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Are there any LaTeX packages or styles that have been designed specifically for typesetting the Bible, with its text divided into books, chapters, and verses?
This post contains a couple of nice pictures of pages from the Bible, but I wonder if there is a proper package for that kind of typesetting.
The bibleref package could be an option.
It would be, as @jon pointed out, a good idea to use a light-weight markup language for note taking. My favorite is pandoc, which provides a nice front-end to LaTeX. How should a document like this look? Structured, clean and uncluttered, which can be achieved with either article, memoir or KOMA-Script and a nice font.
So, let's try this with the standard document class article and the New PX font:
---
title: Commentary on XY
date: Date
documentclass: article
papersize: a4paper
geometry:
- right=2cm
- left=2cm
- top=1cm
- bottom=1cm
header-includes:
- \usepackage{newpxtext}
- \usepackage{newpxmath}
numbersections: true
---
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- Bullet
- list
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The resulting (simply: pandoc in.md -o out.pdf
in the terminal) PDF looks like this:
Update 1
Pandoc can convert between several formats on the in- and output side, including .pdf, .docx, .odt, .html, and .tex. The native pandoc markup is a superset of markdown: That means, that pandoc is on the one hand fully compatible to markdown and adds on the other hand some very powerful commands, e.g. for footnotes, tables and citations. (Some are even writing their whole thesis in pandoc.) It is worthwhile reading the user's guide.
Update 2
Pandoc can produce .tex files directly. In order to do so, just set the file extension accordingly: pandoc -s in.md -o out.tex
This produces a standalone tex file, using the default latex template. Omitting -s (standalone) will give a fragment containing only the written text in LaTeX markup without header, footer, etc. This is rather convenient if you want to \include the file in another document.
It is, of course, possible to write custom templates, which quite easy, as a template is just a LaTeX document with some $variables$. pandoc -D latex prints the default LaTeX template.
Best Answer
Since 2017-09-01 exist also a direct package named done
bibletextby Camil Staps,http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/bibletext/bibletext.pdf
or
bibleref.sty (1.24)- 2019/12/10 Nicola Talbot and Maïeul Rouquette - of 6 days ago: http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/bibleref/bibleref.pdfwhere I think, with the comments of several links, to create some steps of the Bible. I suggest also this link Showcase of beautiful typography done in TeX & friends