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THIS MANUAL IS NOT SUITABLE FOR PRINTING Order a manual and the latest install disk for $5 from Larry Pierce 11 Holmwood St Winterbourne, Ont N0B 2V0 The ONLINE BIBLE Version 6.1 User's Guide Special thanks to our Version 6 co-workers: To Tom Cox, who typed most of the topical material. To Paul Houghton, who supplied the Thompson Chain topics. To Robert Guignon, who proofed the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. To Ken Hamel, who prepared the Macintosh version. To Dr. Maurice Robinson, who prepared the Greek parsings and proofed this manual. To Mike Roop, who proofed the Strong's numbers corrections. To Lori Hoffman and Jeremy Malloy, who typed and checked material for us. To Mark Fuller, Jerry Kingery, Earl Milton and their helpers, who scanned and proofed Bible texts for us. To Hodder & Stoughton, who helped prepare this manual. To Jay Green who prepared the Greek/Hebrew Interlinear and many other valuable reference works. Lastly and most importantly, to my very patient wife, Marion, without her encouragement this work would not have been done.This manual revised and expanded by Larry Pierce. Trademarks IBM, IBM PC, PC-DOS, OS/2 and PS/2 are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corp. MS-DOS is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. DR DOS is a registered trademark of Digital Research Inc. Macintosh is a registered trademark of Apple Inc. Creationism material for the topics 8700 through 8857 supplied from Institute of Creation Research; used by permission. The material for topics 8900 through 8954, "The Bible Doctrine of Election", was supplied by the Bryan Station Baptist Church, Kentucky; used by permission. Frequency counts for Greek lexicon are from "Greek-English Concordance" by J.B. Smith; used by permission of Herald Press, Scottdale, PA. The UED "Useful Editor" licensed from Useful Software, Waterloo, for use with the Online Bible. The tract, "God's Simple Plan of Salvation", copyright: Robert Ford Porter, 1991, Used by permission. All scripture texts are from the Authorised Version and words have been Anglicised by permission. This message is available in tract form exclusively from Lifegate, Inc. Software, Manual, and related databases, Copyright ■ 1993, Woodside Bible Fellowship, Ontario. Unless stated otherwise, all our material may be freely shared with your friends. This manual was prepared using Word Perfect 5.1 (DOS version) and printed on an HP Laser Jet III printer. The manual was printed and bound in Kitchener, Ontario, by ABC Printing. The cover design was done by Chuck McCollim from Bill Rice Ranch, TN. First printing, August 1992. Seventh Printing, Oct. 1994. If you would like more information about the Online Bible and are unable to contact your national distributor, fax (519) 664-1444, or call (519) 664-2266 (weekday afternoons only) or write: Larry Pierce, 11 Holmwood St., Winterbourne, Ont, Canada, N0B 2V0 If you fax us, give us your return fax number, complete with, country, routing and area code, as well as your return address and phone number. Contents Welcome to the Online Bible About this Manual SECTION 1: Installation System Requirements Software Supplied Installation Procedure Converting the Distribution Disks to Other Sizes Video Adapter Support Screen Colours Installing the Online Bible as a TSR Install Disk Update Using Windows SECTION 2: Introductory Studies Study 1: Introduction to the Online Bible Displaying a Passage A Simple Word Search Showing the Full Context Explaining the Scan and Reference Windows Viewing the Cross-References Viewing the Translators' Footnotes Making a Note on the Verse Printing out a Passage Quitting the Online Bible Study 2: Trying out the Search Functions Phrase Search and Word Search Search Operators Complex Searches Searching for the Names of God Study 3: Using the Online Bible in Documents Saving Other Information Using the Windows' Clipboard Study 4: Other features of the Online Bible Switching Bible Versions Topics Module Creating Your Own Topics Getting the Most from the Topics Topics and Verse Lists Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Other Verse Note Modules Morning and Evening Daily Readings Englishman's Strong's Numbers SECTION 3: Reference The Help Menu The Search Menu Punctuation and Capitalisation Search Operators and Wildcards Order of Evaluation of Operators Using the Cursor Keys to Recall Previous Searche Phrase Search Word Search Range for Search The Display Menu Passage Display Verse List Display Note Display Word Definition Topic Display The Print Menu Verse List Print Passage Print Note Print Word Definition Topic Print Selecting Print Options Printing Alternate Notes, Topics or Definitions The Print Options Menu Format Text for Page Wait After Each Page Print Double Spaced Include Exegesis Include Verse Notes Include Verse Text Page Title Output File Name Verse Range to Print Print Strong's Number Print Topic Number Printer Requirements Printing or Saving The Verse List Menu Get Verse List Save Verse List Edit Verse List List Sort The Notes Menu Export Note File Definition Export Note File Update Update Definition Special Commands in Notes, Topics and Definition Files Greek in Your Notes Files Hebrew in Your Notes Files Cross-References in Notes and Topics The Options Menu Define Options Upper Window Size Note Window Size Characters per Line Lines per Page Left Margin Size Top Margin Size Foreground Colour Background Colour Highlight Colour Scan and Reference Windows The Function Keys F1 Context Help F2 Verse List F2 Alternate Notes F3 Show Passage F4 Show Definition F5 Englishman's Strong's Numbers F5 Display Topic F6 Select Bible Version F6 Edit Note, Topic or Definition F7 DOS Gateway F8 Note Display F9 Quick Print F10 Context F10 Cross-References F10 and Alternate Notes, Topics and Lexicons F10 Window Format Command Keys Controlling Scan and Reference Windows Controlling Note, Topic, and Definition Windows Main Menu Speed Keys Book Name Abbreviations The Text Editor Screen Layout Moving the Cursor Entering Text Indentation Reformatting Text Deletions Naming a Document Saving a Document Loading a Document Clearing the Workspace Printing a Document Text Editor Additional Features Workspaces Search and Replace Cutting and Pasting Temporarily using DOS The Inactive Cursor Viewing Two Files at Once Page Layout Options Autoloading Files Configuring the Text Editor APPENDIX A Additional Online Bible Documentation APPENDIX B Startup Parameters Bulletin Board Operation (BB) Screen BIOS Option (BI) Black and White (BW) Default Path (DP) Lexicons (L) Alternate Lexicons (2L) Amount of Memory to Leave Free (M) Activate Mouse (MO) Directories Containing Notes (N) Alternate Notes Directories (2N) Nofonts (NOF) Topics (T) Alternate Topics (2T) User File Directory (U) Visually-impaired option (VI) OLB Environment Variable BIBLE.INI Parameter File Alternate Notes, Topics and Lexicons Appendix C Installing the Online Bible as a TSR Using the TSR Copying Text with Footnotes and Alternate Readings Problems with the TSR God's Simple Plan of Salvation INDEX Welcome to the Online Bible The Online Bible is a program for storing and studying the Bible. It is available for many English versions and foreign languages. In this manual, we assume you have received the Scholar's package that contains the entire text of the Authorised Version, the Darby Version and the Young's Literal Translation. The Online Bible allows you to see any combination of these translations for ease of comparison. A great deal of thought has been given to making the Online Bible efficient, flexible, and easy to use. It will perform all the tasks possible with a printed Bible and analytical concordance, often much faster. There are also significant advantages in using the Online Bible: With a printed Bible and concordance, you have to refer back and forth between two substantial books. The Online Bible is an integrated program, and (if you are already using a personal computer with a hard disk) takes no additional space on your desk. A concordance offers a short context for the word you are looking up. The Online Bible gives as much or as little context as you wish. Multi-word studies using a concordance are laborious and time-consuming. With the Online Bible, you can search for words, phrases, or combinations of words■for example, all the instances where "Jesus" and "Peter" appear together. Cross-references are integrated into the program. Because references can be looked up by pressing one or two keys (and without leaving the text you are studying), you are far more likely to make use of them than with a printed Bible. With the Online Bible, you can add your personal notes and comments alongside each verse, and store them electronically. They are then available for recalling, amending, or printing. The Online Bible's unique topical facility allows you to group together notes and biblical references under the theme of your choice, and to display the biblical passages at the touch of a button. The Online Bible has built-in access to a text editor. Without leaving the program, you can write letters, sermons, or essays, using the facilities of the Online Bible as you work. The Online Bible makes the biblical text available to you for printing out passages or for "exporting" into other documents which you are working on. Registration and Support It is not necessary to register your version or send us shareware fees. If you obtained this package through shareware, in lieu of a shareware fee why not show your appreciation by making a generous donation to the Creation Science organisation in your country? In Canada write: Creation Science Association of Ontario, P.O. Box 821, Station A, Scarborough, Ont., M1K 5C8. In the USA write either: Creation Science Ministries, P.O. Box 6330, Florence, KY, 41022, or Institute for Creation Research, P.O. Box 2667, El Cajon, California, 92021. In the U.K. and Europe write: Creation Science Foundation, P.O. Box 1427, Sevenhampton, Swindon, Wilts., SN6 4UF, U.K. In New Zealand write: Creation Science (N.Z.), Fowey Lodge, 215 Bleakhouse Road, Howick, Auckland. Other countries write: Creation Science Foundation, P.O. Box 302, Sunnybank, QLD, 4109, Australia. For the latest product information or other queries, write or call your national distribution centre. Select the "To-Order" option on the Mini-Menu (see page 19 for details), for your national distributor's name, address and phone number. Copying the Program Most of the Online Bible disks may be freely copied unless expressly stated otherwise. The programs, files and data on the supplied master disks are copyrighted. You do not have the right to republish any of the Online Bible material in whole or in part for profit, in any other format or media, without our written consent. All the Online Bible material may be licensed for use with commercial Bible programs. About this Manual This manual is organised into several sections. Section 1 deals with the installation of the program on your system. Section 2 is a tutorial which guides you through the main features. Section 3 is a comprehensive guide to the program's facilities; and finally there are three appendices and an index. You must check the "Read Me" option on the Mini-Menu after installation in case there is any additional information which arrived too late to be printed in this manual. Keys on the computer keyboard are shown in the manual like this: ENTER There will be times when you need to keep one key held down while pressing another. This is shown as: ALT Q When the manual shows text which you need to type in from the keyboard, it is shown in this style: This is text that is typed. Using Your Mouse The Online Bible can use your mouse. See option MOUSE on page 106 to activate the mouse support. SECTION 1: Installation This section contains instructions for installing the Online Bible. If the program is already installed on your system, turn to page 18 for information on using the program. To install and use the CD-ROM version run "GO" in the directory \OLB on the CD-ROM and follow the on-screen instructions. Follow the on-screen install instructions for setting up just the user files when all the main files are stored on a network server. WARNING To make the Online Bible run on a CD-ROM, version 6.1 uses different file and directory names than previous versions of the Online Bible. The install procedure automatically converts your existing file names and directory names to the new format. However, if you added the TSR to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file, you will have to change that file name yourself. Change all "$" and "-" characters in the name to the character "_". Once you have installed version 6.1, do not reinstall with an earlier version or you will have problems. System Requirements To run the Online Bible, the following are required: IBM PC, XT, AT, PS/2 or compatible computer. The HP Palm Top does not work with the Online Bible. At least 384K memory If your hard disk does not have automatic file compression the following applies. If you install the entire program, you will need about 22 megs of "real" disk space. If you use our data compression you will need about 15 megs of "real" disk space. If your hard disk has data compression, do not use our data compression. You will need about 30 megs of "virtual" disk space. Compression routines indicate that you have twice as much disk space available as you really have hence you will still only require about 15 megs of "real" disk space. The hard disk installation for the CD-ROM version requires about 400K of hard disk space. MS-DOS 3.1 or higher, or DR DOS 3.41 or higher, or OS/2 release 2.1 or higher. Enter VER at the command prompt to check which version you have. Software Supplied Your disk package will include an INSTALL disk to install all modules; a TEXT module on several disks, a LEXICON module on several disks, a TOPICS module on several disks, and Spurgeon's "Morning and Evening" module on one or more disks. The optional "Treasury of Scripture Knowledge" module is on one or more disks. Installation Procedure The installation procedure installs the Online Bible in a directory called C:\BIBLE. You may change this to any directory. 1. Check to be certain that you have the correct system and software. 2. If your version of the Online Bible is version 1, 2 or 3, delete it from your system to conserve disk space. This version will correctly replace any version after version 3. You do not have to delete the existing version. 3. Ensure that all master disks are write-protected. 4. Insert the installation disk into a floppy drive, and make that drive the current drive (i.e. set the DOS prompt to "A:" if using drive A. Type a: and press ENTER.). 5. Type GO and then press ENTER. Follow the on-screen instructions. 6. When the installation is complete, select the menu option to exit the install procedure. Reboot the computer by pressing CTRL ALT DEL together, or by switching the computer off, pausing, and switching the computer back on again. Your system will now use the updated CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT so the Online Bible will run properly. 7. To use the program with "screen readers" for the blind or to configure as a "door" on a bulletin board, see Appendix B for the appropriate options VI and BB. Converting the Distribution Disks to Other Sizes The Online Bible is distributed on 3 1/2 inch HD disks. Convert these using the install program. On your machine, format enough disks to hold all the data that is on the 3 1/2 inch HD disks. Use a machine that handles both sizes of disks. Follow steps four and five in the preceding section, to convert the 3 1/2 inch HD disks to your disk size. Video Adapter Support The Online Bible automatically downloads a Greek and Hebrew font into your EGA and VGA adapter. This allows the display of Greek and Hebrew characters from within your notes, topics or lexicon entries. The VGA adapter is set to run at 28 lines on the screen. EGA and other adapters use only 25 lines. If you do not want or need the Greek and Hebrew characters to be displayed, see the option NOFONTS on page 107. If you have a CGA or monochrome adapter, you can not display Greek and Hebrew in your notes files. Screen Colours The Online Bible allows screen colours to be adjusted or replaced. Please note that to adjust colours in the text editor (for making your own notes), you need to run the program UEDCFG from outside the Online Bible. See pages 77 and 101. Installing the Online Bible as a TSR It is possible to install a special function of the Online Bible as a "Terminate and Stay Resident" program. The advantage of this is that you can call up biblical passages while working in your usual word processor, without having to exit the word processor to run the Online Bible. Details are given in Appendix C. Do not use the TSR if you are running the Online Bible under Windows. Use the Online Bible clipboard support instead. Install Disk Update If you ordered the latest manual and a new install disk, you do not have to reinstall the entire Online Bible. Just install until the main selection menu appears. Select the option to exit the install procedure. Everything is now updated. If you receive an install disk with your CD-ROM, use it to do a hard disk install for the CD-ROM rather than the install procedure on the CD-ROM. This will include later material than was available when the CD-ROM was pressed. Using Windows To run the Online Bible under Windows, see the option Using Windows on the Mini-Menu after the installation is complete. We supply you with a PIF and icon file. Step-by-step instructions allow you to easily set up either the hard disk based version or the CD-ROM version under Windows. The DOS version of the Online Bible now allows you to import data directly into your Windows' word processor using the clipboard. The Online Bible TSR does not work well with Windows. Problem-solving during Installation Data Errors Reading Disks Specify "Retry" to the DOS "Data error reading drive" message. Do this many times if necessary. Try installing the Online Bible on your friend's computer. If this works, correct the hardware or software problem on your machine and redo the install procedure. Sometimes, performing the install using your original DOS disk will work. If this fails, return your master disks to your vendor for replacement. Installation Fails Often this is caused by a conflict with a memory-resident program (TSR) or device driver. Remove all such programs temporarily, install the Online Bible, and gradually re-install the programs and device drivers while checking for problems. You do not have to delete partially installed files to rerun the install procedure. Problem-solving after Successful Installation Program fails with message "Use MM Batch File to Run the Bible" Use one of the supplied batch files, MM.BAT or SCHOLAR.BAT, to start the program. Printer does not Print Accented Letters Most printers require either a dip switch adjustment or a special command code to print accented letters. Each printer is different. See your printer manual for details. Configure your printer as an IBM Pro Printer II to print extended ASCII characters. If this is not possible, try printing your data to a file and use your word processor to print it. See page 59 for more information. Screen is Difficult to Read Reinstall and reply no to the prompt asking you whether you have a colour monitor. If you have a VGA adapter and a monochrome display, do not specify screen colours. If you have a portable computer and the screen displays appear to have unusual border characters, use the NOFONTS as described on page 107. This will inhibit the display of Greek and Hebrew characters in your verse notes. Your computer has a non-standard VGA adapter. Cross-references do not work If you have not installed the "Treasury of Scripture Knowledge" module, the cross-references will not work. Install this module to access the cross-references. SECTION 2: Introductory Studies By now you should have the Online Bible installed on your computer system. If not, please refer to "SECTION 1: Installation". Study 1: Introduction to the Online Bible Once the Online Bible is installed, it is simple to start it up. To start the Mini-Menu, type MM at the DOS prompt, and press ENTER. It does not matter whether you use capitals or lower case letters. 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The "Select Version" option lets you run the various language versions you have installed. The "Read Me" option has the most recent information about program changes. The "More Documentation" option has this manual and other important information. (This permits hardware "screen readers" to read the manual for the visually-impaired.) The "UED Editor" option lets you create and edit files. The "To Order" option has the latest ordering information and product catalogue. Press ENTER to display the versions you have installed. Select the version you wish to access by using the up and down arrow keys. Press ENTER twice to select the version. The Online Bible will now run, displaying the version of the Bible you selected. The Online Bible has many English and foreign language versions. For simplicity in this manual, we shall assume you have installed the Scholar's package. If you obtained your copy from shareware, you most likely have the Scholar's package that contains three versions. These are the Authorised, the Darby and the Young's versions. You may have only the Authorised Version if you have an earlier Online Bible edition. NOTE: If you did not allow the installation program to alter the path specification in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file, then make BIBLE the current directory before running the Online Bible. The program will take a few seconds to load into your computer's memory, and then an introductory screen will appear. Press ENTER to continue. Now your screen will look like this: Help Search Display Print Verse List Notes Options Quit ┌────┬──────────────────┬─────────┬──────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ Phrase Search │ │ │ │ │ Word Search │ │ │ │ │ Range for Search │ │ │ │ └──────────────────┘ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └───────────── Ge 1:1 - Re 22:21 AV_DBY_YLT/NOTES ───────── 0/18300 ─┘ Displaying a Passage To display a passage, press ALT and D together. Press ENTER and you will be prompted for a passage reference. Enter the following: Ge 1:1 and press ENTER. Your screen will now look like this. Print Verse List Notes Options Quit ─────────────────┬───────────── Genesis 1:1 ─────────────┐ │ 1 In the beginning God created the │ │ heaven and the earth. │ │ 1 In the beginning God created the │ │ heavens and the earth. │ │ 1 In the beginning of God's │ │ preparing the heavens and the earth-- │ │ 2 And the earth was without form, │ │ and void; and darkness [was] upon the │ │ face of the deep. And the Spirit of │ │ God moved upon the face of the │ │ waters. │ │ 2 And the earth was waste and │ │ empty, and darkness was on the face │ │ of the deep, and the Spirit of God │ │ was hovering over the face of the │ │ waters. │ │ 2 the earth hath existed waste and │ │ void, and darkness [is] on the face │ │ of the deep, and the Spirit of God │ │ fluttering on the face of the waters, │ Ge 1:1 - Re 22:21 AV_DBY_YLT/NOTES ──────── 0/18471 ┘ Press PgDn to look at more text. To return to the display menu, press ALT and D together. A Simple Word Search To begin with, ask the Online Bible to find a word or phrase of your choice. At the top of the screen, you will see a number of menu headings. At the moment, the cursor is on the Search menu. Press the cursor down key to highlight the "Word Search" option. Now press ENTER. A box will appear on the screen inviting you to enter a word. Type JOHN, and then press ENTER. After a short pause, you will see on the screen a number of verses, all including the word "John". At the right of the screen, three lines from the bottom, there are three numbers, for example: 1/130 133 The first number shows the number of the current reference, in order as they appear through the Bible. The second shows the number of verses in the Bible which include the word being searched. The third number, if present, shows the total number of occurrences of the word, including any instances where it occurs more than once in a verse. When you are viewing several Bible versions together, this number will not be displayed. You can collapse the list to show only the first and last verse in a series by pressing the INS key. To expand the list again, press the INS key once more. NOTE: The Online Bible menu options can be selected in two ways. You can use the cursor keys and ENTER, as explained above. Alternatively, pressing the highlighted first letter for any option, when the menu is displayed will immediately select it. Showing the Full Context A flashing cursor appears before the first biblical reference. This shows the current verse. Press the cursor down key. You will see the verses scroll up the screen. The verse you are interested in is, let us say, Matthew 3:14. Place the cursor over that verse. Press function key F10. Now you will see that verse in full context. Using the cursor keys, scroll up and down to view as much of the surrounding biblical text as you wish. You will notice that new paragraphs are indicated in the text by a "" character. For faster scrolling, use the PgUp and PgDn keys to move rapidly through the verses. Explaining the Scan and Reference Windows Because it is often useful to view two passages from the Bible together, the Online Bible screen is divided into two windows. The first window, on the left, is called the "Scan" window. The Scan window is used to display verses found as the result of a search. The second, on the right, is called the "Reference" window. The Reference window is used to display contextual biblical passages. The currently active window is the one in which the cursor is flashing. To move between the two windows use the TAB key. It is possible to adjust the display to show two horizontal windows, one above the other, in which case the Scan window is the upper one, and the Reference the lower. See "Define Options" on page 74 for details. The following diagram shows the three most popular display window formats. Vertical Windows Horizontal Windows Full Screen Windows ┌────────┬────────┐ ┌─────────────────┐ ┌─────────────────┐ │ │ │ │ Scan │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Scan │ │ Scan │ Refer- │ └─────────────────┘ │ or │ │ │ ence │ ┌─────────────────┐ │ Reference │ │ │ │ │ Reference │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └────────┴────────┘ └─────────────────┘ └─────────────────┘ To switch quickly between these various formats, press F10 at the main menu. Continue to press it until the menu format that you like appears. In this book we will always use vertical windows for all our illustrations. However, those running screen readers or working with multiple versions may prefer one of the other two formats. Viewing the Cross-References Now you wish to see the cross-references for Matthew 3:14. First, position the cursor in the Scan window. Then press F10 again to restore the list of individual verses. Make sure the cursor is on Matthew 3:14. Press SHIFT and TAB together. You will see the verse, with context, copied into the Reference window on the right of the screen. Press F10. In the Scan window a number of verses have appeared. These are cross- references for Matthew 3:14. You can scroll through the references, or view their context by pressing F10, just as previously. The program indicates: 1/33 at the lower right of the Reference window to show that there are 33 references available for this particular verse. Consecutive verses in a cross-reference list are normally shown. To only display the first and last verse in a series, press INS to collapse the list. To expand the list again, press the INS key. The cross-reference feature requires that you have installed the "Treasury of Scripture Knowledge" module. Otherwise, only one cross- reference verse is displayed, and it is the same as the verse you have in the Reference window. Viewing the Translators' Footnotes The scholars who translated the Bible made footnotes where there were important alternative readings in different manuscripts or where the text could be rendered in different ways in English. For example, the AV has a footnote to John 1:12. When the footnote display is turned on, a "+" character appears in the lower right corner of the Reference window. To view the footnote, press CTRL and T together. To remove the footnote from view, press CTRL and T until the "+" disappears. Variant or alternate readings may be indicated as footnotes or substituted for the text when you display it. For example, the AV has an alternate reading in John 1:12. When the variant display is turned on, an "=" character appears in the lower right corner of the Reference window. The variant reading in John 1:12 changes "gave he" to "he gave" and reflects the 1833 Webster Bible rendering. The actual alternate text is substituted in the main body of the text and redisplayed. To restore the original AV reading, press CTRL and T until the "=" disappears. Pressing CTRL and T repeatedly, selects the following displays in a cycle: + - Display footnotes = - Display alternate readings += - Display footnotes and alternate readings - Do not display footnotes or alternate readings Making a Note on the Verse Make sure the cursor is back on Matthew 3:14■press TAB to return to the Reference window if necessary. Now press function key F8. A window opens, headed "Matthew 3:14"; but it is blank. Press function key F6. After a short pause, the screen will change to the text editor screen. Type a few words■for example: This is my note on Matthew 3:14. You may want to check the text of the verse on which you are making a note. Press CTRL, hold it down, and press N. On the screen is the text of the verse, with a few following verses as well. Press CTRL, hold it down, and press B. Now you have returned to your note, which you can amend or edit if required. You will notice at the lower part of the screen a list of function keys showing which operations they perform. Press F1, "File". Now the lower part of the screen shows four options: Load Save Clear Name Press S to save your note. (If you decide to make further amendments before you save the note, pressing ESC will return you to editing mode). Now press F10, "Quit". You have returned to the note screen, which was blank, but will quickly be changed, once "Finished" appears, to the note you typed. Then you can ESC out of the note and again press F8 to redisplay the note. The note window opens once again, and this time you will see your note. Notes made in this way will always be available to you, to view, amend, delete or print out as you need. Now press ESC to remove the note from the screen. Printing out a Passage Make sure your printer is turned on and ready to print (if you do not have a printer, skip this section). Press ALT and P together, to go into the Print menu. Press P (or move the cursor down to "Passage Print" and press ENTER). A window containing print options appears, as follows: Help Search Display Print Verse List Notes Options Quit ┌─────────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ┌────────────────────────── Print Options ───────────────────────────┐ │Format text for page: Yes │ │Wait after each page: No │ │Print double spaced: No │ │Include Exegesis: No │ │Include Verse Notes: No │ │Page title: │ │Output File Name: PRN │ │Verse range to print: │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ The cursor is on the first option, "Format text for page", which is set to "Yes". Use the cursor down key to move down the options. If your printer is sheet fed, set "Wait after each page" to "Yes" by pressing the cursor right key on that option. Move down to the "Include Verse Notes" option. Select "Yes" in the same way. NOTE: On any option, pressing the cursor right or cursor left keys toggles the selection between "Yes" and "No". Move the cursor down to "Page title". Type: The Online Bible First Session (or any other title of your choice). Move the cursor down again to "Print Verse Range". Type: Matthew 3:14 and press ENTER. The cursor returns to the "Format Text" option. Press ENTER again to start the print. Your printout will be headed with your title, and will show the verse together with the note you have made. Quitting the Online Bible When you decide to leave the program and return to DOS press ALT and Q together. You are now familiar with the basic operation of the program. Study 2: Trying out the Search Functions With the Online Bible, searches can be as simple or as sophisticated as you need. In this session, a number of different kinds of searches will be tried, to demonstrate the flexibility of the program. Run the Online Bible as before. Make sure you are in the Search menu by pressing ALT and S together, if necessary. Press W (or move the cursor down to "Word Search" and press ENTER). Type the word LAW (it does not matter whether you use capitals or not), and press ENTER. The program will find Genesis 11:31, and you will see that this is the first of the 459 verses in the AV. Now you will restrict the range of the search to just the New Testament. Press ALT and S together, to return to the Search menu. Select "Range for Search". Type: Mt-Rev and then press ENTER. Now select "Word Search" and type LAW again. This time, the first reference is Matthew 5:17, and it is the first of 172 verses found by the Online Bible. NOTE: When you enter biblical references in the Online Bible, you can use either the full reference, in the form "Genesis 1:1", or abbreviations. The first three letters of the book are always sufficient, except in the case of Philemon (Phm) and Jude (J), which could otherwise be confused with Philippians and Judges. If no chapter and verse is given, the Online Bible will assume that the whole of the book is required. Try some more specific searches. Leaving the range restricted to the New Testament, go back to the Search menu (with ALT and S), and select "Phrase Search". Type: law of Christ and press ENTER. This time, the program will find Galatians 6:2■the only occurrence in the New Testament. Phrase Search and Word Search You can search for single words or combinations of words using either of these menu choices. The key difference is that "Phrase Search" looks for words in a certain order, whereas "Word Search" is only concerned with whether the words are present somewhere in the verse. Press ALT and S and press ENTER. You are prompted to enter a phrase. Type: love of God The first reference is Luke 11:42 and is the first of the 13 New Testament verses found by the Online Bible. Search Operators More complex searches are carried out using "operators" to connect words or phrases. The operators are as follows: AND represented by the character & (ampersand) OR represented by the character | (vertical bar) AND NOT represented by the character ~ (tilde) PROXIMITY (in verses) specified by the character @ (at), followed by a number specifying the required proximity, for example @3 WILDCARD represented by the character * (asterisk). This represents any word or part of a word. Complex Searches Now try some more complex searches. Search requests of up to 240 characters long can be entered into the Online Bible. The following, entered into "Word Search", will find all the New Testament verses which include the words "Moses", "Law" and "Jesus": Moses Law Jesus The next search finds every place in which the words "Jesus" and "touch" or any words beginning "touch" (such as "touching" or "touched") occur within 2 verses: Jesus @2 touch* You should restore the search range to the full Bible for this one. You can do this by typing Gen-Rev, or just Bible, in the "Range for Search" option. Sometimes AND NOT is useful to filter out unwanted words. For example, this will find all forms of the word "flow", but avoiding the word "flower": flow* ~ flower* You can manually delete unwanted entries in the Scan window. Press DEL to delete the verse that is positioned opposite the cursor. The WILDCARD operator has a special function when placed at the beginning of a word. It will find all the words which include the sequence of letters which follow, anywhere in the word. For example, *VENG* will find "avenging", "vengeance", "revenge", and so on. The Online Bible takes longer to process such searches■this example might take half a minute or even a minute on some older computers. Searching for the Names of God When searching, the Online Bible normally accepts either capitals or lower case letters without distinction. An exception is made for the names of God. The Hebrew Old Testament uses a variety of names for God. "GOD" (in capitals) is distinguished from "God" (in lower case). "LORD" (in capitals) finds the English translation of God's personal name, "YAHWEH". "Lord" (in lower case) finds any other occurrences such as translations of "Adonai". Therefore, to find all occurrences of "Lord" regardless of form, type: LORD | Lord These are the only names in the Online Bible which include capitals within a word. All other names are shown in the Online Bible as lower case, except for the initial letter. But you may search for any other name using any combination of capitals and lower case characters. NOTE: More detailed information on search operations is found in "SECTION 3: Reference" on pages 46-50. Study 3: Using the Online Bible in Documents Very often, you will want to take some information from the Online Bible■a passage, a selection of verses, or perhaps a list of references■and use it in another document. This tutorial shows how this is done. First, let us assume you wish to use the text of a Bible passage in a document you are preparing in a word processor. The passage is Colossians 1:15-23. Run the Online Bible and go into the Print menu by using the cursor keys or pressing ALT and P together. Select the "Passage Print" option. The Print Options Menu will appear on screen. Although you do not want to print the passage yet (since you will be printing it from your word processor), you are using the printing facility of the program, but asking it to send the text to a file on your disk instead of to the printer. ┌────────────────────────── Print Options ───────────────────────────┐ │Format text for page: Yes │ │Wait after each page: No │ │Print double spaced: No │ │Include Exegesis: No │ │Include Verse Notes: No │ │Page title: │ │Output file name: PRN │ │Verse range to print: │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ The next step is to set the options to your requirements. The first option is "Format text for page". Normally, if not printing directly from the Online Bible, you should set this to "No", by pressing the cursor right key. Leave "Wait after each page", and "Print double spaced" on "No" as well. Leave "Include Verse Notes" on "No", unless you have notes relating to the passage which you wish to send to your word processor as well. Leave "Page title" blank. For "Output file name", type over the existing "PRN" setting with a convenient file name, for example: BIBQUOTE.ASC That will create a file called BIBQUOTE.ASC on drive C under the Bible directory. But you may well want to create the file in the place where you normally keep your word processor documents. Perhaps you have a directory called DOCS which itself is in a directory on drive C called \MYWORD. You would then type the following file name: C:\MYWORD\DOCS\BIBQUOTE.ASC NOTE: You can only use the directories that already exist on the disk■you cannot create new directories from within the Print Options menu. To do that, you would have to use DOS commands from outside the Online Bible program. Next, set the "Verse range to print" to: Col 1:15-1:23 NOTE: If you type Col 1:15-23, the Online Bible will assume you mean a passage extending from the first to the non-existent 23rd chapter of Colossians. You must repeat the chapter number at the beginning and end of the reference. The full menu will look like this: ┌────────────────────────── Print Options ───────────────────────────┐ │Format text for page: Yes │ │Wait after each page: No │ │Print double spaced: No │ │Include Exegesis: No │ │Include Verse Notes: No │ │Page title: │ │Output file name: c:\myword\docs\Bibquote.asc │ │Verse range to print: Col 1:15 - 1:23 │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Now press ENTER. The disk drive will whir for a moment, and your file will be ready for use when the word "Finished" appears in the right side of the screen. Assuming you selected "No" for "Format text for page", you will need to reformat the text in your word processor, following the instructions for your particular program. Exit from the Online Bible, and run your word processor. The file you have created is a plain text file (also known as an ASCII or DOS file. That was why the example used the filename extension .ASC, as a reminder.) Some word processors will not allow you to load the document using the normal "Load File" command, but will have a facility called "Import Text" or "Load ASCII" which you can use instead. Once the file is loaded, you will notice that the lines are very long■the file only starts a new line at the beginning of a new verse. Use the "format" or "reformat" command in the word processor to change the layout to conform to the normal page settings (margins, line length, page length) which you use. It is of course possible to use the text editor supplied with the Online Bible to edit and print the file. Press ALT and V to select the "Verse List" window. Type E to select the "Edit Text File" option and type in the same file name and subdirectory you used for saving the file, for example, C:\MYWORD\DOCS\BIBQUOTE.ASC and press ENTER. When the file has loaded, press F9, "Text", and then press R, "Reformat Text". You will see the text reformat, and the text of Colossians 1:15-1:23 is now available to you■for printing out, or adding text before or after, or inserting notes and headings. Before returning to the Online Bible, save the changes you have made by pressing F1, "File" and then S, "Save". The program will update the file, BIBQUOTE.ASC (or whatever name you chose) with the amendments you have made. If you would like to save the file under another name, press F1, "File" and then N, "Name". Type in the new name, complete with drive letter and any directories, for example: C:\STUDIES\COLOSS Press ENTER. Then save the file by pressing F1, "File" and then S, "Save". Now you can return to the Online Bible by pressing F10, "Quit". Saving Other Information It is not only Bible passages which you can move to your word processor using the above technique. You may wish to use lists of selected verses (either just the references or in full), or notes which you have made in the Online Bible. The method is exactly the same: use the Print menu as if you were going to print the information, but under "Output file name" type over "PRN" with a convenient file name and location. For example, perhaps you wish to use a list of all the Bible verses including the word "Samaritan" in a document. Using the Online Bible, you would first perform a word search for SAMARITAN* (the asterisk would ensure that any occurrences of "Samaritans" would also be included). Then, selecting "Verse List Print" from the Print menu, and creating a file as above, will give you a list of verses ready to use in your word processor as required. If you wish to save just the references, without the text of the verses, use a different method. First, make the search in the same way. Then go to the Verse List menu instead of the Print menu. Select "Save Verse List", and press ENTER. Then type in a convenient file name, such as: C:\SAMAR.LST (You may find it useful to use .LST as the extension for verse list files.) Press ENTER, and the program will create a file with the file name given, which you can load into your word processor as above. This file will contain references only. It is possible to add and delete individual references within the Online Bible■see "Edit Verse List", page 63, for details. Using the Windows' Clipboard If you are using Windows and a Windows' word processor, you can import text using the Windows' clipboard rather than use a DOS file. To do this use the special DOS file name @CB. This will write up to 32760 characters of information directly to the clipboard. Use the features of Windows or your word processor to retrieve this information. For best results select the print option to send "unformatted text" to your word processor. Each time you write to the clipboard, the previous contents are lost. This feature works on most computers that are a /386 or better with at least 2 megs of memory. See Using Windows on the Mini-Menu for more detailed information on this option. Anywhere in the Online Bible that you can specify an output file name you may specify the special file name of @CB to write directly to the clipboard. This concludes the third Online Bible tutorial. Study 4: Other features of the Online Bible This tutorial introduces several other features of the Online Bible. These are the multi-version mode, the Topics facility, the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge notes, "Morning and Evening" daily readings, and the Englishman's Strong's numbers. Run the Online Bible again. Notice that the information bar near the bottom of the screen includes the words: AV_DBY_YLT Now, do a Word Search for "John", as you did in the first introductory study. This time, you will find that the search takes a fraction longer, and when it is complete each verse is displayed three times in the Scan window, once in the AV and once in the Darby and once in the Young's version. Help Search Display Print Verse List Notes Options ┌──────────────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────── │ Mt 3:1 In those days came John the │ │ Baptist, preaching in the │ │ wilderness of Judaea, │ │ Mt 3:1 Now in those days comes John │ │ the baptist, preaching in the │ │ wilderness of Judaea, │ │ Mt 3:1 And in those days cometh │ │ John the Baptist, proclaiming in │ │ wilderness of Judea. │ │ Mt 3:4 And the same John had his │ │ raiment of camel's hair, and a │ │ leathern girdle about his loins; │ │ and his meat was locusts and wild │ │ honey. │ │ Mt 3:4 And John himself had his │ │ garment of camel's hair, and a │ │ leathern girdle about his loins, │ │ and his nourishment was locusts │ │ and wild honey. │ │ Mt 3:4 And this John had his │ └───────────────────── Ge 1:1 - Re 22:21 AV_DBY_YLT/NOTES ───── F1 Help F3 Show Passage F5 Strong's <-> F7 DOS Gateway F2 Save to List F4 Definition F6 Version <-> F8 Display Note Switching Bible Versions At any time, you may change the version displayed. Press F6. Now, the Online Bible just displays the AV in the Scan window, and the information line near the bottom of the screen changes to read "AV". Press F6 repeatedly, to display any combination of AV, DBY or YLT in your Scan window. If you press F6 when there is text showing in the both Scan and Reference windows, you will notice that only the window containing the flashing cursor changes. The Bible version is controlled independently for both the Scan and Reference windows. You could set the Scan window to show the Darby, press TAB to move to the Reference window, and set the Reference window to AV. Then, you could easily compare the Darby and AV translations of any two passages in side by side format rather than one verse at a time. For now, switch both windows to a single version, in preparation for trying out the Topics facility. Topics Module The Topic module for the Online Bible supplies you with the entries for the first ten thousand topics. Topic 0 has the index to all of these entries. Press ALT and D together to select the "Display" menu. Enter T to select the topics. The topic number for the index is displayed. Press ENTER to select the main index to all the topics. The topic window opens and displays the first part of the index. On the left and right side of the topic window are two arrows. Use the down arrow key to move these arrows to topic 6000, "Index to Index" to the "New Topical Textbook". Press ENTER to select this item. Use the down arrow key to select the topics that start with the letter "J". Press ENTER. The topic window 6053 will open up, displaying the topics that start with "J". Select the first item, "Jehovah, the Only True God" and press ENTER. The topic window 7162 will open displaying the start of this entry. Your screen will look like this. ┌────────────────── Topic No. 7162 (TOPICS) ───────────────────┐ │ Jehovah, the Only True God │ │ │ │ 1) Jehovah is "Alpha and Omega" and "the First and the Last" │ │ # Re 1:7,8 22:12,13,20 Isa 48:12,13 │ │ │ │ 2) Death and life of "the First and the Last" │ │ # Re 2:8 1:17,18 Mt 28:5,6 │ │ │ │ 3) There is only one true God, Jehovah │ │ # Isa 43:10,11 Joh 1:1 * compare NW, Watchtower rendering │ │ # Isa 44:6,8 Joh 1:1 * compare AV,RSV,NKJ,NIV,JB, &c │ │ # Heb 1:3 Col 2:9 * Read in NIV │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Position the arrows at the verses listed after the first entry and press ENTER. The Scan window will open displaying the text for the seven verses. Press ESC to return to the topic again. You can examine any other entry in this topic by repeating this simple procedure. To return to the main menu, press ESC until you are back to the main menu or press ALT and D together, to return to the "Display" menu. Creating Your Own Topics In addition to the topics that come with the Online Bible, you can add your own topics. Press ALT and D together, to activate the Display menu. Move the cursor down to Topic Display, and then press ENTER. You will be asked to enter a topic number. Topics can be numbered from 0 to 32,767. Enter 1, and press ENTER. Press F2 to access the alternate topic set. Eventually, we will be issuing material to completely fill the primary topic set. Therefore you should place all your material in the alternate set. A window now opens, like a Note window, but headed "Topic No. 1 (2TOPICS)". It is blank. Press F6 to edit the topic, and the text editor will open. Now, type a heading followed by some Bible references. Each Bible reference line must start with a "#" character. For example, Jesus and Children # Mt 11.25 # Mr 10.13-16 # 1Jo 2.1 Now, press F1 followed by S to save the topic; and then F10 to exit the text editor back to the main Online Bible screen. The topic you have created will now appear in the "Topic No. 1 (2TOPICS)" window. Move the pointers down using the arrow keys to the first reference and press ENTER. The Topic window will close, and the Scan window will be filled with the verses which you have entered, all of which relate to the subject of Jesus and Children. Getting the Most from the Topics As you have seen, the topics give you two very useful facilities. First, they can be used just like a memo pad for specialised notes which you do not wish to attach to a particular verse. Second, by adding verse references in the special format, they can be used to collect biblical passages on the subject of your choice. This could be a theme, such as "Authority" or "Discipleship"; or it could be a more personal topic, such as "Sermon - 19th July", or "Verses to be memorised". With 32,767 topics available, you can be very flexible in how you use them. You will need to keep a record of the location of each topic. A good suggestion is to reserve alternate Topic 0 for use as an index to your entries. You then could display the alternate Topic 0 to identify the required topic before entering its number. Topic 0 is reserved for the main index to all the primary topics. Topics and Verse Lists One useful way to build up topics is by using them in conjunction with verse lists. Verse lists are a means of saving to disk the results of a search or study. Because some searches can take some time, you may wish to save the results on disk. You can use the information later without having to redo the search. Then, it is tidier to move the list into a topic, indexed in topic 0, rather than having a lot of separate verse list files on disk. This is the procedure: Perform a search for all verses in which the words "God" and "Light" come together. Use Word Search from the Search menu, and enter the words: God & Light Because these are both common words, it will take a little time to complete the search. When the search is complete, select Save Verse List from the Verse List menu. The Online Bible will ask you to enter a name for the verse list. Type: T10010 and press ENTER to save the list to disk. Note that the number you use must contain 5 digits; if the Topic were number 10, then T00010 would have been used. To put the list into topic 10010, select Note File Update from the Notes menu. When the Online Bible asks: Add to existing Note? press ENTER. Then, you will be asked for a verse reference. Enter: # 10010 and press ENTER. Topic number 10010 will now contain the list of references to God and Light. To display them, choose Topic Display from the Display menu, and enter number 10010. When the Topic window is open, move the pointers down to the first references and press ENTER to display the verses. You can further edit the topic if you wish, by opening the Topic window and pressing F6 in the normal way. You may wish to add a more detailed heading, or delete some of the references, or to delete the details of how many occurrences there are in each book, automatically included in the verse list. In the topic 0, you could add the line: 10010 - God and Light as a reminder of where you stored that particular topic. To store this entry in the alternate topics, do the following. Display Topic 0 and press F2 to display the alternate Topic 0. Press F10 to make the alternate topics the default topics. Repeat the above procedure after doing this. If you wish to make the default topic set the primary set then do this. Display alternate Topic 0. Press F2 to select the primary topic. Press F10 to make the primary topics the default set. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge If you installed the optional "Treasury of Scripture Knowledge" module, you will have verse notes for each verse in the Bible. These notes contain all the cross-references you display when you press F10 to select the cross-references for a verse. However, by using the verse note facility, you have all the commentary from the "Treasury" and you can selectively examine cross-references for part of a verse. Press ALT and D together, to select Display Passage and press ENTER. Enter the following passage. Heb 1:8 Press F8 and a blank notes window will open. Press F2 to select the alternate notes and your screen will look like this. ┌─────────────────────── Hebrews 1:8 (TSK) ──────────────────────┐ │ * Thy throne. │ │ # Ps 45:6,7 │ │ * O God. │ │# 3:3,4 Isa 7:14 9:6,7 45:21,22,25 Jer 23:6 Ho 1:7 Zec 13:9 │ │ # Mal 3:1 Mt 1:23 Lu 1:16,17 Joh 10:30,33 20:28 Ro 9:5 1Ti 3:16│ │ # Tit 2:13,14 1Jo 5:20 │ │ * for. │ │ # Ps 145:13 Isa 9:7 De 2:37 7:14 1Co 15:25 2Pe 1:11 │ │ * a sceptre. │ │ # 2Sa 23:3 Ps 72:1-4,7,11-14 99:4 Isa 9:7 32:1,2 Jer 23:5 38:15│ │ # Zec 9:9 │ │ * righteousness. Gr. rightness. or, straightness. │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Use the down arrow key to position to the cross-references following the words "O God" and press ENTER. The cross-references that relate to just that part of the verse are loaded into the Scan window for you to examine. Press ESC to return to the verse note so you can examine other cross-references for Hebrews 1:8. Press ALT and D together, to return to the display menu. Other Verse Note Modules If you install other verse note modules like, Robertson's Word Pictures, Matthew Henry or the Geneva Notes, you access these in the same way you do the "Treasury of Scripture Knowledge". Press F8 to display the verse note and press F2 to rotate the notes' carousel. Each additional note set you installed will be displayed. Not every module has notes on every verse. Only when we have finished John Gill's "Expositor" on the CD-ROM edition of the Online Bible will you have detailed notes on every verse in the Bible. To make the notes' set you have selected the default set, press F10. The next time you press F8 to display a note, the default you selected is displayed. You no longer have to press F2 several times to select this note set. Morning and Evening Daily Readings Over one hundred years ago, Charles Spurgeon wrote an excellent daily devotional called "Morning and Evening". Each day has a reading for the morning and one for the evening. To the morning readings we have added a daily Bible reading that takes you through the entire Bible in one year. These readings are stored in the Online Bible topics. To access the morning reading for November 2, press ALT and D together to select the display menu. Type the letter T to access the index to the topics and press ENTER. Scroll down to the entry marked "Morning and Evening". Position the arrow indicators to this entry and press ENTER. The screen will display an index to the morning and evening readings. Position the arrow indicators to the "Morning Readings" entry and press ENTER. The screen will show an index to the readings for each month of the year. Position the arrow indicators to the November entry and press ENTER. An index for each day in November appears on the screen. Select the entry for the second of the month and press ENTER. The screen displays the following. ┌──────────────────── Topic No. 29602 (TOPICS) ────────────────────┐ │November 2 Morning│ │ │ │ "I am the Lord, I change not." │ │ --Malachi 3:6 │ │ │ │ It is well for us that, amidst all the variableness of │ │ life, there is One whom change cannot affect; One whose heart │ │ can never alter, and on whose brow mutability can make no │ │ furrows. All things else have changed--all things are changing. │ │ The sun itself grows dim with age; the world is waxing old; the │ │ folding up of the worn-out vesture has commenced; the heavens │ │ and earth must soon pass away; they shall perish, they shall wax │ │ old as doth a garment; but there is One who only hath │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ At the end of this topic is a pointer to the evening reading and the portion of the Bible to be read for that day. The screen looks like this. │ that he changes not! The wheel of providence revolves, but its │ │ axle is eternal love. │ │ │ │ "Death and change are busy ever, │ │ Man decays, and ages move; │ │ But his mercy waneth never; │ │ God is wisdom, God is love." │ │ │ │ Evening Reading .......................................... 29702 │ │# Joh 4:1 - 5:47 * Daily Bible Reading │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Point the arrow indicators to the daily readings and press ENTER. The Scan window contains the verses for the daily reading. Press ALT and D together to return the display menu. Englishman's Strong's Numbers The Authorised Version is keyed to the Englishman's Strong's Numbers. Each word or phrase in the AV is associated with a number that ties the English text to the original Greek and Hebrew words. To view these numbers, display a passage in the Reference window, and press F5. The right hand portion of your screen will look like this for Psalm 23. Print Verse List Notes Options Quit ─────────────┬───────────── Psalms 23:1 ─────────────┐ │ 1 <<A Psalm <04210> of David │ │ <01732>.>> The LORD <03068> [is] my │ │ shepherd <07462> (8802); I shall not │ │ want <02637> (8799). │ │ 2 He maketh me to lie down <07257> │ │ (8686) in green <01877> pastures │ │ <04999>: he leadeth <05095> (8762) │ │ me beside the still <04496> waters │ │ <04325>. │ │ 3 He restoreth <07725> (8787) my │ │ soul <05315>: he leadeth <05148> │ │ (8686) me in the paths <04570> of │ │ righteousness <06664> for his name's │ │ <08034> sake. │ │ 4 Yea, though I walk <03212> │ │ (8799) through the valley <01516> of │ │ the shadow of death <06757>, I will │ │ fear <03372> (8799) no evil <07451>: │ │ for thou [art] with me; thy rod │ │ <07626> and thy staff <04938> they │ Ge 1:1 - Re 22:21 AV/NOTES ────────── 0/18880 # ┘ To look up the meaning of a word, press F4. Use the cursor keys to select the blinking number and press ENTER. The Definition window will open up and display the definition for the number you entered. Use PgUp and PgDn to page through the definition display. All Old Testament numbers are prefixed with a leading zero. To access these numbers prefix the number with a leading "0" as shown in the above display. New Testament numbers do not have a leading zero. Notice the word shepherd in verse one. It is followed by two numbers; 07462 gives the definition for the word and 8802 gives the verb parsing, Qal Participle Active. All verbs except the verb "to be" are parsed in the AV. However, the person, number and gender are not given. Strong's numbers are enclosed in "<...>". All extensions to Strong's numbers are enclosed in "(...)". You may use these numbers in any search. To search for all occurrences of the Hebrew word number "0134" and the word "foundations" enter ALT and S together, and press ENTER. Enter the following search request. 0134 & foundations The Scan window displays the verse Job 38:6. For any place in which you can use a word in a search request, you can also use a number. Sometimes you want to do a detailed study of a passage and look up every original language word definition. To do this, press ALT and P together, and press ENTER to select the "Print Passage" option. Complete the entries as your did in the first study on page 25 only this time set the "Exegesis" option to yes. Use the left or right arrow keys to do this. Now when you print the passage, every number will be shown in the text. Following the passage, each definition for every number in the passage will be printed. This may be quite a sizeable print-out if more than a few verses are selected. To search for regular numbers in biblical text that contains Strong's numbers, prefix the number with a "#". For example to search for the number 5 not the Strong's number 5, type: #5 You will need this feature for the NIV text and most modern versions since these contain numbers as part of the text. Older versions usually write out the numbers in full rather than use numerals. You have now completed all four tutorial studies, and you should be able to use the basic features of the program. To learn how to use its facilities to the fullest, study "SECTION 3: Reference". Remember, help is always available within the Online Bible■just press F1, "Help", at any time. SECTION 3: Reference This section fully describes the function of all the available commands in the Online Bible. Each menu is explained in full, then the function keys, and finally the text editor. The Help Menu Help ┌──────────────────┐ │ Help Information │ └──────────────────┘ The Help menu is selected by pressing ALT and H together, or by using the left and right cursor keys when in one of the other menus. The Help menu summarises the various keys used in entering information into the Online Bible■(for example, in response to menu items you have selected.) For a full summary of these keys, see "Command Keys", pages 85-87. Help on other aspects of the Online Bible is available at any time by pressing the F1 key. The information you receive will be relevant to the current position of the cursor when F1 is pressed. The Search Menu Search ┌──────────────────┐ │ Phrase Search │ │ Word Search │ │ Range for Search │ └──────────────────┘ The Search menu is selected by pressing ALT and S together, or by using the left and right cursor keys when in one of the other menus. When the Online Bible starts up, the Search menu is automatically selected. Many of the features of the Online Bible are not available to you until you have accessed the Bible text by making a search of some kind, or by selecting a passage or verse list to display. Punctuation and Capitalisation Punctuation (apart from hyphens and apostrophes) must be omitted when entering words or phrases for searching. All phrases must occur within a single verse. Capitalisation is ignored except between the words "LORD" and "Lord", or "GOD" and "God". Search Operators and Wildcards The following operators work in an similar way for both phrase and word searches. The "*" character is a WILDCARD operator which matches any single word in a phrase search: EXAMPLE: in the search phrase the * wind finds all phrases with one word between "the" and "wind". The "*" character is also a SUFFIX operator. Add this character to the end of a partial word to match any word which begins with that prefix. EXAMPLE: Preach* the gospel finds phrases such as "preach the gospel", "preaching the gospel", and "preached the gospel". The "*" character is also a PREFIX operator. Add this character to the start of a word to match any word which ends with that letter sequence. EXAMPLE: *quire finds all words ending in "quire", that is "enquire" and "require". Use both the PREFIX and SUFFIX operators to search for a letter sequence that occur anywhere within a word. This kind of search takes longer to carry out than simple word searches. EXAMPLE: *lov* will find all words containing the sequence of letters LOV, such as "beloved", "loved", "loving", "clovenfooted". The "..." sequence of characters is an operator which matches any group of words within a verse in a phrase search. EXAMPLE: God ... poor finds all sentences where the word "God" precedes the word "poor", no matter how many words fall between them. The "|" character is the OR operator. This will find verses containing at least one of the connected words or phrases. EXAMPLE: in a phrase search, God almighty | mighty God will find all verses containing either or both "God almighty" and "mighty God". The "&" character is the AND operator. Use this operator to find verses containing all of the selected words or phrases. EXAMPLE: in a phrase search, Moses & tables of stone finds all verses including both the word "Moses" and the phrase "tables of stone". The "~" character is the AND NOT operator. Use this to find verses containing one word or phrase, but not another. EXAMPLE: in a word search tables of stone ~ Moses finds all verses which include the words "tables of stone" but not the word "Moses". The "@" character is the PROXIMITY operator. It must be followed (without spaces) by a number between 1 and 31102 (the number of verses in the Bible). EXAMPLE: Jesus @1 Christ finds all the occurrences of "Jesus" where the word "Christ" is in the same or an adjacent verse. The NULL operator exists automatically between any two adjacent words. In a phrase search, such words must be present and adjacent (in the same order) for a match to be made. In a word search, such words must be present in the verse but not necessarily adjacent. It is therefore like the AND operator (but see the following, "Order of Evaluation of Operators"). Order of Evaluation of Operators You can use the above operators more than once in a search specification. Once the search request box is filled, the specification will scroll to the left (up to 240 characters) even if it is not all visible on the screen. If several operators are used, operators of higher priority are evaluated first, and then operators of the same priority are evaluated from left to right. The order of priority is: First: PREFIX, SUFFIX (*) Then: NULL Last: OR (|), AND (&), AND NOT (~), PROXIMITY (@) Note that parentheses are not supported when searching within the Online Bible. EXAMPLE 1: commandment* | tables of stone & Moses will find all verses including the word "Moses" and either "commandment(s)" or "tables of stone". EXAMPLE 2: tables of stone & Moses | commandment* will find all verses including either "commandment(s)" or both "tablets of stone" and "Moses". Using the Cursor Keys to Recall Previous Searches When entering search specifications, you can use the cursor keys as an editing short cut. The cursor up key will recall the most recent previous entry you have made. The cursor down key will recall the oldest previous entry. The right and left keys simply move the cursor by one character right or left. Phrase Search Search ┌──────────────────┐ │ Phrase Search │ │ Word Search │ │ Range for Search │ └──────────────────┘ Use this option to find all occurrences of a phrase or a combination of phrases. A phrase is any word or sequence of words. Type the words in response to the "Enter Search Phrase" request. The phrase can be up to 240 characters long. On completion of the search, the first verse found will be displayed in the Scan window and a figure at the lower right will show the time taken for the search, the number of the verse displayed, and the total number of matching verses. For example, "1/8 11" shows that the verse displayed is the first of 8 occurrences. The phrase occurred 11 times in the 8 verses. Word Search Search ┌──────────────────┐ │ Phrase Search │ │ Word Search │ │ Range for Search │ └──────────────────┘ Use this option to find all occurrences of a word or a combination of separate words in the Bible. Type the words in response to the "Enter Search Words" request. The program will find all the verses which match the specification, and display the first matching verse in the Scan window. The information at the lower right will indicate the time taken for the search, the sequential number of the verse displayed, and the total number of matching verses. Range for Search Use this option to limit the portion of the Bible which will be searched by the Online Bible. Type the range in response to the "Enter Range" request. The current range is shown at the bottom of the Scan window. To select the range, specify the first and last references, separated by "-". The following examples make this clear: To Search: Specification: Selects this Range: A single verseJoh 3:16 John 3:16 A single chapterPsa 90 Psalm 90 A single book Rom The book of Romans From one book 1Joh-3Joh From 1 John 1:1 to the to another end of 3 John A range of chaptersJoh 21-Act 2From John 21 to the sequence end of Acts 2 Psa 1-5 The first five Psalms Everything betweenExo 1:1-1:10Between Exodus 1:1 two specific references and Exodus 1:10 The entire BibleBible or B Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22:21 The Old TestamentOt or O Genesis 1:1 to Malachi 4:6 The New TestamentNt or N Matthew 1:1 to Revelation 22:21 Book name abbreviations may be used. The first three characters of a Bible book name will identify all books except for "Jude" (enter "J") and "Philemon" (enter "P" or "Phm"). See "Book Name Abbreviations", page 88, for a list of all the abbreviations and book names recognised by the Online Bible. Note that capitalisation is optional. The Display Menu Display ┌────────────────────┐ │ Passage Display │ │ Verse List Display │ │ Note Display │ │ Word Definition │ │ Topic Display │ └────────────────────┘ Select this menu by pressing ALT and D together, or by using the right and left cursor keys from one of the other menus. This menu allows you to display selected verses or a particular passage, or to review your own notes about a verse. Passage Display Display ┌────────────────────┐ │ Passage Display │ │ Verse List Display │ │ Note Display │ │ Word Definition │ │ Topic Display │ └────────────────────┘ This option allows you to examine any Bible passage, which will be displayed in the Reference window. Using this option brings up the request, "Enter Reference". Type in the reference using the biblical book name abbreviation as mentioned in the preceding section (see page 50). You can scroll through the passage using the keys as described in "Command Keys", page 85. You can also display a passage using function key F3, "Show Passage". Verse List Display Display ┌────────────────────┐ │ Passage Display │ │ Verse List Display │ │ Note Display │ │ Word Definition │ │ Topic Display │ └────────────────────┘ This option brings up the current verse list in the Scan window: either verses previously selected using the "Search" function, or verses retrieved using the "Get Verse List" or "Cross-Reference" functions. The bottom right corner of the screen shows the number of the verse displayed and the total number of verses in the list. You can scroll through the verse list using keys as described in "Command Keys" on page 85. Note Display Display ┌────────────────────┐ │ Passage Display │ │ Verse List Display │ │ Note Display │ │ Word Definition │ │ Topic Display │ └────────────────────┘ This option displays your own notes for any verse. You will be asked to "Enter Reference". Type in a single Bible reference in either full or abbreviated form for any particular verse. The note will appear in the "Note" window. You can scroll through the notes, or move to the notes on adjacent verses, by using the cursor keys and other keys as described in "Command Keys" on page 85. For example, the right and left cursor keys will display the notes for adjacent verses. The PgDn and PgUp keys will scroll through the different pages of the note in the case of notes which are longer than the note window. Once displayed, you can add or amend notes by pressing F6 (see "Edit Note or Topic" on page 81). You can also display the note for the current verse using function key F8, "Note Display". Word Definition Display ┌────────────────────┐ │ Passage Display │ │ Verse List Display │ │ Note Display │ │ Word Definition │ │ Topic Display │ └────────────────────┘ This option allows you to examine any definition for an Englishman's Strong's number. Enter the number and press ENTER. The Definition window will open, displaying the definition you selected. Remember, Old Testament numbers are prefixed with a leading zero. You can also display a definition using the function key F4, from either the Scan or Reference window. F5 displays the numbers in these windows. The display for the definition of the Greek word "166" looks like this: ┌────────────────── Strong's No. 166 (GREEK) ──────────────────┐ │ 166 aionios {ahee-o'-nee-os} │ │ │ │ from 165; TDNT - 1:208,31; adj │ │ │ │ AV - eternal 42, everlasting 25, the world began + 5550 2, │ │ since the world began + 5550 1, for ever 1; 71 │ │ │ │ 1) without beginning and end, that which always has been and │ │ always will be │ │ 2) without beginning │ │ 3) without end, never to cease, everlasting │ │ │ │ For Synonyms see entry 5801 │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Each New Testament entry is composed of the following parts. This entry is Strong's number 166, and its transliteration is "aionios". The rough phonetic for the word is enclosed in curly braces "{ ... }". The next line gives derivation information, Kittel page numbers and the part of speech. This word is derived from word number 165■although sometimes these comments are just educated guesses. Following the first semi-colon is the key to Kittel's "Theological Dictionary of the New Testament" (TDNT). The first entry is keyed to the ten volume Kittel, giving the volume and page number where this word is found. This entry is found in volume 1 page 208 of the ten volume Kittel and page 31 of the little Kittel. Note that not all the lexicon entries are found in Kittel. Following the second semi-colon is the part of speech. This entry happens to be an adjective. The Old Testament lexicon is keyed to the "Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament", abbreviated to TWOT. The next line gives the English usage. This word appears in the Authorised Version 71 times and its various English renderings are listed and tabulated. The body of the definition follows. Three primary meanings are listed. Lastly, some entries have synonym information. Use the down arrow key to position the pointers to this line as shown in the above illustration. Press ENTER to access this material. Press ESC to return to this definition. If you wish to augment the definition in the lexicon, use the alternate lexicon to store your word studies. Press F2 from the definition window to access the alternate lexicon. Edit it in the usual manner using the function key F6. To return to the primary lexicon, press F2 again. Topic Display Display ┌────────────────────┐ │ Passage Display │ │ Verse List Display │ │ Note Display │ │ Word Definition │ │ Topic Display │ └────────────────────┘ This option displays your topic notes. You will be asked to enter a number. Type in a number between 0 and 32,767 to display the topic corresponding to that number. The topic will appear in a "Topic" window. You can scroll through the topic, or move to other topics, by using the cursor keys and other keys as described in "Command Keys" on page 85. Once displayed, you can add or amend topics by pressing F6■see "Edit Note or Topic" on page 81. You can also display topics by pressing F5 when the Note window is open. We suggest that you use alternate topic 0 as an index to your topics leaving topic 0 as the main index to all the topics we supply. Create all your topical entries in the alternate topics. Access the alternate topics by pressing F2 when in the primary topics. The screen will display the topic number followed by "(2TOPICS)". To return to the main topics, press F2 again. The Print Menu Print ┌──────────────────┐ │ Passage Print │ │ Verse List Print │ │ Note Print │ │ Word Definition │ │ Topic Print │ └──────────────────┘ This menu allows you to print or save as a file any verses, verse lists, passages or notes from the Online Bible. Verse List Print This option will print or save the current verse list. This verse list might have been retrieved using "Get Verse List"; it might be the result of a search; or it might be a list of cross-references. When selected, you will be presented with the Print Options menu■see page 57 for details regarding this or the following sections. Passage Print This option will print or save a particular passage from the Bible, with or without your own notes. Selecting this option brings up the Print Options menu. Note Print This option will print or save your notes only, for a particular section of the Bible chosen by you under the Print Options menu. This menu will come up when you choose "Note Print". Word Definition This option will print or save a definition for a particular word of the Bible chosen by you under the Print Options menu. This menu will come up when you choose "Word Definition". Topic Print This option will print or save a topic of your choice. Selecting this option brings up the Print Options menu. Selecting Print Options Whatever version you last selected is the one used when you print verses. Press F6 to alter the version. The abbreviation for the version or combination of versions that will be printed will be displayed just below the print menu. To include or exclude Strong's numbers in the verses, use the F5 function key. A "#" appears in the lower left corner of the screen indicates that Strong's numbers are to be including in the verses. Otherwise, the Strong's numbers will not be included when you print the verses. Lastly, CTRL T controls the inclusion or exclusion of the translator's footnotes when you print the verses. See page 23 for a complete discussion on how this key affects the verse contents. Printing Alternate Notes, Topics or Definitions To print an alternate set of notes, topics, or definitions, first use the display features of the Online Bible to display the material you wish to print. Press F10 to make the material the new default for printing. Now when you print, the material you selected is used for printing. The new default stays in effect until you change it. This affects the importing and exporting of notes as well. See page 84 for more details. The Print Options Menu ┌────────────────────────── Print Options ───────────────────────────┐ │Format text for page: Yes │ │Wait after each page: No │ │Print double spaced: No │ │Include Exegesis: No │ │Include Verse Notes: No │ │Include Verse Text: No │ │Page title: │ │Output file name: PRN │ │Verse range to print: │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Each of the Print options, when selected, brings up this further menu entitled Print Options. The choices vary slightly depending on what you are asking the Online Bible to print or save as a file. Use the up and down cursor keys to move between the options. When making selections, do not press ENTER until all the selections have been made. In all cases, toggle between "Yes" and "No" by pressing the right or left cursor keys. Format Text for Page Selecting "Yes" causes the text to be formatted into the page layout selected under the Define Options menu (see page 74). Selecting "No" means output will not be formatted. Unformatted output, for "Passage Print" or "Note Print", will result in each verse beginning a new paragraph (in other words, each verse ends with a carriage return and a line feed). For "Verse List Print", only the last verse in each group of consecutive verses will end with this sequence. Apart from these paragraph breaks, all the text in unformatted output will be on a single line. Note: The paragraph marker "" is replaced by a "." when printed out. Generally, it is better to select formatted output if printing directly from the Online Bible, and unformatted if saving to a file. Wait After Each Page If printing on single sheets which you feed in by hand, rather than using continuous stationery or a sheet feeder, answer "Yes". This setting will be ignored if unformatted output has been selected. Print Double Spaced If you choose "Yes", the output will leave a blank line between each line of text. This setting will be ignored if unformatted output has been selected. Include Exegesis If you choose "Yes", the output will print a list of all the definitions for all the Greek and Hebrew words in the passage. Include Verse Notes If you choose "Yes", your verse notes will be printed after each verse. Include Verse Text If you choose "Yes", your verse cross-references in your notes are replaced with the full text of the verse. Page Title If you require a title (of up to 50 characters) to be printed at the top of each page of output, type it in here. Remember, do not press ENTER until all selections have been made. You can use the DELETE, BACKSPACE and other keys in the normal way. This setting is ignored if unformatted output has been selected. Output File Name This option determines whether output is printed directly or sent to a file for subsequent use. To print directly, ensure that the "Print File Name" is "PRN" (or the appropriate device name, such as "LPT1", "LPT2", "COM1", etc.). The default "PRN" should not be altered, unless you wish instead to save the output to disk as a file. In this case, type in the file name, and optionally its directory, for example: C:\MYWORD\SERMONS\LUKE-10.ASC You must use the normal DOS format for file names. File names may not contain spaces or certain prohibited characters. See your DOS manual for details. Using the .ASC extension is a convenient way of remembering that this file will be an unformatted ASCII file (unless you decided to save it with format set to "Yes"■this will make it harder to reformat in your word processor). To write to the Windows' clipboard specify a file name of @CB. See page 34 for more details. To print extended ASCII characters without the accents, specify a "/x" after the path name, for example: prn/x Verse Range to Print This option will only be found under the Print Option for "Passage Print" or "Note Print". Enter the verse range in exactly the same way as described for "Range for Search" on page 50. For example, Joh 21:1 - Act 2:11 Print Strong's Number This option will only be found under the Print Option for "Word Definition". Enter the Strong's number for the Hebrew or Greek word. For example: 0987 Print Topic Number This option will only be found under the Print Option for "Topic Print". Enter the number for the specific topic. For example: 5900 To print a range of topics, enter: 5900 - 5930 Printer Requirements The output of the Online Bible uses ASCII printer control codes which will work on virtually all printers: no special printer driver is required. Remember, if you are having difficulty achieving the format you require, you can save the information in a file and format it later in your usual word processor. If printing directly from the Online Bible, make sure your printer is: Switched on Set for 6 lines per inch (the default setting for most printers) Has paper loaded and positioned at the top of a page Ready to print (called "Ready", "Online", or the equivalent). Printing or Saving When you have selected all the options, pressing ENTER twice will start the output. If you are saving to a file, and a file already exists with the name and directory you have chosen, you will be asked whether you wish to replace the file. If you choose "No" (by pressing the right or left cursor key) you will be asked if you want to add to the file: this will save the new output at the end of the existing file. If you choose "No" again, you will be returned to the Print Options menu to choose a new file name or directory. The Verse List Menu Verse List ┌─────────────────┐ │ Get Verse List │ │ Save Verse List │ │ Edit Text File │ │ List Sort │ └─────────────────┘ Select this menu by pressing ALT and V together, or by using the right and left cursor keys from one of the other menus. A verse list is a selection of individual verses. For example, whenever the Online Bible makes a search, the program creates a verse list which is displayed in the Scan window. Verse lists are displayed with the chapter and verse reference, along with the text of the verse written out in full. When printing a verse list directly from the Online Bible, the full text of the verse will be printed. However, when the Online Bible saves a verse list, the program saves an ASCII text file containing only the Bible references. By loading a saved verse list into a word processor or text editor, the references alone may be printed if desired. The current verse list is the one displayed in the Scan window. To check which verses are in the current verse list, you can use the "Verse List Display" option described on page 52. You can construct your own verse lists by using the search facilities of the Online Bible and adding individual verses that interest you to a verse list on disk. This is done using the function key F2, "Verse List". Pressing F2 allows you to add the current verse (the verse on which the cursor is resting) to the verse list whose file name is displayed. You can create a new verse list by altering this file name, and you can erase existing entries in an old verse list if you wish. See the description of this function key on page 79. You can delete verses from a verse list. Display the list in the Scan window. Press DEL when the cursor is opposite the verse you desire to delete. Use the "Save Verse List" facility to save this modified list by setting the "Add to Verse List" prompt to "no". Get Verse List Verse List ┌─────────────────┐ │ Get Verse List │ │ Save Verse List │ │ Edit Text File │ │ List Sort │ └─────────────────┘ Use this option to load a previously saved verse list into the Online Bible. When you select "Get Verse List", the Online Bible will ask for the name of the required list. The default file name is VERSES.LST. Type in the file name, with the full DOS directory if it is not in the current directory, and press ENTER. The Online Bible will load the verse list and display the first verse in the Scan window. The number at the lower right will indicate the number of the displayed verse and the total number of verses in the list. Save Verse List Verse List ┌─────────────────┐ │ Get Verse List │ │ Save Verse List │ │ Edit Text File │ │ List Sort │ └─────────────────┘ Use this option to save the current verse list. When you select this option, the Online Bible will ask for a file name. The default file name is VERSES.LST. Type in a convenient file name, ending with the extension .LST or another suitable extension, for example: SERMON.LST If you wish to save the verse list to a directory other than the current directory, you will need to enter the full DOS path and file name, for example: C:\STUDIES\LISTS\SERMON.LST Be aware that the current verse list is that displayed by the Online Bible, displayed in the same window as search or cross-reference results. If you load a verse list using "Get Verse List", and then perform a search or cross-references scan, the current verse list will be the result of the search scan, and not the verse list you had loaded previously. If you are saving a verse list with a file name that already exists on disk, the Online Bible will ask you if you wish to add to the existing file. Select "Yes" or "No" by pressing the right or left cursor keys. Selecting "Yes" means that the new verse list will be added to the end of the existing file. Selecting "No" will cause the program to ask you to confirm that you wish the old file to be replaced. Answer "Yes" to erase the old file and save the new file in its place. Answer "No" to end the operation without saving the file. Sometimes adding a new verse list to an existing verse list may result in duplicate references in the verse list file. This will not cause problems for the Online Bible; but if you wish, you can eliminate them by using the "List Sort" facility described on page 65. You can use the "Save Verse List" function to save a list of verses as cross-references for another verse. When prompted for the name of the verse list file, do not give a file name, but instead give a verse reference preceded by a "#" character. For example: # Joh 1:1 This saves the current verse list in your notes file, just before your notes for John 1:1. To use these cross-references, display John 1:1 in the reference window, and press F10. Your cross-references will be loaded into the Scan window for you to study. If you wish to save a verse as a cross-reference, but prefer not to have the reference displayed when you view your notes, use "##" instead of a single "#" at the start of the line, for example: ## Joh 1:1 Edit Verse List Verse List ┌─────────────────┐ │ Get Verse List │ │ Save Verse List │ │ Edit Text File │ │ List Sort │ └─────────────────┘ This option enables you to add, rearrange and delete verses from a saved verse list. When you select this option, the Online Bible will ask for a file name. Type in the file name, using the full DOS directory if the list is not in the current directory, and press ENTER. The Online Bible will bring up the text editor with the verse list loaded and ready to edit. For details on the operation of the text editor, see "The Text Editor" on page 89. It is also possible to create a verse list from scratch, using the same method but entering a file name that does not yet exist on disk. When creating or editing verse lists, certain rules must be obeyed. All lines in the file containing references must have "#" as the first non-blank character. Preceding blanks are allowed, so indentation of lines is possible. References use the same book abbreviations as elsewhere in the Online Bible■see "Book Name Abbreviations" on page 88 for details. They should be in the format: 2Pet 3:10 Verse lists allow an abbreviated method of expressing a sequence of verses. For example, Rom 4:6-8,13 includes the verses between Romans 4:6 and Romans 4:8, and also Romans 4:13. This method differs substantially from that described in the "Range for Search" section on page 50. You can put several references on the same line. (Do not separate them by anything except a blank space, a "," or a ";".) For example: # 1Pet 5:6,Joh 1:1-3;Mat 20:20 Any lines in a verse list where the first non-blank character is not a "#" are ignored by the Online Bible. This permits your own headings and remarks to be inserted in the file. You may also include blank lines. Using these together with indentation, you can construct a very clear layout. For example: * Verses for my sermon Sun Aug 10th * Main point # 1Pet 5:6 * Subsidiary point # Joh 1:1-3 * Conclusion # Mat 20:20 * see Greek rendering The "*" at the start of a line serves no purpose except to beautify your note. However, an "*" may be used to add a comment to a line of cross-references. If you create a verse list file with a word processor, remember to use the mode which does not add hidden formatting characters (sometimes called non-document, program, DOS, or ASCII mode), since these will cause problems when read by the Online Bible. The text editor supplied with the Online Bible is always in the right mode, so files saved from this will be in the correct format, so long as the above-mentioned rules have been followed. List Sort Verse List ┌─────────────────┐ │ Get Verse List │ │ Save Verse List │ │ Edit Text File │ │ List Sort │ └─────────────────┘ Select this option to sort the current verse list into biblical order, eliminating any duplicate references. To see the sorted list displayed, press ESC to exit from the Verse List menu and use the TAB key to switch to the verse list display window, or use the "Verse List Display" option in the Display menu. For example, to sort a list of verses in a verse list you had prepared, you would first use "Get Verse List" to load the verse list into the Online Bible, and then use "List Sort". To save the sorted verse list to disk, use the "Save Verse List" command, asking for the original file to be replaced. Note that any remarks (lines not preceded by "#") in your original verse list would be lost. The Notes Menu Notes ┌───────────────────┐ │ Export Note File │ │ Definition Export │ │ Note File Update │ │ Update Definition │ └───────────────────┘ This menu is selected by pressing ALT and N together, or by using the left or right cursor keys from one of the other menus. The Notes facility in the Online Bible enables text to be stored which is linked to a specific verse in the Bible. This text can be displayed in a "note window" alongside the biblical text by pressing F8, "Note Display", or by selecting "Note Display" from the Display menu. These notes can be edited, printed (with or without the Bible text) or saved as a file for use in other documents. Notes are stored by the Online Bible in a special format which should not be viewed or edited from outside the program. Therefore, the Online Bible provides facilities for editing, importing or exporting the notes as required. The usual method of creating or updating the notes on a particular verse is to press F6, "Edit Note", when the cursor is on the verse for which the note is intended. This will bring up the text editor, along with the existing text of the note (if any). When you have finished editing the note, save it to disk and then press F10, "Quit", to return to the Online Bible. The program will automatically update the note file with the changes. It is possible for the Online Bible to store several different sets of notes■for example, one set for each person who uses the program. Each set of notes has its set of directories. See the "Alternate Notes" in Appendix B on page 110 for details. To export or import the alternate notes, topics or lexicons using this facility, see page 84. Export Note File Notes ┌───────────────────┐ │ Export Note File │ │ Definition Export │ │ Note File Update │ │ Update Definition │ └───────────────────┘ Use this option to create a text file on disk containing the notes on a selected verse, or a specific numbered topic. This text file can be edited and then loaded back into the Online Bible; or it can be used in your own documents. Remember, you can also use F6, "Edit Note" to edit notes, and that notes can also be saved to text files using the "Notes" option in the Print Options menu. When you select "Export Note File" the Online Bible asks you for a biblical reference. You can specify a single verse or a range of verses, using the same format as for setting "Range for Search", described on page 50. You can also use "Export Note File" to save topic information to disk. When asked for a biblical reference, enter a topic number beginning with the "#" character. For example, # 9538 This will create a file on disk called T09538, in the current directory. You can ensure that the current directory is convenient for you by using F7, "DOS Gateway", to change the current directory using DOS. If you specified a biblical passage, separate files will be created for each verse. The file names will use the book and chapter reference, with the verse number as the extension. For example, instructing the Online Bible to export the note file for: Rom 12:1 - Rom 12:6 will create six text files in the current directory, called RO12.1, RO12.2, RO12.3, RO12.4, RO12.5 and RO12.6. You should not alter this file name if you wish the Online Bible to update the note file after you have edited the text. When editing and saving these note files, ensure that the line length does not exceed 65 characters, and that the file is saved in simple ASCII form (use "Program", "ASCII", "Non-Document", "DOS" or equivalent mode in your word processor). The text editor in the Online Bible automatically uses the correct mode. Definition Export Notes ┌───────────────────┐ │ Export Note File │ │ Definition Export │ │ Note File Update │ │ Update Definition │ └───────────────────┘ Use this option to create a text file on disk containing the definition from the lexicon. This text file can be edited and then loaded back into the Online Bible; or it can be used in your own documents. Remember, you can also use F6, "Edit Note" to edit definitions, and that notes can also be saved to text files using the "Word Definition" option in the Print Options menu. When you select "Definition Export", the Online Bible asks you for an Englishman's Strong's number. You can specify any number for the Greek or Hebrew words. Old Testament numbers are always prefixed with a leading "0". When you specify a number, a file will be created containing the definition. The file names will use a five digit number prefixed with "G" for Greek numbers and "H" for Hebrew numbers. No extension is used. For example, instructing the Online Bible to export the definition for: 034 will create the text file in the current directory, called H00034. You should not alter this file name if you wish the Online Bible to update the definition file after you have edited the text. When editing and saving these definitions files, ensure that the line length does not exceed 65 characters, and that the file is saved in simple ASCII form (use "Program", "ASCII", "Non-Document", "DOS" or equivalent mode in your word processor). The text editor in the Online Bible automatically uses the correct mode. Note File Update Notes ┌───────────────────┐ │ Export Note File │ │ Definition Export │ │ Note File Update │ │ Update Definition │ └───────────────────┘ Use this option to update a note or topic file in the Online Bible with the changes you have made to the exported note or topic files. You will be prompted for a biblical reference. The program will look in the current directory for the corresponding file, and will replace your verse notes with the updated notes. Check or alter the current directory using the function key F7, "DOS Gateway". You can specify a range of notes to be updated, in the same way as for "Export Note File" described above. The note file to be updated must be in simple ASCII form with the correct file name; see above under "Export Note File". The correct file name format for files containing ASCII text to be imported as a verse note is the following abbC.V │ │ │ │ │ └───────── Verse Number │ │ │ └─────────── Chapter Number │ └───────────── Book Name Abbreviation (see page 88) If it is a topic you wish to update, the method is exactly the same. Instead of specifying a biblical reference, provide a topic number beginning with the "#" character. For example: # 9538 When updating the topic, the Online Bible will look for a file called T09538 in the current directory. The name of this file must include the letter "T" followed by 5 digits, so you will need to add zeros to the low numbers. For example: T00003 Update Definition Notes ┌───────────────────┐ │ Export Note File │ │ Definition Export │ │ Note File Update │ │ Update Definition │ └───────────────────┘ Use this option to update a definition file in the Online Bible with the changes you have made to the exported definition file. You will be prompted for a Strong's number. The program will look in the current directory for the corresponding file, and will replace your definition with the updated definition. Check or alter the current directory using the function key F7, "DOS Gateway". The definition file to be updated must be in simple ASCII form with the correct file name; see above under "Definition Export". For example: 2301 When updating the definition, the Online Bible will look for a file called G02301 in the current directory. The name of this file must include the letter "G" or "H" followed by 5 digits, so you will need to add zeros to the low numbers. For example: G00003 Special Commands in Notes, Topics and Definition Files You can highlight selected words or phrases in the note or topic or definition. Do this by using two back slash characters together (\\). This special combination will turn highlighting on or off. For example, type the following in order to highlight the words "healing" and "authority": In this passage Jesus makes the link between \\healing\\ and \\authority\\. When viewed in the Online Bible's note screen, these two words will be highlighted for emphasis. This highlighting cannot span lines. You may include commands in the notes that allow you to display other notes. These commands are executed when you use the up or down arrow keys to point to them and then press ENTER. These commands must be on a line by themselves. Otherwise, use the "\\" to highlight them when you place them with other text on a line. Command Action See definition ... 789Display definition number 789. To display an Old Testament number, prefix the number with a leading zero. See topic ... 5901 Display topic 5901. See note ... "Lu 1:4" Display note on the verse Luke 1:4. The note reference must be enclosed in quotes and use the proper biblical book abbreviation. See passage ... "Heb 1:1"Display the passage for Hebrews 1:1 in the Reference window. The passage reference is the same format as the note reference. ... 5901 Displays topic 5901. next 8921 Display next topic 8921. This must be the first line in the topic. This command skips an empty range of topics. In these examples "..." can be any text. Using these commands you can link your notes, topics and definitions to create a chain of up to seven such interconnects. To return to a previous display, just press ESC. Greek in Your Notes Files If you have a VGA or EGA monitor, you can display Greek characters in your verse notes, topics or definitions. Transliterate the Greek according to the following scheme. Only lower case letters can be displayed. Denote the final "s" by using the letter "v". α Alpha a ■ Beta b ■ Gamma g δ Delta d ε Epsilon e ■ Zeta z ■ Eta h ■ Theta y■ Iota i ■ Kappa k ■ Lambda l µ Mu m ■ Nu n ■ Xi x ■ Omicron o π Pi p■ Rho r σ, ■ Sigma s,v τ Tau t ■ Upsilon u φ Phi f ■ Chi c ■ Psi q ■ Omega w Surround the text with the characters "\~". To display the Greek word "■■■■■" or "logos" add the following to your note. \~logov\~ Each new line of Greek must start with the characters "\~". You must specify the final form of the letter "Sigma" for the text to display correctly. Hebrew in Your Notes Files If you have a VGA or EGA monitor you can display Hebrew characters in your verse notes, topics, or definitions. Transliterate the Hebrew according to the following scheme. Note the five letters with distinct final forms (Kaph, Mem, Nun, Peh, and Tsadhe) are mapped into upper case letters, K, M, N, P, and U respectively. ■ Aleph a ■ Beth b ■ Gimel g ■ Daleth d ■ He h ■ Waw w ■ Zayin z ■ Cheth x■ Tet j ■ Yod y ■, ■ Kaph k,K ■ Lamedh l ■, ■ Mem m,M ■, ■ Nun n,N ■ Samekh o ■ Ayin e■, ■ Peh p,P ■, ■ Tsadhe u,U ■ Qoph q ■ Resh r ■ Sin v ■ Shin s ■ Tau t Surround the text with the characters "\^". To display the Hebrew word "■■■■■" or "Abraham" add the following to your note. \^Mhrba\^ Each new line of Hebrew must start with the characters "\^". You must reverse the text and add the final forms for text to display correctly. Cross-References in Notes and Topics It is possible to include cross-references within notes and topics. Of course, you can include biblical references within the text of your note in any case; but by using a special format, the Online Bible can display the full text of these references whenever required. Simply place the reference or references on a separate line, and begin the line with the "#" character. Each line can contain one or more references, separated by spaces, "," or ';". The references can be a single verse, or a whole passage. For example: # joh 10.30-33 ps 45.6 is 7.14 Once included in the note, these references can be viewed in two ways. If the references are in a note (and therefore attached to a particular verse) the Online Bible will treat them as additional cross-references for that verse, so they will be displayed whenever that verse is current and you press F10 to display cross-references. Or, you can display just those references (without the Online Bible's existing cross-references) by displaying the note or topic, moving the arrow keys to point to the cross-references you wish to display, and press ENTER. The Note or Topic window will close, and your list of references will be displayed. Press ESC to return to the note or topic window again. If your note has several lines of cross-references and text, use the up or down arrow keys to position to a line of cross-references. Press ENTER to load just those references into the Scan window. Press ESC to return to your note window. The Options Menu Options ┌────────────────────┐ │ Define Options │ └────────────────────┘ Select the menu by pressing ALT and O together, or by using the left and right cursor keys from one of the other menus. Define Options Options ┌────────────────────┐ │ Define Options │ └────────────────────┘ Use this option to adjust the size or orientation of the scan, note and reference windows, alter the on-screen colours, or change the layout of printed output. ┌──────────────── Define Options ────────────────┐ │ Upper Window Size: 22 │ │ Note Window Row: 10 │ │ Note Window Size: 14 │ │ Characters/Line : 65 │ │ Lines on a Page : 59 │ │ Left Margin Size : 6 │ │ Top Margin Size : 6 │ │ Foreground Colour: Light Grey │ │ Background Colour: Black │ │ Highlight Colour: White │ │ Display Windows: Vertical │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Selecting "Define Options" causes the Define Options menu to appear. Use the up and down cursor keys to choose the setting you wish to change. When the cursor is on a particular setting, use the left and right cursor keys to change its value. For numerical values, the left cursor key decreases the value and the right cursor key increases it. Do not press ENTER until you have made all your selections. Pressing ENTER will exit the Define Options menu and save your changes so that the Online Bible will remember them next time you run the program. If you wish to exit the Define Options menu without making any changes, press ESC. Upper Window Size When horizontal windows are selected, the dividing line between the Scan and Reference windows can be moved up or down by specifying the size of the Scan window (upper window). The maximum size allowed is one line less than the number of lines the screen can display. If your computer has a video card capable of displaying more than 25 lines, the Online Bible automatically senses the display mode in which you are running your monitor, and adjusts the window size limit accordingly. Setting the upper window size to the maximum value causes the Scan and Reference windows to overlap completely. Each search will completely fill the screen with verses as will each passage display. Use the TAB key to alternate between the Scan and Reference windows. This mode of operation works best with multiple versions like the triple version Scholar's package. Note Window Size The note window appears when you ask the Online Bible to display your verse notes, topics and word definitions. It overlaps all or part of the other windows on the screen. The position and maximum size of the note window may vary if you have a screen set to display more than 24 lines. Adjusting the note window size independently will lengthen or shorten the note window without moving the position of the top row. Characters per Line This option sets the number of characters per line when using formatted output (usually for printing directly from the Online Bible). Note that this excludes the left and right margins. Lines per Page This option sets the number of lines per page when using formatted output. Note that this excludes the bottom margin. Left Margin Size This option sets the size of the left margin (in number of characters) when using formatted output. Note that any remaining page width after "Characters per Line" and "Left Margin" have been established will form the right margin. Top Margin Size This option sets the number of lines left blank in the top margin when using formatted output. If you have selected a title to be printed on each page, this will appear below the top margin, not within it. Note that any remaining page length (after the "Top Margin" and "Lines per Page" have been established) will form the bottom margin. The following diagram shows the page layout, with the Online Bible default settings. Page Width 80 Chars ───────────────────────────────────────────────── ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Top │ │ │ │ Margin │ │ │ 6 Lines │ │ │ ┌───────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Characters per Line │ │ │ │ Left │───────── 65 chars ──────────│ Right │ │ Page │ Margin │ │ Margin │ │ Length │ 6 │ │ Lines per Page │ 10 │ │ 59 │ Chars │ │ 53 Lines │ Chars │ │ Lines │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └───────────────────────────────┘ │ │ │ Bottom │ │ │ │ Margin │ │ │ 0 Lines │ │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ This layout is suitable for printers set up for 8½ x 11 paper, with a page width of 80 characters at 10 characters per inch (Pica), and a page length of 59 lines at a line height of 6 lines per inch. If you use A4 metric-sized paper (210 x 297mm), then the following settings should prove suitable: Left Margin: 6 Characters per Line: 65 Top Margin: 6 Lines per Page: 70 Foreground Colour This option alters the screen colours. Most text is shown in this colour. Use the right and left cursor keys to cycle through the available colours. You will be able to see the effect on the screen display as you do so. (Do not change this setting if you have a monochrome monitor.) Background Colour This option alters the screen colours. The screen background is shown in this colour. Use the right and left cursor keys to cycle through the available colours. You will be able to see the effect on the screen as you do so. (Do not change this setting if you have a monochrome monitor.) Highlight Colour This option alters the colour of highlighted text. Use the right and left cursor keys to cycle through the available colours. You will be able to see the effect on the screen as you do so. (Do not change this setting if you have a monochrome monitor.) Scan and Reference Windows The Online Bible gives you the choice of having the Scan window and Reference window side by side (vertical split) or one above the other (horizontal split). Press the right or left cursor keys to change this setting. Note that in vertical mode, the size of the Scan and Reference windows cannot be altered. The Quit Menu Quit ┌──────────────┐ │ Exit Program │ └──────────────┘ Select this option by using the right and left cursor keys from any other menu, or by pressing ALT and Q together. Note that this second method exits you from the Online Bible immediately, so make sure you are ready to exit the program. This option exits from the Online Bible completely. The Function Keys Various operations in the Online Bible can be carried out by means of pressing function keys. These are explained in this section. F1 Context Help Pressing this key at any time brings up an on-screen explanation of that portion of the program on which the cursor currently rests. Press ESC to remove the help information from the screen. F2 Verse List Use this function key to add verses to a verse list (see page 61 for an explanation of verse lists). Using this function will add the verse on which the cursor currently rests to the verse list of your choice. When F2 is pressed, the program will ask you to supply the file name of the verse list you wish to update or create. If it is not in the current directory, you will need to type in the full directory, for example: C:\BIBLE\SERMON.LST A useful short cut is to press the up cursor key, which will automatically type in the last selected file name, if that is the file name desired. After the proper name is in place, press ENTER. If a verse list of that name already exists, the Online Bible will ask if you wish to add to the verse list. "Yes" or "No" is selected using the left or right cursor keys. Select "Yes" to add the verse to the existing verse list. Select "No" to erase the existing verse list and make the new verse the start of a new list. F2 Alternate Notes (Valid when in Note, Topic or Definition window only.) Use this function key when you are displaying a note, topic or definition. This key toggles to the alternate display, which allows you to view up to four sets of notes, as well as an alternate lexicon and topics files. Press F2 to toggle back and restore the original display. See Appendix B on page 103 for the startup parameters needed to display multiple notes, topics and lexicon files. F3 Show Passage Use this function key to display a particular passage from the Bible. When it is pressed, the Online Bible will ask for the reference to the passage required. Use the same format for these as described in the "Range for Search" section on page 50. F4 Show Definition Use this function key to display the definition for a Strong's number. If you press F4 from the scan or reference window, the first number in that window will blink. Use the cursor keys to select the number you wish and press ENTER. Alternately, type any number you wish and press ENTER. Press ESC to return to the previous display. F5 Englishman's Strong's Numbers (Valid only in Scan and Reference windows.) If your version includes the Englishman's Strong's numbers, press F5 to display these numbers. Press F5 to restore the display to normal. NOTE: F5 only switches the numbers for the currently active window, so you can select the display of Strong's numbers for the Scan and Reference windows independently. F5 Display Topic (Valid when in Note, Topic or Definition window only.) Press F5 to display a topic. You will be prompted for a topic number. Enter the number and press ENTER. To return to the original window, press ESC. F6 Select Bible Version Use this function key to switch between Bible versions. It will only operate if you have a combined-mode text module for the Online Bible. On first starting the Scholar's package, each verse will be displayed three times, once in the AV, Darby and Young's version. Press F6, and the Online Bible will show AV only. Press F6 repeatedly to select any combination for display purposes. NOTE: F6 only switches versions for the currently active window, so you can select versions for the Scan and Reference windows independently. F6 Edit Note, Topic or Definition (Valid from Note, Topic or Definition window only.) Use this function key when the Note, Topic or Definition window is open to update the text displayed on the screen. Pressing the key will bring up the text editor, with the note on the current verse displayed in it. If you are editing a note in the text editor, you can check the text of the verse on which you are making a note, by pressing CTRL, holding it down, and pressing N. Return to your note by pressing CTRL, holding it down, and pressing B. Edit the note as required, and then press F1, "File", followed by S, "Save", to save the note. Then press F10, "Quit", to return to the Online Bible. The Online Bible will then update the note file so that the amended note is always available to you in the future. NOTE: The facility to view the text of the verse while editing a note works by using the text editor's Workspace feature. The text of the current verse and the four following verses is stored in Workspace 2. It is possible to copy text from one Workspace to another; see page 95, "Workspaces", for further information. See page 70 for a list of the special commands you can add to your notes, topics or definitions. F7 DOS Gateway Use this function key to exit temporarily to DOS. When it is pressed, the normal DOS system prompt will appear, for example "C:\BIBLE>". You can now give any DOS command or run another program within the limit of remaining DOS memory. When you have finished, return to the DOS prompt and type: exit You will instantly be back in the Online Bible at the point from which you left it. Note: Only exit will return you to the Online Bible. If you type scholar or mm, the system will attempt to load the Online Bible a second time, and probably will report insufficient memory. Note that when you use the DOS Gateway, the Online Bible remains in the computer's memory. There is less memory available for running programs from the Gateway. A very common use of this feature is to change the default DOS directory so you do not have to specify lengthy subdirectory names to save and retrieve files. F8 Note Display Use this function key to display the note window containing the note for the verse on which the cursor is resting. You can scroll through the note using the up and down cursor keys, or the PgUp and PgDn keys. When the note window is displayed, pressing the left or right cursor keys displays the notes for adjacent verses. If the note contains biblical references in the special format (that is, preceded by a "#" character), point the arrows at the line of cross-references you wish to see. Press ENTER; the Note window will close and the Scan window will display those verses. When a note exists, an asterisk appears in the normal text display, next to the verse number. This is a reminder that a note is available for that particular verse. If the verse currently has no notes, F8 will bring up an empty Notes window. To add text to the note, press F6 to enter the text editor. F9 Quick Print Use this key to print or save the current verse to a file (where the current verse is the one on which the cursor is located). If a Note, Topic or Definition window is open, it will be printed. The first time F9 is used, the Online Bible will ask for a file name. The default is PRN, which will print directly to your printer. To write directly to the Windows' clipboard specify a file name of @CB. See page 34 for more details. If you type in a different file name, for example: c:\studies\newstudy then the information will be printed to the disk file you have specified. The text editor will open automatically, allowing you to edit the file if you wish. Edit and save the file in the normal way; or press F10 to return to the Online Bible's main screen. Subsequently, whenever you press F9 the information will be appended to the file you have named. This method allows you easily to add verses, topics and notes to a study file, ready for editing using the text editor or your usual word processor. To reset the quick print file name, press CTRL and C together. This clears all windows and sets the file name back to PRN. F10 Context Use this key when in the Scan window to display the current verse in biblical context. You can then scroll back and forth through the Bible as required. Press F10 again to restore the verse list. F10 Cross-References Use this key when in the Reference window to display cross-references for the current verse. The cross-references will be displayed in the Scan window, replacing any existing verse list. F10 and Alternate Notes, Topics and Lexicons The Online Bible supports up to seven different sets of notes at one time. To select the set of notes you wish as the default set, do the following. Press F8 to display the default note set. Press F2 until the set of notes is displayed that you wish to be the new primary note set. Press F10 to make this the new primary note set. The next time you press F8, this set of notes will be displayed. When you display, print, import or export your notes, this note set is used instead of the original default NOTES set. To change the default to the normal notes set, press F8 to display the current default note set. Press F2 until the set of notes is displayed which you wish to be the new default. Press F10 to lock this set as the new default. You can do the same procedure to make the alternate topics or lexicons the default set for displaying, printing, exporting or importing. F10 Window Format The following diagram shows the three most popular display window formats. Vertical Windows Horizontal Windows Full Screen Windows ┌────────┬────────┐ ┌─────────────────┐ ┌─────────────────┐ │ │ │ │ Scan │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Scan │ │ Scan │ Refer- │ └─────────────────┘ │ or │ │ │ ence │ ┌─────────────────┐ │ Reference │ │ │ │ │ Reference │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └────────┴────────┘ └─────────────────┘ └─────────────────┘ To switch quickly between these various formats, press F10 at the main menu. Continue to press it until the display format that you like appears. In this book we will always use vertical windows for all our illustrations. However, those running screen readers or working with multiple versions may prefer one of the other two formats. Command Keys The following is a summary of all special keys and their function. Controlling Scan and Reference Windows PgUp Scrolls back 5 verses and redisplays PgDn Scrolls forward to next screen of verses CTRL and PgUp (in passages) Moves to start of previous chapter CTRL and PgDn (in passages) Moves to start of next chapter TAB Toggles between Scan and Reference window ESC Returns from Reference to Scan window, or from Scan window to main menu bar (except after a failed search request) CTRL T Toggles display of translators' footnotes in text HOME Display scripture study aid Additional keys for Scan Window ENTER Scrolls window to see next verse Cursor right Scrolls window to see next verse Cursor left Scrolls window to see previous verse Cursor up Skips to start of a series of verses Cursor down Skips to end of series of verses or scrolls window to see next verse when a series (...) is not present Backspace Scrolls window to see previous verse DEL (in verse list) Deletes selected verse from list END (in verse list) Displays last entry in list SHIFT and TAB Copies current verse, in context, to Reference window INS Toggle collapsing of verse list. If on, all verses are displayed instead of separating first and last verse with (...) F10 Toggle verse context off/on Additional keys for Reference Window Cursor up Scrolls window to see previous verse Cursor down Scrolls window to see next verse Controlling Note, Topic, and Definition Windows ENTER Executes the command indicated by pointer arrow on the screen PgDn Displays next page of note or topic PgUp Displays previous page of note or topic Cursor down Scrolls window down to next line Cursor up Scrolls window up to previous line Cursor right Displays note for next verse, or next topic by number Cursor left Displays note for previous verse, or previous topic by number F2 Select Alternate Note, Topic, Definition window F3 Prompts for a reference, to display that passage F4 Prompts for a Strong's number, to display that definition F5 Prompts for topic number, to display that topic F6 Edits current verse note F8 Prompts for a reference, to display that verse note F9 Print text in window F10 Display cross-references in Scan window ESC Returns to Scan or Reference window or previous window (except after a failed search request) HOME Position to Start of Notes. Keys used when Answering Prompts Cursor up Recalls most previous data entry Cursor down Recalls oldest recent data entry Cursor right Moves cursor one position to right Cursor left Moves cursor one position to left BACKSPACE Erases preceding character and closes the gap automatically TAB Moves cursor eight characters to right SHIFT and TAB Moves cursor eight characters to left INSERT Toggles insert and overwrite typing modes. Insert mode is indicated by a larger cursor. SPACEBAR Erases character under cursor without closing the gap DELETE Deletes character under the cursor and closes gap END Toggles cursor to either end of line ENTER Sends completed data line to program ESC Aborts current operation F1 Provides help information F7 Enters DOS Gateway. Type exit and press ENTER to return to the Online Bible Main Menu Speed Keys F1 Provides help information F2 Prompts for a word to search for F3 Prompts for a reference, to display that passage F4 Prompts for a Strong's number, to display that definition F5 Prompts for topic number, to display that topic F6 Selects Version to display in Scan Window F7 Enters DOS gateway. Type exit and press ENTER to return to the Online Bible F8 Prompts for a reference, to display that verse note F9 Prompts for a phrase to search for F10 Select screen window format CTRL C Clear text from all windows and reset the quick print file name to PRN. CTRL T Toggles display of translators' footnotes in text Book Name Abbreviations When you are prompted to specify the books of the Bible with which you want to work, the Online Bible recognises abbreviations. (You can also use the full book name, without spaces, except in the case of the Song of Solomon). Valid abbreviations are given in the following table. As a guide, the first three letters of a book name always work, except for Philemon (Phm) and Jude (J). Capitalisation is optional. Do not enter a space between the book number and the name, for example, Second Chronicles is entered as 2ch not 2 ch. When naming a note file for later import into the Online Bible, always use these abbreviations. Genesis Ge Exodus Ex Leviticus Le Numbers Nu Deuteronomy De Joshua Jos Judges Jud Ruth Ru 1 Samuel 1Sa 2 Samuel 2Sa 1 Kings 1Ki 2 Kings 2Ki 1 Chronicles 1Ch 2 Chronicles 2Ch Ezra Ezr Nehemiah Ne Esther Es Job Job Psalms Ps Proverbs Pr Ecclesiastes Ec Song of Solomon So Isaiah Isa Jeremiah Jer Lamentations La Ezekiel Eze Daniel Da Hosea Ho Joel Joe Amos Am Obadiah Ob Jonah Jon Micah Mic Nahum Na Habakkuk Hab Zephaniah Zep Haggai Hag Zechariah Zec Malachi Mal Matthew Mt Mark Mr Luke Lu John Joh Acts Ac Romans Ro 1 Corinthians 1Co 2 Corinthians 2Co Galatians Ga Ephesians Eph Philippians Php Colossians Col 1 Thessalonians 1Th 2 Thessalonians 2Th 1 Timothy 1Ti 2 Timothy 2Ti Titus Tit Philemon Phm Hebrews Heb James Jas 1 Peter 1Pe 2 Peter 2Pe 1 John 1Jo 2 John 2Jo 3 John 3Jo Jude Jude Revelation Re The following abbreviations are provided for convenience. Judges Jud Canticles Ca Song of Solomon SS Mark Mk Luke Lk John Jno, Jn 1 John 1Jno, 1Jn 2 John 2Jno, 2Jn 3 John 3Jno, 3Jn Other undocumented abbreviations do exist; just be sure of which book you are specifying. All the foreign language modules use the standard set of English abbreviations. This permits you to interchange verse notes and cross-references with any user of the Online Bible, no matter what foreign language module he is using. The Text Editor The text editor supplied with the Online Bible is suitable for a wide variety of tasks. It is used within the Online Bible for editing notes or verse lists, or for other simple typing and printing functions as required. It can also be used without running the Online Bible; simply type: UED at the DOS command prompt to start the program. "UED" stands for "Useful Editor". From within the Online Bible you will invoke the text editor when you press function key F6, "Edit Note". When you have finished working with the text editor, pressing F10, "Quit", will return you to the Online Bible. This text editor has a number of powerful facilities. This section explains the functions you will use most often in editing notes, verse lists, writing letters or sermon notes. Further on, you will find instructions about the more advanced features. This means you can start using the text editor once you have grasped the basic operation, while the more advanced features are available for reference or as you need them. Screen Layout The text editor uses the top 22 lines of the screen to display the text being edited. Consider this as a window (80 columns wide and 22 lines deep) into the text working area (workspace). This window is bordered on the top and sides by the edge of the screen, and bounded on the bottom by an inverse line. On the screen is a cursor. The inverse line is called the status line. The status line contains information about the name of the file you are editing as well as the line and column position of the cursor. Below the status line are the command lines. The functions available to you are displayed on these two lines alongside the number of the function key by which they operate. 1 Line 1 Col 8 F1 File F3 Search F5 Cut F7 Dos F9 Text Ctrl Cursor... F2 Workspace F4 Print F6 Paste F8 Split F10 Quit Alt Delete... Moving the Cursor The cursor is moved by the following keys. Moving the cursor will cause the text window to scroll when necessary. Cursor up Moves the cursor up one line of text Cursor down Moves the cursor down one line of text Cursor right Moves the cursor right one character Cursor left Moves the cursor left one character HOME Moves the cursor to the first character on the current line. If you are already on the first character, it moves the cursor to column 1 END Moves the cursor one position past the last character on the current line PgUp Moves the cursor up one screen of text PgDn Moves the cursor down one screen of text CTRL and cursor rightMoves the cursor to the beginning of the next word CTRL and cursor leftMoves the cursor to the beginning of the previous word CTRL and G Asks for a line number, then moves the cursor to the line number entered (such as a "GoTo" line number) CTRL and HOME Moves cursor to the first line of the current file CTRL and END Moves cursor to one line past the end of the current file Entering Text To enter text, position the cursor where you want the text to be added and then type. If you make a mistake use the BACKSPACE or DEL key to erase the error. The text editor has "insert" or "overwrite" modes. You can toggle between them by pressing the INS key. In insert mode (shown by the cursor appearing as a solid block), the characters to the right of the cursor, including the one on which the cursor rests, will advance to the right when you enter text. In overwrite mode (shown by the cursor appearing as a flashing thin bar), characters to the right of the cursor will be overwritten as you type. When you are entering text, pressing ENTER moves the cursor down one line and positions it at the current level of indentation (see "Indentation" below). In insert mode, a new line is created immediately after the current line, and any text to the right of and including the cursor character is moved down with the cursor. Pressing TAB will move the cursor to the next tab stop. (These are set by UEDCFG. See "Configuring the Text Editor" on page 101.) SHIFT TAB will move the cursor to the next tab stop to the left of the present cursor position. You will normally find it convenient to use the "Word wrap" feature. Press F9, "Text", followed by W, "Word Wrap", to select or deselect this. When selected, a solid bar will appear down the right of the screen. This line marks the right margin. Any word that is incomplete when you reach the right margin is moved down to the next line. You can alter the position of the right margin; see the section on "Page Layout Options" on page 100. You can instruct the text editor to start up with "Word Wrap" off. This is explained in the section "Configuring the Text Editor" on page 101. Indentation When you press the ENTER key, the cursor moves down one line and is positioned under the first character of the current line. This makes it easy to enter blocks of indented text. Similarly, when paragraphs are reformatted (see below) the program looks at the leading spaces on the second line of a paragraph to determine where to place the left margin. Any positive or negative indentation on the first line will be preserved. Pressing CTRL and O together (Outdent) moves the cursor left to the previous level of indentation, which it determines by looking up in the workspace. Reformatting Text When inserting and deleting text, you will notice that the text format becomes messy, with short and long lines appearing. After you have made your corrections, press F9, "Text", followed by R, "Reformat paragraph", to correct the format. A paragraph in the text editor is any block of text separated above and below by at least one blank line. Deletions Characters are deleted with the following keys: DEL Deletes the character under the cursor. Any text to the right of that character is moved to the left to fill the gap. BACKSPACE Moves the cursor left one character. In insert mode, the character to the left of the cursor is deleted and all text from the cursor position rightward moves to the left. Also in insert mode, if the cursor is in column 1, the current line is moved up and is joined to the previous line. ALT and W (Word) Deletes the word under the cursor. If the cursor is not on a word, the first word to the left of the cursor, (if there is one,) is deleted. ALT and B (Beginning of Line) Deletes all the text to the left of the cursor. The remaining text and the cursor move left to align with the current level of indentation. ALT and E (End of Line) Deletes all of the text on a line to the right of and including the character under the cursor. ALT and L (Line) Deletes the line that the cursor is on. Naming a Document Before you save a document, it is important to give it a name. If you have entered the text editor from the Online Bible using "Edit Note" or "Edit Verse List", your document will already have a name which will be used by the Online Bible to update its records. If you do not wish to amend the Online Bible records, it will be necessary to change the document name before you save it and return to the Online Bible. To name or rename a document, press F1, "File", followed by N, "Name". You will be asked to enter a name. If you are going to save the document in a directory other than the current directory, you will need to specify the directory as well as the file name. For example: C:\LETTERS\LETTER.TXT Press ENTER to give the document the name you have entered. You can use this procedure to change the name at any time. If you enter a name that is the same as one on your disk in the current directory, you will be asked to verify that you really want to use that name; this is because of the risk of overwriting a valuable document. Saving a Document Once you are sure that the document is correctly named, save it by pressing F1, "File", followed by S, "Save". The document will be saved in the current directory, or the directory you specified when naming the document. Loading a Document Press F1, "File", followed by L, "Load". You will be asked to enter the name of a file. If the document is not in the current directory, you will need to specify the full directory as well as the file name. Text will be merged into the workspace at the cursor position; any existing text will be moved to make room for it. Start with an empty workspace if you do not wish to merge with another document. If you are unsure of a file name, pressing ENTER will provide you with a list of all the files available in the current directory. You then can select a file for editing by using the cursor keys and pressing ENTER. WARNING: Do not try to edit non-ASCII files! If you do load a non-ASCII file by mistake, immediately, press F1, "File", followed by C, "Clear", and try again. Clearing the Workspace Press F1, "File", followed by C, "Clear", to erase the contents of the workspace. Printing a Document Press F4, "Print", to send the contents of the workspace to your printer. Make sure the printer is on and ready to print. The text editor assumes the printer is connected to the LPT1 port. Make sure the text is formatted as you want it before printing. Text Editor Additional Features The preceding information is all you need to use the text editor. This section describes the additional advanced features of the text editor. Workspaces You can load up to nine files into the text editor simultaneously. Each file will have its own workspace. A workspace can be up to 1,000 characters wide and 16,000 lines deep. Each workspace is numbered from 1 to 9, and the F2 "Workspace" key can be used to switch between them. The number of the current workspace is shown at the left end of the status line. You can also switch to the previous workspace by pressing CTRL and B together (Back); and to the next by pressing CTRL and N together (Next). A further workspace is available: workspace 0. This is used by the text editor as a clipboard when cut and paste operations are used (see below). Do not work on documents in workspace 0■your document will be deleted automatically by the first cut and paste operation you do! When you press F2, "Workspace", the status information regarding workspaces is displayed as follows: "->" This symbol appears to the left of a workspace number if that workspace has been used at any time during the current edit session. "*" When this symbol appears immediately after a workspace number it means that the workspace has been changed by the user in some way since it was last loaded or saved. "<-" This arrow points to the number of the workspace that is currently being displayed in the active window. To move between workspaces use the following keys: Cursor left Displays the previous (lower numbered) workspace Cursor rightDisplays the next (higher numbered) workspace ENTER Moves to the workspace indicated by the current display arrow (<-). 0-9 Moves directly to the workspace for that number ESC Returns to the workspace that was active when the F2, "Workspace", command was pressed. Search and Replace Using the F3, "Search" key, allows you to find strings of text or "patterns" within the text of the current workspace and optionally to substitute a replacement string of your choice. The following commands are available when you press F3: C (Count) Displays the total number of times that the search pattern appears in the text of the current workspace. F (Fix) Substitutes the replacement string for a pattern string provided that the cursor is on a piece of text matching the pattern (the text will be highlighted). G (Global) Changes all instances of text in the current workspace matching the pattern string to the replacement string. P (Pattern) Prompts for a search pattern. If the pattern entered is all in lower case, searches will be case insensitive. If any of the letters in the pattern are in upper case, the workspace text and pattern must be exactly the same for a match to occur. R (Replacement) Prompts for a replacement string. The replacement string can be empty, which has the effect of deleting the pattern when a fix or global substitution is applied. PgUp Moves the cursor to the previous occurrence of the pattern in the current workspace. If there are no more matches, the cursor moves to the beginning of the workspace. PgDn Moves the cursor to the next occurrence of the pattern in the current workspace. If there are no more matches, the cursor moves to the end of the workspace. When P or R are pressed, the respective pattern or replacement string will be cleared in anticipation of a new pattern or replacement string. However, you will be able to restore the previous pattern or replacement string for re-use or editing by pressing the Up Arrow at the prompt. Cutting and Pasting Pressing the "F5 (`Cut') key", allows you to select a block of text which can subsequently be deleted, copied, or moved. Text selection begins at the current cursor position. As you move the cursor around (using the standard cursor movement keys) the selected text is marked by highlighting. The selection ends when you press the "Copy", "Delete", or "Move" command keys. How the text gets marked depends on the Cut mode that you are in. The three Cut styles are: B (Block) A rectangular block of text L (Line) Whole lines of text only R (Range) All the text from one selected position in the text to another. Whenever you select a block of text and copy, move, or delete it, the selected text is copied to workspace 0. Workspace 0 thus acts as the clipboard or cut buffer for the text editor. The former contents of workspace 0 are lost when newly selected text is copied to it. Do not use workspace 0 to edit documents. Once marked, there are four operations that can be performed on the highlighted text: C (Copy) Copies the selected text to workspace 0. D (Delete)Copies the selected text to workspace 0 and removes it from the current workspace. M (Move) Copies the selected text to workspace 0 and removes it from the workspace. It then prompts you to position the cursor where (within the same document workspace) you want the text moved. When you press ENTER to complete the operation, the selected text is copied to the new location. +/- Shifts the highlighted text right (+) or left (-) within the blank space range. Text cannot be shifted over text that is not highlighted. You will notice that the highlighting remains. This is so that after shifting you can perform one of the other Cut operations, or press ESC to quit the Cut command. To paste text which you have copied or deleted using the Cut feature, press function key F6, "Paste". This command copies the text from workspace 0 into the current workspace at the current cursor position. If you are in insert mode, the workspace text is moved to make room for the text being added. Care should be exercised when you are in overwrite mode as the text to be pasted will completely replace the text in that position in the current workspace. If more than two lines of text are being pasted and you are in overwrite mode, you will be asked to verify that you really want to paste. Temporarily using DOS Pressing function key F7, "DOS", exits temporarily to the DOS prompt. It is similar in function to the DOS Gateway in the Online Bible. To return to the text editor from the DOS prompt type: exit and press ENTER. When executing this function, the text editor looks at the environment variable COMSPEC= for the name of the secondary command processor. This is usually COMMAND.COM. The function will fail if: COMSPEC= is not set in the environment The command processor indicated by COMSPEC could not be found There is not enough memory to run the command processor The Inactive Cursor There are two cursors in the text editor. At startup, both are positioned in the upper left hand corner. When you move the active cursor, the inactive cursor remains where it is. You can move the active cursor to the inactive position by pressing CTRL and F together (Flip). The position from which you moved becomes the inactive cursor position. The inactive cursor can be used as a marker in your text, to which you can return very quickly. It is also important when using F8, "Split". (See the following section.) Viewing Two Files at Once It is possible to view two sections of text simultaneously, either in the same or different workspaces. Pressing function key F8, "Split", splits the text window horizontally at the current cursor position. A second status line appears separating the two windows. The upper window shows the text at the active cursor, while the lower window shows the text at the inactive cursor position. You can flip between the windows using the CTRL F command. Both windows can view the same workspace, or each can be positioned on a different workspace. If they are both positioned over the same portion of text, changes made in one will be echoed to the other. Also, if both windows are viewing the same workspace, a change to one window will immediately take effect in the other window, even if the results cannot be immediately observed on the screen. Pressing F8 a second time expands (zooms) the window containing the active cursor to the full screen. The window containing the text pointed to by the inactive cursor will no longer be displayed. Page Layout Options Pressing F9, "Text", offers some simple page layout options. E (Enter Right Margin) Prompts for the column that you want words to wrap at. The column must be in the range 20 to 250. The right margin line will appear and/or move to that margin. S (Set Right Margin) Places the right margin one character position past the longest line in the current paragraph (i.e. the one that the cursor is on). The right margin line will appear and/or be moved to that position. R (Reformat Paragraph) Adjusts the text in the current paragraph so that each line has the maximum number of words between the margins. The left margin is determined by looking at the number of spaces preceding the second line of the paragraph. The right margin is set with one of the above commands. W (Word Wrap) Turns the word wrap feature "On" or "Off". 25, 28, 43, 50 (Lines) Changes the number of lines displayed on the screen. This option is only available if you have an EGA or VGA monitor, and is set by using UEDCFG (see page 101). Autoloading Files When you load the text editor from the DOS prompt, you can autoload files which will be immediately available for editing. Simply add the name or names of the files as parameters. For example, type: UED LETTER.ASC SERMON.TXT MEMO.DOC to start up the text editor with a document called LETTER.ASC in workspace 1, SERMON.TXT in workspace 2, and MEMO.DOC in workspace 3. Up to nine file names can be specified on the command line and can contain WILDCARD characters (e.g., UED *.DOC). If the files exist on disk they will be loaded; otherwise blank files with those names will be created by the text editor. If WILDCARD characters are used, then all matching file names will be loaded into separate workspaces up to the limit of nine files. Piping to the text editor is allowed. For example, if you typed the command: DIR | UED then a directory listing would be loaded into the text editor with the filename PIPED. Configuring the Text Editor A separate program, UEDCFG.EXE, is provided to modify the Text Editor with some of your own preferences. When you run this program, you must ensure that UED.EXE is in the current directory. Follow the prompts for the configuration program to customise UED. APPENDIX A Additional Online Bible Documentation Additional documentation for the Online Bible is stored in the topics files. Since this information is not of general interest, it is not included in this manual. See topic 9901 for an index to this documentation. These topics include the following: Authorised Version Notes Authorised Version Variations Books you should have in your Library Bulletin Board Support Short History of the Online Bible Licensing Online Bible Material for Commercial Use Preparation of Englishman's Strong's Numbers Software Distribution Procedure Updating Spelling Dictionary for Word Perfect Using MS-DOS Effectively Using OS/2 Effectively APPENDIX B Startup Parameters Most users of the Online Bible will not require any special parameters. However, the program can be fine-tuned to meet special needs by using the optional parameters described below when starting from the DOS command line. The Online Bible recognises these command line parameters: Abbrev.Parameter Description BB Bulletin BoardBulletin Board Operation BI BIOS Screen BIOS option BW Black & WhiteForce Black and White displays DP Default Path Default path used to create all files L Lexicon Directory for lexicon files 2L 2Lexicon Alternate lexicon files M Memory Amount of memory to leave free MO Mouse Active mouse support N Notes Directory for primary notes files 2N 2Notes Directory for alternate set of notes files NOF Nofonts Do not load Greek/Hebrew fonts T Topics Directory for primary topics files 2T 2Topics Directory for alternate set of topics files U User Files Directory for user files on a network V VI Visually-impaired option Bulletin Board Operation (BB) The optional parameter "bb" on the startup command line invokes the Bulletin Board Option. This protects the host computer when the Online Bible is used through a "door" on a bulletin board. The user cannot create any files on the host system, nor escape to DOS. All function keys are mapped to ASCII control keys. All extended ASCII characters are remapped for display on a dumb TTY terminal. If your bulletin board software requires all screen output using the BIOS, use the following option: scholar bb bi Screen BIOS Option (BI) The optional parameter BI on the startup command line invokes the Screen BIOS Option. This forces the Online Bible to perform all screen I/O through the BIOS. Some of the "screen readers" used by visually- impaired persons may require this option to work correctly. Black and White (BW) The optional parameter BW forces black and white displays on colour adapters. The startup procedure automatically supplies this if you specify you have a black and white display. On most portable computers with LCD screens, this parameter significantly improves the readability of the screen displays. Default Path (DP) This parameter sets the default path to read and write all user created files like verse notes, topics and so forth. When running on a CD-ROM use this option to specify a path on a read/write disk. Otherwise, you will not be able to save your files. When you specify a file name without a path, this path will be used to access the file. If you wanted all your files in the directory "c:\wp51", do this: mm dp=c:\wp51 Lexicons (L) The optional parameter L on the startup line specifies the path to the drive and directory which contains your lexicons. These five directories are normally under the BIBLE directory. You must move them all if you wish to use this parameter. These directories are called: GREEK00, GREEK03 HEBREW00, HEBREW03, HEBREW06 Do not store your word studies in these lexicons otherwise you will lose your studies when the lexicon is replaced. Alternate Lexicons (2L) The optional parameter 2L on the startup line specifies the path to the drive and directory which contains your alternate lexicons. These five directories are normally under the BIBLE directory. You must move them all if you wish to use this parameter. These directories are called: 2GREEK00, 2GREEK03 2HEBRE00, 2HEBRE03, 2HEBRE06 Use these directories to store your word studies. They are accessed by pressing F2 in the Definition window. Do not store your word studies in the primary lexicon otherwise you will lose them when you update the lexicon with a newer version. Amount of Memory to Leave Free (M) The optional parameter M (or MEM) on the startup command line specifies how much memory the Online Bible will leave free while running. Without this parameter, the program pre-loads as many of its own files as possible into memory, so it can operate as quickly as possible. However, if you want to run another program in the DOS Gateway there must be sufficient free memory to do so■usually, at least 64K. EXAMPLE: to make the free memory 64K, use the following command line for starting the Online Bible: mm mem=64 If you specify too large an amount of free memory, this will leave insufficient memory for the Online Bible itself to run and it will abort during start up. The program will also run more slowly if there is insufficient memory to load its index files into memory. To obtain the absolute maximum amount of free memory, specify mem=999 and no program files will be loaded into memory. You are unlikely to need this option if you have a 640K computer and use the supplied text editor. Activate Mouse (MO) Normally the mouse support is disabled. The mouse support is very basic. To use your mouse, start the program as follows. mm mouse The left button acts as a PgDn key and the right button as a PgUp key. The mouse movements are translated into the four cursor keys. A double click of the left mouse button acts as an ESC key and a double click on the right mouse button key acts as an ENTER key. Directories Containing Notes (N) The optional parameter N on the startup command line specifies the path to the drive and directory which contains your primary verse notes. The installation automatically adds this value to the MM.BAT batch file, so you should not normally need to specify it. The standard notes directories are: NOTES00, NOTES03, NOTES06, NOTES09, NOTES12, NOTES15, NOTES18, NOTES21, NOTES24, NOTES27, NOTES30 The map file, NOTES.MAP is normally stored in your main Bible directory. Because this option lets you select the drive, you can keep your notes on floppy disks■useful if your hard drive is quite full or if you keep your notes on a different hard drive partition from that of the basic Online Bible operating files. This parameter on the startup command line allows several people to have their own personal notes for each verse. Otherwise, everyone's notes for the same verse would be mixed together. Full details for using this parameter are found on page 110 under "Alternate Notes". Alternate Notes Directories (2N) You can access up to seven different sets of notes from the Online Bible. The parameter "N" specifies the primary note set. The optional parameter "2N" specifies the paths to the drives and directories for up to six secondary note sets. When you display a verse note, you may examine the alternate notes by pressing F2. The alternate notes will display in the notes window, and the name of the notes set will display as part of the notes window title. If your note prefix was "Roberts" the first six characters of the prefix is used for the notes directories as follows: ROBERT00, ROBERT03, ROBERT06, ROBERT09, ROBERT12, ROBERT15 ROBERT18, ROBERT21, ROBERT24, ROBERT27, ROBERT30 The map file ROBERTS.MAP is normally stored in your main Bible directory. Full details for using this parameter will be found on page 110 under "Alternate Notes". Nofonts (NOF) This option prevents the loading of the Greek/Hebrew fonts into your EGA/VGA adapter. Use this option if your screen displays are not normal or show unusual characters. This means that your adapter does not conform to the EGA/VGA standard. Older adapters and some laptops may experience this problem. To specify this, do this: mm nofonts Topics (T) The optional parameter T on the startup command line specifies the drive and directory of your topics directories. The installation automatically adds this parameter to the MM.BAT file, so you should not normally need to specify it. The topics' directories are called: TOPICS00, TOPICS03, TOPICS06, TOPICS09, TOPICS12, TOPICS15 TOPICS18, TOPICS21, TOPICS24, TOPICS27, TOPICS30 Alternate Topics (2T) The optional parameter "2T" specifies a path to the drive and directory containing an alternate set of topics files. You should not normally need to specify it. Use the alternate topics to make all your topical entries. To access the alternate topics, display a topic and press F2. The alternate topics' directories are called: 2TOPIC00, 2TOPIC03, 2TOPIC06, 2TOPIC09, 2TOPIC12, 2TOPIC15 2TOPIC18, 2TOPIC21, 2TOPIC24, 2TOPIC27, 2TOPIC30 User File Directory (U) When running from a CD-ROM or a network server, use this option to specify the location of the files the user will update. The network install option initialises this directory so the user may keep his own personal option settings, notes, topics and lexicon updates and so forth. You do not normally need to specify this parameter. Visually-impaired option (VI) The optional parameter VI on the startup command line invokes a slightly different operation of the Online Bible: It suppresses most of the special characters (such as borders) that normally appear on screen displays, so that reading devices will not mistake them for text and attempt to read them. It uses highlighting rather than reverse video for status information. It displays text in the Scan and Reference windows one verse at a time, suppressing the context verses so the reading devices do not keep repeating them every time you scroll the window one verse forward. To allow the full context, press F10 when the cursor is in the Scan window. This then switches both Scan and Reference windows to display the context verses. These changes make the Online Bible more compatible with add-on systems which can read the screen to assist the visually-impaired. Some of these systems also require that all programs must use the BIOS for screen I/O. If that is the case, specify the BIOS option: mm vi bios OLB Environment Variable You can set parameters using the DOS environment variable OLB rather than specifying them each time you start the Mini-Menu. At the DOS prompt, issue the command: set olb=bios 2n tsk This causes all output to be redirected through the BIOS and the second note set to the "Treasury of Scripture Knowledge" notes. Do not place an "=" between "2n" and "tsk". When you start the Mini-Menu, the Online Bible will use these parameters. You may wish to add this SET command to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Then each time you start your computer these parameters will be used by the Online Bible. If you specify parameters on the Mini-Menu, these new values will replace the ones you defined with the SET command. These new values will not be changed until you issue a new SET command or invoke the Mini-Menu with different parameters. BIBLE.INI Parameter File You can use this file to supply parameters to the Online Bible. The format is the same as you would use if you were specifying the parameters on the command line. Note that blank lines and lines whose first non-blank character is a ";" or a "[" are ignored and treated as comments. Place this file in the same hard disk directory you used to install the Online Bible in. The following is a sample BIBLE.INI file you may use as a guide. [Online Bible Parameters] ; ? = drive letter from D = parameter ; Default Path ;dp=f: * value not specified, commented out. [Lexicons] l=?:\bible 2l=?:\bible [Topics] t=?:\bible\topics 2t=?:\bible\2topics ; Notes maximum of one primary and six secondaries note files ; notes on E drive are on my CD-ROM [Notes] n=?:\bible\notes 2n=?:\bible\tsk 2n=?:\bible\gill 2n=e:\olb\bible\geneva 2n=?:\bible\ent 2n=?:\bible\pnt 2n=e:\olb\bible\rwp ;2n=?:\bible\psalms * not in notes' carousel ;2n=?:\bible\tfg * not in notes' carousel Alternate Notes, Topics and Lexicons You can examine up to seven different sets of notes. If you installed the optional "Treasury of Scripture Knowledge", this is automatically added as an alternate notes by the Online Bible. When you display a verse note, press F2 to select an alternate note. The note identifier is displayed as part of the title for the note window screen. To redisplay your original note, press F2 until it reappears. You can create another set of notes with which to work. If several people are using the Online Bible, each could have a separate set of notes. Also, if you are working on several different projects, you can have separate notes files for each project. You will need to create a new set of notes directories. If you do not understand the following instructions, ignore this section, or ask someone familiar with DOS to carry them out for you. Notes are stored in eleven directories, which are sub-directories of the directory where the Online Bible program is stored. To create a new set of directories, exit the Online Bible by quitting the program. Make the current directory the directory where the Online Bible is stored■usually a directory called BIBLE. You need to run a batch file called NOTES.BAT to create these. For example, type: NOTES * MARY at the DOS prompt to create a set of notes directories in the same directory as the Bible program with the prefix "Mary". The new set of notes can be made active automatically when starting up the Online Bible. Instead of just typing MM, start the program by typing: mm 2n=mary where "Mary" is the new note prefix. You can access these by pressing F2 from your notes window. Alternatively, you can set the OLB environment variable to automatically add these values to the Mini- Menu. The "2n" parameter can be used to specify up to six different sets of alternate notes. Suppose you created a note set for "mary", "tsk" and "project2". Type the following: mm 2n=mary 2n=tsk 2n=project2 Use F2 in the note window to toggle between these note sets. A set of alternate lexicon directories is automatically created for you by the install procedure. Use these to store your word studies. Then, when we update the lexicon, you will not lose your word studies. Use F2 to toggle between the regular definitions and the alternate lexicon entries. A set of alternate topics directories is automatically created for you by the install procedure. Use these to store your topical entries. Then, when we update the primary topics, you will not lose your topical entries. Use F2 to toggle between the regular topics and the alternate topical entries. Appendix C Installing the Online Bible as a TSR If you are using Windows, use the Windows' clipboard instead of the TSR to import data into your word processor. See page 34 for the details. By installing the Online Bible as a TSR, you can have biblical passages typed automatically into your usual word processor without having to exit the word processor to run the Online Bible. To install the Online Bible as a TSR, add the following line to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file: call _SCHOLAR For DOS 3.2 and earlier add this line instead. command/c _SCHOLAR Note if you have other versions, e.g. AV_NIV or AV_RSV, then the TSR name would be _AV_NIV or _AV_RSV instead of _SCHOLAR. Alter the examples in this section to reflect the version you have. The next time you reboot your computer system, the batch file called _SCHOLAR.BAT will be run and the Online Bible will be installed as a TSR. When the TSR loads, it asks you to press a key combination which will be used to activate the TSR. You will need to choose a key combination that does not conflict with key combinations already used by your word processor. This means that function keys are not suitable, as most word processors use all of these for other purposes. It is best to choose a combination of ALT or CTRL with a letter of your choice, for example: ALT M The TSR will then display an internal code for the key you have specified. For example, ALT-M on some keyboards has the number 2098. You can avoid being prompted for this "hot key" every time the TSR loads. Simply add the code for your hot key to the line in AUTOEXEC.BAT which starts the TSR, for example: call _SCHOLAR 2098 Using the TSR To copy a biblical passage into your word processor text, press the chosen key combination to activate the TSR. A window will open prompting you for the verse range to copy. Specify the range (using the usual Online Bible format) and press ENTER. The window closes and the passage will be typed into your word processor for you. By default, the version copied will be the AV. If you require the Darby text, then type: /DBY before specifying the passage. Then, the Darby text will be copied. The following would copy John 1:1 to verse 5 into the text: /DBY jo 1.1-5 Copying Text with Footnotes and Alternate Readings To include the translators' footnotes with the passage, John 1:12, from the AV, add a "+" after the version as follows: /AV+ jo 1:12 To include the variant readings in the passage, John 1:12 from the AV, add a "=" after the version as follows: /AV= jo 1:12 To include both, specify "+=" or "=+" after the version as follows: /AV+= jo 1:12 Problems with the TSR Adding a Delay Some Word Processors (including Professional Write) need a delay before the TSR is activated in order for the TSR to operate correctly. What the delay is depends on the computer system you use. To specify a delay, add it to the end of the TSR command in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. For example: _SCHOLAR 2098-5 This examples adds a delay of 5. If there are still problems, try increasing the delay. MS-DOS 5.0 If you have problems running the TSR under DOS 5.0, add the following parameter to your CONFIG.SYS file: stacks=16,128 Note that the TSR does not work with the MS-DOS 5.0 editor. Graphic Word Processors Some word processors display text information in graphics mode instead of text mode. The TSR does not switch the video adapter into text mode to display its "Enter Passage: " prompt. In such cases, when you press your hot key, enter the passage even though you cannot see the prompt on the screen. The TSR will type that passage into your word processor. If this does not work, try using the TSR with the UED editor to verify you have installed the TSR correctly. Other Problems Because of the way TSR's operate, there is always a possibility that your particular word processor may conflict in some way with the Online Bible TSR. This facility thus may not be available to you. However, it has been successfully tested with many different word processors on different computer systems. God's Simple Plan of Salvation My friend: I am asking you the most important question of your life. Your joy or your sorrow for all eternity depends upon your answer. The question is: Are you saved? It is not a question of how good you are, nor if you are a church member, but are you saved? Are you sure you will go to Heaven when you die? God says in order to go to Heaven, you must be born again. In John 3:7, Jesus said to Nicodemus, "Ye must be born again." In the Bible, God gives us the plan of how to be born again which means to be saved. His plan is simple! You can be saved today. How? First, my friend, you must realise you are a sinner. "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23). Because you are a sinner, you are condemned to die. "For the wages [payment] of sin is death" (Romans 6:23). This includes eternal separation from God in Hell. "... it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment" (Hebrews 9:27). But God loved you so much he gave his only begotten Son, Jesus, to bear your sin and die in your place. "For he hath made him [Jesus, who knew no sin] to be sin for us ... that we might be made the righteousness of God in him" (2 Corinthians 5:21). Jesus had to shed his blood and die. "For the life of the flesh is in the blood" (Leviticus 17:11) "... without shedding of blood is no remission [pardon]" (Hebrews 9:22). "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8). Although we cannot understand how, God said my sins and your sins were laid upon Jesus and he died in our place. He became our substitute. It is true. God cannot lie. My friend, "God ... now commandeth all men every where to repent" (Acts 17:30). This repentance is a change of mind that agrees with God that one is a sinner, and also agrees with what Jesus did for us on the cross. In Acts 16:30-31, the Philippian jailer asked Paul and Silas: "... `Sirs, what must I do to be saved?' And they said, `Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved... .'" Simply believe on him as the one who bore your sin, died in your place, was buried, and whom God resurrected. His resurrection powerfully assures that the believer can claim everlasting life when Jesus is received as Saviour. "But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name" (John 1:12). "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved" (Romans 10:13). Whosoever includes you. Shall be saved means not maybe, nor can, but shall be saved. Surely, you realise you are a sinner. Right now, wherever you are, repenting, lift your heart to God in prayer. In Luke 18:13, a sinner prayed: "God be merciful to me a sinner." Just pray: "Oh, God, I know I am a sinner. I believe Jesus was my substitute when he died on the cross. I believe his shed blood, death, burial, and resurrection were for me. I now receive him as my Saviour. I thank you for the forgiveness of my sins, the gift of salvation and everlasting life, because of your merciful grace. Amen." Just take God at his word and claim his salvation by faith. Believe, and you will be saved. No church, no lodge, no good works can save you. Remember, God does the saving. All of it! God's simple plan of salvation is: You are a sinner. Therefore, unless you believe on Jesus who died in your place, you will spend eternity in Hell. If you believe on him as your crucified, buried, and risen Saviour, you receive forgiveness for all of your sins and his gift of eternal salvation by faith. You say, "Surely, it cannot be that simple." Yes, that simple! It is scriptural. It is God's plan. My friend, believe on Jesus and receive him as Saviour today. If his plan is not perfectly clear, read this tract over and over, without laying it down until you understand it. Your soul is worth more than all the world. "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" (Mark 8:36). Be sure you are saved. If you lose your soul, you miss Heaven and lose all. Please! Let God save you this very moment. God's power will save you, keep you saved and enable you to live a victorious Christian life. "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it" (1 Corinthians 10:13). Do not trust your feelings. They change. Stand on God's promises. They never change. After you are saved, there are three things to practise daily for spiritual growth: Pray■you talk to God. Read your Bible■God talks to you. Witness■you talk for God. You should be baptised in obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ, as a public testimony of your salvation, and then unite with a Bible- believing church without delay. "Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord ..." (2 Timothy 1:8). "Whosoever therefore shall confess [testify of] me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven" (Matthew 10:32). Additional Helpful Verses John 3:16, 1 Peter 2:24 Isaiah 53:6, James 1:15, Romans 10:9-10 Ephesians 2:8-9, Proverbs 27:1 1 Corinthians 15:3-4, John 10:27-31, 1 John 5:13 If you are saved through reading this tract, send us word so we may rejoice with you. Lifegate Inc., Box 1771, Martinsville, IN, 46151-0771.