Contents

• Contents
• List of Tables
• Overview
  • Introduction
  • About this manual
  • Acknowledgement
  • Inquiries
• General Guidelines
  • Helpful tips
  • Language dependent considerations
    • Use of white space
    • Hyphenation
    • Hard hyphens and dashes
    • Use of special characters
    • Accent marks
    • Quotation marks
    • The typing of numbers
    • The typing of poetry
    • The spelling and use of names and Christian idioms
    • Transliterated words
• Abbreviations for the books of the Bible
• Managing files on disk
  • Standard file names
  • Standard use of subdirectories
  • Backing up the work
• Format codes for Bible text
  • File labeling
    • \id BK FILE: File identification
    • \fe: End of file
  • Introduction to Bible books
    • \ib: Beginning of book introductions
    • \ie: End of introductory material
  • Titles and labels
    • \h: Running headers
    • \mt: The main book title
    • \st: Secondary book title
    • \tt: Tertiary book title
    • \d: Division heading
    • \dr: Division reference
    • \s: Section heading
    • \r: Parallel passage reference
    • \ss: Sub-section heading
    • \hs: Hebrew subtitle
    • \sp: Speaker identification
  • Paragraph marking
    • \p: Normal paragraph
    • \pc: Paragraph that span chapters
    • \qN: Quoted paragraph
    • \oqN: Old Testament quoted section
    • \b: Blank line divider
    • \m: Flush left paragraph
    • \ip: Indented paragraph
    • \im: Indented section
  • Chapters and verses
    • \c: Chapter number
    • \v: Verse number
  • Typing tables
    • \tbN: Beginning of a table
    • \te: End of a table
    • &: Table column separator
    • \bl: Break Line
    • \th: Table column heading
    • \rj: Right justified table entry
    • \ul: Underline the text
    • \qdN: Quad tabbing
  • Footnotes and cross references
    • \f LBL *...*: Footnote
    • \mk *LBL*: Marked text
    • \x REF *...*: Cross reference note
  • Special kinds of text
    • \nd: Name of deity
    • \tw: Transliterated words
    • \qt: Quoted text
    • \bk: Quoted book title
    • \tx: Normal text marker
    • \pn: Proper name
    • \ex: Explanatory or bridge material
    • \ky: Keyword
  • Special features
    • \il N,DIM,LBL*...*: Illustrations
    • \cl: Closure of an epistle
    • \sig: Signature of the author of an epistle
    • \idx ITM*...*: Subject index entry
    • \w: Word list entry
    • \pb: Page Break
    • \\: Discretionary line break
    • \dots: The dots of an ellipsis
• Format codes for map labels
• Format codes for the copyright page
• Sample Text
  • Genesis: Introduction
    • Example of the text in the manuscript
    • Sample printout
  • Genesis: Chapter 1
    • Example of the text in the manuscript
    • Sample printout
  • Copyright page
    • Example of the text in the manuscript
    • Sample printout
• Selected Passages for Workshop Discussions
• Alphabetic listing of format codes
• Index

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