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Can I change the location where bibledit stores its data?

Yes, you can. Normally bibledit stores its data in subdirectory .bibledit of the user's home directory. Changing that is not done from within bibledit, but involves some manual work. This is done for the protection of your valuable data. To change the data directory to a new location, do the following:

  • Quit bibledit.
  • Open a terminal.
  • Type command
cd

to go to your home directory. Let's say you prefer to store the data on /mnt/server/.bibledit

  • Type command
mv .bibledit /mnt/server/.bibledit

to preserve and move existing data. (When there is no existing data, this step is not needed.)

  • Type command
touch .bibledit-datafolder-pointer

to make a new file in the home directory, that will point to the new data directory.

/mnt/server/.bibledit

That is it.

Removing file .bibledit-datafolder-pointer will cause bibledit to use the standard datafolder again.

See also Backups.

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When importing data in legacy encoding, can Bibledit use a TECkit map?

Bibledit uses iconv, the standard utility on Linux to convert between various encodings.

Iconv supports a huge amount of standard encodings. Iconv does the same functions as TECkit does.

Bibledit does not support a TECkit map.

At conversion time the user sees how the text is going to look, and can change encodings until the result looks right. If there are a couple of characters not right, the search/replace functionality quickly fixes that.

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Printing does not work and the log file says "Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console"

Checking in the System log the messages are given:

    • Message: Starting to print the references
    • Message: (document [system-id

file:/tmp/bibledit/references/document.fo]

    • Message: (compile
    • Message: (masters
    • Message: (sequence-master [master-name

blank-page])

    • Message: (sequence-master [master-name odd-page])
    • Message: (sequence-master [master-name even-page])
    • Message: (sequence-master [master-name text]))
    • Message: (sequence [master-reference text]
    • Message: (static-content [flow-name header-blank])
    • Message: (static-content [flow-name header-odd])
    • Message: (static-content [flow-name header-even])
    • Message: (flow [flow-name xsl-region-body])))
    • Message: (format
    • Message: (sequence [master-reference text]
    • Message: (flow [1])
    • Message: (static-content [1]|header-odd|)))
    • Message: (generate [output-format pdf][1]))

Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console Could not get a file descriptor referring to the console

    • Message: Ready printing the references

Printing seems to be working fine, but there is something strange happening, because it cannot get a file descriptor referring to the console.

The message "Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console" is something of a problem in your Linux installation, and you might search Google for the problem, and get a solution for it. It is not related to Bibledit.

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How can I move about in Bibledit using the keyboard?

Bibledit has several areas to work in, see Bibledit Areas.

In Menu / GoTo there are hotkeys mentioned to move between areas.

On some distributions F5 (Text Area) and Shift+F5 (Tools Area) work fine, but Control+F5 (Notes Area) will not work. It leaves the cursor in the area it is.

What works fine, is the

  • Tab key: moves between all areas counter-clockwise,
  • Shift+Tab: moves cursor between areas clockwise,

with the exception text area to references area. In this case Shift+Tab has to used twice, as using it once goes to the verse box of the toolbar.

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Bibledit produces .pdf output, but how do I get .html files?

There are a couple of converters on the market, that convert .pdf files to .html. Search http://www.google.com for "PDF to HTML", including the quotation marks. This will give you a number of programs to try out.

A free one is at http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net.

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How to run two versions of Bibledit simultanously?

As there are some drastic changes between version, it would be helpful to have two different versions running of Bibledit, e.g. 1.2. and 1.3.

This is possible, but not recommended for production work, as they will be overwriting each other's configuration. Yet it is possible.

Install the 1.3 version according to the instructions.

When installing the 1.2 version, do this:

./configure --prefix=/home/joe/1.2
make
sudo make install

Then to run the 1.2 version, type this:

/home/joe/1.2/bin/bibledit

Joe stands for the user's name.

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