User Bible Import : Paragraphs & Possible User Note Import?

[SteveP]

Since I haven't gotten any answer in the General Forum, let me try here...

 

I have been trying to import a Russian Bible translation into Accordance that I have from another piece of software. Mainly I want it into Accordance for convenience and to use on my iPad. I am trying (and will be for life) to learn Russian, and it is very helpful to have this translation at hand. I need a more contemporary translation, like the SlovoZhizny or New Russian Translation, the old Russian Synodal would not be as good a help to me in trying to learn modern language usage.

 

Anyway, as to the text... The format is in the Verse Per Line format, and I have taken care of the required re-numbering of the Psalms and verses so that it lines up with standard KJV-type versification.

 

However, when I try to import the text I get the dreaded error about Too Many Paragraphs.

 

Despite searching the forum, and finding posts talking about the problem, I can't find any real information about just what "TOO MANY" means, so I have no way to know the best approach to reduce them, or even what criteria I have to reduce them to in order to get a successful import.

 

If I remove all the paragraph markers from my text before importing it, leaving in only <br> elements within verses, it will import fine. So this seems to tell me that versification and/or general text formatting is not a problem.

 

Also, the subheadings and some other reference notes are in the text. I was able to write a Ruby program to pull out the pure text into one VPL file, and then made a second file that has just the notes assigned to each verse. Unfortunately, only know do I realize that there is no way to import a User Notes file that ties notes to verses?  Is there really no way to do this?

 

Thanks for yoru help.

  -Steve

 

P.S. As follow-up, I have been trying to find out how many paragraphs other versions have. Not an easy question. But I did a quick search in my text, and as a reference, it has 735 in Genesis, 12,321 total in the entire text.

[Joel Brown]

Steve, can you send me your source file for the bible?  I'd like to take a look exactly *why* Accordance is complaining about too many paragraphs.

 

For now, you'll have to import the user notes manually, or have them as part of a user tool that doesn't tie verse by verse.  Sorry there's no better solution just yet!

[Fabian]

I had this issue also in some Bibles, most in some where the Psalms are divided between the verses with a ¶ mark. Then on every line is a ¶.

 

Greetings

 

Fabian

[SteveP]

Steve, can you send me your source file for the bible?  I'd like to take a look exactly *why* Accordance is complaining about too many paragraphs.

 

For now, you'll have to import the user notes manually, or have them as part of a user tool that doesn't tie verse by verse.  Sorry there's no better solution just yet!

 

Joel, what is the best way to get the file to you?  The text is copyright, so I cannot distribute it, but for this purpose I see no other choice, but it couldn't be in a public place. I guess I could put it on DropBox and send you a link in a private message?

 

As for user notes, there far too many to put in one at a time with copy/paste, so I hope that a tool eventually emerges. It would be very basic, much like the text import, just take a line with a reference on the front end and the text on the rest of the line. But I know, once in the wild, nothing is simple and everyone would only say it needed to do more and more and more.