ChangeLog

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Nightly build leading to Version 1.3

  • 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.


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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.


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Version 0.8

1 June 2005.

  • Bug fix release.


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Version 0.7

31 May 2005.

  • Translation Notes Editor added.


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Version 0.6

24 March 2005.

  • Improved functionality.


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Version 0.5

18 February 2005.

  • Improved functionality.
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Version 0.4

15 December 2004.

  • Improved searching.


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Version 0.3

5 October 2004.

  • Added UTF-8 capabilities.


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Version 0.2

  • Added editing capabilities and synchronization.


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Version 0.1

  • Initial release
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