Copy Bible Verses - custom format - getting rid of chapters

Peter Bowers

I am creating my own custom format for copy/pasting verses and want to be able to ask for 2-3 chapters at a time without getting the intervening chapter.  I am using this as my format:

===(snip)===

%UseBibleParagraphs
%NoCharFormatting
%NoFootnotes
%NoCitation
=ForEachVerse
REF([ShortBookName].[ChapterNum]:[VerseNum]) [VerseText]
===(snip)===

If I copy Colossians 1 I get this at the top:

===(snip)===

REF(Col.1:)

REF(Col.1:1) Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

REF(Col.1:2) To the holy and faithful brothers in Christ at Colosse:

Grace and peace to you from God our Father.

===(snip)===

where I just want to see this:

===(snip)===

REF(Col.1:1) Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

REF(Col.1:2) To the holy and faithful brothers in Christ at Colosse:

Grace and peace to you from God our Father.

===(snip)===

If I copy the whole book of, say, Colossians (admittedly not something I need to do very often, but I'd like to get my format working) I get this:

===(snip)===

REF(Col.1:)



REF(Col.1:) REF(Col.1:1) Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
...

===(snip)===

Which has not one but 2 separate references to Col chapter 1 before it gets to Col 1:1.

Any idea how to fix this problem?

Dave Hooton

Peter Bowers said:

Which has not one but 2 separate references to Col chapter 1 before it gets to Col 1:1.

Using your Style (below) I don't get that problem in Logos 5 nor in 4.6c beta. So was the full style statement you quoted between ==(snip)'s== or were you using a specific bible version?

%UseBibleParagraphs
%NoCharFormatting
%NoFootnotes
%NoCitation
=ForEachVerse
REF([ShortBookName].[ChapterNum]:[VerseNum]) [VerseText]

Peter Bowers

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/473597#Comment_473597

I gave the whole style definition between the snip tags.  But I didn't try it in multiple versions - I was just using NIV1984 and never thought to try another version. 

Switching to NIV2011 gets rid of one of the chapter-by-itself listings when I ask for all of Colossians and leaves it the same if I ask for Colossians 1

Switching to ESV makes the problem go away for Colossians 1 but leaves a single chapter-by-itself if I ask for the whole book of Colossians.

Switching to NASB makes the whole problem go away.

Apparently it is a version-specific problem...?  Is this considered a bug?

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/473601#Comment_473601

Peter Bowers said:

Apparently it is a version-specific problem...?  Is this considered a bug?

%UseBibleParagraphs is where the problem lies. I would say it is a bug as it parses NIV differently to NIV 2011 and AV1873, all of which don't show a number for v1 but have different spacing between the chapter # and start of bible text.  The problem afflicts Ch 1 & 2 but not 3 (didn't go any further).