BPBible

Change languages in UI

BPBible in Vietnamese
BPBible can now be translated into other languages. BPBible 0.4 contains a Vietnamese translation.

Search

Strong's number searchSearch has been significantly overhauled.

You can now search in commentaries, dictionaries and other books, as well as in Bibles.

Strong's numbers, morphology and scripture references are available.

It is now possible to set the proximity with a given number of entries/verses, as well as within a certain number of words.

Stemming is now performed. Stemming refers to the process of
removing the ends of words, to find similar words. For example, searching for
`test` will now return results for tests, tested and testing as well. If you
want to search for the exact word, put a plus in front of the word (for
example, `+test`).

BPBible 0.3 would not return results when there were more than 20000 hits. This limitation has been removed.

Search keypadA keypad has been added. This allows you to type in the various letters that occur in the book.

Search Indexes are now zipped, which saves a significant amount of disk space.

Search now includes canonical headings (i.e. ones in the original Bible text). These occur in the Psalms.

Topic management and tagging

Topic managementBPBible 0.4 adds new topic tagging functionality. This allows you to collect, organise and comment on passages for the topics you are interested in. By tagging them with a certain topic, you can access the relevant passages for a subject.

With this you can:
- Tag selected verses or the current verse with a topic
- Save search results as a new topic
- Annotate passage with comments on them

Per-language and per-book font choice

You can now set the font used on a per-language or per-book basis, as well as setting a global default.
Also, Greek and Hebrew text will use the Greek and Hebrew fonts, even if they are in the middle of other text. This is particularly useful in commentaries and dictionaries which have the original language words.

Book manager

A new book manager has been added. This allows you to
- unlock books
- delete books
Note that deleting books cannot be undone, so be careful what you delete.

Layout improvements

Poetry in BPBibleBPBible 0.4 now specially handles poetry (for books which support it). This uses a format similar to print Bibles.

BPBible 0.4 has a new option, 1 verse per line, which puts each verse on a separate line.

DisplayLevel support in other books: Certain other books, which have a structure like the Bible, will be displayed in larger sections, rather than in verse-like sections.

Current verse numbers are now green, not blue - so you can see which verse is current in red-letter text.
Verse numbers are not underlined, which reduces visual clutter.
Chapter introductions are now displayed if the Bible supports them.

Panes

BPBible book selectorBook chooser in caption:
There is now a book chooser in the caption of each pane. Clicking on it allows you to easily change between versions. Books which contain an entry for the current key will be in bold, for easy identification.

Double click on caption to toggle pane maximization
Ctrl-F10: maximize pane
Ctrl-F5: restore pane

Fix maximized bottom and top panes - previously, these did not fill up the complete space.

Guess the Verse

Guess the VerseBPBible now includes an interesting game. It will give you a verse, and you have to guess which book of the Bible it comes from.

Miscellaneous

BPBible 0.3 lost your spot if you changed between harmonies and then back; this no longer occurs.

Made tooltips jumpier - now they have a timer of 0.2 seconds instead of 0.5.
Also, pressing escape will now hide tooltips.

BPBible now has a special dialog to notfiy of errors occurring which may stop BPBible working properly.

Previously, none of these forms of verse references were usable:
Gen 5v2
Gen 5 2
Gen 5: 2
They now work as expected.

Changed abbreviation in english for Psalms from Pss to Psa.

There was a bug in 0.3 which stopped scrolling from automatically occurring when selecting and moving up and down. This has been fixed.