ChangeLog
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Nightly build leading to Version 1.4
- 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.
- 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: Control-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.
Version 1.3
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.
Version 1.2
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.
Version 1.1
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.
- Control-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.
Version 1.0
- 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.
Version 0.9
- 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.
Version 0.8
1 June 2005.
- Bug fix release.
Version 0.7
31 May 2005.
- Translation Notes Editor added.
Version 0.6
24 March 2005.
- Improved functionality.
Version 0.5
18 February 2005.
- Improved functionality.
Version 0.4
15 December 2004.
- Improved searching.
Version 0.3
5 October 2004.
- Added UTF-8 capabilities.
Version 0.2
- Added editing capabilities and synchronization.
Version 0.1
- Initial release