reformat the formatting

Larry Craig · 2025-01-15T02:09:03+00:00

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Most of us know that when the Bible was originally written, there were no chapter and verse numbers. Not even paragraphs and spaces. And no pericope headings either. (How did they get by without those?)

Some Bible teachers highly recommend using a Bible text that doesn't have headings, and chapter and verse numbers.

Logos can do that, but it leaves a lot of empty space where the headings were and chapter divisions. OK, that's better, but I think it should go a step further.

We should be able to have a text with no formatting at all, and we should then be allowed to add paragraphs when we deem fit. If we can't have the ability to move the text around, then we should have highlight markers for paragraphs and whatever markings we want to make. That might all be there, but I haven't worked beyond the simplest highlighting tools.

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MJ. Smith

Yes, but the parashots were marked in the Hebrew Bible as early as 3rd century B.C.E. The New Testament while not a full pericope system shows textual division in Papyrus 66, Codex Vaticanus, and Codex Sinaiticus.

For the ability to move the text around use either the Sentence diagrammer or Canvas. I tend to still use the former, simply because that is what I have always done. This method was decades ago taught as the "manuscript method".

Larry Craig

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1353539#Comment_1353539

thank you. This is all new to me. I looked up sentence diagramming. I can only do a section at a time in a separate window, and all the verse and chapter numbers are still there. The idea is to read, say, a whole epistle like that. This seems to complicated. At least for me, at least for what is supposed to be done here.

MJ. Smith

I agree that it would be nice to have it all done for you but IIRC you can get it to strip the chapter and verse numbers. I tend to work in pericopes, lections or stories so I've never tested the maximum length.

Larry Craig

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1353550#Comment_1353550

I took a Hebrews class once where I read through the book in Greek without chapters and verses. I don't remember how I printed it out. Maybe using Bible Windows. Long time ago. But that's more the concept. Studying the book in chapters or pericopes too often separates the text being studied from the previous context, one of the biggest overlooked parts in Bible interpretation. Oh, the sentence diagramming that I was able to do with Logos, I still had the verses indicators there. I didn't see any way to remove them.

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