# Configuring &bibletime;

In this section you find a description of the different possibilities to configure &bibletime;: The Configure BibleTime Dialog and the Configure Toolbars dialog. Both can be accessed under Settings in the main menu.

## Configure BibleTime Dialog

The &bibletime; user interface can be customized in many ways depending on your needs. You can access the configuration dialog by selecting Settings Configure &bibletime;.

### Display

The startup behavior can be customized. Select from the following options:

- Show tip of the day

- Show startup logo

Display templates define the rendering of text (colors, size etc.). Various built-in templates are available. If you select one, you will see a preview on the right pane.

### Languages

Here you can specify which language should be used for the biblical booknames. Set this to your native language, if it is available, and you'll feel at home.

By default, &bibletime; uses the &kde; general display font which can be specified in KDE's Control Center. You can override this font if neccessary. Some languages require special fonts to be displayed correctly, and this dialog allows you to specify a custom font for each language.

Options Dialog - fonts

The Options dialog - Fonts.

&bibletime; can now use all fonts supported by KDE/QT. As long as the works you are interested in display correctly nothing needs to be done here. If a work only displays as a series of question marks (??????) or empty boxes, then you know that the standard KDE display font does not contain the characters used in this work.

To correct this, choose this work's language from the drop down menu. Select the use custom font checkbox. Now select a font. For example, a font that supports many languages is Code2000. If no installed font can display the work you are interested in, try installing the &kde; localization package for that language.

#### Installing fonts

Detailed font installation instructions are outside the scope of this handbook. &kde;'s KControl Center contains an excellent and easy to use font installation module. Please read its documentation. For further information you might want to refer to the Unicode HOWTO.

If you use a small font like Clearlyu (about 22kb), &bibletime; will run faster than with a large font like Bitstream Cyberbit (about 12Mb).

#### Obtaining Fonts

Fonts can be obtained from a number of sources:

- Your Linux distribution.

- Your distribution's localization packages.

- An existing Microsoft Windows installation on the same computer.

- A font collection, such as are available from Adobe or Bitstream.

- Online font collections.

Unicode fonts support more characters than other fonts, and some of these fonts are available at no charge. None of available fonts includes all characters defined in the Unicode standard, so you may want to use different fonts for different languages.

##### Unicode Fonts

Code2000 | Perhaps the best free Unicode font, covering a wide range of characters.
SIL unicode fonts | Excellent unicode fonts from the Summer Institute of Linguistics.
FreeFont | A new free unicode font initiative.
Crosswire's font directory | Several fonts available from the Crosswire Bible Society Ftp site.
Bitstream CyberBit | Covers almost the entire range of Unicode, but might slow &bibletime; down because of its size.
Clearlyu | Included in some distributions. Contains European, Greek, Hebrew, Thai.
Caslon, Monospace, Cupola, Caliban | Partial coverage, see information on linked site.

There are good Unicode font lists on the net, as the one by Christoph Singer (Multilingual Unicode TrueType Fonts in the Internet), or the one by Alan Wood ( Unicode character ranges and the Unicode fonts that support them).

### Desk

Many features provided by the Sword backend can now be customized in &bibletime;. These features are documented right in the dialog. You also have the possibility to specify standard works that should be used when no specific work is specified in a reference. An example: The standard Bible is used to display the content of crossreferences in the Bible. When you hover over then, the Mag will show the content of the verses referred to, according to the standard Bible you specified.

### HotKeys

HotKeys are special key commands that can be used in the place of the menu items and icons. A number of &bibletime;'s commands have predefined HotKeys (see this section for a complete listing). Most of &bibletime;'s commands can be assigned HotKeys here. This is very helpful to quickly access the functions that you need the most.

## Configure Toolbars dialog

You can adapt the toolbar to your needs. Please use the following entry in the main menu:

Settings Configure toolbars

  Configure toolbars

You will see this dialog, which allows adding and removing buttons from the main toolbar of &bibletime;. The order of the buttons can also be changed.

Toolbar configuration dialog

The Toolbar configuration dialog.

Use the 4 buttons in the middle of the window to move buttons to the toolbar, away from the toolbar or to sort them on the toolbar according to your preference.

Please see this section for further information.