Tabula: Retrieve Parallel Biblical Texts

Tabula has the ability to retrieve up to 5 different versions of a biblical passage in parallel columns and insert them directly into a file. This is done through Orbis. Before retrieving parallel texts, you must create a textbase for each biblical text that you plan to use. See Indexing Biblical Texts.

To retrieve the texts:

1	Open Orbis (click Tools, Orbis or click the Orbis button on the main Nota Bene screen)

2	Open a biblical textbase (select the textbase from the drop list at the top left of the Orbis screen or see Open Textbase for further instructions).

3	Click Discover, Search/Retrieve Parallel texts.

4	In the Parallel Text Display dialog, make the following selections:

•	In the top section, you can set the range within one book or multiple books, or check Entire Book.

•	In next section down, you can select whether or not you want the reference for the chapter/verse put in, and if you click Edit, you will get another dialog that will let you decide how you want the output formatted.

•	The next section down, you can select which texts to include in the columns and whether or not to have borders around them. If a text has multiple versions of a certain passage, the Options button will become available for you to select which version to use.

•	The bottom section of the dialog lets you select whether to send the results to a new file, to the current cursor position in the open file, or to the end of the open file.

5	Once you have the settings as you want them, click OK.