New Features for Olive Tree Books
June 11th, 2009Two exciting resources are now available at Olive Tree: John Piper’s Sermons (1200+ of them!) and the New Living Translation Study Bible. Having had the pleasure of working these from start to finish, I just wanted to share the best parts with all of you. Beyond the content and quality inherent in each product, we’ve done some different things in the creation of the electronic form that we simply must highlight.
The NLT Study Bible has several firsts for Olive Tree.
a. First Bible with a Table of Contents! The entries follow the outline in the paper book, complete with book-sections and story headings.
b. First Study Bible with links to its Study Notes! This is due to the fact we’ve always used the standard Bible bundled with the notes.
c. First link with an icon! The icon doesn’t distract the eye from reading, while still enabling easy navigation to the notes.
d. First resource with a Verse Chooser, Table of Contents, and a Dictionary.
The traditional Table of Contents has items in the order they appear in the book. We’re now able to build a Table of Contents that can also function much like an index.
a. For John Piper’s Sermons, we wanted to allow you to browse the sermons by date, by title, etc. In the past, we could have sorted the sermons in any order and then created the table of contents, but that would leave the other browsing methods jumbled. We enhanced our format to allow the table of contents to point to anywhere in the text.
b. For the NLT Study Bible, we wanted to give you an easy way to access the maps, charts, in-text articles, etc. Like the sermons, they are out of order, but the table of contents still works.
—Adam H., book formatter