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• • March 7, 2019 at 10:01 am #114787
    Jason K

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    In my typesetting work, I’ll occasionally work with a long manuscript that features a number of Bible verse references. Typically, I manually select these to change the character style, so I wanted to see what I could do to speed up the process.

    I only found one reference online to someone trying to do something like this, but the string doesn’t seem to find any results in my documents. Appreciate any help.

    Build a biblical reference index with GREP

    (d+s)?(w+?.?sd+[[:punct:]]d+)(.d+)?([,sd]+(.d+)?)*

  • March 7, 2019 at 4:56 pm #114805
    Jason K

    Member

    Update: So far, with some help, it’s been discovered that the backslash characters were missing. I’ve revised the code to:

    (\d+)?(\w+?.?\d+[:]\d+)(.\d+)?([,\d]+(.\d+)?)*

    From here, I need to figure out how to add looking for Roman numerals, to cover instances of something like I Corinthians or II Corinthians. Then, how to include the next complete word after the reference, in case a translation is mentioned (e.g. ESV or NKJ).

  • March 9, 2019 at 5:37 am #114849
    Peter Kahrel

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    Could you give some examples of what you’re looking for?

  • March 9, 2019 at 3:56 pm #114853
    Samuel Blowes

    Member

    Here’s what I use in my sermon notes and in book layouts:

    \<(\d?|)\w*\d*:\d*~=*\d*

    Break Down:
    \< — Identify beginning of a word

    (\d?|) — Identify book number if any (e.g. 3 John, 1 Kings, etc.)

    \w*\d*:\d* — Identify any amount word characters followed by a single a single space, digit(s), colon, and digit(s)

    ~=*\d* — Identify a possible verse range with an en-dash followed by digit(s)

  • March 10, 2019 at 3:18 am #114855
    Peter Kahrel

    Participant

    Some text examples of verses, please.

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