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- The following features not available in the Gospel demo work with the
- whole Bible version:
-
- At the "find:" prompt you can type a single word or expression. The
- verses matching the typed specification will be displayed. In
- expressions, words must have a trailing space. Up to 4 (in this
- version) levels of parenthesis may be used. Upper and lower case are
- not distinct and may be used interchangably.
-
- If more than a page of verses is to be displayed, you will be prompted
- after 24 lines to hit return for 1 more line, space for the next page,
- or Q to quit. There is no way of paging backwards currently, but you
- can get the index back using #0 (described later), but without the words
- highlighted.
-
- Words of Christ will be in red if a color monitor is used. It is
- designed for medium resolution, lines may be truncated in low
- resolution, or it will overflow the page boundary.
-
- To use an external file, prefix it with an at sign (@). This can be
- done at the find: prompt or on the command line.
-
- You can also use the command line available using shell programs as in:
- % godspeed alpha philadelphia
-
- this may be combined with i/o redirection and the external file:
-
- % godspeed @data.bat >output.log
-
- Of course, the .ttp dialog box can be used instead of a shell.
-
- ****
- You can also use >pathspec immediately after the find prompt to open a
- file for output (you will not see it, but it will be sent to the file or
- device such as prn:). If you wish to append to an existing file, use
- >>pathspec. To close the file and return to normal printing, use >
- alone.
-
- find:>list.out Alpha .a Omega ;file is opened, word is searched for...
- find:> ;file is closed, back to console
- find:>>list.out @test.gsp ;add the results of test.gsp to the end
- find:>temp.out ;open a new file (old one is closed)
-
- Some punctuation may be found as well. Wildcards may be used. ?
- matches any individual character, * matches any string. Any string that
- does not match any word or combination will bring up a short list of
- surrounding valid words. Both types can be intermixed freely. *
- matches a string of 0 characters (or anything longer).
-
- To find punctuation, surround the punctuation with either single or
- double quotes as in "." or '('.
-
- joy* matches joy, joyful, joyous, joyfully, etc.
- m? matches me, my
- y?u*d matches you-ward
-
- (Index expressions are any expression yielding a valid index of verses)
-
- There are 4 logical operators available, A,B are index expressions:
- .A And - print only verses containing both A and B
- .O Or - print verses containing either A or B
- .N Not - print verses containing A but not B
- .X Exclusive Or - print verses containing either A or B but
- not both at the same time.
-
- Abraham .o Isaac .o Jacob
- will find all verses containing any of the three words.
- Abraham .a Isaac .a Jacob
- Abraham Isaac Jacob
- .a is a default. This will find verses containing all 3 words.
-
- There is also an expression to expand context, the [l,r]. [2,3]
- applied to another expression will add 2 verses before, and 3
- verses after each selected verse in the expression. This can be
- applied anywhere after an index expression. Examples:
-
- Alpha [1,2]
- Find all occurences of "alpha" with extra context.
- Abraham [0,25] Isaac [25,0]
- Find all places where Abraham and Isaac occur within 25
- verses of each other and interviening context
- Abraham [0,25] Isaac [25,0] .a (Abraham .O Isaac )
- as above, but only the individual verses
-
- There are saved indicies and index variables. They are prefixed with
- the pound sign and are followed by a number. #0 contains the result of
- the last search. You can use an equals after a first specification to
- save an index (then #0 will not be saved)
-
- find:alpha
- - finds occurences of alpha
- find:#1= #0
- - saves them in index 1
- find:#2= philadelphia
- - saves index of philadelphia in index 2
- find:#1 .a #2
- - finds alpha .a philadelphia
-
- Individual book/chapter/verse specifications can be found.
-
- The following abbreviations are used:
-
- GEN EXO LEV NUM DEU JOS JUD RUT 1SA 2SA 1KI
- 2KI 1CH 2CH EZR NEH EST JBO PSA PRO ECC SOL
- ISA JER LAM EZE DNL HOS JOE AMO OBA JON MIC
- NAH HAB ZEP HAG ZEC MAL MAT MAR LUK JOH ACS
- ROM 1CO 2CO GAL EPH PHI COL 1TH 2TH 1TI 2TI
- TIT PHM HEB JAM 1PE 2PE 1JO 2JO 3JO JDE REV
-
- Note that they are the first letters of the book except for Job-JBO,
- Daniel-DNL, Acts-ACS, Philemon-PHM (PHIllipians), Jude-JDE (JUDges) Song
- of Solomon is SOL.
-
- You can specify a book with just the 3 letter abbreviation, or follow it
- with either a chapter number or a chapter and verse:
-
- GEN - the book of Genesis
- 2CO 1 - the first chapter of second Corinthians
- JOH 3 16 - the verse John 3:16.
-
- You can specify enumerated verses or ranges as well by using , or -:
- (note that the context is the smallest unit last used, so Book x-y means
- chapters x-y, while book x:y-z means chapter x, verses y-z, and this
- applies to commas. This can be overridden by explicitly using chapter
- and verse, so book x:y-z:w is how to get around this. The colon can be
- replaced with a space, joh 3 16 <=> joh 3:16
-
- MAT-REV - the New Testament
- MAT 5-7 - The sermon on the mount
- PSA 42,47,52:3-5,7,ECC 1,3:5
- ^verse 7
- psalms 42, 47, psalm 52: verses 3, 4, 5,and 7,
- Ecclesiastes chapter 1, and verse 5 of chapter 3
-