Bibledit: Choice of Features

For BE version 3.3.75 (Sept 18th 2008)
General
    Features setup dialog box
    Three options
    User definable features list
        Relation to 'Three options'
        Dependencies
            Suggestion for order
        Description of the features 
 
(Basic) Tools of Bibledit

(Full/User) Tools of Bibledit

Remarks
    Discussion
    Feedback to Sourceforge

General

According to Bibledit/Help/Changes this feature was added to bibledit version 2.7 (July 2007):
'The number of features in the user interface can be set.'

The tool to set the number of features is found in menu/Preferences/Features. Choosing this tool opens the Features setup dialog box:

Features setup dialog box
consists of three options and a user definable features list:

Three options
- Only the basics available (Basics, B)
- Full features are available (Full, F)
- User defined features (User, U)

User definable features list

This list is below this three options gives the following choices:
- Printing
- Project management
- References management
- Styles
- Styles management
- Project notes
- Project notes management
- References and find
- Replace
- Checks
- Tools
- Preferences

Relation between the 'Three options' and the 'User definable features list'
The feature list is only activ (and allows modifications) when the option: 'User defined features' is chosen. In the other two options it is greyed out.

It 'remembers' the 'User defined features', which were set the last time, even if the feature setup is set to one of the two other options.

User defined features with no features checked equals: 'Only the basics are available'.
User defined features with all features checked equals: 'Full features are available'.

Dependencies in the 'User definable features list'
- References management (switches on: References and find)
- Styles
- Styles management (switches on: Styles)
- Project notes
- Project notes management (switches on: Project notes)
- References and find
- Replace (switches on: References and find)
- Checks (switches on: References and find)

Suggested order of the 'User definable features list' by: 
-> primary order: as tools appear in Menu.
-> secondary order: dependent ones comes second
- Project management
- References management
- Styles management
- Styles
- Project notes management
- Project notes
- Printing
- References and find
- Replace
- Checks
- Tools
- Preferences

Description of the features in the 'User definable features list'

The following tools are added in the menu (to the tools already available through 'Only the basics available'
- Printing:   File/Print/Project, File/Print/Parallel Bible, File/Print/References, File/Print/Test usfm2pfd, File/Print/Test Cairo / Pango
- Project management: all of File/Projects except File/Project/Backup (Basic) and File/Project/Merge (Basic)
- References management: all of 'References and find' and File/References
- Styles: File/Styles:  Expand all,  Collapse all, Insert 
- Styles management: all of 'Styles', File/Styles: Edit mode, New, Properties, Delete, Stylesheet
- Project notes: Goto/Project notes area
- Project notes management: all of 'Project notes', File/Project notes,
- References and find: Adds Reference Area, Goto/Next,Previous reference in Reference Area, Edit/Find
- Replace: all of 'References and find', Edit/Find and Replace,
- Checks: all of 'References and find', menu/Checks
- Tools: all of menu/Tools
- Preferences: all of menu/Preferences, except Preferences/Features (Basic)

(Basic) Tools of Bibledit 

This is a list of tools found in Bibledit - Basic: menu/Preferences/Features/Only the basics available.
(Version 3.3.72 is used for this description)

File 

File / Projects 
Backup
Merge

File / Resources
Open
Close
New
Edit
Delete

File / Quit

Edit

Cut 
Copy
Copy without formatting
Paste
Undo
Redo
-- Bug: Find in project notes
-- Bug: Get references from project note
Revert
Bible note
Status
Planning

View

Font & Color
Screen layout
Git tasks
Parallel passages
USFM code
Status
Planning

Insert

Special character

Goto

Next verse
Previous verse
Next chapter
Previous chapter
Next book
Previous book
Next reference in history
Previous reference in history
Next project
Previous project
Any Reference
Text area
Bible notes area
Tools area
Synchronize other programs

Preferences 

Features

Help

Help
Context
Index
System log
About

(Full/User) Tools of Bibledit 

This is a list of tools found in Bibledit - Basic: menu/Preferences/Features/Only the basics available.
Version 3.0.14 is used for this description.
The tools found in Basics (Only the basics available) are marked by (B) and
those which the user can add to the basics (User defined features) by (U) followed by the name of the feature to switch on.
The links go to the Bibledit help file.

File 

File / Projects

New (U:Project management)
Open (U:Project management)
Close (U:Project management)
Delete (U:Project management)
Properties (U:Project management)
Import (U:Project management)
Export (U:Project management)
Copy to (U:Project management)
Compare with (U:Project management)
Backup (B)
Changes (U:Project management)
Merge (B)

File / References  (U:Reference management)

Open (U:Reference management)
Save as (U:Reference management)
Dismiss  (U:Reference management)
Dismiss all  (U:Reference management)
Hide from now on (U:Reference management)

File / Styles

Expand all (U: Styles)
Collapse all (U: Styles)
Insert (U: Styles)
Edit mode (U: Styles management)
New (U: Styles management)
Properties (U: Styles management)
Delete (U: Styles management)
File / Styles / Stylesheet (U: Styles management)
- Switch (U: Styles management)
- New (U: Styles management)
- Delete (U: Styles management)
- Rename (U: Styles management)
- Import (U: Styles management)
- Export (U: Styles management)

File / Project notes

New (U: Project notes management)
Delete (U: Project notes management)
Import (U: Project notes management)
Export (U: Project notes management)

File / Resources (B)

Open (B)
Close (B)
New (B)
Edit (B)
Delete (B)

File / Print (U: Print)

Project (U: Print)
Parallel Bible (U: Print)
References (U: Print)
Test usfm2pfd (U: Print)
Test Cairo / Pango (U: Print)

File / Quit (B)

Edit

Cut (B)
Copy (B)
Copy without formatting (B)
Paste (B)
Undo (B)
Redo (B)
Find (U: References and Find)
Find and replace (U: Replace)
Find in project notes (B)
Get references from project note (B)
Revert (B)
Bible note (B)
Status (B)
Planning (B)

View (B)

Font & Color (B)
Project notes
Screen layout (B)
Git tasks (B)
Parallel passages (B)
USFM code (B)
Status (B)
Planning (B)

Insert

Standard text 1 (U: Project notes)
Standard text 2 (U: Project notes)
Standard text 3 (U: Project notes)
Standard text 4 (U: Project notes)
Add (actual references) to project note (U: Project notes)
Special Character (B)

Goto

Next verse (B)
Previous verse (B)
Next chapter (B)
Previous chapter (B)
Next book (B)
Previous book (B)
Next reference in history (B)
Previous reference in history (B)
Next reference in Reference Area (U:Reference management)
Previous reference in Reference Area (U:Reference management)
Next project (B)
Previous project (B)
Any Reference (B)
Text area (B)
Bible notes area (B)
Tools area (B)
Styles area (Styles)
Project notes area (U: Project notes)
Synchronize other programs (B)

Check (U:Checks)

Chapters and verses (U:Checks)
Markers (U:Checks)
- Validate
- Count
- Compare
- Spacing
Characters (U:Checks)
- Inventory
- Unwanted patterns
Words (U:Checks)
- Capitalization
- Repetition
- Unwanted
- Inventory
Punctuation (U:Checks)
- Matching pairs
References (U:Checks)
- Inventory
- Validate
Passages (U:Checks)
- NT quotations from the OT
- Synoptic parallels from the NT
- Parallels from the OT
Terms (U:Checks)
My checks (U:Checks)

Tools (U: Tools)

Line cutter for Hebrew text (U: Tools)
Transfer text to project notes (U: Tools)
Bible notes mass update  (U: Tools)
Project notes mass update (U: Tools)
Generate word lists (U: Tools)
Simple text corrections (U: Tools)
Transfer project notes to text (U:Tools)

Preferences 

Project notes  (U: Preferences)
Printing (U: Preferences)
Formatter (U: Preferences)
Reference exchange (U: Preferences)
Ignored references (U: Preferences)
Books (U: Preferences)
Windows Outpost (U: Preferences)
Tidy text (U: Preferences)
Git repository (U: Preferences)
Features (B)
Password  (U: Preferences)
Text replacement (U: Preferences)
PDF Viewer (U: Preferences)
Reporting (U: Preferences)
Planning (U: Preferences)
Graphical Interface (U: Preferences)
Filters (U: Preferences)

Help

Context (B)
Contents (B)
System log (B)
About (B)

Remarks

Discussion

What do you think about:

Preferences/Printing, which defines the page setup for the printer 
- is in (U: Preferences)
- but not in (U:print) 
I am not sure, if it should be also in (U:print).

Feedback to Sourceforge

Working on this page, some observations on BE version 3.014 have been made, which had been reported to Sourceforge but not implemented: 

There is no description in Help/Tools/Preferences for menu/Preferences/Features:
see (1899619 Description of Preferences/Features/(Basics))
(is resent to Savannah in this report.

The description of the tools of Bibledit is not up-to-date:
see 1903698 Update help/toolsmenu.html
This is still valid, but changing at every new version of BE.

Savannah reports

Bugs:
- #24284 Features Choice: Restart not working the first time
- #24286 Features/Basic: Edit:Project Notes (find, get references from)?