Verse References in Personal Books

I am sure this question has been asked before, but I could not find it. I am creating a personal book and I wanted to make sure all the verses hyperlinked even if followed by a period or semi-colon, etc. I looked up that they can be enclosed in square brackets to ensure Logos picks up the verse references. So far, so good.

Here is my question: If I have a string of references, say 10, do I need to enclose each one in square brackets, or can I do one set at the beginning and one at the end, and Logos will pick up all the verse references in the string?

For example: [[John 1:1; I Peter 3:2; Exodus 2:7]] or do I have to [[John 1:1]]; [[I Peter 3:2]]; [[Exodus 2:7]]?

Thanks in advance for the help. Carla

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NB.Mick

Here is my question: If I have a string of references, say 10, do I need to enclose each one in square brackets, or can I do one set at the beginning and one at the end, and Logos will pick up all the verse references in the string?

Normally, the PB compiler should pick up all references formatted like you had them - automatically and without square brackets or anything. Actually it's rather good with English language references. My advice would be to just compile it without bothering to do anything as a trial run. Should you then see any undetected references (mostly they'd be incomplete references, like the ref. v 17 when you have a sentence like "in John 3:16 the apostle tells us... and going on to v.17 we are taught....", which may or may not be get caught by the compiler) the syntax is a little bit more complex than simply putting a bracket. It looks like this: [[v.17 >> bible:Jn3.17]] where the left side of the >> is shown in the text and the right side is the link target. This works in PBs for links of various sorts - to books, to internet URLs, to Logos resources and datatype references including bibles. Here yo can specify the bible resource you are citing (it may be relevant to the argument that the link goes to KJV or to NLT) - such information is found in the wiki.

Ken McGuire

If you have a list of biblical references, the compiler usually just picks it up just fine.

But when there is a problem and you have to get specific and you use the [[Label >> Reference]] format, the reference can only be one passage. Eg, one verse, or a verse range, or even a book or chapter. But not a list.

So this works - [[Opening >> Jn 1:1-3]]

But this doesn't - [[Opening >> Jn 1:1, 2, 3]]

While I have not tried your specific example, I strongly suspect the first one will give an error, while the second one will work fine.

cshover8669

I have not had too many issues in the past, but this is a much larger undertaking than usual. It is an 1800's public domain resource, with thousands of verse references and I wanted to make sure they all hyperlinked. For the ones you mention "in ver. 7", I usually replace that with the entire reference, so I am grateful for the tip on how to manage that next time. I could not get a .pdf to Word utility to work on it so I am basically re-typing the entire thing and do not want a mess when I go to compile it, so I was looking for extra insurance. LOL

Thanks, Carla

Michael Kinch

What am I missing in the following?

[[vs. 7,8 >> bible:Eph.1:7,8]]

I haven't been able to figure out what I am doing wrong. I can't seem to get a reverence where 2 consecutive verses display correctly.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1308846#Comment_1308846

[[vs. 7,8 >> bible:Eph.1:7-8]] ought to work

NB.Mick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1308846#Comment_1308846

alternatively,

[[vs. 7 >> bible:Eph.1:7]],[[8 >> bible:Eph.1:8]]

which will create two individual links to the verses before and after the comma. Logos resources often have it like this.

Michael Kinch

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1308876#Comment_1308876

[[vs. 7,8 >> bible:Eph.1:7-8]] ought to work

Thanks MJ

Michael Kinch

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1308882#Comment_1308882

alternatively,

[[vs. 7 >> bible:Eph.1:7]],[[8 >> bible:Eph.1:8]]

which will create two individual links to the verses before and after the comma. Logos resources often have it like this.

Thanks NB.Mick