The BibleTime Handbook

Fred Saalbach

Jeffrey Hoyt

Martin Gruner

Thomas Abthorpe

Gary Holmlund

3.0.0+

The BibleTime Handbook is distributed with the BibleTime study program.

Abstract

BibleTime is a completely free Bible study program. The program's user interface is built with the Qt framework, which makes it run on several operating systems including Linux, Windows, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. The software uses the SWORD programming library to work with over 900 free Bible texts, commentaries, dictionaries and books in over 50 languages provided by the Crosswire Bible Society and several other repositories.


Table of Contents

1. Introduction
About BibleTime
Available works
Motivation
2. Starting BibleTime
How to start BibleTime
Starting BibleTime
Startup customization
Starting BibleTime for the first time
3. Program operation
Program overview
Parts of the BibleTime application window
The Bookshelf
The Mag(nifying glass)
The Desk
Searching in works
Searching text in an open read window
Accessing the search dialog
Search configuration
Search results
The Bookshelf Manager
Install works
Update works
Remove works
Exporting and Printing
4. Configuring BibleTime
Configure BibleTime Dialog
Display
Desk
Languages
Shortcuts
5. Reference
Main menu reference
File
View
Search
Window
Settings
Help
Works reference
Shortcuts index

List of Tables

3.1. Search Types
4.1. Unicode Fonts