Help Converting Microsoft Word Bible to PBB

I worked on editing a few books of a new Khmer (Cambodian) Bible translation and wanted to import the text as a Personal Book in Logos but the formatting of the Word documents I have is quite a bit different than the format needed for PBB. Would anyone happen to have a script or any expertise in converting something like this from Word to PBB:

Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

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DavidS

Have you seen this https://support.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/360015926452-Personal-Books

or this https://wiki.logos.com/Personal_Books

Nathan Wells

Yes, I've actually made a PB Bible with a verse-per-line document. But this one is more fully formatted and it would probably take years to do the required tags like this:

And so I was hoping others might have done this before and found an easier way and manually typing the tags.

DMB

Not being very helpful, but the easiest way is to export it to html, run a parser, then import it back into Word. Reason is the parser can more easily catch the formatting tightly. I have several Bible parsers that do that; looking at your Khmer example, it'd need a way to catch the book names.

The unhelpful part is I'm currently all offline (PC-wise). But surely there's others that parsed Bibles. Maybe keep bumping it up.

Pieter J.

Nathan, can you maybe provide a sample of exactly what you need.

If you only want to get Books of the Bible, Chapters and Verses tagged for PBB I can provide you with skeleton VBA code to do the job.

If you can provide a docx sample it would be better because then I can provide code that work on that specific sample that you can then further customize to complete the task.

According to your screenshot:

Do you have each book in a separate document?
What style do you use for chapters? (Drop Cap?)
Are all verses superscript?

If we know these parameters it's much easier to give a quick solution to create PB tagging automatically.

David Ames

Yes, I've actually made a PB Bible with a verse-per-line document. But this one is more fully formatted and it would probably take years to do the required tags like this:

Am working on a bible in that format ([[@bible: etc). What I am doing is entering just the section of Scripture that I am studying and ignoring [for now] the rest. Makes it almost usable.

Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

And so I was hoping others might have done this before and found an easier way and manually typing the tags.

Thread => Power Tip: Using variables to Search and Replace in Word

Keep Smiling [:)]

Nathan Wells

Thanks everyone for your replies.

@PJ

I've attached the first three chapters of Matthew here:

5415.Matthew 1-3.docx

And yes, I have each book of the Bible in a separate document. And the Chapter style is Drop Cap and the verses are subscripted.

Thanks for your willingness to help!

Kevin Olson

Thanks everyone for your replies.

@PJ

I've attached the first three chapters of Matthew here:

5415.Matthew 1-3.docx

And yes, I have each book of the Bible in a separate document. And the Chapter style is Drop Cap and the verses are subscripted.

Thanks for your willingness to help!

Hi Nathan,

Is this a revision of the 1954 Hammond version?

Blessings,

Kevin

Nathan Wells

Hi Kevin!

No, this is a new translation from a Japanese group. The New Testament has been released as an app - their facebook page is here https://www.facebook.com/cambodiabtp

I helped edit Mark and John. And I believe once everything is formatted for Logos they will be alright with me sharing it with others who are interested.

Hope you and your family are well!

Blessings,

Nathan

Nathan Wells

PJ,

Would greatly appreciate any help you can give specifically with a skeleton VBA code that would format the books automatically. I realize it's getting close to Christmas, so things are busy, but just wanted to ping in case you had some time to take a look at the sample book I posted and see if it would work.

Thanks again for your time,
Nathan

Nathan, can you maybe provide a sample of exactly what you need.

If you only want to get Books of the Bible, Chapters and Verses tagged for PBB I can provide you with skeleton VBA code to do the job.

If you can provide a docx sample it would be better because then I can provide code that work on that specific sample that you can then further customize to complete the task.

According to your screenshot:

Do you have each book in a separate document?

What style do you use for chapters? (Drop Cap?)

Are all verses superscript?

If we know these parameters it's much easier to give a quick solution to create PB tagging automatically.

Pieter J.

just wanted to ping in case you had some time to take a look at the sample book I posted and see if it would work

Nathan,

I apologize sincerely, I've been so busy I completely avoided the Forums for a long time. Did you manage to format your documents or do you still need a macro. I think it's possible to code.

If you still need it I'll code it tonight or tomorrow.

Nathan Wells

No worries PJ - thanks for checking in. It would be great to have a macro from you, I haven't been able to figure out how to do it myself.
Blessings,
Nathan