| Introduction | |
BTS installer currently does not create BTS entries in the windows "Start" menu or on the desktop. You can manually create a file shortcut of the "bts.exe" and drag-&-drop it into the start menu and desktop. Double click this icon to start the program.
Configure your BTS
After the initial BTS start, a few settings have to be made. In the Menu bar click on "Preferences / Preferences" and expand the "Berlin Text System General" entry by clicking on the triangle symbol on the left.
Choose the "Corpus Settings" option from the expanded menu and add the available corpora to the list of the "Active Corpora", selecting all corpora you are going to work with.
The check box "Activate to select main working text corpus" is deactivated by default. After selecting this option all new database objects you create (ex. texts) will be saved in the "Main working corpus". For instance, if you mark "bbawbriefe" as the main working corpus, all new objects or texts will be physically located in it, even if you are currently working with e.g. "bbawtotenlit". So pay attention to the location of your new entry and activate this feature only if you feel confident that you need it.
Expand "Corpus Settings". Click "Corpus Navigator Settings" and activate the check box "Corpus Navigator sort by sort key" if it is not activated (It should be by default). Press "Apply" to save the setting. Repeat the same for "Lemma Navigator Settings" and "Thesaurus Navigator Settings".
NOTE: By default all objects on the same level have "0" as a sort key and are thus sorted alphabetically. Defining a "SortKey" in the Passport data of the object will change its position relevant to other objects, "0" being on top.
Expand the "Text Editor" entry and select the "Sign Text Editor". Activating "Show Hieroglyphs", "Show Lemma ID", "Show Flexion=Inflection" and "Show Translation" are recommended as the initial settings. This is, however, not required and you can change your preferences any time.
Press "Apply" after each change in order to save it and close the "Preferences" window by clicking "OK".
To be able to use BTS one final step has to be made: the installation of the special keyboard layout which will be used for text transliteration.