Bible Searching

[SupermanSlyr at aol.com]

>  I guess it all depends on how the text files are set up and changing

>  them to make it easier to search may be the quickest way in the long

>  run. I would arrange it so that each book had it's own text file, so

>  you would have "Genesis.txt", "John.txt" etc.


Yes every book is already separated in its own text file. I  have thought 
about searching for numbers to tell Revolution it's the start  of a verse. The 
problem with that though is there's a lot of  verses that have numbers in them, 
so if I tell Revolution to search for  numbers there's a good chance it will 
end up in the middle of a verse some  where.  
>   You may find that it is better to give people a stuctured way to enter

>   the search data rather than allowing free typing. Have a menu system

>   for selecting a book name, then a field with little arrows for

>   choosing chapter numbers and verse numbers. If you have already worked

>   out how many chapters each book has and how many verses each chapter

>   has, you can restrict the search data entry to numbers that are really

>   available.
I've thought about a menu system too. I've actually incorporated one to 
import 
the books from a folder into a text field. I'd like to make this work for 
finding verses too,
but I still don't see how it will know where to go in the field, since every 
book is contained in it's own 
text file in the format I discussed.