Re: New, Just a few questions.

[Jeremy Cowgar]

Jeremy Cowgar wrote:

> I am formatting the ASV version of the Bible and formatting the Bible 
> has a couple of unique problems that I'm not yet certain how to get around.
>
> 1.) Headers...I would like to use the standard header scheme, on the 
> left pages have the Chapter/Verse in the upper left corner, and on right 
> pages, the last Chapter/Verse in the upper right corner. I know it's 
> possible for placement, I also know how to do this for Chapter/Section, 
> but how can I accomplish this? Marking each verse is not a problem with 
> a tag, and then retrieving that tag, but I'm not certain how that will 
> work.
>
> 2.) Footnotes are plenty. Can I somehow format the footnotes in a 
> paragraph format instead of each footnote on it's own line? i.e.
>
> 1) Footnote 1 2) Footnote 2 3) Footnote 3, etc...
>
> instead of:
>
> 1) Footnote 1
> 2) Footnote 2
> 3) Footnote 3
>
> Most of the footnotes are very small, such as 1) Or your 2) Other mss 
> read "over the hill", etc... The average is probably around 4 words per 
> footnote.
>
> 3.) ... this one is purely for presentation, not really a problem. But, 
> the area seperating the page body and the page margins where margin 
> notes go. Can I put vertical lines there?
>
> I have been searching for the perfect tool in order to accomplish this 
> task, and after spending the day with lout, I'm really impressed. I will 
> be using it for other projects, even if this one does not work out, so 

Ok, since playing with Lout now for a day or so continously, I've 
typesetting a few couple books, used it to generate some reports with 
some fancy graphing (cool) and made a few small layouts based on the 
Expert guide's examples and also ts in the include directory.

Now I see that what I must do is basically start from scratch with the 
layouts and maybe create one called Bible. I thought of extending doc, 
or maybe even bsf, but it seems to me that with the vast changes that I 
am going to have to deal with, maybe I should start from scratch? I was 
thinking of building a simple layout with commands like:

@Bible
  @Name { American Standard Version }
  @Abbr { ASV }
  ... etc ...

@Begin

@BookList

@Book
  @Title { Genesis }
@Begin

@Para
@SectDivisionTitle {Creation}
@Chapter {1} @Verse {1} In the beginning ...
@Verse {2} ......

@SectDivisionTitle {Adam and Eve}
....

@End @Book

@Book
  @Title { Exodus }
... etc ...
@End @Book

@End @BookList

@End @Bible

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Anyone have any input? Should I be going down a different road?

Thanks,

Jeremy