Nicola Talbot
School of Computing Sciences
University of East Anglia
Norwich. Norfolk. NR4 7TJ.
United Kingdom
http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/
6 Feb 2010
The bibleref package was designed to provide consistent formatting for referencing parts of the bible.
\bibleverse{book title}({chapter}:verse(s))
This command can be used to cite a bible book, chapter or verse or range of chapters or verses.
The book title, book title, may be given either as the
full title (e.g. Matthew) or as an abbreviation (e.g. Mt or Matt), most standard abbreviations are
recognised. Books with multiple parts should be preceeded by the
book number in uppercase roman numerals. For example, the second
book of Kings should be entered as \bibleverse{IIKings}
You may have any number, or zero, sets of parenthesis
(chapter:verse(s)),
indicating the chapter and verse or verses. Verses can be
specified as a comma separated list of individual verses or range
of verses. A range of verses should be written with a single
hyphen, e.g. 2-4. In the typeset output the verses will
be separated with \BRvsep (an en-dash
by default.) A chapter may be referenced without a verse, but the
colon must remain, e.g. (12:) simply indicates chapter
12.
A range of verses spanning more than one chapter can be entered as (ch:v)-(ch:v)
Examples:
\bibleverse{Ex} |
Exodus |
\bibleverse{Exodus}(20:) |
Exodus 20 |
\bibleverse{Exod}(20:17) |
Exodus 20:17 |
\bibleverse{IICo}(12:21) |
2 Corinthians 12:21 |
\bibleverse{IICor}(12:21-32) |
2 Corinthians 12:21-32 |
\bibleverse{Ex}(20:17)(21:3) |
Exodus 20:17;21:3 |
\bibleverse{Ex}(15:)(17:)(20:) |
Exodus 15;17;20 |
\bibleverse{Rev}(1:2,5,7-9,11) |
Revelation 1:2,5,7-9,11 |
\bibleverse{IChronicles}(1:3)-(2:7) |
1 Chronicles 1:3-2:7 |
The style of the reference can be specified either by package option or as the argument to the command
\biblerefstyle{style}
Styles are listed in Table 1.
You can change the name of a book using
\setbooktitle{name}{new title}
Note that name must be the full name, not the
abbreviated name of the book. For example, to change
Revelation to Apoc, do
\setbookname{Revelation}{Apoc}
(Note that you shouldn't do
\setbookname{Rev}{Apoc})
You can define a new style using the command
\newbiblerefstyle{style-name}{commands}
where commands are the commands needed to modify the citation style.
Example: This new style is based on the `default' style, but has verses in lower case Roman numerals, and redefines ``Revelation'' as ``Apocalypse''.
\newbiblerefstyle{sample}{%
\biblerefstyle{default}%
\renewcommand{\BRversestyle}[1]{\romannumeral##1}%
\setbooktitle{Revelation}{Apocalypse}%
}
Note the use of ##1 instead of #1.
\ibibleverse{book title}({chapter}:verse(s))
This does the same as \bibleverse but also adds an index entry (provided you have used \makeindex in the preamble.) The default page number format is given by the command \bvidxpgformat. This is textrm by default, but can be redefined. To override the page number format for a particular entry you can use the optional argument to \ibibleverse. For example:
\ibibleverse[textit]{Exodus}
(Note there is no backslash.)