Harmony of Gospels

Thanks Bill.

Ruthlyn
 
converting the Bible text file into another text file . . .

Hi Bill,

Last year you posted 'Indonesian Baru' text file ready for Forge.
How did you do that?
 
Re: converting the Bible text file into another text file . . .

ishaknatan said:
Hi Bill,

Last year you posted 'Indonesian Baru' text file ready for Forge.
How did you do that?
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Take a plain text file of a Bible with each verse on a new line. Add the $$ Ch:Vrs lines above each line. You can do it with a text editor.

Here's an example of Ge 1:1-3...Rev 22:19-21. Note the header at the top tells Forge what to call it.

; User b_indonesian_baru Bible
; TITLE: Indonesian Baru Bible
; ABBREVIATION: Baru

$$ Ge 1:1
Pada mulanya Allah menciptakan langit dan bumi.
$$ Ge 1:2
Bumi belum berbentuk dan kosong; gelap gulita menutupi samudera raya, dan Roh Allah melayang-layang di atas permukaan air.
$$ Ge 1:3
Berfirmanlah Allah: "Jadilah terang." Lalu terang itu jadi.
...
$$ Re 22:19
Dan jikalau seorang mengurangkan sesuatu dari perkataan-perkataan dari kitab nubuat ini, maka Allah akan mengambil bagiannya dari pohon kehidupan dan dari kota kudus, seperti yang tertulis di dalam kitab ini."
$$ Re 22:20
Ia yang memberi kesaksian tentang semuanya ini, berfirman: "Ya, Aku datang segera!" Amin, datanglah, Tuhan Yesus!
$$ Re 22:21
Kasih karunia Tuhan Yesus menyertai kamu sekalian! Amin.
 
Re: converting the Bible text file into another text file . . .

wsbones said:
Take a plain text file of a Bible with each verse on a new line. Add the $$ Ch:Vrs lines above each line. You can do it with a text editor.
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Since there are lots of Text Editors on the net, which of which you would recommend?
Thanks
 
Re: converting the Bible text file into another text file . . .

ishaknatan said:
Since there are lots of Text Editors on the net, which of which you would recommend?
Thanks
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I use The Semware Editor for most jobs. It hasn't been updated in a few years and has some limitations but I am familiar with it's features. It has a macro record capability that is useful for hard-to-do repetitive editing. It makes it easy to take the verse refs from one file and merge them above the text lines in a Bible file. You could probably do the same thing with an Excel spreadsheet and a macro.

Notepad++ is good and free.
Editpad lite is good and free.
Notetab lite is good and free.

Notepad++ has a macro capability so I guess I would recommend that one. It also has regex expressions which are useful for finding and replacing complex search patterns.

Brandon probably has a better answer to this question.
 
Re: converting the Bible text file into another text file . . .

wsbones said:
Take a plain text file of a Bible with each verse on a new line. Add the $$ Ch:Vrs lines above each line. You can do it with a text editor.

Here's an example of Ge 1:1-3...Rev 22:19-21. Note the header at the top tells Forge what to call it.

; User b_indonesian_baru Bible
; TITLE: Indonesian Baru Bible
; ABBREVIATION: Baru

$$ Ge 1:1
Pada mulanya Allah menciptakan langit dan bumi.
$$ Ge 1:2
Bumi belum berbentuk dan kosong; gelap gulita menutupi samudera raya, dan Roh Allah melayang-layang di atas permukaan air.
$$ Ge 1:3
Berfirmanlah Allah: "Jadilah terang." Lalu terang itu jadi.
...
$$ Re 22:19
Dan jikalau seorang mengurangkan sesuatu dari perkataan-perkataan dari kitab nubuat ini, maka Allah akan mengambil bagiannya dari pohon kehidupan dan dari kota kudus, seperti yang tertulis di dalam kitab ini."
$$ Re 22:20
Ia yang memberi kesaksian tentang semuanya ini, berfirman: "Ya, Aku datang segera!" Amin, datanglah, Tuhan Yesus!
$$ Re 22:21
Kasih karunia Tuhan Yesus menyertai kamu sekalian! Amin.
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Would a wysiwyg html editor work, for us novices?

Is there a link somewhere to use as a 'how to'?

The help file is not really new to html editing friendly.

IE: do I use $$ above each line of text?
do I pick the page breaks or does forge?
do I have to use html to tell when to bold centre etc?

I want to try a part sermon or something before I tackle a book.
 
Re: converting the Bible text file into another text file . . .

Gord said:
Would a wysiwyg html editor work, for us novices?
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No. The reason is technical: Forge source files are comprised of a series of discreet html documents in series, all in one file. No editor I am aware of would be able to handle the formatting of such a document.

Is there a link somewhere to use as a 'how to'?
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The Forge documentation contains example snippets of valid source files. That's all, really -- most users will never need to use Forge since SwordSearcher provides WYSIWYG editing of books and commentaries. Bible texts are a different matter, of course.

IE: do I use $$ above each line of text?
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In a Bible text, you use one verse per line, with the $$ [reference] line above each verse.

do I pick the page breaks or does forge?
do I have to use html to tell when to bold centre etc?
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These do not apply to Bible texts.

I want to try a part sermon or something before I tackle a book.
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I would highly recommend simply using the editor in SwordSearcher as it avoids all of these issues entirely. If you are not compiling a Bible text you likely have no need of Forge at all.
 
I would highly recommend simply using the editor in SwordSearcher as it avoids all of these issues entirely. If you are not compiling a Bible text you likely have no need of Forge at all.
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OK I'll try that, maybe I'm looking for something to be more complicated than it really is. I've never tried this but then can a pdf file be copied into a book or commentary?
 
Gord said:
OK I'll try that, maybe I'm looking for something to be more complicated than it really is. I've never tried this but then can a pdf file be copied into a book or commentary?
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Sure, you can copy and paste anything into the editor.
 
wsbones said:
http://sites.google.com/site/wsbones/BLH.ss5book?attredirects=0&d=1 is a SS module of the Blue Letter Harmony of the Gospels.

Citation:
Nevin, Alfred, and Blue Letter Bible. "Harmony of the Gospels," The Parallel Bible (Adapted by the Blue Letter Bible). Blue Letter Bible. 1 Mar 2002. 10 Feb 2010.
< http:// www.blueletterbible.org/study/harmony/index.cfm? >
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Thank you for your work! I have downloaded this, and placed it in the "C:\SwordSearcher\Modules\Unzipped" folder with the rest of the modules, and opened SwordSearcher... but it's not being seen. Am I missing something? Thanks again for your help in advance, and all your great work!

Rich Wilson
 
richwilson said:
Thank you for your work! I have downloaded this, and placed it in the "C:\SwordSearcher\Modules\Unzipped" folder with the rest of the modules, and opened SwordSearcher... but it's not being seen. Am I missing something? Thanks again for your help in advance, and all your great work!

Rich Wilson
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Put the module file in either your SwordSearcher\Modules folder or your Documents\SwordSearcher User Modules folder. Don't create a new subfolder for the module -- SwordSearcher only looks in those two folders.
 
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