Bible Notes

Inserting

Introduction

Bible notes can be inserted manually by inserting all markers needed one by one.

But there are also convenience functions in the Insert menu.

A new footnote can be inserted in the text by choosing menu Insert - Footnote.

A new window will come up, where you can set what will be inserted.

The thing applies to a new endnote or a new crossreference.

Numbering

The numbering can be set to automatic, or no numbering at all, or a certain character.

Current reference

You can set whether to automatically insert the current reference in the Bible note. If you do insert it, then you can set whether to include the chapter number, and the verse number, and what the separator between them will be. A suffix can be entered too. It will show how this is going to look in the text.

Content

Note content can be added in the dialog too. Press the "Add content" button. A new area will be added that allows to insert a marker with its content.

The marker to be used can be selected in the combobox.

The content to be inserted can be typed in the text entry.

If "Remember content" is ticked, this content will be remembered for the next time you insert a Bible note.

To get rid of this content area, press the "Remove" button.

Templates

It is possible to save a certain configuration in a template. The "New" button will make a new template, and the "Delete" button will delete the current one. If no template name is given, the default one will be used. Data is saved in a template only on pressing the "Ok" button.

Speed

The dialogs for inserting Bible notes have been designed to improve efficiency and speed.

When the dialog opens, the first entry gets focused, and you can type text there. On pressing Enter the next entry focuses, and so on, until the Ok button gets focused. Pressing Enter again inserts the note.

Editing

Bible notes are marked by a asterisk or character in the text area and its text is visible at the bottom of it.

The asterisk corresponds to no caller (-), the characters to automatic callers or a given caller in the text.

Removing a note works as you would remove any text.

Notes can be cut and paste in a text (which is only useful in the same verse, if a verse-reference (\fr or \xo) is included.

While editing text, you can press the Tab key to move to the bible notes editor, and edit the note text there. Pressing Shift+Tab takes you back to the text area.

Printing

If a project is printed, it will show the footnotes and crossreferences. Printing a list of references does not.

Placement

Footnotes and crossreferences normally appear at the bottom of the page, inside the column they belong to.

This has restrictions when a page consists of two columns, and when headings are placed in the full page width following the footnotes or crossreferences. In this case the footnotes or crossreferences do not appear at the bottom of the page, but just before the start of the header. This is a bug in XEP.

There are two possible solutions for the problem.

* Let the notes be printed over the full width of the page. There is an option for that in the menu, Preferences, Printing.

* Or do not put headings in the text that span the two columns and follow the footnotes or crossreferences.

Caller

A Bible note has a caller. The style of the caller can be set in the markers, see USFM under marker \f. For crossreferences set it under marker \x.

A "+" prints a caller with automatic numbering, a "-" prints no caller at all, and any other character prints that character as a caller.

The automatic numbering can be influenced in the stylesheet, under marker f for footnotes and under marker x for crossreferences. The numbering 1, 2, 3 ... should be clear, and the numbering a, b, c ... follows the alphabet, and after reaching the z it starts all over again. A user defined numbering sequence can be given too. When for example §†* is given there, the numbering goes like §, †, *, §, †, *, and so forth. Any sequence of characters can be used.

Optionally the automatic numbering can be restarted every page, chapter or book.

If there are many footnotes, 10 per page or more, and the numbering restarts every page, assign the footnote caller double space to allow room for the numbers 10 and up. Same applies to crossreferences.

Paragraph

For a footnote, the \ft style has a full paragraph setting in the stylesheet. Here you can set how the normal footnote paragraph is going to look. For a crossreference, set the style under marker \xt.

For a new paragraph in the footnote, the style can be set under the \fp marker.