ah ok. Hope you share your creation with us, to see what you end up doing!

Dave

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Joseph Elacqua <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Dave,
>
> Definitely not going to reinvent the wheel—only to repurpose it.  There's
> nothing out there (that I'm aware of) that seeks to do what I plan to do.
> Biblical texts in this thread served merely as examples, nothing more.
>
> -- Joe
>
>
> On Monday, May 4, 2015 at 11:02:43 AM UTC-4, David Gifford wrote:
>>
>> 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!  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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