Another option would be to add links to the verses in Bible Gateway
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+1.1&version=NIV

Dave

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Joseph Elacqua <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Thanks, Miguel!  That will make my project a LOT easier.
>
> One further question just came to me though.  We talked about putting each
> "verse" (e.g. Matthew 1:1, 1:2, 1:3, etc.) as its own tiddler and calling
> them all into a single ordered tiddler.  Is there some way to create the
> same end result, except having each "verse" be called from a separate local
> text file, rather than a unique tiddler?  That would also make my project a
> lot easier as there are going to be a LOT of individual "verse" tiddlers
> and I would like to keep the filesize of my tiddlywiki as minimal as
> possible.
>
> I read that I could call data from one tiddlywiki to another (didn't look
> too in-depth to see how difficult it was), so I suppose I could always
> create one tw for "verses" and one for "chapters," but that could be a lot
> more complicated than simply having one "source folder" where all the text
> remains constant, and simply have tw manage and manipulate that text in the
> way the reader wishes.
>
> Thanks so much for all your help.  I'm SO glad I chose TiddlyWiki for this
> project.  It seems to have every option available that I require.
>
>
> -- Joe
>
>
>
> On Sunday, May 3, 2015 at 11:46:30 AM UTC-4, Miguel Bartelsman wrote:
>>
>> To expand on David's answer, you can use filters to do that automatically
>>
>> <$list filter="[prefix[Matthew 1:]sort[title]]">
>> {{<<currentTiddler>>}}
>> </$list>
>>
>> That should transclude all tiddlers from Matthew 1 in a list ordered by
>> name. This has one problem which is the way that tiddlywiki handles
>> alphabetical order, it will order it like this: 1, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15,
>> 16, 17, 18, 19, 2, 20, 21, 3, 4, 5. So you'd need to add zeroes before
>> single digit numbers (01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11...)
>>
>> On Saturday, 2 May 2015 17:14:34 UTC-5, David Gifford wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Joe
>>>
>>> Yes, you can do this. To use your Bible example, you could do tiddlers
>>> "Matthew 1:1" "Matthew 1:2" etc, then have a "Matthew 1" chapter tiddler
>>> where you insert
>>>
>>> {{Matthew 1:1}}
>>> {{Matthew 1:2}} etc.
>>>
>>> You could also have the commentary and notes for Matthew 1:1 in a
>>> tiddler tagged "Matthew 1:1", and set your tiddlers up with a viewtemplate
>>> so that those appear below the text, but not in the chapter tiddler.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>> On Saturday, May 2, 2015 at 2:30:33 PM UTC-5, Joseph Elacqua wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello all.  I just started using TiddlyWiki last week and think it's
>>>> amazing.
>>>>
>>>> I'm sorry if this has been asked before, but I am trying to see if I
>>>> can get TiddlyWiki to do something in particular that is hard for me to
>>>> describe.  Let's say that I have a page of text from a book.  I would like
>>>> to put that data into a TiddlyWiki only once, but be able to access it in
>>>> two forms:  both the full page, and sentence-by-sentence (i.e. each
>>>> sentence as a separate Tiddler).
>>>>
>>>> Basically, I'm looking for a means by which I can "call" certain
>>>> specific text from one Tiddler to another (so if I change the source, it
>>>> will also alter the output), or alternately, call text from a set of text
>>>> files into two places in my TiddlyWiki (once in that "full page" tiddler,
>>>> and once in a "sentence-by-sentence" tiddler).
>>>>
>>>> If it makes it any easier to visualize, imagine a book of the Bible
>>>> done this way, where you can click on a tiddler for an entire chapter, or
>>>> alternately go verse-by-verse.  (The verse-by-verse pages would also be
>>>> supplemented with commentary, other translations, etc.)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks so much for your help!  Once again, my apologies if this has
>>>> been answered before.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- Joe
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> P.S. -- As an absolute novice with TiddlyWiki, I have no knowledge of
>>>> using macros, etc.  I'm game to learn, but still a newbie at present.
>>>>
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