Bible Format Document

[Coffee]

Thanks Bob for the info in the previous post.

So now I have a diffrent set of questions. I have a KJV
of the Bible already in Word (2003). I have gone to some
lengths to change the words of Christ to Red and
Superscript the verse numbers - and yes I did these with
applying styles.

Now I want to start putting notes on diffrent scriptures
(footnotes) - easy enough so far. The next thing I want
to do is start adding referances, some of these will be
cross referances and some will be external referances.

I will make things easier and go with just two columns,
one for referance and one for Text Body (Actual scripture)

This is where I fall apart. I have heard that frames may
work but I am not sure.

Also should I setup a Template or have I kinda' done that
by adding/modifying Styles.

Should I use a new file for every book in the Bible or
just a single document (currently I have one for Old
Testement and one for New Testement).

My goal here is to create my own Bible notes that I can
edit and print.

Any help would be much appreciated.
/Coffee

 

[Kathleen]

You definitely want to have different files for each
book -- Word gets cranky if a document is too long,
especially with the footnotes and things you're adding.
If you use multiple files, learn about hyperlinks (you
can easily hyperlink from document to the other) and you
also need to be very careful about file management --
keep all your files in one directory and it will help
when you're hyperlinking between them.

You might also want to investigate using tables (without
borders) -- it's easier to manage for the two-column
approach. You should "break" the tables fairly
frequently, i.e., at the end of each chapter so that you
don't end up with one big table running through the
document.

If you're using Word's automatic cross referencing, you
should change your Tools > Options > View > Field Shading
to "Always", so that fields are always highlighted and
you can tell what's a cross reference and what isn't.
Here's a little troubleshooting tip I always give people
who are starting off with cross-references -- Sometimes
chunks of text get strangely repeated in some other part
of the document, and it can be frustrating to figure out
why. If this happens when automatic cross referencing has
been used in the document it means that something has
changed near the 'target' text (which is usually a
heading or a figure). There should be some text nearby in
the "wrong" location that says something like 'See
section' followed by the repeated text. Most likely, new
text was inserted above the heading and the invisible
bookmark that wraps the target text has moved. The result
is that the cross reference now includes body text as
well as the original heading or figure text. You can
confirm this has happened by clicking on the repeated
text in the "wrong" location - if this is the problem,
the repeated text will be highlighted grey (or, if you
changed your Field shading to be Always, it will be grey
to begin with). To fix it, select the "wrong" text and
delete it. Replace the original cross reference.

 

[Pierre Igot]

borders) -- it's easier to manage for the two-column
approach. You should "break" the tables fairly
frequently, i.e., at the end of each chapter so that you
don't end up with one big table running through the
document.

Please note that, if you do use border-less tables for page layout
purposes (the recommended option here), Word will NOT honour so-called
'keep' options (Keep lines together and Keep with next) applied to
paragraphs of text within the table cells:

http://www.latext.com/pm/betalogue/P325

In other words, even if you apply "Keep lines together" or "Keep with
next" to some of your paragraphs, that won't prevent Word from
inserting automatic page breaks inside or in between such paragraphs.

It's a major drawback -- and there is nothing that can be done about
it.

 

[Klaus Linke]

This is where I fall apart. I have heard that frames may

work but I am not sure.

You *can* use a framed style for "Marginalia".

The "regular" text would need to have a large (left or right) indent, to
leave space for the marginalia.
Say you want the marginalia in the right margin, you could give the regular
text a right indent of 50 mm, and the framed "Marginalia" style a frame
width of 45 mm and a distance to the text of 5 mm.
Since frames don't show in Normal view, I'd give the marginalia style some
unique font formatting (color?) if you plan to edit a lot in Normal view.

Marginalia done with frames won't break across pages, so they need to be
kept rather short.

If you do use tables as recommended by Kathleen and Pierre, you are better
off with lots of very short tables, rather than a few long tables.
Probably each verse could be in a 1-row table by itself.

Word gets terribly slow if tables span lots of pages, and (to a lesser
extent) if table rows span lots of lines.

Regards,
Klaus

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Frames *do* "show" in Normal view (that is, the contents are displayed), as
Klaus's follow-up suggests, but they are not displayed in position and
therefore not, perhaps, distinguishable as framed text.