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Re: New, Just a few questions.
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Jeremy Cowgar |
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Re: New, Just a few questions. |
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Fri, 25 Jul 2003 16:37:11 -0400 |
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Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
I am formatting the ASV version of the Bible and formatting the Bible
has a couple of unique problems that I'm not yet certain how to get around.
1.) Headers...I would like to use the standard header scheme, on the
left pages have the Chapter/Verse in the upper left corner, and on right
pages, the last Chapter/Verse in the upper right corner. I know it's
possible for placement, I also know how to do this for Chapter/Section,
but how can I accomplish this? Marking each verse is not a problem with
a tag, and then retrieving that tag, but I'm not certain how that will
work.
2.) Footnotes are plenty. Can I somehow format the footnotes in a
paragraph format instead of each footnote on it's own line? i.e.
1) Footnote 1 2) Footnote 2 3) Footnote 3, etc...
instead of:
1) Footnote 1
2) Footnote 2
3) Footnote 3
Most of the footnotes are very small, such as 1) Or your 2) Other mss
read "over the hill", etc... The average is probably around 4 words per
footnote.
3.) ... this one is purely for presentation, not really a problem. But,
the area seperating the page body and the page margins where margin
notes go. Can I put vertical lines there?
I have been searching for the perfect tool in order to accomplish this
task, and after spending the day with lout, I'm really impressed. I will
be using it for other projects, even if this one does not work out, so
Ok, since playing with Lout now for a day or so continously, I've
typesetting a few couple books, used it to generate some reports with
some fancy graphing (cool) and made a few small layouts based on the
Expert guide's examples and also ts in the include directory.
Now I see that what I must do is basically start from scratch with the
layouts and maybe create one called Bible. I thought of extending doc,
or maybe even bsf, but it seems to me that with the vast changes that I
am going to have to deal with, maybe I should start from scratch? I was
thinking of building a simple layout with commands like:
@Bible
@Name { American Standard Version }
@Abbr { ASV }
... etc ...
@Begin
@BookList
@Book
@Title { Genesis }
@Begin
@Para
@SectDivisionTitle {Creation}
@Chapter {1} @Verse {1} In the beginning ...
@Verse {2} ......
@SectDivisionTitle {Adam and Eve}
....
@End @Book
@Book
@Title { Exodus }
... etc ...
@End @Book
@End @BookList
@End @Bible
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Anyone have any input? Should I be going down a different road?
Thanks,
Jeremy