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The following articles are found on this website.
Multifaceted Bible Software
Iapetos is the source for a collection of bible related software projects.
Iapetos Content Management System
Our primary tool for writing websites is the Iapetos/CMS. The goal of this package is to make it very easy to build good looking websites out of extensive article collections. The system provides tooling for standard page decorations, forms, indexes of various types, searching and navigation aids. It provides an extensive system for Bible quotes, making website articles that quote the Bible easy to write. It also provides limited browser compensations so pages built using the system display well on all common browsers. The system is written in Python and requires access to an Apache server with mod_python installed. Documentation starts here.
CMS -- Overview
The Iapetos Content Management System, called CMS, is designed to make it easy to write good looking websites that are collections of html pages.
Hello World
The CMS system includes a base set of tags, the "base tagset" that provides effecient markup for website articles.
Base Tags
The Base Tags provide a series of generally useful, server-expanded tags that greatly cleanup the process of writing web pages. By using the base family of tags the page author gets certain specific benefits:
Bible Tags
The CMS system includes a tagset dealing with the issue of referencing bibles inside website articles. The ability to easily and cleanly quote bible passages was one of the original development goals behind this system. This page explains each of the tags available in the bible tagset.
Iapetos Bible Format
The Iapetos Bible Format is a set of tags for marking elements within Bible texts. IBF tags define books, chapters, verses, paragraphs, poetry and other elements, allowing feature-full use of Bible texts on web pages and desktop Bible study applications. See the Bible page for examples.
IBF -- Tagging Specification
The Iapetos Bible Format (IBF) is a tagging specification for marking elements of Bible texts such as books, chapters, verses and paragraphs.