My idea for a layout was to make it look like scriptures with rounded corners, etc. That took me a few tries but I eventually got it working with as simple of CSS/HTML as I could. Maybe there are easier and more elegant ways. My approach seems to work fine in Firefox and Safari.
My next things to work on were the code and the content. I attacked these at the same time. When I got tired of one I worked on the other. I have a feeling that the content will be an on-going thing. So far I have the Book of Mormon, The Old Testament, and The New Testament.
So far I have gotten my text from the Gutenberg project for free and have painstakingly formatted it for my needs.
I have a volumes table and a chapter table. Each chapter is a row in the chapter table and is stored along with its volume number and the numeric order of the chapter within the volume. This sequential order number is important to supplying the feeds. Each chapter also has a short title. I format each chapter like this:
Chapter ##
1 This is verse one.
2 This is verse two.
The HTML for the chapters looks like this:
<p><b>Chapter ##</b></p>
<p>1 This is verse one.</p>
<p>2 This is verse two.</p>
I formatted things this way so that the same content stored in the chapters table could be used not only to look pretty in an RSS feed reader but also as an HTML page if someone wanted to read straight from the application instead of via RSS.
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