STYLE.md

Headings

Copy headings from the NIV, then:

• Ensure wording is consistent with body text (eg, NIV tends to use "festival" where KJV uses "feast").
• Ensure spelling is consistent with body text (eg, names may be transliterated differently).
• Use "The death of $NAME" to "$NAME's death" and other variations.
• Use the Oxford comma.
• Avoid hyphenation and variable spacing (insert \newline for all breaks)

Body text

Copy body text from the KJV, then:

• Use "God" instead of "GOD".
• Use smallcaps instead of block capitals. Handy definitions are:
  • \LORD
  • \LORDs
• Use "Passover" instead of "passover".
• Use "Sabbath" instead of "sabbath".

Words consisting of block capitals can be found with egrep:

egrep '\b[A-Z][A-Z]+\b' filename.tex

Layout

Use \columnbreak and \flushcolsend where necessary, for example:

• A chapter starts too close to the bottom of a column (3 lines of text or fewer before the break)
• A heading is separated from the following content by a break

As a rule of thumb:

• At the bottom of a left-hand column, use \vfill\columnbreak
• At the bottom of a right-hand column, use \flushcolsend\columnbreak

...but see what works best. Sometimes the extra spacing added by just using a \coolumnbreak may be fine.

Comment all manual layout adjustments with % layout hack so they're easy to grep for.