>I've an app on my (home) computer that I am sure I can do a better job of implementing than the guy who originally did it...but, I do have a question or two (or three... shoot just call it "X").
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>The app is a Bible reading/study program. You may have seen one of them...It allows you to read the text, perform various searches (word/phrase/proximity/reference numbers), access reference materials, have multiple texts/versions open in several windows and either synchronize the scrolling or not, etc.
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>I can get several translations via the public domain. One of my questions is...
>How should I store the text/data?
>...One Verse per record in a char field?...in a memo field?
>...One Chapter per record in a memo field?
>...One Book per record in a memo field?
>...Other(fill-in the blank)____________________? Why?
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>This should do to start a discussion...
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>oh BTW - after I get this done....I plan to donate it to the company that makes the program I'm trying to better...The knowledge and lessons learned make it worthwhile.
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I would not do a book per record -- too much. I would target a size that can easily be displayed in its entirety in one editbox. This would probably facilitate searches and diplays of search results. Results could be summarized in a grid where the user could select records for further detail/display.

One-per-verse might be too small. Would it be to hard to parse the text into 1 paragraph per record? Assuming the text is indented, this would be fairly easy to do.