How do I copy a verse, share it or make an image?
All of this is done from the verse panel, which appears when you press a verse. The buttons on the panel are icons; their names show when you hover the mouse over them.
- Press a verse: a panel appears above and below it.
- Press other verses to add them. Neighbouring verses join into a range; pressing a verse again deselects it.
- Press “Copy”: the text goes straight to the clipboard.
- To choose a format, press “Open copy options”, then “Settings”.
- In the list of formats, where “Plain text” comes first, choose the one you need, for example “Markdown”, and press “Copy” at the bottom of the window.
- Press a verse.
- Press “Share” in the site header; on a phone it is in the menu. A window opens with a QR code and a link to this verse.
- The link opens the site in the language of the person who gets it. To open the site in your language, tick “Interface language”.
- Scan the QR code with your phone camera or press “Copy link”.
On a phone, the phone’s own menu may open instead of the window: choose in it where to send the link.
There is no tick box if the page address has no language: then the link has no language either.
A faster way is “Copy link” on the verse panel: the link goes straight to the clipboard. This link never has a language and does not follow the tick box.
- Press a verse: the verse panel appears. On a computer you can select one or more verses with the mouse.
- On the verse panel, press “Verse image”.
- Choose a format, for example “9:16 story”.
- Choose the colours: a ready-made palette or your own.
- Press “Download PNG”.
You can also choose the font and the text size there.
If your browser can do it, next to “Download PNG” there are “Copy image” and “Share”: you can paste the image into a message right away or send it through an app.
- Press a verse, then “Verse image” on the panel.
- Under “Show on the image”, turn off “Logo” and “Site name”. You can turn on “Translation name” there too.
- To remove the end of the verse, press “End”, then the word where the quote should end. “Start” removes the words before the word you press in the same way. You cannot remove words from the middle.
- To start a new line, press “Line break”, then the word after which the line should end.
“Reset edits” brings back the removed words and removes the line breaks.
You can type the address by hand: /bible/kjv/jhn-3.16/ opens a verse, /bible/kjv/jhn-3.16-18/ a range. You can leave out /bible/ and the translation: /jhn-3.16/ opens in the translation you read last. If that translation does not have this place, for example because it has only the New Testament, the site shows “Page Not Found”: put the translation in the address.
- Press a verse.
- Press “Open copy options”, then “Settings”.
- Turn off “Verse numbers” and “Site footer”.
- Press “Copy” at the bottom of the window.
Your choice is remembered and also applies when you press Ctrl+C or ⌘C. The same settings have the rest too, for example the heading and footnotes.
The same switches are in the site settings ( in the header, on a phone in the menu), on the “Copying” tab. To have the window open every time you copy, turn on “Open this dialog when copying” there. To copy the selection as it is, turn off “Format text when copying”.
- Press the first verse of the passage, then the last one.
- Press “Show only selected”: only the passage from the first verse to the last stays on the page.
- To bring back the whole chapter, press “Full chapter”.