third MIRACLE: leap a wall
From my journal –
2007 December 10 – the Wall
Today I was in the midst of implementing the new method the Lord had recently (November 12) given me for correct verb form insertion, which was zipping right along. At dinner the family decided to watch Ratatouille later. People had to do or finish up things first so we decided on a time. When I sat down at my computer after dinner to make sure things had been saved, I was already worrying about what I had discovered shortly before making dinner --that many, but not all, of the last angle brackets closing off the Strong’s numbers at the end of every NT word in the text, were missing an underline.
How in the world did that happen!!?? All the hundreds of thousands of missing underlines! At first I thought that it was a simple matter for a ‘find and replace’ function, but no, It was not for ‘all’ – but it was for many. I had to find out why. Having a key element of the formatting missing in the text hinders the format-encoded find and replace function, making it unreliable. I had hastily belittled the problem, but now it was staring out at me.
I thought about how I could possibly fix this problem, but I was stymied by the fact that not all angle brackets needed to be underlined. Many, if not most, had to remain without underlines for the formatting code to function correctly. This was the big problem growing in my mind. I could not possibly correct one at a time through the whole NT!
There had to be a process that would work....but as I tried to think of something, I kept coming up against more problems. Dark thoughts came. This problem had become a giant wall blocking my way forward, but it was mercifully short-lived.
I thought back about how the Lord had shown me the new “automatic” method of verb translation that was speeding the work tremendously, and so I prayed, “Lord I know there has to be a way to reformat somehow to replace the needed underlines missing under the last angle brackets. I’ve tried to think of one and I just can't do it! I know You can show me. Please show me, Lord!”
And right then, at that second, in a matter of about five seconds, the information came flooding into my brain and coalesced into steps and processes. The moment I realized that my prayer was being answered RIGHT NOW, I grabbed a piece of paper and pen because the information came so fast and I thought I would never be able to remember it.
He gave me a ten step process to be implemented in order for each of the ten digits, 0-9. Ten steps with different combinations of settings producing a three-level filter to get the job done. I tested it first on a copied dummy section of several pages and it appeared to work! I made another copy for the final trial, this time of the whole New Testament document that I had been working on.
As I began the reformatting steps in my original document copy I knew (because the program told me) that with each step I was making tens of thousands of changes to my New Testament document. In the end I made the changes which resulted in correcting every instance of an incorrectly missing angle bracket underline, and I was dumbfounded.
Everybody was ready to watch the movie and I thought I must give God the glory, so I came in to them and announced that God had just answered my prayer to solve a giant problem. My youngest son wanted to know what the problem was, so I tried explaining and I guess I succeeded in at least explaining how tangled the problem was.
I want to copy the reformatting steps here for posterity. The problem solved was, how do I find and restore all occurrences of a final missing angle bracket underline? I needed “<1111>” where 1111 represents any digit combination of one to four digits of a Strong's number. What I had was “<1111>”, with the underline under the final angle bracket missing. I needed to find and correct all things like <876>, <4589>, <3>, <34> and change them to include the last angle bracket underline in a single text of the whole New Testament. The Lord showed me how to use the format settings to filter and change specific parameters in a specific order.
This is what I received from the Lord and scribbled down with the assurance that it would solve the problem :
A) Find: 0> [no space “marker"]
More>Format>Font>
Underline Style: single line
Font Style: regular
Replace: 0 > [added space “marker” between 0 and >]
Format>Font>
Underline Style: none
Font Style: regular
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B) Find: 0> [no space “marker"]
More>Format>Font>
Underline Style: none
Font Style: regular
Replace: 0> [no space “marker"]
Format>Font>
Underline Style: none
Font Style: italic
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C) Find: 0> [no space “marker"]
More>Format>Font>
Underline Style: blank [double-click none]
Font Style: no italic
Replace: 0>
Format>Font>
Underline Style: single line
Font Style: no italic
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D) Find: 0> [no space “marker"]
More>Format>Font>
Underline Style: none
Font Style: italic
Replace: 0>
Format>Font>
Underline Style: none
Font Style: no italic
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E) Find: 0 > [added space “marker” between 0 and >]
More>Format>Font>
Underline Style: none
Font Style: no italic
Replace: 0>
Format>Font>
Underline Style: single line
Font Style: regular
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This A-E process above is only for the "0" digit. It is one of ten needed for each digit from 0 to 9. A mistake at any step would have wrecked the document to some degree. Now maybe you can see how I could never have figured this out myself! It was scary that I was making so many changes. The process for digit 8 alone made almost thirty thousand changes! I estimate between 300,000 and half a million changes were made after finishing the process for all ten digits. It was scary, but by my God I can leap a wall!
Ratatouille was great! ANYONE CAN COOK!