of the screen height, near the top.
Some improvements were made in the user interface, and several minor bugs were fixed.
The user can transfer all text of a project into the project notes.
A bug was fixed in cases that a footnote contained a new line.
Supports 3 extra books: Front Matter, Back Matter, Other Material.
Import dialog tells the user when a book could not be imported because it is already in the project.
When unknown books are imported, like ones with \id XXA, XXB, etc., then the dialog asks to assign a name to these books.
Basic support for printing pictures.
Support for the \pb (page break) marker.
Stylesheets were updated.
Gives progress information during replace operations.
Bibledit's new icon shows a Bible, and a sun rising over a dark world.
Bibledit can sort the project notes so that the ones with the most relevant references are nearest the cursor in the notes area.
The \c line cannot be edited, so nobody can fiddle with it.
Tools are available to edit the chapter number or insert a new one.
Does not print the chapter number in books that have only one chapter.
It can print the chapter number at the first verse and then does not print verse number one.
Supports elastics for vertical outlining of text.
Bibledit got its own freshly rewritten tiny web server.
Tracks the usage count of the markers and sorts them on this count in the recently used category, the one used mostly first.
Description of the styles in the Styles Area was updated, to reflect whether the closing marker is absent, optional or obligatory.
When comparing projects, and printing the changes only, the references with changes are loaded in the References Area.
Exports a project to OpenDocument.
8 August 2006.
Improvements in the user interface.
Improvements in the USFM import routines.
A bug was fixed in the marker validation check.
The text storage and retrieval engine was upgraded for higher speed.
A bug was fixed in the Bible notes processing when a note contained unmarked text.
When exporting to BibleWorks, which does not handle combined verses, Bibledit converts combined verses to simple ones.
Bibledit Windows Outpost version 1.6 prevents BibleWorks from copying its verses to the clipboard when scrolling with Bibledit.
The project notes database was upgraded.
Internal changes were made to reduce the memory usage.
Every Bible in the Parallel Bible will be printed using its own preferred font.
Imports Hebrew text with vowels and cantillation marks from http://www.mechon-mamre.org.
Can cut visually ordered Hebrew text into shorter lines for better printouts.
The font size can be set in several printouts, like the parallel Bible, references, changes.
Text that would go in a new paragraph, according to the stylesheet, now is written in that new paragraph, in the parallel Bible.
A Word Inventory was added.
A bug was solved that cut off the last digit of a verse number, in case the verse did not have text. This occurred in printing a project and export to Sword.
Bug fix: Keeping an arrow key pressed down in the text area for a longer time caused the navigation system to be mixed up.
The line height can be set for the printouts.
A bug in the synchronization of BART with Bibledit was solved, if the navigation keys were kept pressed down and repeated.
Bug fix: New text added to the very end of a Bible note was not saved.
When Bibledit starts, and another instance of Bibledit is already running, it will give a message, and refuse to run.
The available styles are now divided into 20 categories.
Improved inserting of the styles w, wg and wh.
Shows a maximum of 30 styles in the Recently Used category.
Project notes are now sorted not only on the first reference, but on any additional ones as well.
Project notes allow for references that span the chapter boundary.
When Bibledit stores a line of text, any line that does not start with a backslash is joined to the previous one, in agreement with the USFM standard.
Runs on x86_64 operating systems.
The index was removed, because the new text retrieval engine is so fast that the index is not needed anymore, and the indexer was slow anyway.
Can limit searches to the the currently opened chapter.
The speed of advanced searching was drastically improved.
Faster highlighting of searchwords in case of a basic search. Noticeable in very long verses.
Searching in areas only highlights results in those areas, no longer results outside them.
7 July 2006
Improved scripting.
Packages for Bibledit are available for Debian. Thanks, Daniel.
Bibledit Windows Outpost 1.5 starts hidden for a neater user experience.
USFM files are stored in databases internally for a faster user experience.
Bibledit underwent a major internal restructuring to allow for future growth.
Improvements in collaboration: synchronizes data in two directions, handles offline files.
Requires Gtk+ 2.6 or higher.
Removes Windows Notepad's signatures when importing text files.
Bibledit's general configuration is accessible through the commandline.
Bibledit's project configuration is accessible through the commandline too.
19 May 2006
Automatic XEP installation on Windows got fixed.
New online help and site.
Menu does not scroll away in long help pages.
The online help has search functionality.
The site has Google search functionality.
Unicode conversion uses Glib wrapper for iconv. Raw iconv caused problems on some platforms.
Import USFM uses simplified dialog.
Import USFM allows basic collaboration, and sharing Paratext's books, using symbolic links.
The system log shows which file was opened, and optionally where it links to.
Note can be assigned to "All" projects instead of to "None".
Ctrl-Clicking the references of a note loads them into the Reference Area.
In the Notes Area it can show the project a project note belongs to.
The References Area now has a Quick Reference Area too, to quickly show a reference.
Tools Area can be moved to the right or the left side of the window.
Handles cases where user's home directory has spaces in the name.
Cannot be run as user root.
After exporting a project to a Sword module, it signals BibleTime to reload the modules.
Solved a problem with IE on Windows.
Solved: opening an empty project crashed Bibledit.
Very basic scripting was introduced.
Needs Bibledit Windows Outpost 1.4.
Opens default pdf viewer and html browser on Windows.
Packages for Bibledit are available for Macintosh. Thanks, Steven.
Stylesheets are stored in databases internally for higher speed.
1 April 2006
Uses Bibledit Windows Outpost 1.3 instead of Bibledit Windows Companion.
Similar consecutive messages for Bibledit Windows Outpost are only logged once. Same thing for BibleTime messages.
Sends references to BART.
Automatically starts Bibledit Windows Outpost.
Scripture Checks package is now integrated into the Bibledit package.
Improvements have been made in the GUI.
Copyright has been assigned to Teus Benschop instead of Free Software Foundation.
Sends words to Toolbox.
Handles the Bibledit Windows Outpost more robustly.
Startup splash screen stays on top of the Bibledit Windows Outpost also.
Online help in Bibledit for Windows works.
Checks in Bibledit for Windows, that need the internet browser, now work.
Better splash screen for Bibledit for Windows.
Export to Sword: The name of the module can be edited. The language too.
Temporary directory is now /home/joe/.bibledit_temp.
Printing on Bibledit on Windows now works.
Title got changed from "Bible Editor" to "Bibledit".
Indexes have been moved to the temporary directory.
Automatically installs XEP thus simplifying installation instructions.
22 March 2006
Fixed: In certain cases Bibledit did not generate a correct configuration file for the XEP formatter.
Deleting a stylesheet no longer deletes the current one, but asks for which stylesheet to delete.
Tests for write access to the XEP installation folder, as Bibledit needs that.
Fixed: While deleting a project it did not give the name of it. So user was not sure which project was going to be deleted.
Properly deals with language categories while exporting to SWORD.
Selecting an encoding during conversion goes faster.
Dialog for inserting footnotes, endnotes and xrefs, focuses the first content entry.
Export to SWORD now uses the osis2mod compiler.
Displays footnotes, endnotes and crossreferences as notes in BibleTime when exported to SWORD format.
Displays paragraphs, headings and titles in BibleTime when exporting to Sword format.
Runs on OLPC - One Laptop Per Child.
Automatically updates older stylesheets to stylesheets version 2.
Printing a project can put books in a custom order, can include or exclude books, and can print certain portions of any book.
A good number of bugs were fixed.
Formatted view of footnotes, endnotes and crossreferences.
Fixed: When deleting books, the index remained, which gave search results in books no longer there.
Displays bold, italics, etc., in SWORD export.
21 February 2006
Minor bugfixes and improvements.
Properly deals with wrong verse sequences like 4-3.
Allows projectnames using special characters, like e.g. tamé.
Properly reads the chapter number after to \c marker.
Fixed: The first couple of help pages weren't accessible.
Project Notes Editor got more spacious and displays more and better information.
Prints footnotes.
Faster shutdown as database optimizations are now done in the background.
Prints crossreferences.
Efficient dialogs for inserting footnotes, endnotes and crossreferences.
Fixed: Bibledit blocked while printing with obsolete stylesheets.
Better handling of situations with many important USFMs on one line.
Exports a project to a SWORD module and immediately installs it.
Runs on Windows.
Fixed: Ctrl+Z shortcut, for Undo, stopped working after some time.
Prints a parallel Bible.
Export to BibleWorks removes all the inline tags, headings, footnotes, and what not, and exports the verse text only.
Book templates have the \p marker after each chapter.
16 January 2006
Minor bugs were fixed.
Improvements to the user interface were made.
Imports and exports Bibledit stylesheets.
Internal optimizations in the code.
Requesting next or previous verse crosses the chapter boundary, and next or previous chapter crosses the book boundary.
Handles combined verses such as 1-4 or 2b-5 or 1,3 for navigation, searching and notes.
The character inventory also gives the hexadecimal notation of a character.
Bibledit needs package fontconfig to print Unicode characters without manual labour.
Bibledit no longer supports FOP because this renderer is incapable of meeting all of Bibledit's requirements.
Bibledit no longer supports XSLFormatter because it is not likely anybody will ever pay so much for it.
Properly renders Unicode characters when printing.
Combined verses, such as 10-12a, render properly when printing the project.
The style(sheet) system has been overhauled.
Some fixes and changes in the character count check.
Improved font selection for printing with the option of using all fonts.
Acrobat Reader for Linux is supported.
During a long printing session the progress bar no longer hangs at 100 percent, but keeps moving.
A great number of refinements were introduced in the stylesheet system making it more user-friendly.
The automatic update routine for older stylesheets was removed because it caused trouble.
Progressbar takes the whole width of Bibledit.
Inserting standard text in a note erases anything that was selected at that time.
Double-clicking a style in the Styles Area, while the edit mode is on, edits the style.
8 December 2005
Bugs have been fixed.
Check "compare usfms" has been added.
Opening a project was made more user-friendly.
Check-Markers-Validate also detects any markers not in the stylesheet of the project.
Directory /tmp/bibledit has been made world writable so that running bibledit as root for the first time does not create subsequent access problems if bibledit is ran after that as a normal user.
Minor improvements in the user interface.
Check-Characters-Inventory was added: counting characters used in a project.
A problem with autocompletion in the find functions was solved.
The system log from the previous session of Bibledit can be shown too.
Time consuming shell processes, such as in the character inventory, show a moving progress bar for better feedback.
Bibledit now runs on Mac OS X as well.
Check-Words-Capitalization was added.
A crash, when indexing text and searching text at the same time, was solved.
The basic search had gotten slow, but was brought up to speed again.
Searches can be done in the raw USFM text, or all the text, or in any of the following categories: identifiers, introductions, headings, chapter text, study notes, foot- and endnotes, crossreferences and verse text.
The helpfile was updated with information about searching, and how to report bugs are request new features.
"For scholar" was added to the notes categories.
Bibledit was updated to allow for printing on Mac OS X, using Java and FOP.
A check for repeating words was added.
A check for matching pairs of punctuation was added.
A check for unwanted patterns of characters was added.
A check for unwanted whole words was added.
Both the online help and http://bibledit.sourceforge.net got a facelift.
2 November 2005
Bugs have been fixed.
Documentation has been released under the GPL instead of GFDL.
USFM 2.03 information has been included with the package.
Startup and shutdown splashscreens give percentage ready.
Progress shows better during formatting documents.
Various improvements in the graphical user interface.
Searching can now also add any results to the existing references.
Some values and settings are stored permanently, and others only during one session of bibledit.
The search functions will not work unless something to look for has been entered.
The Change Log is now on the site and in the online help.
The Search Special functions have been expanded with many more options to find text.
Words entered in search dialogs, and other dialogs, automatically complete based on previously entered values.
All comboboxes have been updated to the newest version.
Ctrl+G, to go to another reference, has been expanded with aided entry of the reference to go to.
Bibledit can follow the same reference as BibleTime shows. Needs BibleTime version 1.5.2 or higher.
Bibledit now utilizes project scripturechecks, see the Check menu.
A versification system can be set in Properties, and is used in the Scripture checks.
Keyboard shortcuts have been added for going to previous/next reference in history.
"Find" and "Find special" are no longer separate, but in one and the same dialog.
Solved a race condition in bi-directional exchange of references between Bibledit and BibleTime.
Bibledit can search in BibleTime modules. Needs BibleTime version 1.5.2 or higher.
Some checks were implemented: Chapters and Verses, Count Markers, Validate Markers.
The checks got a book-selection and options dialog.
Shutting down Bibledit immediately after opening a freshly created project could take more than five minutes because Bibledit was indexing that project. Shutdown is now faster because indexing will be postponed to the next time Bibledit starts.
Creating a new note while a note is being edited no longer discards the current note that is being edited.
Any reference in the reference area can be hidden for the future, so that it won't show up again.
Keyboard shortcuts were added to the book selection dialog, to make selection easier for people who prefer the keyboard rather than the mouse.
It is now able to print books which have the first chapter marker missing.
Bibledit now deals a bit more careful with BibleTime so that BibleTime does no longer crash when it is restarted
Creating templates for books is done much faster.
Stylesheet is only used where it ought to be used: in printing functions.
Added navigation to chapter 0, and to verse 0 in each chapter.
Added menu option to add the current reference to the references in the note.
When importing more than one book that need to be converted to Unicode, it once asks how to convert it, not for each book.
Inline text (with endmarker) was already in the stylesheet editor, but now it renders properly in the pdf output.
Added an Import button of USFM texts to the project properties dialog.
Removed globbing side effects of the four characters * ? [ and ] in searching.
Improvements in blank pages in the pdf output.
Now requires Gtk version 2.4 or higher.
Improvements in file and directory selection dialogs.
Improved Export to BibleWorks functionality.
Allow for mixed case IDs in files, for extra robustness.
Added support for interrupting time-consuming processes such as comparing, printing, exporting.
When printing references, gives message when there are none to print.
Location where bibledit stores its data can now be changed, see helpfile.
Only prints a project when the three basic styles, id, c and v, are there.
During printing a project, gives message when lines were found without a formatting marker, or with an unknown formatting marker.
During importing books the user can select which books to import.
Support has been added for XSLFormatter.
An Export Notes function has been added.
Bibledit is now able to show notes for the current project only, or for all projects.
Exports translation notes to Translation Notes Editor 6.
BibleTime version 1.5.1 or higher scrolls together with Bibledit.
Support for RenderX XEP has been added.
Deletes all selected notes, instead of one note only.
Improvements in keyboard shortcuts while editing a note.
Note categories are now editable.
Splash screen has been added at startup.
Several structural improvements in source code.
Several optimizations in user interface.
In addition to exporting all notes, a selection can now be exported too.
Stylesheet changed to xml for greater clarity and flexibility.
Selection of styles has been made clearer.
A number of bugs have been fixed.
All USFM 2.0 markers have been added to the templates, but Bibledit does not yet support all of them.
An extra package with USFM documentation can be installed and will integrate in the online help of Bibledit.
When opening a list of reference, bibledit can now highlight up to three words.
Printed text can be underlined.
Printed text can be put in small caps.
In the stylesheet, the properties italic, bold, underline and small caps can inherit their on/off status from the surrounding paragraph, or toggle it.
Other programs, like BibleWorks and BibleTime can be synchronized manually as well.
A splash screen shows up when shutting down bibledit.
Added printing to pdf.
Unified Format Markers are now truly dependent on the stylesheet, and bibledit has no knowledge of its own of any markers.
Removed printing to html.
Added option to print changes only, not the whole project.
Package installer tests for valid sqlite3 libraries.
1 June 2005.
Bug fix release.
31 May 2005.
Translation Notes Editor added.
24 March 2005.
Improved functionality.
18 February 2005.
Improved functionality.
15 December 2004.
Improved searching.
5 October 2004.
Added UTF-8 capabilities.
Added editing capabilities and synchronization.
Initial release.