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[jonathon]

I wish I'd used a website copier to duplicate the public domain material.

Something I discovered a long time ago. If there is content on the web that you'd like to convert to e-Sword someday, use a bot to grab it now, and store it on your drives/DVD until you can get around to it.

On a semi-related note, I found my copy of the Answering-Islam DVD. Somewhere in my email archive I have a note by the owner of that site, requesting that the content be converted to other file formats, and the DVD be distributed to other people. Only proviso was that all distribution is gratis for the recipient.

jonathon

[wilde]

Lange's Commentary is now hosted here: http://uskojaelama.net/lange/

1 Thessalonians and Job are missing. Are they available somewhere?

Any idea on where to find these two books?

[patchworkid]

hi try this http://www.biblesupp...s-cmt-of-ot-nt/

[wilde]

hi try this http://www.biblesupp...s-cmt-of-ot-nt/

Unfortunately those books are missing from this package.

[Josh Bond]

This project will be complete in 14 days. I've dropped all my sideline projects and special requests so I can focus on getting this out the door.

I think everyone will be will be surprised at how well this turned out. The footnotes are linked, so that when you click a footnote, it shows you the footnote text. (If you have e-Sword 10.1). The footnotes are numbered, beginning with 1 and all footnotes match, 1 is linked to 1, rather than 1 being linked to a * or ^ or other odd characters used for the bookmark designation. It looks better and makes sense.

I took some liberties with the presentation of the text. We're not bound by printed page restrictions and expenses like the original typesetter was. I found the pattern used to "run comments together" throughout the text to save space in the printed edition. I separated those back out so that there's more vertical white space. This makes the text much more readable. It's easier to see how much further you have to read to complete the current thought, which makes reading easier in my view.

The headers for a given section usually look like:

EXEGETICAL AND CRITICAL
DOCTRINAL AND ETHICAL
HOMILETICAL AND PRACTICAL

So I color coded these sections with a dark blue (pleasing to the eye) so as you scan the text, these leap out at you, showing you where you are in the text.

I also color coded the author names. Langes like to say LUTHER: and then provide Luther's thoughts, for example. This is now much more readable because the coloring breaks up the text and you instantly see he's summarizing another author. These summaries can be quite extensive and so it's helpful to know (without thinking about it) that Langes is switching gears and providing another author's viewpoints.

I colored the foreign language words and have preserved them so they will render properly in e-Sword's (to avoid all these Greek Commentary issues we've had with Greek not rendering properly in Windows XP). Not that 3/4 of you understand Hebrew or Greek (myself included), but now you can stare at it and (not know whether you) agree with the author's conclusions, haha.

[MJ_]

Great news! I am excited!

Thank you for all your efforts sir!

[patchworkid]

Hi

Thanks for all your hard work on making modules that is too much for some of us. I am glad that you took it over from me. I am still learning how to make a good module.

thanks again
Patchworkid

[Josh Bond]

I am still learning how to make a good module.

So am I. I don't always get everything right on structure, but I think we have this one right.

Python script does most of the work. Then a tweak in MS Word's Visual Basic macro. And it's going well. I'd tested it previously by pasting it into e-Sword's topic editor since CMTX files did not support hyperlinks. Now when I try moving the text through Tooltip into cmtx format, T4 is eating my hyperlinks. If everything went right, I wouldn't know what to do with myself.

[BaptizedBeliever]

Let me see if I understand what you're saying. You are making footnotes where you can click the footnote number and the footnote will pop up (ala tooltip)? Or does it link to the bottom of the document?

Really wish I could figure out how to make the footnotes in a Bible actually have the pop-up footnote instead of having to make a cmtx file for the cross-references and small notes.

[Josh Bond]

Let me see if I understand what you're saying. You are making footnotes where you can click the footnote number and the footnote will pop up (ala tooltip)? Or does it link to the bottom of the document?

Really wish I could figure out how to make the footnotes in a Bible actually have the pop-up footnote instead of having to make a cmtx file for the cross-references and small notes.

Links to the bottom of the document, like the HTML document did.