Book Abbreviations

[eric in redding]

I know Accordance only needs enough of a book typed in so that it is able to distinguish which book you desire to open (like "gen" for Genesis). However, Philippians and Philemon have the same first 4 letters. Yet, if I type "phil" Accordance opens Philippians and not Philemon. What am I getting at? I have a custom user tool where all the abbreviations for Philippians are php and all the abbreviations for Philemon are phm. Neither of these abbreviations work in Accordance. Is there a way to add abbreviations to Accordance so it knows what book I am referring to? Or, are there other 3 letter abbreviations for those 2 books that I have not thought of that Accordance recognizes?

Thanks

[Helen Brown]

Accordance recognized Phlm for Philemon.

[eric in redding]

Thank you! That is a bit easier than "phile".

[SteveP]

I have a custom user tool where all the abbreviations for Philippians are php and all the abbreviations for Philemon are phm.

I am guessing that this is something you have imported.

 

I'd make a copy of your original just to be safe, but then load it into a text editor and do a search/replace for it. I use BBEDIT to do lots of this kind of thing for stuff I've been importing because it is very powerful with it's regular expression search/replace options. I think that the TextWrangler program, which is a free program similar to BBEDIT (made by the same people), has enough power to do what you'd need as well.

 

http://www.barebones.com/products/TextWrangler/

 

Hope that is helpful, but probably far easier than trying to make Accordance fit one or two odd works with non-standard abbreviations.

 

Steve

[eric in redding]

Hey thanks Steve! As I was thinking over how to make all the changes I looked and Accordance has a find and replace all feature. So I was able to change all the Philippians references to phil in no time. Unfortunately, it still did not turn them into links so I am doing that manually.

 

And yes, it is a tool that I imported. Pretty nice feature that I did not know Accordance did. Those videos that Dr J did are very helpful!