Custom Bible verse order index, and importing from word?

[jcc5018]

So, i posted a similar topic 2 years ago, but I am hoping there is a better solution.  

If I have bible verse references with a tag that looks like this:

where the XE is the index mark, the semicolon is the separator, and the last number defines the order as book, chapter,verse

how do I transfer this to publisher.

I see these options, but not sure if they have any effect on what I am trying to accomplish:


But my index currently looks like this:


I did this once 2 years ago and get something like this:


but do I really need to go through and update 400 verses again? or is there any way for affinity to recognize the tags from WORD?  Or somehow compare the old document to the new document index to convert as many index entries as possible to minimize what I have to redo. Some references have changed or been added, so I would have to do those manually I guess. 

[MikeTO]

It still works the same way as two years ago. Publisher can only alpha sort index entries so to sort numbers properly you would need to specify a custom sort order like you did last time.

For those who want more information, here are the old threads:

Question:

Feedback:

 

[jcc5018]

ok, next question. I managed to maintain much of the index from the first version of this document. I have everything separated into books, with each book assigned 01-66, and the individual references still have the Book, chapter, verse index. 

however, all books that start with a number, end up out of order despite the sort order being in place. 

Whats the point of a sort order if the program is just going to ignore it?

 

Also, is there not a way to select multiple entries and find all in document? A simple for each loop in their code could allow to search for each entry, allow for review and tag it.  Even if it required a verification for each entry. This 1 by 1 process is crazy.  So many basic things to improve a users experience that its a bit of a shame that 2 years later, they haven't considered any of this. 

[MikeTO]

I'm sorry, I can't see enough from the screenshot to understand the sorting issue. What have you entered for sort order that isn't sorting the way you'd like it. I gave it a quick try and it seemed to work okay but it was a simple test.

The Find in document command will find all instances of the index topic in the document. I don't know if it's going to work that well in your case. You could use the Find and Replace panel for it - copy an index mark to the clipboard and paste it into the Find field. Enter the text before or after the mark (depending on how you positioned index marks in your text) and then search for it. This might be more flexible for you. It doesn't matter what index mark you copy to the clipboard - it's just the generic index mark token that you're searching for so it will work with any string of text after it.