Seventh Function: Analysis Window

We have now gone through two of the three windows that we use in BW. The last window is called the Analysis Window. The analysis window is where many functions are displayed. Actually many of the results from the books and notes are all displayed in this area. We have an area where the content of books are displayed according to what verse is being displayed by the browse window or where your mouse has passed over. I will not talk extensively on the analysis window, actually I will barely have a post here, the reason for this is because each of these functions will receive its own personal post in the coming days or weeks. However, I will talk a little on how to use the general functions of the window.
The window is formed with several tabs over the top and a window displaying the content of the tab below. There are several functions on the tabs including context, resource, notes, browse…etc. simply by clicking on the various tabs to display the appropriate content. Now one of the things that I did not learn until later on is that when one is looking at something in the browse window and wants to look at that particular content in the analysis window it is best to hold down the shift button as you move the mouse over to the window. Next post will begin to cover the tabs starting with the word analysis tab.

Sixth Function: ELM

We have finished (at this point) with the browse window with the exception of one major function. I have saved this function for a blog all on its own because of its usefulness and importance. The function which I am talking about is called ELM or External Links Manager. The reason that this is considered part of the browse window is because the button for it is located directly above the browse window. The button looks much like a general link button with an white oval with a section missing from the top, this particular button also has a question mark on it.
The ELM takes links from various websites and other programs and uses them alongside of Bibleworks. This can be very effective especially if you have multiple programs that you are running and would like to use. A very good example might be the use of Logos and BW. With this if you wanted to lookup a word or lemma within a lexicon that is located in Logos, but not in BW you can do it with this module of BW. By doing this when you right click on a word one of the many options will be to look this up within the particular word in Logos when clicked, Logos will pop up and immediately go to the search for the word which you chose. This is usually done with something called a lemma. A Lemma is a lexical or dictionary form of a word.
To set this up can be more of an advanced thing, that even I am not the most comfortable with. I used the example in the help file to see how to set it up with a website for a word search, however, I am not truly sure of how to use it with Logos at this point. However, there are something that I do know when it comes to setup.
When first setting up you need a link (especially for websites) anytime you are going to lookup a word the web address will normally have the word included. Now the NULL setting is simply to tell BW what it needs to supply, if it doesn’t need to supply anything keep it at NULL if it does then change it to what needs to be supplied. Once changed you can move on. Let us say you need to supply a word or as we might say, the “lemma” then we would chose that. Once it is chosen we must change the link so that where it would normally supply the word we then place and this is the key word so that BW knows this is the location to supply the writing.
Overall, in spite of the complex set up, I think this is very useful for websites as well as other programs through BW and not beside it as it were, this will help others and me to use other programs while at the same time keeping BW at the forefront of my machine.

Fifth Function: Browse Window cont.

It has been quite some time since I have done this (almost two weeks) so I guess it would be wise for me to finally continue on with the browse window. We left off with the dropdown options at the head of the browse window. Continuing on I will move on to the actual text section of the browse window. This is where you find the actual text that you are looking at, there are two separate ways to view the text, you can do it in single version mode which will allow you to look at one single version of the text such as NIV, ESV…etc. This is nice to look at a complete text without any break, which is helpful when trying to look at the context of a particular verse. This can also be done in the Analysis window, but we will get to that later. You can toggle back and forth with this by placing your curser in the browse window and typing “b” the version that it will display in the single version will be the same as your primary search version. This can also be accomplished by clicking on the button that looks slightly like two footprints that is located on the top of the browse window.

On this window you can also change your scroll mode. This can be done by hitting control + Shift + the up arrow key. There are three choices, you can just keep it on default, or you can make it where your arrow keys move it from one verse to another. The other option of this is to synch it up, that is make it to where if you move up in down with the verses that it moves in that direction in all browse windows that are open. Again I would say that this later option is very helpful if you have multiple monitors. And with that, multiple browse windows open. Now, with me, I usually have one browse window up with the multiple version up and then I have another with the context browse function open.

While reading the help file the next thing it mentions is the options that are available when you right click on a word or phrase in the browse window. Now there a lot of options available to you with this, as I have said many times with other options is that the bulk majority of these options will be talked about in other blogs. However one that I will talk about shortly is the options that deal with the clipboard. If you select a phrase or word or whatever you can right click and copy this, but the copy button gives several options from copying it to the clipboard to placing it on the CL, after you copy once, it will give you option to repeat last copy command.

The two last features that can be talked about is the Greek Alias Files and the ELM or the External Links Manager. The Greek Alias file is basically a file that contains various spellings of the same word, it is possible to change these or add a version but I (me) would be hesitant to do this for fear of messing it up. This doesn’t mean it is a bad feature actually it is a good one and is a great that BBW has given us the ability to do this. The next feature the ELM is something that will be talked about in our next blog.

Fourth Function: Browse Window

This post, much like the previous two, I will be talking about browse window. There are plenty of things that can be accomplished through the browse window some of which may be covered at a later time, in a later post.

The browse window is the second window that is seen in BW, looking from left to right. It is the Middle window. Out of all the windows it is probably the most important yet at the same time, the least functional. The window's main function is that of the text, which makes it the most important, because it is displaying the actual text. In the Search window you can select what you would like to be displayed, they are displayed in this window. Usually this is done by showing one verse of the text in multiple versions.

If you go to the top of the browse window and right click in some of the "empty" space, you will find there are some other things that you can do, from adding extra buttons (which if you need them can be helpful), to taking away everything of the heading.

On the top of the browse window there are several functions to choose from. There is the outline selection, or the "Outline List Box." This box when clicked has a drop down list. The list is a very limited outline of the entire Bible, the outline comes from Metzger. There are different outlines that you can use if you click on the box to the very right of the outline you can see a drop down list of various outlines to use. If you are feeling up to it and want to add things to the existing drop down or just edit it to say what you want, you can do that to, by simply clicking on that drop down list, selecting configure, which will open a small box and from there you can click edit and make the changes in the outline that you want.

Directly below the outline window to the left, you will find the "browse window options button." It looks like a bad picture of an open book in yellow and then a box that has been checked. If you click on this box you get a slew of choices of things you can do. You can turn on or off the Strong's numbers, for those that use them. You can also toggle your analysis window, basically this means getting rid of your analysis window and enlarging your browse window. However, the two features that are included in this that I like the most is the option to create a new analysis and resource summary windows. This is a very nice feature to me because I use multiple monitors when using BW, when this is the case I like to keep the browse window and then the User Notes open and then create an extra analysis and resource window to use on another monitor.

With this drop down you can also select your display versions, and toggle with your highlights whether you want the searched word or text to be highlighted or not, you can also arrange the order in which you wish to see your displayed text. You can also turn on/off your version notes that come with some Bibles such as the NET. all in all, if you have a use for them there are some very important features in this simple drop down list.

The Third Functions: Search Window (Cont'd)

In my last post I started to talk about some of the basic functions of the search window, holding off on the more advanced portions for a later post. At this time I will continue in the same footing and hopefully finish the basic functions of the search window. We stopped last time dealing with the drop down list of the "Command Line Versions" Button, today we move on to the "Common search Utilities" button. This button is right next to the other button and is light green with the word "tools" when you click on it a drop down list appears. Most of the things mentioned on the drop down list will take another post to go through, each. However, it may be helpful if I give a short description of what they do.

The First mentioned is the Graphical Search Engine, and is one of the most useful tools in BW, that is of course, if you know how to use it. To be completely honest, it is this tool almost specifically that I hope to become better at using as I go through this blogging process. The second is the Word List Manager - This option opens the Word List Manager. The third is the Verse List Manager - This option opens the Verse List Manager. The fourth is the Open Popup Verse Copy Window - This option opens the Popup Copy Window. This pop up window feature is exactly like it sounds, it opens a pop up window that allows you to insert a verse you would like to copy to the clipboard. The fifth is the Find Related Words (KWIC) - This option opens the Key Word in Context (KWIC) tool. As of right now, I can honestly say this is one of my favorite tools in BW, but I will have to save its function for a later time. The sixth is the Find Related Verses (RVT) - This option opens the Related Verses Tool (RVT). The seventh is the Find Related Phrases (PMT) - This option opens the Phrase Matching Tool (PMT). And finally is Command Line Examples - This option displays a table of Command Line examples. This last one is very helpful, it is hard to remember all the different CL searches.

The last of the light green buttons, "the copy button." this button really is self explanatory, even on the drop down list you can see the various ways to copy, whether it be to Microsoft word or whether you want to copy the text or not.

Next I come to another one of my favorite tools, the tabs that are on top of the CL. The tabs allow you to keep track of multiple text and searches. you can do this simply by selecting them, however, if you right click on them, you get more options. You can freeze them so that they always come up to the same place, or you can save them, this is very helpful especially when you are working with multiple text or searches but you don't want to lose the results.

Second Function: Search Window

Following literally down the line of help contents there are several overview sections, a section on the main menu, and the button bar. Most of these are fairly generic and don't truly get us into the functionality of the software. After this we get to the first of three points in the content section, the three go through the three windows and in many ways are just to give you a general introduction as to what the parts of each window do. The first of these is the search window, which is what I will be talking about today. Now again I emphasize that this is just a general summary of the basic functions of the search window and as we continue on we will discover more of the specific functions that this window in particular can do. We need to keep this in mind, because the primary function of BW is to act a a search engine.

When we first look at the search window we immediately see something that is familiar to us, well at least to me, the command line. Below this is the results verse list box, this is what shows the results of a command line (abbreviated CL) search. Looking at the CL we see an arrow box to the right side of it, if we click this arrow we get a drop down of every successful search ever done in the CL, as I press it down I am depressed to find that even though I have had this program for some time, I have done a minimal amount of CL searches.

Directly below the CL there are three light green boxes. The first should have five darker green boxes and a three letter abbreviation of a particular version are text (i.e. NIV, ESV...etc.). If you click on this you get a drop down list of several different functions that you can do with the command line. These functions include setting the text that you wish to search, setting the display versions that will display the particular text. Choosing the search limits. Editing a search and display favorites and finally synchronizing the results list. If you change the search limits depending on how you change them the one or many of the five green boxes may turn yellow.

§ First box: This is yellow if you have any search limits set.

§ Second box: This is yellow if you have any cross version search options set.

§ Third box: This is yellow if accent-sensitive searching is on for the current search version or if "smart apostrophes" is turned on for English versions.

§ Fourth box: This is yellow if you are using a Hebrew version and Hebrew vowel-sensitive searching is on.

§ Fifth box: This is yellow if Command Line checkbox filter searching is on.

To be honest, I do not yet know what each of these are, but hopefully as I move along I will discover more about how to effectively use them.

Looking again to the green CK verson button, we see the three letter abbreviation. If we run a search with one version and then change to a different version, we could see two versions displayed at the same time seperated b a backslash. the one that comes first is the newest one, so that if we did a new search it would be in that version.

To change the search version you again click it to drop down and then click on change search version, from there a new box will appear with all the versions contained in BW sep-erated by language.

The default mode of search only searches the current search version, however it is possible to search all the display versions or simply all the display version of the same language (i.e. Greek, Hebrew, English), this feature is new to me not knowing I could do this. When I changed it over the second light turned orange which is an indication that I have changed it from the default. When I performed the search a small box popped up showing the cross version results, what is displayed in the search window is the main one but can be changed simply by selecting a different version from the box. a good way to search multiple versions at once, certainly a helpful tool. If you select the "Search and Display all same language versions" it will search not simply your displayed versions but all versions of that language, so for instance you remember a certain wording of a text but cannot remember which one, you would click on this one and BW would search for that wording in all versions that are English, it also changes the display window so that you can see all these different versions there. and finally the "Search and Prune all same language versions" works almost exactly like the last one, but if a version has no hits it is pruned from the list.

The next on the list that drops down is the options to choose display versions. This is simple as just like the search versions, a box appears with all BW versions displayed, you can choose multiple and I usually have at least two English, a Greek and Hebrew version displayed at all times on mine. After this is the choosing of the search limits, if you open this a box will appear with several options so that for instance you could decide to search only one book, or only the New Testament, therefore limiting your searches. There are more options with this, but we will cover them when we get to point 50 of the content section which deals with setup options.

After this we see on the drop down list a section for "edit search and display favorites." this allows you to pick favorites that that you can quickly return to them when needed, this will also be covered in more detail in the setup options.

And finally, last but not least comes the drop down on "synchronize results list" this is for a change in the searches, like we said earlier, if you do a search and then change your search version it will be displayed by one version/original version. When this occurs you can use this tool to pull all the search results to the most current search version.

and That is all for me today. I will try to go through The common Search Utilities Button in the near future.