Translation Notes

From Bibledit

During the process of translation many notes will be made.

To make a new note press Ctrl+N.

To edit an existing note click on the blue reference(s) for that note.

When creating a new note or editing an existing one, the Translation Notes Area splits up into two. The left side of this is called the Translation Notes Text Area and the right side is the Translation Notes Tools Area.

Notes can be displayed in various ways and with various selections. See the "View" menu.

Notes are stored in a database, and are independent of any Bible text. That is, whichever project is opened or closed, the notes remain the same.

Notes can be deleted by placing the cursor in the blue reference(s) of a note, and pressing the Delete key. There is also an entry in the menu for this. When several notes have been selected, pressing Delete deletes them all. Some keyboard shortcuts help while editing notes. An example will show how: The user edits the text of a project. To make a new note, he presses Ctrl+N. He types some text in the note. If he wishes to change to category of the note, he presses Alt+A, then Enter to open the list of categories, then he makes a selection with Up Arrow or Down Arrow and presses Enter to confirm the selection. If he wishes to add some references, he pressed Alt+R and types some references. Pressing Ctrl+F5 (or twice Shift+Tab) takes him back to the area to type the note in. Alt+O saves the note, and takes the user back to where he was editing the text.

Notes can be exported into some formats.

  • Bibledit Notes version 3. This is the format used by the current version of Bibledit. In other words, notes exported through this option can be imported in Bibledit.
  • ScriptureNotes version 2.0. Notes exported in this format can be imported by Translation Notes Editor 6.0.

To see how these formats looks, jsut export some text and open the exported text in a text editor.

When a note is being edited, the creator of the note can be retrieved through menu View / More information on current note. Other information about this note is visible there as well, like the date it was created, and when it was edited.

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Finding notes

Menu / Edit / Find in Notes (Alt+E, N) allows to do Simple searches in the Notes Area. The results (notes containing the search text) are shown in the Notes Area.

This tool searches exacty (except case sensitive) for the sequence of characters entered into the "Search for" box, punctuation marks and spaces included. Case sensitive can be switched on or off.

The Find tool in the Notes Area uses the same dialog as Find (simple).

Example: Searching for 'Bible' shows all the notes (in the Notes Area) with the word: Bible.

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Navigating to the references of a single note

Notes can be not only have one reference (for which a note was created), but additional references can be added.

These references are shown attached to each note in the Note Area, and can be found also in the text area:

  • Open a note by clicking on its title which consist of the reference(s).
  • Menu / Edit / Get references from note, and all the references of this note show up as a list in the Reference Area, where they can be activated.
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