BibleTime

[everready]

I've been browsing the Software Manager and came across an application called Bible Time. I've seen bible software for Windows both paid and free versions, the creators of this software could easily have charged for it but chose to take the free path. If you were looking for such software you need look no further...

http://www.bibletime.info/

Be blessed..
everready

I tried installing it through software manager and got nowhere, then went to the package manager where installation went smoothly

[kc1di]

Hello everready,

I've use Bibletime It's a QT program but works well. The is a GTK Version also,called xiphos, it's also in the repositories and works very well
both are based on the sword project. here's some info http://xiphos.org/

[everready]

Seems i remember seeing that in the Package Manager, maybe i should take a closer look..

Thank you..
everready

[everready]

Praise God! That was easy and your absolutely correct its "Very Nice"

Thanks again..
everready

[Ebere]

I cannot get this to install on my netbook.

I have an older netbook that will not reliably run on anything newer than mint 11 katya.

ALL of the repositories come back as 404s in synaptic. And bibletime doesn't even appear in what it does find.

[Ebere]

Never mind.

I resolved the problem in probably the most unorthodox way you'll ever read. LOL

I opened synaptic.
Clicked on "reload".


When the error message opened up,
I highlighted and copied the url given.
Truncated that to just before the name of the mint version.
Pasted that into my browser.
Then looked for the next name up, in the list.


Went back to synaptic.
Clicked on "settings" >repositories >other software
Looked for the same repository as had been in the error message.
Exchanged the name in the respository url, with the one that I had seen at the actual page in the browser.


Kept this up for each repository entry, until I finally stopped getting error messages when I clicked "reload".

I think I ended up with at least three different 'version names', in that list of repositories before they all started playing nicely with each other.


Then I searched for Bibletime again, and there it was! And it installed beautifully.

One thing I really like about this program is that you can search for a specific word or sentence, and find ALL instances of it in the Bible. Gives you a great cross-reference to figure out what something likely really means instead of just what it looks like in the single context.

[scayers]

Can you set it to show only one verse per line?
BTW, mine didn't come with a handbook/manual, but the site says it ships with one.
I found it on the website as a multi-page html document.
I can't seem to get these two points addressed, and today's search engines are worthless.

[bridnour]

Can you set it to show only one verse per line?

Yes. In BibleTime:



The last icon on the right should be a pull down menu. Check the box that says "Use linebreaks after each verse".

[scayers]

Thanks, bridnour.
Yeah, mine won't do that.
I use the Bibletime 3.7 Qt, so, perhaps I could
install the Bibletime 3.0.2 Flatpak instead, eh?
I tried to do a print screen, but it can't be done
while the dropdown list is in display.
So, dropdown list-wise, here is what appears:

[] Show verse number
[] Show headings
[] Highlight words of Jesus
[] Show footnotes


I don't see any mention of

[] Use linebreaks after each verse

Did your version come with the Manual?

[bridnour]

I ran
bibletime --version and got BibleTime 2.11.2.

(This seams to be the current version on the default repositories.)

So, it seems that I'm a bit out of date. I'll need to upgrade and see if I can find the line break option...

[scayers]

Well, here we go: Use line breaks after each verse setting missing in 3.0 #285
Status: Open
(A Member) opened this issue Nov 28, 2020 · 9 comments
We will not implement this for the stable 3.0 series of BibleTime,
but we have set the milestone to 3.1.
This, dated Sep 1, 2021, according to:
https://github.com/bibletime/bibletime/issues/285
So, our revered...and MUCH sought-after...setting isn't findable because it isn't there.
-=and=-
I stand corrected: I am using Bibletime 3.0~focal-1.
It seems that I misread the version info.
3.7 is the Bibletime Qt rating.

-=so=-
Happy Holidays !!

[bridnour]

Thanks for the heads up. I'll wait until 3.1 myself before upgrading.

[scayers]

As far as Xiphos goes, I've installed it many times, and I keep hoping it will work out.
It seems to me that they may be putting most of their efforts into Windows versions.
Xiphos on Linux has always been too buggy and hard to deal with, in my experience.
It crashes, causes panel icons to disappear or double-up, and it flashes and blinks
some of the splashes and tooltips instead of displaying them properly.
It just happened again, so it is gone.