net.lugsole.bible_gui

File formats

This app supports multiple different bible formats to varying extents.

• SPB -- These are soft projector bible files.
• SQLite3 -- as designed by MyBible
• tsv -- These files have 6 columns with the data separated by
• xml -- This file

These files should be installed in XDG_DATA_HOME which would likely be at $HOME/.var/app/net.lugsole.bible_gui/data. In settings, there is an option to add a new translation file to the list.

ToDo:

• Different text rendering engines

settings to add:

• Select rendering engines

About the file formats

This app supports multiple different bible formats to varying extents.

SPB

These files have 4 main fields

• spDataVersion This is the data type version number. This is 1 in most cases.
• Title This it the title of the bible translation.
• Abbreviation This is the bible's abbreviation
• Information This usually contains information about copyright.
• RightToLeft The lines that follow this field contains a list of the books of the Bible.

Then after all the ----, each line represents a bible verse. The first piece of data would be a string that represents where this verse belongs in the bible. The next piece of data is the boon number, the chapter number, then the verse number, then the text of that verse. All the pieces of data in the line are separated by a tab.

SQLite3

These files contain multiple tables of which the app only uses two of the tables. The data they have for each verse is in an HTML kind of format. This means that there is a lot of data that could be parsed. With that being said, not all of the data currently is being processed.

tsv -- These files have 6 columns with the data separated by

These files ate a giant table of bible verses. It thas 5 columns

• Book name
• Book name short
• Book number
• Chapter
• Verse
• Verse text

xml

These files contain a root node XMLBIBLE. This has many children named BIBLEBOOK These represent the different books in the Bible. These books have attributes bname and bnumber. These are the book mane and book number respectively. The books all have children called CHAPTER, which has attributes named cnumber The chapters all have children called VERS, which has attributes named vnumber. The data inside this would be the text of that verse.