This repository's purpose is to make Brenton's Septuagint available in print-ready format for free. If you do a search for printed Septuagint Bibles online, you will quickly find that they are very large and heavy and quite expensive. We want to change that! This edition is designed to be as compact as possible, and the price can't be beat. :)
If you just want the most up to date version of the PDF file, click here to download it. Brenton LXX PDF
Brenton.pdf
The main files in this repo are Brenton.tex and Brenton.pdf. If you want to print a book of your own, just download the latest release of Brenton.pdf and send it to your local print shop or your favorite self-publishing company. I have used Snowfall Press with good results. (Choose their lightest paper, "White, 40# / 13LB Bond" as that will help keep the size and weight of the book down.)
Process.py
Process.py is the main worker. It takes the concatenated xetex files (see below) and transforms them into Brenton.tex, which is the source for Brenton.pdf. If you want to modify the PDF in any way, you'll need to modify Brenton.tex and then run it through LaTex to create a new PDF file. This repo uses LuaLaTex via MikTex.
The digital Brenton LXX text is sourced from ebible.org and is in the public domain. (The exact source for the files in grcbrent_xetex is the ebible XeTeX file. You can use the script concat.py to merge each individual book into one file (concatenated.tex) as we did here.) All of the code and .tex formatting are licensed CC0-1.0 (public domain) and may be used and copied freely. May God get all the glory!
- Add book names to the running header
- Add chapter:verse references to the running header like most Bibles have
- Keep all Psalm headings with the following paragraphs
- Add front matter (copyright, editor, year, etc)