How to best format a custom Bible in Personal Books.

bryan jay
bryan jay Member Posts: 113 ✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Forum

Hi all,

I am an international worker among an unreached people group that only recently received the Bible in its own language.  I have the text of the Bible by individual Bible book in PDF formats and I am copying those into MS Word so that I can make a personal book fully functional as a Bible in Logos.  I have a couple of questions regarding work-flow.  More may follow.  Thanks to anyone willing to take the time to help me do this right.  I really don't want to spend a lot of time only to find out that I formatted everything incorrectly or missed something important.

  1. What milestones do I need to put in this book so that it will function as a Bible?
  2. Should I put the entire New Testament in one .docx file, or would it be advisable for some reason to make each Bible book its own personal book.

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  • Fred Chapman
    Fred Chapman Member Posts: 5,899 ✭✭✭

    This wiki page should have all the information you need regarding formatting and milestones. http://wiki.logos.com/Personal_Books

    As for how you structure it that is really up to you. I have read where some people have very, very large PB's and other prefer to break them up. You could certainly create a separate .docx for each book and then upload multiple files into the PB so that you end up with one New Testament.

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  • Bohuslav Wojnar
    Bohuslav Wojnar Member Posts: 3,478 ✭✭✭

    Hello Bryan,

    I do not have much time right now, but just want to answer one of your questions. Yes, you can have just one docx file for whole Bible. It makes it easier to do any style changes, since it applies to the whole Personal Book.

    God bless you as you work on that precious task.

    P.S. As Fred mentioned already, you should find most of the information (and examples) on the given wiki page.

    Bohuslav

  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 36,335

    bryan jay said:

    would it be advisable for some reason to make each Bible book its own personal book

    There is no good reason to do this! You could have a docx file for each Bible book, but there are disadvantages as mentioned above.

    Dave
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  • Tim Sikkema
    Tim Sikkema Member Posts: 28 ✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/570426#Comment_570426

    Does anyone have a quick way to add milestones to a Bible in Word? Obviously not going to add 30,000+ milestones individually! I made a PB Bible a year or two ago, and through a long process of find-and-replace (with and without wildcards), copy-and-pasting into Excel for further manipulation, concatenating, putting it back into Word, and more find-and-replace, finally came up with a result I was pleased with. But is there an easier way to do it – maybe for someone with programming skills that I certainly don't have? My translation has the added complexity of having some verses combined together as one, e.g. Romans 3:5-6.

    My PB Bible works well, so I wouldn't need such a tool in the near future, but I could imagine it would be helpful to have.

  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 36,335
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/570655#Comment_570655

    Tim Sikkema said:

    Does anyone have a quick way to add milestones to a Bible in Word?

    The end of someone else's thread is not a good place for a new question! The General forum is better and the Files forum may have some automation as well as examples, or a skeleton bible.

    Tim Sikkema said:

    My translation has the added complexity of having some verses combined together as one, e.g. Romans 3:5-6.

    Use that passage format in the milestone! But if verse content overlaps, or is mixed, you will have to revise your milestones e.g. see Romans 3:1-6 in Message.

    Dave
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    Windows 11 & Android 13

  • Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)
    Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :) MVP Posts: 23,165

    bryan jay said:

    What milestones do I need to put in this book so that it will function as a Bible?

    Wiki has => http://wiki.logos.com/Bible_Verse_Maps

    bryan jay said:

    Should I put the entire New Testament in one .docx file, or would it be advisable for some reason to make each Bible book its own personal book.

    Wiki => http://wiki.logos.com/User_Contributed_Personal_Books includes link => American Standard Version (ASV) 1901 (Without Chapter and Verse Numbers, Red Letter) that has lesson learned of changing Bible Verse Mapping to KJV for Text Comparison use.

    Dave Hooton said:

    Tim Sikkema said:

    My translation has the added complexity of having some verses combined together as one, e.g. Romans 3:5-6.

    Use that passage format in the milestone! But if verse content overlaps, or is mixed, you will have to revise your milestones e.g. see Romans 3:1-6 in Message.

    Thread discussion may be insightful => Power Tip: Using variables to Search and Replace in Word

    Keep Smiling [:)]

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