Martin Shields Posted September 30, 2005 Share Posted September 30, 2005 This is a pretty minor thing, but something I find time consuming. When using "Copy as references" (from the Edit menu) the book abbreviations are terminated by a ".". Many of the publication guidelines for (e.g. SBL as specified in the SBL Handbook of Style") specify that abbreviations for biblical books should not end with a period. Would it be possible to make this either an option or the default for "Copy as references"? (Perhaps it would be possible to have a config file which contains the abbreviations? I'd also like to use "Qoh" as an abbreviation for Ecclesiastes.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleuterio Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 This is a pretty minor thing, but something I find time consuming. When using "Copy as references" (from the Edit menu) the book abbreviations are terminated by a ".". Many of the publication guidelines for (e.g. SBL as specified in the SBL Handbook of Style") specify that abbreviations for biblical books should not end with a period. Would it be possible to make this either an option or the default for "Copy as references"? (Perhaps it would be possible to have a config file which contains the abbreviations? I'd also like to use "Qoh" as an abbreviation for Ecclesiastes.) I have asked myself for this possibility once, and the answer was that it was not a much requested feature. Now I am glad to see that other people also feel the need. In fact, when you have to follow different publication guidelines, you need to format you references in different ways (with /without dots, different book names, or even "," instead of ":" and "." instead of "," when dividing chapter/verse or non contiguous verses, etc.). Hopefully other voices are heard... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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