The scripture package provides a set of macros for typesetting quotations from the Bible. It provides many features commonly seen in Bibles such as dropped text for chapter numbers, superscripts for verse numbers, indented lines for poetry sections, narrow sections and hanging paragraphs. A reference for the quotation can optionally be added.

The scripture package is in TeXLive and MiKTeX and can be installed in the usual way through your distribution. E.g., in TeXLive by running:

tlmgr install scripture

Download and unpack scripture.zip from CTAN at https://ctan.org/pkg/scripture

Change to the scripture directory, then run:

tex scripture.ins

to generate scripture.sty.

Copy scripture.sty to $TEXMFHOME/tex/latex/scripture/ and scripture.pdf to $TEXMFHOME/doc/latex/scripture/.

You can find $TEXMFHOME by running:

kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFHOME

scripture uses the l3build system.

Clone the git repository using:

git clone https://github.com/dcpurton/scripture.git

Change to the scripture directory, and then the style file (scripture.sty) and documentation (scripture.pdf) can be installed by running:

l3build install --full

Note: The documentation uses one font not found in a standard TeXLive installation. You can download KawkabMono-Regular.ttf from https://makkuk.com/kawkab-mono/.

Copyright (c) 2022-2025 David Purton <dcpurton@marshwiggle.net>

This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of
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This work is "maintained" (as per the LPPL maintenance status)
by David Purton.

This work consists of the files scripture.ins, scripture.dtx, README.md,
and the derived files scripture.sty and scripture.pdf