Process to fix the verse number on PDF to Docx conversion

Hi Nycholas:

Do you have Microsoft Word 2013 or later available to you? It's possible it might provide a better outcome converting than Adobe. If your PDF is not under copyright, you could post it here and I could run it through Word and see if it works well.

OK, try this:

(Make a safe copy of the Word docx.)  In Word, on the Home tab, click the Find & Replace button (at the right) and then click Replace. In the dialog box that appears, click the 'More' button at the bottom. Click the 'Use wildcards' box. In the 'Find what' box, type this     ([0-9])([A-Z])

In the 'Replace with' box, type     \1 \2     (that's a space between 1 and \)

(If your Portuguese character set has different 'first and last' letters, you'll edit that part.)

Click the 'Replace all' button. What this should do is find anywhere there is a number followed by an upper-case letter with no spaces in between and insert one space. If you want two spaces between verse and text, add another space. There are probably some verses that begin with a lower case letter; to fix those, run the Replace again with    a-z   in 'Find what'.

Examine your docx and see if all went well. The good thing about Find & Replace is that is does exactly what you tell it to do. The bad thing about Find & Replace is that is does exactly what you tell it to do. [:)]

Robert M. Warren said:

I'll have to do some additional thinking on this

OK, Nycholas:

First, the bad news:  as NB.NMick indicated (thanks!), I can find no method for customizing the automated citation styles supplied with Logos to cause them to display a non-Page index range (that is, non-canonical documents). I will suggest a workaround or alternative later in this novella.

Next, here's how to tag the Clement references:

Navigate to this post in the Logos Forums:  https://community.logos.com/forums/t/66338.aspx (thank you, Ken McGuire!), which has a docx of the Richardson translation of the Apostolic Fathers. Beginning at Page 26 in that document, note how Ken tagged 1 Clement. That's how you'll need to tag your personal book. Note also that the tag with Chapter 0 is for the introduction. Recall from the Wiki page, that if you were tagging a typical bible reference, it would follow the pattern  [[@Bible:Book Chapter:Verse]] . So, you can see the analogy to the non-canonical reference  [[af:1Cl 1.1]] . When all the verses are tagged and your users compile their personal books, they will have the Apostolic Fathers index in the resource. This means they can:

1. Type a 1 Clement reference in the reference box (the text box in the upper-left corner of the resource) and go straight to that reference.
2. Open a commentary or other resource that is indexed with the Apostolic Fathers and create a Link Set that scrolls together.

Next, Page Numbering:

On the WIki page for Personal Books (https://wiki.logos.com/personal_books ), scroll down the the Milestones section and see the format for Page milestones, that is:  [[@Page:number]] . This will need to be at the top of each page. (But don't put them in the Word header section; the Personal Book compiler ignores headers and footers.) You'll want to do this as the last editing step. You can place them at the beginning of the first sentence on the page, since it won't be part of the surface text of the compiled resource. If your document is brief, manually entering this will be simple. If your document is long, consider reading this forum thread:  https://community.logos.com/forums/p/35832/269112.aspx#269112 (thanks, Dominick Sela!). Make sure to get the revision Dominick added in Post #3 in the thread.

Next, Compile Your Personal Book, review it, and determine which citation style you want your users to specify:

Make sure the compiled resource looks as you want it to. Copy some sections of text to a Word document and see how that looks. Check the citation format. If you have entered footnotes in MS Word, those will be compiled as functional Logos footnotes and will be pasted in the Word document, if Copy Footnotes is specified as Yes in Program Settings. In that case, the citation footnote will be the last one listed (I think) and it should be distinguished from the regular footnotes by having a slightly larger font size. If you want to experiment with other citation styles, specify another style in Program Settings and test again. Once you have determined that, here's the workaround or alternative for getting the Book-Chapter-Verse reference: you'll have to tell your users to manually edit the citation footnote that is generated when the text is pasted. (By the way, the citation footnote does have a hyperlink to the copied text, but it is worthless when sent to someone else, since each Personal Book has a resource ID that is distinct for each user. If you select that hyperlink, then press Shift+F9, it will reveal the hyperlink code, which will at least have the index starting point of the referenced text, but that's a lot of trouble.

When you are test-compiling the personal book, note the metadata items you want your users to specify and what values you want them to use.

What You Will Want to Provide to Your Users:

1. The docx file
2. A list of metadata items to include in the Personal Book Tool and the values for those. Don't forget the Add Fields list.
3. The citation style you want used and tell them how to change to that in Program Settings
4. Whether or not you want the footnotes in the personal book to also be in the pasted data in their individual Word documents and how to specify Yes or No in Program Settings
5. How to edit the citation footnote for the Book-Chapter-Verse references, and the format for that.

I hope all of this makes sense.  [:)]