Another post from a few days ago got me thinking about having multiple translations at the same time. As I was explaining the idea, I realized that I would benefit from something like this. Naturally it would be nice to have a feature … but we can do it quick and dirty like so.
What is happening here is the merger of 2 bibles at verse level with something “<–>” for visual separation.
I made a small script (with example; which works as a command line tool), which can be downloaded and used by anybody (with python3). Give your 1 or more bible files and out you have a merged version. The first input is also passes the merged attributes such as book names and other attributes.
It autodetects various tag formats, which is pretty nice.
It is available on the repository at top level with a readme.md in the bibleMerge directory.
NICE TO KNOW NOTE: this simply creates a new bible file which can be imported anywhere the inputs where used. i.e. regular Quelea or other software that works with the said format.