Multiscript

Combine Bible versions for multicultural ministry

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Multiscript is a cross-platform desktop application for combining Bible versions for multicultural Christian ministry. It makes it easy to collate Bible passages and versions in all the combinations you need.

How it works

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Enter your Bible passage references
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Select your collection of Bible versions
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Use the default templates, or create your own
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Generate output files for each version combination

Features

Multiscript is currently beta software, so you may discover bugs. The range of available Bible versions is also under development. If  you have skills that would benefit the project, we’d love to hear from you!

Easy to use

Default templates make it easy to generate files straight away. Save Bible passages and version lists for easy reuse.

Flexible output

Customise templates any way you like. Currently supported template formates are:
Microsoft Word
Plain Text

Multiple Bible versions

Currently available versions:

Plugin system

A simple plugin system allows for extra Bible version sources and template formats to be supported.

Why Multiscript?

As our world becomes more globalised, more Christian ministries are becoming multicultural. These ministries regularly need copies of the Bible with multiple versions shown in parallel. For example, a Bible study may have some guests who need an English and Chinese version together, and other guests who need an English and Spanish version. The more multicultural the ministry, the larger the number of combinations required.

One solution to this problem is to have parallel printed Bibles for everyone. But many ministries don’t have access to a large library with enough Bibles for every guest and every language combination. A common alternative is to access Bible websites that offer multiple translations in a parallel layout. Yet there remain times when a printed handout is preferable – especially if you want to see more text than can fit on a screen, or encourage guests to write notes directly on the page. You might have tried manually to create handouts of the exact passages and versions that you need. But as the number of languages increases, the number of combinations quickly becomes too large to generate manually.

Multiscript addresses this problem. You provide the app with a list of the Bible references and versions you need, as a well as a template for the handout you’re producing. Multiscript collects the passages online, and uses the template to create a separate file for each version combination. These files can then be printed, subject to copyright and licensing restrictions.

Contact

For more information, start a discussion on the Github project site , or email info at multiscript dot app.