This repository contains several representations of the Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689, a document written in 1677 and published in 1689 by Calvinistic Baptists in London. The LBCF is currently used by many Reformed Baptist churches as a statement of faith.
Here are the different formats available:
- Web page with scripture references
- Markdown
- LaTeX
- PDF, compiled from the LaTeX source
- Alternative webpage (HTML), also compiled from LaTeX (requires accompanying CSS file)
- JSON
Although this may seem complicated at face-value, this can be made quite easy with a text editor such as TeXWorks or TeXLive. TeXWorks is probably the easier to install and come automatically on Windows with packages such as MiKTeX. You can probably compile from Microsoft's Visual Studio Code as well, provided to install any relevant extensions.
These packages and editors usually require external packages to be installed before you compile a document. The LBCF LaTeX document requires the Hyperref and maybe one day the Tabularx package, so you may have to accept a prompt to install it, unless you have set external packages to install automatically.
Installing can probably be done via a graphical desktop interface; however, it should be as simple as: cd (change directories / folders) to the folder where the document is located and just type
pdflatex lbcf.tex
to create the PDF from a text-based console or terminal, such as the terminal in Mac OS or Linux, or otherwise you can use the Windows Command Prompt or Powershell.
To create the html, just call
htlatex lbcf.tex
.
Please preserve the file extension if you make any changes.
Please use the issue tracker in GitHub or email mailto:[email protected] to report any issues you find, and to suggest new features.
Contributions are welcome! Feel free to fork this repository and make a pull request with your changes.