In 2010, The Word will no more be available in "zh-Hans - Chinese Union Version (Simplified Chinese)". It will be available in "zh-Hant - Chinese Union Version (Traditional Chinese)".

As of 2009-12-19, the Hebrew version is not yet completed.

H. S.

Multiple versions of the online texts of The Word are now available under new addresses with some new features.

Please use the new addresses from now on! We plan to support the previous addresses bible2.net/today* until the end of 2008 (but there will be no new features).

Please find details about the features as well as usage examples in the Download page.

Short overview:

a) The Word as part of an HTML page (to be used e.g. with PHP):

  Old:  http://bible2.net/today/EnglishStandardVersion
  New:  http://bible2.net/service/today/inline/EnglishStandardVersion

(also for other bibles, respectively)

b) The Word as a complete HTML page (to be used in iframe or object HTML elements):

  Old:  http://bible2.net/todayfull/EnglishStandardVersion
  New:  http://bible2.net/service/today/xhtml/EnglishStandardVersion

(also for other bibles, respectively) For the complete HTML page, you can now specify your own CSS layout!

c) The Word as start page in your browser:

  Old:  http://bible2.net/todayfull/EnglishStandardVersion
  New:  http://bible2.net/service/today/full/EnglishStandardVersion

H. S.

With a small modification - which should have no effect on the regular usage of The Word - we could improve the layout possibilities with CSS. If you expect problems, please give feedback until 2008-01-12. In any case, before any actual modification, I'll inform here.

Currently, The Word is delivered as a sequence of p elements. For CSS, it would be helpful to have

1. an additional div element around all the p elements, and
2. one inner div element around the p elements of one saying (IL, L, SL)

Horizontal lines or the formatting of a complete saying within one line would be easy, then.

Current structure of HTML elements:

  p class=TL
  p class=IL
  p class=L
  p class=SL
  p class=IL
  p class=L
  p class=SL
  p class=C

Proposed new structure of HTML elements:

  div class=TheWord
  | p class=TL
  | div class=Parol
  | | p class=IL
  | | p class=L
  | | p class=SL
  | div class=Parol
  | | p class=IL
  | | p class=L
  | | p class=SL
  | p class=C

For the usual way of using The Word, this modification should have no effect. Adaptations may become necessary if you

• use a CSS style for a p element with a reference to a surrounding element (e.g. "div.MyPage p.L"), or
• do post-processing of the data via search/replace.

H. S.

The text of The Word now contains no fix line-breaks anymore (HTML: br element). Additionally, the date line contains a protected space between day and month number, to avoid a line-break at this place.

H. S.

The data delivered currently contains fix line breaks (HTML: br element) in the bible text of The Word. Starting about Sa 2007-12-15, I would like to drop these br elements. I.e. you will still get the bible text within one p element, spread over multiple lines, but without the br element at the end of each line. If you would like to preserve the line breaks on your homepage, you may define the style 'white-space:pre' for the CSS class "p.L".

If you do not take action, the bible text will be displayed wrapped within one continuing paragraph.

Advantage: you may more easily (without Search/Replace) control the line breaking.

Potential disadvantage with using 'white-space:pre': long lines may be displayed outside the intended page area.

H. S.

Starting 2007-12-01, you can obtain "The Word" online for use in your homepage. So far, the bible text of the German Schlachter 2000 is available. See the download page in bible2.net.