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BW 9.0 quick reinstallation?

Martinzh — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:25:57 GMT

I'm about to format my computer and re-install all the software. I wonder is there anyway for quick re-installation?
I have some user-created notes and documents from other resource which were added later. I wonder how can I restore these?
Is there any tutorial?

Thank you very much!

Remapping the unicode keyboard map

tabiblia — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 04:37:31 GMT

I've used the bwgrkl font since the 1990s with BW 4.0. I'm so used to typing Greek in this font that I do so without even thinking about keystrokes. But now I'm trying to use unicode instead of a TT font like Bwgrkl and am having the most difficult time with the keyboard arrangement for Greek in unicode. Omega is v, why not w? Upsilon is y, why not u? etc.

Is there a simple way to remap the unicode keyboard map so it matches bwgrkl exactly?

Thanks in advance.

non-Unicode Hebrew to Unicode & removing vowel points

Martinzh — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 03:05:22 GMT

I wonder is there any good way to convert non-Unicode Hebrew (Bwhebb) to Unicode (such as SBL Hebrew and Ezra SIL) font?
I tried the macro I found in the help document, but it has problems.

Take Gen 6:5 for example,

After the conversion (I choose Ezra SIL in this case):

I don't know what is the problem.

I use Microsoft Word 2010.

The code is attached below.

My second question is: How to remove all the vowels in this document? (I don't even care whether the vowels are correct or not. My purpose is to convert all the Hebrew words to Unicode and then remove all the vowels.)

Thank you very much!

Macro:

Sub ConvertAllBwHeb2Unicode()
ConvertBwHeb2Unicode "bwhebb", "Ezra SIL", True
End Sub

Sub ConvertBwHeb2Unicode(fromfont$, tofont$, doentirefile)

Dim o As Object

Dim ucstr As Variant

ReDim ucstr(1024) As Long

If (doentirefile = True) Then Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdStory

Set o = CreateObject("bibleworks.automation")

Application.ScreenUpdating = True

icheck = 0

While (icheck = 0)

Selection.Find.ClearFormatting

With Selection.Find

.Font.Name = fromfont$

.Text = ""

.Replacement.Text = ""

.Forward = True

.Wrap = wdFindStop

.Format = True

.MatchCase = False

.MatchWholeWord = False

.MatchKashida = False

.MatchDiacritics = False

.MatchAlefHamza = False

.MatchControl = False

.MatchByte = False

.CorrectHangulEndings = False

.MatchAllWordForms = False

.MatchSoundsLike = False

.MatchWildcards = False

.MatchFuzzy = False

End With

If (Selection.Find.Execute = False) Then

icheck = 1

Else

istart = 1

iend = Selection.Characters.Count

ReDim ucstr(3 * iend + 2) As Long

ucstr(1) = iend

For i = istart To iend

ucstr(i + 1) = Asc(Selection.Characters(i))

Next i

o.BwHebb2Unicode ucstr

Rem Selection.Delete

Application.Keyboard (1037)

With Selection.Font

.NameFarEast = "SimSun"

.NameAscii = "Arial"

.NameOther = "Arial"

.Name = "Arial"

.Size = 10

.Bold = False

.Italic = False

.Underline = wdUnderlineNone

.UnderlineColor = wdColorAutomatic

.StrikeThrough = False

.DoubleStrikeThrough = False

.Outline = False

.Emboss = False

.Shadow = False

.Hidden = False

.SmallCaps = False

.AllCaps = False

.Color = wdColorAutomatic

.Engrave = False

.Superscript = False

.Subscript = False

.Spacing = 0

.Scaling = 100

.Position = 0

.Kerning = 0

.Animation = wdAnimationNone

.DisableCharacterSpaceGrid = False

.EmphasisMark = wdEmphasisMarkNone

.SizeBi = 14

.NameBi = tofont$

.BoldBi = False

.ItalicBi = False

End With

For i = 1 To ucstr(1)

s$ = ChrW(ucstr(i + 1))

Selection.TypeText Text:=s$

Next i

Application.Keyboard (1033)

End If

If (doentirefile = False) Then icheck = 1

Wend

Application.ScreenUpdating = True

Set bwutil = Nothing

End Sub

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Greek Transliteration

ingosorke — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 02:07:38 GMT

Using BW 9 + Mac . . .

1) How do I change which Greek Lexicon pops up in the Analysis Window?

2) What's the easiest way to get a Greek word transliterated in BW (SBL style!)? I need to copy/paste Greek + transliteration of a lot of terms for an article.

3) Where can I vote to ban transliteration altogether, possibly solving #2?!

Thanks,

Ingo

A short review of BibleWorks9

bkMitchell — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:54:27 GMT

BibleWorks in the Real, Modern World is recent review of BibleWorks9 by R. Brian Rickett on the Metataphysika blog.
http://metataphysika.blogspot.jp/2013/06/bibleworks-in-real-modern-world-4.html

R. Rickett comes at this review with over 15 years experience with the BibleWorks program.
He, writes on the following four areas he believes BibleWorks9 is Essential to the modern Minister:

1.)BibleWorks for the Church Planter.
2.)BibleWorks for the Counselor.
3.) BibleWorks for the Pastor-Teacher.
4.) BibleWorks for the Teacher/Professor.

What, do you think?
Please, share your opinions.

(Interestingly, enough learned of this blog and that particular post on another Bible Software Company's forums.)

Simple Search in BibleWorks 9 for Parentheses in ESV version

basilides — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 04:59:19 GMT

Is it possible in BibleWorks 9 to search for and find all the verses that contain parentheses in, say, the ESV?

Popup versions for verse references

ISalzman — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 20:17:03 GMT

It has been a long time since I've done this and I cannot remember how to do it (more precisely, where to do it). When you hover your mouse over hyper-linked verse references, BibleWorks will typically bring up a popup displaying the verses in three versions (WTT, BGT, and an English version). I cannot remember where you change the settings which control which versions pop up. And I have searched the online help to no avail. I would be grateful for a reminder. Thanks much.

Migrating Configurations

ccozier — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 07:53:12 GMT

I have a longstanding configuration of BW9 on a Windows 8 laptop. I've now installed BW9 on a new MBP. I would like to migrate over the configuration from the Windows machine to the Mac. Back in the day, that simply meant copying the bw.ini file from one computer to the other. If memory serves me correctly, that no longer works. Is there an easy way to copy the configuration?

Thanks.

Export more databases

Tomasz N — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 14:32:14 GMT

Hello,
I'm an user of BW8 and I need to export 3 databases.
The output file should look like:

Gen 1:1 Hebrew text
Gen 1:1 Greek text
Gen 1:1 English text

Gen 1:2 Hebrew text
Gen 1:2 Greek text
Gen 1:2 English text

ecc..

How could I achieve that?

BibleWorks and Tablets

ISalzman — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 13:55:31 GMT

I would love to get a tablet. As the ability to run BibleWorks is one of my more significant considerations, I guess I'm locked into a Windows 8 (full version and not RT) tablet. But at a whopping price tag of $899 (for 64 GB) or $999 (for 128 GB), it is a very expensive proposition right now. I'm kind of hoping they will go down in price over the next few months. I realize there are no guarantees of that. I'm also hearing that the demand for Windows Tablets is not running very high right now. In fact, I heard that one computer maker that was going to make their own version of a Windows 8 tablet has now scrapped those plans. (By the way, I should say that I have seen BibleWorks in action on a Microsoft Surface Tablet and it was very impressive.) But I am concerned about the current pricing of Windows 8 tablets and their long-term viability. So, in no specific order, I had a few questions:

1. As of right now, I am aware that only Samsung and Microsoft are making Windows 8 tablets. Anyone have a good feel about which of these two presents the better option?

2. Are there any plans afoot to eventually create a version of BibleWorks for Android tablets (or the iPad for that matter)?

Grateful for any additional insights.

Irving

Hebrew Stem Stats

frankenfro — Fri, 31 May 2013 13:50:26 GMT

If I want to count the number of times that a Hebrew verb is used in Qal, Niphal, Piel, Pual, etc, how can I do that? For instance, I'm looking at "aman" (to trust, believe) in Gen 15:6 - I want to see how many times that it's used in each stem.

Doing it manually yields (assuming I did it correctly; I just started Hebrew last August) -

Qal - 8x
Niph - 46x
Hiph - 51x

But this is me doing several different searches and recording the stats on my own - aman in qal; aman in niphal; aman in piel, etc. I'd much rather run one search and then be able to filter it as I'd like.

Is there a quicker way to grab these stats? The "Detailed Stats" window only displays stats relating to word frequency, but not stem frequency. I still have BW7, btw.

Thanks.

Dave

ESV problem

Schouten — Tue, 28 May 2013 02:54:42 GMT

Why does my ESV look like this:

17 The Spirit and athe Bride say, "Come." And let the one who hears say, "Come." And blet the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the cwater of life without price. {

a ch. 21:2, 9

b ch. 21:6; Isa 55:1; Joh 7:37

c See ch. 21:6 } 18 I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: aif anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book, {

a Deu 4:2; 12:32; Pro 30:6 }
19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in athe tree of life and in bthe holy city, which are described in this book. {

a ver. 2, 14

b See ch. 21:2 }
20 He who testifies to these things says, "Surely aI am coming soon." Amen. bCome, Lord Jesus! {

a ver. 7, 12

b 2Ti 4:8 }
21 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all.1 Amen. (Rev 22:17-21 ESV).

And how can I fix this?

can't find 1 timothy

iceagecolumbus — Sat, 25 May 2013 03:00:25 GMT

I love the idea of BW9, but of the four bible research programs I've had its by far the least intuitive to use. I followed the instructions in the help file and tried to find 1 timothy by typing 1Ti in the search bar, but I get an error stating

"Could not find the verse reference "1Ti" in the current search version. If you are trying to search for a specific word in the Bible text, precede the word with a period ('.'), like this: .Ti

Would you like to see some examples?"

If anyone has any ideas on what I can do to fix this or if anyone knows of an aftermarket book on bw9, please let me know. I am having a hard time figuringg out how to navigate this program.

Frequencies of Hebrew Noun Patterns (Mishqalim)

Benjamin Elliff — Wed, 22 May 2013 17:36:25 GMT

Hi friends,

Here's an interesting question.

I'm using BW8.

The Word List Manager is great for finding the frequency of each noun in a given corpus. But I would like to take things a step further. How could I produce some sort of "Noun-pattern List Manager," something that would tell me how often each mishqal is used in a given range of verses? So the output for Kings should be something like

ספר-pattern 1693 times
שם-pattern 547 times

and so on.

I have grouped the nominal lexemes in the HB into several hundred patterns. How can I set things up so that BW will give me a list of the frequencies with which each pattern occurs in whatever book I choose?

I guess the larger question is how to find the frequencies of groups of lexemes rather than individual lexemes. For instance, if I divided all of the lexemes in the HB into building terms, household terms, political terms, etc., how could I generate a list of how often each type of term occurs in a given section of the HB?

Thanks for the input!

Benjamin

What I like about BW9 - after only one day . . .

jimofbentley — Tue, 21 May 2013 07:55:58 GMT

It is nearly tax time here in Australia (June 30), and so after debating with myself for a long time, I finally upgraded to BW9.

First of all, I would like to say a big "thanks" to the BW staff. I ordered BW9 on May 15, and it was sent out the same day. I was able to "track" the order and it went to a couple of places in Virginia - Kentucky - Anchorage, Alaska, Hong Kong, Singapore, and arrived here in Perth on May 19. Being a Sunday, I received it yesterday, May 20. That isn't bad. Half way around the world in 5 days - and that is with one day lost due to the International Date Line. Again, many thanks BW Staff! ;)

What I like so far:

Naturally, I haven't even had BW9 for 24 hours, but some aspects I like so far are:

The fourth column. To be able to have Search, Browse, Analysis - and now verse, MSS, Use, etc at the same time. Not quite "like heaven", but it is pretty good.
"Use" tab. This is simply great. To be able to see all of the use of a particular word - without doing another search is such a time saver. I particularly like the way that you can view "use" in only the book - or in the entire version. This allows me to see how Paul uses a word in 2 Corinthians (my current preaching), without having to scroll through everything else as well. Of course, if there could one day be an option to show how Paul (or John, Peter, Luke, etc) uses a word in all of his letters, that would be extremely helpful.
The "interlinear view" on BGM. I like several things about this:
- It is a space saver. There were times when the previous view took up a great deal of room, and it was sometimes difficult to find the exact word I was searching for.
- Being able to see the word in the text, lexical form, parsing code in the interlinear format, is visually more appealing and comprehensible (for me, anyway). (Any chance of the WTM? - Greedy, aren't I)
The CNTTS Apparatus. I could go on for ever, but I won't. It is like trying to explain how great a color TV set is to a person who has only ever had black & white.

These are just a few things, and I have barely scratched the surface of the features of BW9.

I just wish I had taken the plunge earlier.