Books and Topics

BibleSpeak supports many free Books and Topic Downloads.

An exciting new feature of BibleSpeak 3.05 is the ability to display “Books” (or “Topics”) made up of individual “Chapters”. An example of a book might be “Wars of the Jews” by the historian Josephus, or the appendixes of “The Companion Bible”. Chapter 35 of “The Companion Bible – Appendixes” is shown below.  

A “Book” is a general term for any collection of individual files or “Chapters”, and can contain just about anything. For example:

• Personal Bible notes that you have collected on various Bible verses or topics. You might create a Book called “My Bible Notes” with chapters such as “Revelation Chapter 1”, “John Chapter 3”, etc.
• A collection of Public talk or sermon outlines.
• Any collection of Html files you desire on any subject. The “BibleSpeak Help” files are an example.

Three Book Formats Are Supported:

1. Html files. Any collection of Html files created inside a Book folder. The folder name is the name of the book, such as “Wars of the Jews”, and the individual html files contain the text and name of each chapter. Html is the preferred BibleSpeak format for Books and Topics.
2. e-Sword^® “Topic” files. BibleSpeak is able to display most “Topic” files available from the popular e-Sword^® Bible program. BibleSpeak will automatically locate any e-Sword^® topic files installed in e-Sword^® and make them available to BibleSpeak. BibleSpeak gives you the option to convert any e-Sword^® topic file from e-Sword^® format into simple Html files. It will then be easy to edit and add to them.
3. PDF files. BibleSpeak can also display PDF files such as the Anti-Nicene Fathers in Greek and English which is available from our web site. You will need to have the Adobe Acrobat reader installed on your computer in order to view PDF books.

Displaying a New Book Window

To display a new Book window, select New Book or Topic View from the File menu or the Bible menu, or the Home task pane. Multiple Book windows can be opened at the same time and are displayed in “Tabbed Windows”, which have bottom tabs that can be clicked to display the contents of the corresponding Book window.

Books and Topics Toolbar

Use the toolbar to perform the following actions:

• Close the Current Book Window
  Closes the current Book or Topic window.
   
• Print the Current Book Window
  Prints the contents of the current Book or Topic window.
   
• Previous/Next Page
  Displays the next or previous page that was previously viewed in the Book window.
   
• Select a Book
  Displays a list of available Books. The selected book will replace the current Book in the Book window. (To display a Book in a new Book window, select New Book or Topic View from the File menu or the Bible menu, or the Home task pane.) To view the previous Book, click the Previous Page button.
  
                 
  
  Note: Books beginning with “E – ” are e-Sword^® “topic” module Books. BibleSpeak is able to display these publications if you have e-Sword^® installed on your computer. (See E-Sword Support in the Bible menu.) You can download the e-Sword^® program and its publications from: www.e-sword.net. Also there are many other sites on the Internet where you can download e-Sword^® topic files, that others have created, that will work with BibleSpeak.
   
• Select a Chapter
  Displays a list of chapters in the current Book. Select a chapter to view its contents.
  
   
   
• Previous/Next Chapter
  Displays the next or previous chapter from the current Book.
   
• Display Verses Cited in Text
  Displays the text of Bible verses cited in the current book and chapter. If no verses are found, try selecting the text with the mouse and click on the  button again.
   
• Edit
  Displays the Edit menu which lets you easily edit the current book and chapter, or create a new book or chapter. Only Books in html format may be edited. Books that are in e-Sword^® or PDF format may not be edited. However e-Sword^® Books can be converted to html Books by selecting Convert from the Edit-Book menu.
  
  
   
• Chapter Editing
  
  
  
  1. Add – Adds a new chapter to the current Book.
  2. Delete – Deletes the current chapter from the current Book.
  3. Edit – Opens the current Book chapter in the BibleSpeak editor so you may edit the contents. (Note: You can also edit any chapter from a BibleSpeak html book, outside of BibleSpeak, by using any editor that supports the editing of html files, such as Microsoft Word.)
  4. Rename – Renames the current chapter.
   
• Book Editing
  
  
  
  1. Add – Adds a new Book and initial chapter to BibleSpeak.
  2. Convert – Makes a new copy of the current e-Sword^® Book (“Topic” file), converted to html format. This feature is useful in converting e-Sword^® topic files into html format so that you can easily edit them.
  3. Delete – Deletes the current Book from BibleSpeak. Use with caution!
  4. Rename – Renames the current Book.

Manually adding Books to BibleSpeak

(Note: To create a new html Book using BibleSpeak, select Add from the Edit-Book menu.)

It is easy to manually add a new Book to BibleSpeak. Follow the steps below:

1. Create a new folder to contain the new Book contents.
   
   In BibleSpeak all Books are located in a folder named “Q-Books” which is located in the same folder that you installed the BibleSpeak program.
   
   To manually create a new book, first create a new folder, inside the “Q-Books” folder, that has the name of the Book you want to add to BibleSpeak. For example, if you wanted to add a new Book you found on the internet, named “Wars of the Jews”, create a new folder, inside the “Q-Books” folder named “Wars of the Jews”.
    
2. Copy the chapter files into the new folder.
   
   Into the new folder you created above, copy the individual chapter files that make up the Book.
   
   a. For html Books, copy each html chapter file into the folder. The name of the html chapter file will be used by BibleSpeak as the name of the chapter. All chapter files in the Book should all have the same extension, “.htm” or “.html”. (If the html chapter files contain images, their corresponding image folders may also be copied into the new Book folder.)  Note:  Chapter names are sorted in alphabetical order. If you want to force the chapters to appear in a certain order, begin their names with numerical digits, such as “001 – “, “002 – “, etc.
   
   b. For e-Sword^® Topic files, copy the single e-Sword^® topic file (with the extension “.top”) into the folder.
   
   c. For PDF Books, copy the single PDF Book file (with the extension “.PDF”) into the folder.
    
3. Restart BibleSpeak to View the newly added Books
   
   Any manually added books will be available to BibleSpeak the next time you start BibleSpeak.