- The prepare file must be named in in the format "bible%d.txt" where "%d" is the number of the book eg: for Genesis it would be "bible1.txt"
- Each chapter is a line with only the page number in curly braces eg: for chapter 5 "{5}"
- Each verse is one line
- A verse line begins with the verse number then two spaces eg: for verse 13 "13 "
- The whole verse must be on the rest of that line (do not split verses over multiple lines)
- First Chapter 1 and part of chapter 2 is shown as an example below:
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1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 And the earth was waste and empty, and darkness was on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light. And there was light.
4 And God saw the light that it was good; and God divided between the light and the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening, and there was morning -- the first day.
6 And God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it be a division between waters and waters.
7 And God made the expanse, and divided between the waters that are under the expanse and the waters that are above the expanse; and it was so.
8 And God called the expanse Heavens. And there was evening, and there was morning -- a second day.
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together to one place, and let the dry [land] appear. And it was so.
10 And God called the dry [land] Earth, and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
11 And God said, Let the earth cause grass to spring up, herb producing seed, fruit-trees yielding fruit after their kind, the seed of which is in them, on the earth. And it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, herb producing seed after its kind, and trees yielding fruit, the seed of which is in them, after their kind. And God saw that it was good.
13 And there was evening, and there was morning -- a third day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens, to divide between the day and the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens, to give light on the earth. And it was so.
16 And God made the two great lights, the great light to rule the day, and the small light to rule the night, -- and the stars.
17 And God set them in the expanse of the heavens, to give light on the earth,
18 and to rule during the day and during the night, and to divide between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
19 And there was evening, and there was morning -- a fourth day.
20 And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living souls, and let fowl fly above the earth in the expanse of the heavens.
21 And God created the great sea monsters, and every living soul that moves with which the waters swarm, after their kind, and every winged fowl after its kind. And God saw that it was good.
22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply on the earth.
23 And there was evening, and there was morning -- a fifth day.
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth living souls after their kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth, after their kind. And it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing of the ground after its kind. And God saw that it was good.
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over the whole earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth on the earth.
27 And God created Man in his image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over every animal that moveth on the earth.
29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb producing seed that is on the whole earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree producing seed: it shall be food for you;
30 and to every animal of the earth, and to every fowl of the heavens, and to everything that creepeth on the earth, in which is a living soul, every green herb for food. And it was so.
31 And God saw everything that he had made, and behold it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning -- the sixth day.
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1 And the heavens and the earth and all their host were finished.
2 And God had finished on the seventh day his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it, because that on it he rested from all his work which God had created in making it.
4 These are the histories of the heavens and the earth, when they were created, in the day that Jehovah Elohim made earth and heavens,
5 and every shrub of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew; for Jehovah Elohim had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground.
6 But a mist went up from the earth, and moistened the whole surface of the ground.
- The prepare file must be named in the format "hymns%s.txt" where "%s" is the name of the book eg: "hymns1962.txt"
- The first line of the document must be "{#Hymns (%s)}" where "%s" is the name of the book eg: "{#Hymns (1962)}"
- There should be no blank lines
- Each hymn number is stored in the format "{%d}" where %d is the hymn number eg: a line reading "{3}" means that this is the start of hymn 3.
- The next line after the number should be the information line (Even if there is no information)
- This line MUST include a "," then a " " (space character) immediately after
- The author/other information is written first then the metre in the format "%s1, %s2" where %s1 is the author and %s2 is the metre
- eg: "W. COWPER (1731-1800) Adapted, C.M."
- Each verse number is stored in the format "|%d|" where %d is the verse number eg: "|5|" is verse 5
- All other lines are treated as verse text and so format is ignored (however line breaks will only be added in where there are line breaks in the prep document)
- There is no special syntax for the end of a prepare document
The first two hymns are shown from the 1962 hymn book as an example
{#Hymns (1962)}
{1}
W. COWPER (1731-1800) Adapted, C.M.
|1|
Of all the Gifts Thy love bestows,
Thou Giver of all good!
E'en heav'n itself no richer knows
Than the Redeemer's blood
|2|
Faith, too, that trusts the blood through grace,
From that same love we gain;
Else, sweetly as it suits our case,
The gift had been in vain.
|3|
We praise Thee, and would praise Thee more;
To Thee our all we owe;
The precious Saviour, and the power
That makes Him precious too.
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J. G. DECK (1807-1884) Adapted, 8.7.8.7.4.7.
|1|
Father, 'twas Thy love that knew us
Earth's foundation long before;
That same love to Jesus drew us
By its sweet constraining power,
And hath made us
Sons before Thee evermore.
|2|
Now that changeless love enfolds us,
All its wealth on us bestows;
While its power unchanging holds us
In a holy calm repose.
God and Father,
Unto Thee our worship flows.
- The prepare file must be named in the format "%s%d.txt" where:
- "%s" is the initials of the author (or accepted abbreviation) in lower case eg: for John Darby "jnd"
- "%d" is the volume number
- eg: JND volume 5 would be "jnd5.txt"
- The first line of the document must be "{#%s}" where "%s" is the title of the book eg: For ajg1 "{#Piety and other addresses}"
- There should be no blank lines
- The page number should be above the text of that page in the format "{%d}" where %d is the page number eg: page 5 "{5}"
- A blank page should have a page number and then no text eg: if pages 307 and 308 were blank:
{306}
page 306 text
{307}
{308}
{309}
page 309 text
- A header is determined by the line being all capital letters
- Scripture references
- Start with an @ symbol
- Then the book name
- Then the chapter
- Then optionally the verse number in the format ":%d" where "%d" is the verse number
- eg: @1 Timothy 2: 1
- Paragraph breaks are denoted by line breaks in the prepare document therefore a single paragraph must be entirely on one line
- A block of italics should be surrounded with "*" characters eg: "some text *This text is in Italics* more text"
- When a word has a footnote add the "¦" (broken bar) character to the end of the word then at the end of the page start the footnote line with another "¦" (broken bar) character. eg:
- multiple footnotes will be assigned in the order they are found in the page.
{4}
This page has some text. The word footnote¦ has a footnote. A second footnote is on the word markdown.¦
¦This is where the footnote is explained
¦A footnote with information on the word markdown is added here
{5}
Page 5 text
- Any html tags that are necessary can be added to the prepare file as long as they are valid eg: "" tags for breaks in topics
- There is no special syntax for the end of a prepare document
- The first three pages of AJG volume 1 are included as an example:
{#Piety and other addresses}
{1}
PIETY
@1 Timothy 2: 1 -- 4; @1 Timothy 3: 14 -- 16; @1 Timothy 4: 4 -- 10; @1 Timothy 6: 3 -- 9, 11
I feel impressed, dear brethren, I trust by the Lord, to say a word as to godliness, or piety, believing that there is great need of our being reminded of the importance of it. The Lord is bringing before us in these days much that is connected with the greatest truths of Christianity, the highest privileges of the assembly, intending that we should have power to move into these things, and that requires spirituality; but I believe that before we can be spiritual, we must become marked by righteousness practically, and piety. You will remember that the Scripture speaks of Simeon in the second chapter of Luke's gospel; how the Holy Spirit was upon him and that it had been revealed to him by the Spirit that he should not see death till he had seen the Lord's Christ; and ho he came in the Spirit into the temple. He was one who was evidently characterised in large measure by spirituality, by being spiritual. But before saying these things about him, it says that he was just and pious, meaning that he was characteristically righteous practically in all his ways and that he was pious; and I believe those two things, practical righteousness and piety, are essential foundations to spirituality. That is, unless we are concerned and helped of the Lord to maintain righteousness practically in every detail of life and to cultivate piety, we shall not be able to go very far in the way of spirituality. The Lord is stressing, dear brethren, that the recovery of the truth which we are now enjoying -- truth that the Lord has given to the assembly now for the past hundred years -- has in mind that all the thoughts of God, the best thoughts regarding the assembly, should be entered
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upon by us at the close just before we are taken to be with the Lord. But I say again, and I believe it is incontrovertible, that we cannot in any real power touch spiritual things unless there is a foundation with us of practical righteousness and piety.
Now this first epistle to Timothy says much about piety. If you read through the epistle, I think you will be perhaps surprised at the constant references to piety, or godliness as it is rendered in the Authorised Version. In chapter 2 the apostle exhorts first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgiving should be made for all men, for kings and those who are in authority, that we may lead quiet and peaceable lives, in all piety and gravity. It was a prominent thought in the mind of the apostle, so that he gives exhortation *first of all*, and with a view to this, that we may lead quiet and peaceable lives, in all piety and gravity; for, he says, "this is good and acceptable in the sight of our Saviour God, who will have all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth." I believe the force is, dear brethren, that not only are we ourselves to be marked by piety and the blessing that flows from it, but the result of it is to be a testimony to others that saints who are marked by piety are manifestly in the good of salvation. God wants all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth, enjoying all the truth, involving the knowledge of God; and there is nothing like the knowledge of God to save us practically from all the different features that are current in the world around. Take discontent for instance; a great feature of the present time is discontent and many things of that kind, that characterise men at the present time. The great power for salvation from things of that sort is the knowledge of God, and piety brings the knowledge of God into our everyday circumstances; so that we are encouraged to prayer and supplication,
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intercession and thanksgiving. All these are things that belong to the knowledge of God; indeed intercession is a wonderful privilege; it is the exercise by those who know God of their privilege of drawing near to God, it is the privilege of exercising that power on behalf of others.
Abraham, who is spoken of as the friend of God, took up the attitude of intercession with God in regard of Sodom. What a wonderful privilege, that one man outside of those wicked cities, should exercise the power he had with God, as God's friend, in intercession on behalf of Sodom and Gomorrah! and yet not doing it in any sentimental way, but doing it with a right sense of what was due to God, having the knowledge of God. So that he says, "There are perhaps fifty righteous within the city." And God says, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes." And then Abraham comes down to forty-five, forty, and thirty, speaking in a becoming way, saying he was but dust and ashes, thus showing what a low sense he had of himself; for, like Job who repented in dust and ashes, Abraham had to do with God. He himself was but dust and ashes, and yet what power he had with God. He came down to twenty and he came down to ten, but he did not go below ten. That is to say, while he was thoroughly with God as discerning that men should be saved, yet at the same time he had a right sense of what was due to God, that if a city was so wicked that there were not even ten righteous in it, then it was not suitable to pray for its salvation, it should be judged. Both Sodom and Gomorrah had to be judged, yet at the same time all that was due to God was maintained by Abraham in the way he interceded. There is great need for that at the present time, for there is no question but that evil is increasing by leaps and bounds in the world.