Questions Re Commentary and Notes RTF Codes
Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2021 4:07 pm
I am having another look at converting a commentary file and notes files that I set up around 20 years ago for a Bible program that now has totally incompatible file structures, and is nowhere near as good as TheWord.
There was a commentary file, and a number of reference documents, sections of which were linked to from the commentary. Within TheWord, the resulting reference documents could be individual files or a composite file; either would be practical.
I plan to convert the files programmatically, and will be converting the former control codes to those required in TheWord. I have experimented with the manual verse-by-verse setup, to get some idea, including book comments and chapter comments, but I could not ascertain the codes required by looking at the resulting files. I also looked at a twm file in Notepad, but that didn’t help either.
My proposed method is to work with txt files, then read them into Wordpad and save them as RTF files ready for importing.
I have the following questions with respect to the converted txt/RTF files to be imported into TheWord.
1. How are overall Bible book comments delimited/defined in a commentary file?
2. How are overall Bible chapter comments delimited/defined in a commentary file?
3. How are individual Bible verse comments delimited/defined in a commentary file?
4. How are links to targets (bookmarks?) in the same file delimited/defined in a commentary file?
5. How are links to targets (bookmarks?) in notes files delimited/defined in a commentary file?
6. How are links to targets (bookmarks?) in the same file delimited/defined in a notes file?
7. How are links to targets (bookmarks?) in other files delimited/defined in a notes file?
8. How are links to scripture verses delimited/defined from within:
- Commentaries?
- Books?
9. What should I have asked, that I didn’t even know to ask?
Also, how does one get the book comments and chapter comments to actually display?
- When I set them up manually within TheWord, I could find no way to actually display them.
- I set up book, chapter and verse comments in the Matthew 1:1 area.
- I set up a verse comment for Matthew 1:12.
- The verse comments display for both.
- The book and chapter comments are hiding somewhere.
Thanks.
There was a commentary file, and a number of reference documents, sections of which were linked to from the commentary. Within TheWord, the resulting reference documents could be individual files or a composite file; either would be practical.
I plan to convert the files programmatically, and will be converting the former control codes to those required in TheWord. I have experimented with the manual verse-by-verse setup, to get some idea, including book comments and chapter comments, but I could not ascertain the codes required by looking at the resulting files. I also looked at a twm file in Notepad, but that didn’t help either.
My proposed method is to work with txt files, then read them into Wordpad and save them as RTF files ready for importing.
I have the following questions with respect to the converted txt/RTF files to be imported into TheWord.
1. How are overall Bible book comments delimited/defined in a commentary file?
2. How are overall Bible chapter comments delimited/defined in a commentary file?
3. How are individual Bible verse comments delimited/defined in a commentary file?
4. How are links to targets (bookmarks?) in the same file delimited/defined in a commentary file?
5. How are links to targets (bookmarks?) in notes files delimited/defined in a commentary file?
6. How are links to targets (bookmarks?) in the same file delimited/defined in a notes file?
7. How are links to targets (bookmarks?) in other files delimited/defined in a notes file?
8. How are links to scripture verses delimited/defined from within:
- Commentaries?
- Books?
9. What should I have asked, that I didn’t even know to ask?
Also, how does one get the book comments and chapter comments to actually display?
- When I set them up manually within TheWord, I could find no way to actually display them.
- I set up book, chapter and verse comments in the Matthew 1:1 area.
- I set up a verse comment for Matthew 1:12.
- The verse comments display for both.
- The book and chapter comments are hiding somewhere.
Thanks.