Using the VERSE Pop-Up Utility

The following instructions will help you to use the VERSE Pop-up utility to make your own NKJV or NASB pop-up verses within any HTML file. After installation, all you have to do is to:

1. Click the icon on your desktop, after which the following dialog box will appear:

2. Click the "Browse" Button, and the following dialog box will help you to browse for the Pop_VERSE directory (This is for demo purposes. Normally you will be browsing for your own .htm files in your own folders/directories):

3. Click “Open,” and this dialog box will help you select the demo “Angels.htm” file. Once selected, click “Open.”

4. The PopVERSE Dialog Box will now display the file that you selected:

5. Click the “Convert” button…and the PopVERSE Dialog Box will display this message:

6. Either Click the “View Results” button or use Windows Explorer (either go to MyComputer or hold down the Natural Keyboard key plus the “E” key: ). And browse for and Open (or double click) the filename shown in the PopVERSE Dialog Box: C:\Pop_VERSE\ANGELS_VV.htm file. (the extra “_VV” appended indicates that this file has been created with the NKJV or NASB versification. The original file has not been changed.)

7. When Internet Explorer opens the file, you will see that some of the verses are underlined, indicating that they are linked to something. On moving your mouse pointer over those links, the NKJV or NASB verse will pop_up, and disappear, when the mouse pointer moves somewhere else.:

8. Notice in the above example, the 1Ki 19:2 reference was not “versified.” It would have been, if the reference had been 1 Kings 19:2. (And, as newer versions are developed, more and more anomalies are being corrected.) While many abbreviations have been supplied to allow different abbreviations to work, there should be a space between the 1 and Kings.

9. The VERSE Pop-Up Utility also creates a Scripture Index for all Scripture references that were versified. Either Click the “View Index” button or use Windows Explorer to browse the C:\Pop_VERSE directory for a file named SCRIPTURE_INDEX.txt. Double-Click the name and you will see an index that begins as follows:

These Scripture Indexes are written over with each use of the Utility. Therefore, if you wish to make a Scripture Index for a collection of web pages, you should make a master Scripture Index and copy the results from each web page versification use to it.

There is a program under development that will make a Scripture Index for all .htm files within a directory structure (including all sub-directories). If you are interested in that program, email Tom Wright at twright@chafer.edu.