LDS Library Reference Plugin for Obsidian

Easily insert your favorite scripture verses and selections from General Conference talks into Obsidian!

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Table of Contents

• Quickstart
• Features
  • Multiple Scripture Support
    • How to Reference Verses
  • General Conference Support
    • How to Quote General Conference
  • Multiple Language Support
    • Default Language
    • One-time Language Syntax
• Development
• Versioning

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Quickstart

Requirements

You only need Obsidian installed!

Installation

Community Plugin

This plugin can be found from the list of community plugins for Obsidian. Open Obsidian's Settings -> Community Plugins, and click Browse to search this plugin's name and install.

Manual Installation

The plugin can also be manually installed by:

1. Creating a directory called lds-library-plugin under .obsidian/plugins/ within your vault.
2. From this plugin's Releases Page, download and put main.js, manifest.json, styles.css into .obsidian/plugins/lds-library-reference/.
3. Reload Obsidian and navigate to the Community Plugins tab to see that installation is successful.
4. Ensure the plugin is then enabled.

Features

Multiple Scripture Support

The standard works, or the volumes of scripture officially accepted by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are available.

• Holy Bible (King James Version)
• Book of Mormon
• Doctrine and Covenants
• Pearl of Great Price

How To Reference Verses

Insert a callout to a verse using either :<Book Name> <Chapter Number>:<Verse Numbers>: or :<Book Name> <Chapter Number> <Verse Numbers>:.

You can referece any range, selection, or series of verses from a given chapter using the above syntax.

Obsidian won’t recognize your desired reference until you add a : at the end. Each reference must be on its own line.

Only English book titles are recognized. For example :1 Nephi 1 1: is recognized, but :1 Нефи 1:1: isn't.

Refer to BOOKS.md for the complete list of book names used and recognized in this plugin.

Example:

Inserted Callout Example:

General Conference Support

How To Quote General Conference

Get started with inserting a General Conference quote using :<Month Name> <Year Number>:, which will open a Conference Picker prompt.

After accepting the suggestion, one can search for and choose a talk from that conference.

Choose the paragraphs you would like to quote by clicking on them individually, and press Create Link to insert the quote in a callout.

Multiple Language Support

Default Language

The default language used for scriptures and conference talks can be set in the Settings tab of the plugin.

One-time Language Syntax

For both verses and conference quotes, optionally specify the language for the reference by appending [<lang>] at the front. If the language isn't specified, the default language will be used.

<lang> is 3 letter shortcode for each individual languages used by the Church website. You can refer to these shortcodes in the Settings tab of the plugin.

Development

Build

Install dependencies:

yarn

Run build script:

yarn build

3 files will be created in the root directory: main.js, manifest.json, styles.css

Versioning

This plugin follows semver.

To publish a new release, tag it with git tag -a <major.minor.patch> -m <message>