Bible Reading Plan with Very Specific Daily Readings

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I have signed up for a year-long Bible reading podcast narrated by Fr. Mike Schmitz at:

The format of this reading plan is two or three readings per day, following a very specific schedule. Here is a sample of the plan itself:

I would like to create this exact reading plan in Logos/Verbum 9; on some days there are two readings whereas on others there are three. Because of this variation, it does not look like I can use the usual reference ranges (Gen-Mal, Mat-Rev, etc.) to maintain the exact sequencing. What is the best workflow that I can use to create this exact reading plan in Verbum? I can pop it into an Excel spreadsheet easily enough, but getting it into Verbum is quite a different task.

Possibly one of my problems is that I do this so infrequently that I do not easily remember how I did it before.

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Dave Hooton

You could approximate the plan with reference ranges, but you would not get the variation of sessions with two and three readings. I think you would have to use a fully Custom Reading Plan and input the ranges for every session (from Docs > New > Reading Plan).

NB.Mick

I think you would have to use a fully Custom Reading Plan and input the ranges for every session (from Docs > New > Reading Plan).

This would work, but require very much manual input (a thousand references). If the actual readings/references are available electronically, there should be a way to save this time.

I can think of two ways to make this faster, but haven't tested those:

build a CSV for the plan in Excel, like the old sample files (rather: copy paste samples) for all kind of weird Reading Plans in the wiki. They accommodate multiple readings per day. It's maybe a bit cumbersome to find the exact syntax, but should work very well.
alternatively, if you want to go Logos, build one plan for every column and then merge the plans. Here's the trick (and I know this part works because I regularly build a fully Custom Reading Plan that has one reading per day): Custom Reading Plans accept "Add from Passage List" as input. A Passage List of 365 entries will build out a complete Reading Plan - one reading per day - with one click. And you can build a Passage list from the clipboard, so if you have the reading plan in a table where you can select the column, it's a piece of cake. Subsequently, you should be able to merge the column-specific Reading Plans into one.

Michael Sheaver

Is there any technical reference guide to the syntax used for creating passage lists? I know that pipes ("|"), commas (".") and semicolons (";") all have specific functions in creating passage lists for reading plans. From what I can gather, my guess is that the following syntax may give me what is shown in the screenshot above:

Day 1|Gen1-2||Ps19

Day 2|Gen3-4||Ps104

Day 3|Gen5-6||Ps136

Day 4|Gen7-9||Ps1

Day 5|Gen10-11||Ps2

Day 6|Gen12-13|Job1-2|Pr1.1-7

Day 7|Gen14-15|Job3-4|Pr1.8-19

Day 8|Gen16-17|Job5-6|Pr1.20-23

...and so on.

Note that the first few days have double pipes to handle only two readings for that day.

I have several questions about this:

Is this syntax correct?
Do I need to terminate each line with a semicolon?
Is the first column (Day 1, Day 2, etc.) needed?

NB.Mick

Is there any technical reference guide to the syntax used for creating passage lists?

Maybe some other can point you forward, or you may want to look up the information on complex reading plans in the wiki. I just want to point out that the contents of a Reading Plan are not normally referred to as Passage Lists, those being a type of Logos Documents in themselves. Just in case you misunderstood my second bullet.

Dave Hooton

Is this syntax correct?

Not if you chose Docs > New > Reading Plan > Generate a Reading Plan.

See https://wiki.logos.com/Reading_Plan_$28Basics$29#Reading_specific_parts_of_a_Bible

Is the first column (Day 1, Day 2, etc.) needed?

No.

To enter readings for each session/day, you choose Docs > New > Reading Plan > Custom Reading Plan.

Edgar Hernández

If anyone is still interested, I did the whole custom reading plan. I cannot guarantee that there are no mistakes, but I tried to be as careful as I could. This is the link to the reading plan:

https://flshare.net/b85ni

If anyone finds any mistakes, let me know!

Dennis Vu

Hey Edgar,

I just found this, and I am currently going through Bible in a Year. However, it says the document has been deleted. I would love to be able to use it.

Dennis Vu

Hey Edgar,

I just found this, and I am currently going through Bible in a Year. However, it says the document has been deleted. I would love to be able to use it.

Dennis Vu

Hey Edgar,

I just found this, and I am currently going through Bible in a Year. However, it says the document has been deleted. I would love to be able to use

Edgar Hernández

Thanks for letting me know. I am not sure why it was delteted. I just shared it again:

https://flshare.net/r67id8