Bibledit for Windows Tutorial

(most of this tutorial applies to Linux but some things may be slightly different) 

 

Lesson 1  - Open, Close, and Help

 

To start using Bibledit: Click Start->All Programs->Bibledit->Bibledit

 

 

You will see the Bibledit Menu window open up

 

To get help using Bibledit: Click Help->Contents

The help webpage will open: Click the Tasks or the Tools link

 

Bibledit help has 2 main sections Tasks and Tools

The Tasks section discusses general Bibledit tasks that a user will typically want to do. 

The Tools section describes each Bibedit menu item.

 

 

For example, if I click Tasks and then Import then the help page shows a variety of topics about importing texts and where to get some standard Bible to import. If I click Tools and then Import then the help page shows a description of the Import text dialog that appears when you choose the File->Project->Import menu item.

 

 

To close Bibledit click the X in the upper right corner of the Menu window

 

 

Lesson 2 - New Project, templates, navigation and goto

 

 

Open Bibledit.

Click File->Project->New: This will open the New Project Dialog

 

Choose Books:

 

 

Click OK: This will create the new project

 

 

The book of Matthew will open in a window below the menu window.

 

To go to a different chapter, choose the chapter number from the Menu window.

 

The fastest way to jump to a new reference in a different book is to use the Goto command.

Press CTRL+G: You will see the Goto reference dialog box.

 

 

Practice typing in verses and jumping to a new verse and typing some more.

 

 

To close a project simply close the text window.  A project is automatically saved as you work on it.

 

To open a project click File->Project->Open and choose the project you want to open

Printing

To print a project in Bibledit click File->Print

 

Lesson 3 - Editing (styles) /searching/footnotes

Styles are used to format text in Bibledit.

To open the styles window in Bibledit click File->Styles->Open

 

Select the text that you want the style to be applied to and then double click the style name

 

 

To add a footnote place the cursor at the end of the word to be footnoted and double click the footnote style

Click ok

 

 

Type the note after the footnote number

 

To delete a footnote, delete the footnote number from the Bible text.

 

 

To search go to Edit->Find or CTRL+F

 

Type in the term you want to search for.

The references window will open with a list of references where that word occurs.  Double click the reference to jump to that verse.

 

 

 

 

Lesson 4 Multi views/project notes/import

To open a second project, go to File->Project open and choose another project to open

 

When 2 projects are open they both move to the same reference.

 

 

.A project note is a note about the current passage.  These can be reviewed later for checking

To create a project note press CTRL+N

The project notes window will open.

 

Type the note,

 choose a category and click ok

 

 

To review all the project notes click View->Project notes

Choose the option: “any verse”,

Click OK

 

 

Lesson 5 checking/verse/keyterm/Export/Quotation marks

To check if the chapter and verse numbers are correct click Check->Chapters and Verses.  A list of missing references will show in the references window

 

 

Keyterm check

To check keyterms click Check->Key terms.  This will show the keyterms window

Select a keyterm

Double click the correct word in the red verses

 

 

Export for back translation

File->Project->Export->Unified Standard Format markers

Click your username in the left column, choose My Documents->Adapt It Unicode Work->Export. Then click Open

 

 

Quotation marks

Use < and > for single opening and closing quotes and << and >> for double opening and closing quotes. Bibledit will automatically replace these symbols with curved quotation marks when the text is printed or exported.

 

Lesson 6 backup/merging/collab

 

 

 

Lesson 7 prefs/tools?