Well, my personal advice would be that since there are already so many sites with the actual Bible text (biblia.com is another link), don't reinvent the wheel. Use your time and effort to help the world understand and apply the text.
Dave On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Joseph Elacqua <[email protected]> wrote: > Dave, > > Thanks for the link. I do plan to use TiddlyWiki to basically create > something that operates very similarly to BibleGateway, but with a large > number of texts that aren't represented there. The vast majority of them > are going to have to be inputted by hand, which will be massively terrible, > but useful—I hope—to others. > > -- Joe > > > On Monday, May 4, 2015 at 10:44:09 AM UTC-4, David Gifford wrote: >> >> 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! 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