Cool, so the lines are all differing lengths, they don’t seem to have any pattern. I am trying to target each other line to remove the paragraph breaks and replace them with standard spaces.
It’s an odd project for a client, who wants the entire text of the bible as a texture on wall panelling. I was able to grep out all the references and numbering easily enough, but the line length is too short for the size of panel—three lines or so would be more appropriate for the texture.
Again, odd project, but the goal would be to strip two of every three paragraph returns out of the entire bible to make line length more conducive to texturing the panel.
most lines end with a period, but not all. If it makes it easier, then it could be a useful shorthand, I would guess, though not perfect.
example text:
And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:
For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
For all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.
And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
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