New Text Browser feature, significant enhancements to Papers/Stacks, Research, Searching, Web browser, and much more!
- Use the new Text Browser tab to automatically show multiple translations of the same verse. This Text Browser can be linked to various other tabs (Search, Reference List, Context, Reference Tool, or User Notes) to show the top verse in all available translations or a predefined group of translations.
- The Text Browser tab can be opened from the Amplify menu, from the right-click Look Up submenu, or from a “hard” hyperlink in a Tool tab that points to an external non-biblical text, if the Preferences are set to hyperlink to a Tool Browser tab rather than a Text tab.
- Up to 9 verses can be shown for each Text version.
- Added Amplify -> Text Browser to the list of user customizable shortcuts, and set its default to Cmd/Ctrl - 6.
- Enhanced copying of text for the Text Browser tab: If text in a single pane is selected, the Copy text feature works as before. But if no text is selected (even if a pane is selected), then the Edit>Copy menu item changes to “Copy All Panes”, and the entire text shown in the Text Browser tab will be copied.
- Ability to save all panes to a file in the Text Browser tab, when there is no text selection in any pane. Saving the text can be done either as Plain Text or RTF. If the front tab is a Text Browser tab with no pane selection, the menu item in the File menu changes to “Save All Panes As Text File” to make this option clear.
- Ability to print the contents of the new Text Browser tab. Printing always prints all of the contents of the tab, whether there is a selected pane or not, and whether the Print Settings dialog specifies to print only one pane or not. Note that many of the options in the Print Settings dialog do not apply to the Text Browser tab.
- Ability to open the Text (Context) tab from the gear menu in any pane of the Text Browser tab.
- Option to open the the new Text Browser tab when clicking on a hyperlink verse reference in a Tool tab or in a Reference Tool pane in the Search tab. This preference can be toggled by holding down the Shift key while clicking on the Tool hyperlink verse reference. NOTE: If there are more than 9 verses in the Tool hyperlink verse reference, and if the Preference is set to open the Text Browser tab, only the first 9 verses of the text will be shown.
- Updated the Live Click preferences to give the option of opening either the new Text Browser tab or the Research tab, when clicking on a verse reference in a Search tab. If the Shift key is pressed, it will toggle between these two options. This type of Live Click to a Text Browser tab supports the following:
- The same Live Click text group preference is used as the text group in a new Text Browser tab.
- The new Text Browser tab from Live Click is opened with a default of both recycling enabled and tying from the Text Browser tab to its source tab.
- After a Text Browser tab is opened, it will be reused if it has both the same text corpus and the same default text group as a source tab.
- The source tab will be always set the Text Browser reference (or text order) text to be the same as its search text, whether opening a new Text Browser tab or recycling an older Text Browser tab.
- The following Text Browser preferences are available in the ‘Web & Text Browser’ preference pane:
- The default text group.
- The option to force all texts to be the same font size for new panes.
- The font size to use, if forcing all texts to be the same font size. (Hebrew and other non-Latin fonts are proportionally adjusted in size.)
- Suppress poetry: This applies to new panes.
- Abbreviate Text Name: Determines if export lists abbreviation (“ESVS”) vs Human Readable Name (“ESV with Strong’s”)
- Remove Line Breaks: This removes all line breaks in the export, both in the contents and between texts.
- Hide verse reference: This hides all verse references in the export.
- Hide superscripts: This hides all superscripts in the export.
- Include Heading Details: This prepends the verse references and group used to generate the list in the export.
- The Library now supports subfolders within the Paper and Stack subgroups. Subfolders can now be created anywhere in the Stacks or Papers in the Library. Each subfolder name must be unique within the Stack or Paper subcategory.
- Changed the maximum number of characters for a Paper file name and a Paper subfolder name from 31 to 255 characters, since longer files names are supported in the Finder and the Library folder structure for Papers and Stacks are determined by the Finder and not by a Settings file. (This change also applies to Stack file names and Stack subfolders.)
- Added a Word Count menu item as the first item of the Gear menu to show the word count of the text items as displayed by items selected in the Show pull-down menu. Only words are counted, not punctuation.
- In the Paper tab, added a menu item to the Right-click menu to open the Paper settings dialog.
- In the Paper tab settings dialog, added an option for [None] for each level of hierarchy markers to hide the item marker for that particular hierarchical level. When the option for [None] is set, the Hide Outline Marker menu item in the Paper item action menu is dimmed, if that Paper item is at the appropriate hierarchical level.
- Added an option in the Text Item action menu for text items with no outline marker to resume the outline sequence for items after it, rather than starting the outline sequence over again.
- In Preferences>Appearance added an option to open a Paper tab at a specified Zoom level, whether for a new Paper or an existing Paper file. This feature only currently applies to Paper tabs and not Stack tabs.
- Added support for all types of links (Resource, Web, File, Scripture) and support for different displayed text for the link.
- Now the Link and Endnote buttons are dimmed when not editing.
- Improved paper handling of bibliography entries if the tool is not present. It now grabs as much information as it can, then notes that it may be incomplete due to the missing tool.
- Improved paper endnote ‘Ibid’ entries to note if the number is a paragraph instead of page number.
- Improved paper endnote ‘Ibid’ entries to properly support unicode localization.
- Updated Copy and Paste to transfer bibliographic information directly from an Accordance Tool to the Paper tab without going via a Stack item, as follows:
- When doing a simple Copy or Copy By Citation of text from an Accordance Tool, the bibliography information is now also copied from the tool with the new clipboard flavor. When the clipboard contents are pasted into a Paper tab, the bibliographic information will automatically be saved in the Paper tab.
- Previously only a Drag & Drop from a Stack item would automatically bring over the bibliographic information.
- If the clipboard contents are directly pasted into the edit window of the Paper tab, and if there is already previous bibliographic information in the item being edited, then a dialog box will appear to allow the user to either update the bibliography with the new pasted contents or leave the bibliographic information as is.
- If the clipboard contents are pasted in a Paper tab as a new item, the article name from the source Tool will appear automatically in the Title field of the new Paper item along with the bibliography information.
- Updated the Paper Template dialog to fix the custom templates drawing.
- Completely revised the core searching of Accordance, so as to make the searching more accurate and to take into account punctuation and word variants, so as to minimize the complexity of word proximity calculations. This approach also better clarifies the distinction between word proximity index and the word hit highlighting index.
- Fixed several search errors present in the current release for Construct proximity searching with three or more phrase terms connected by the WITHIN command when there are multiple possible hits within a verse or other scope.
- Improved searching for implied words in phrase-tagged texts and the related Null searching in the Holmstedt Hebrew syntax data base.
- Improved inflected searches, when a selection is not specified, to grab the word based on the tagged data, instead of getting the entire word bounds from punctuation to punctuation. This should only be called when coming from an RTL tagged text. This also improves live click when set to inflected.
- Improved the searching of variants for the case when the number of words in brackets was greater than the number of corresponding words before the brackets.
- When using the equals sign (=) in the Search tab, a specific message now appears if a space immediately follows the equals sign. The space is highlighted so that the user can simply delete it and continue the search. Previously this kind of error caused the vocabulary list dialog to appear with no clear explanation of the error.
- When using the context menu “Search For” option, the new search tab that opens will try to keep the same pane proportions as the tab the search originated from.
- Added a new search item - ANYSYNTAX - to the Construct tab for finding any tag item within a group of Syntax tags that are related, such as Subject, Predicate, Complement, Adjunct, and Specifier. The dialog interface is similar to that of the ANY Construct item that finds related morphological tags.
- When dragging simple Syntax items such as subject, predicate, adjunct, etc. in the Construct tab, the dialog box that opens now offers the option of selecting the ANYSYNTAX item with the specific simple Syntax item already defined in the ANYSYNTAX item.
- Fixed the ANY item to not accept parts of speech and categories within a part of speech, so as to avoid spurious search results. Only the tags themselves can be entered, such as "plural", "feminine", etc., but not “Verb”, “Number”, etc.
- Cross-Highlighting should now work much better across panes. If one pane is able to highlight in another pane, the panes that are highlighted will highlight any panes that they can highlight that have not already been highlighted.
- Moved the Live Click options from their own dialog to a page in the Preferences dialog.
- Updated the Search view Add User Note icon to a plus, as well as the other user notes icons.
- Improved alphabetization of unicode Arabic words.
- The research browser has a new “Open In” dropdown menu for text results:
- All verses can be opened in a text browser from the dropdown menu.
- Opening in a workspace will repeat the research’s search in the new workspace, and will scroll all possible documents to the verse that was opened.
- Moved the Flex toggle for a Research tab to a dedicated icon control on the right side of the entry box, like the tools tab.
- Added support for Research Hebrew Literal searches, enabling a single string search that consistently works across tagged, untagged texts, and tools. The option is in the Search Options/History menu, where Flex used to be.
- Added dimming of the Flex toggle control if the current language does not support it.
- Added new Reading/Research preferences to explicitly determine whether a new Research tab is Flex/Exact and Literal/Grammatical.
- Added a feature such that the title in the research browser will show the number of verses as well as the number of hits.
- Improved speed when doing a research inflected search, as the tool results would be uncached even though there is no distinction.
- Updated Research tabs so that a verse search with an equal sign in front of it would be able to return results in texts if they are part of the scope of the search.
- Items can now be added directly to the Stack from the Research tab.
- Added buttons to web browser for zooming in and out on pages where that is possible.
- Supports automatic scripture verse references detection in the web browser:
- Scripture references will be detected on webpages, and highlighted in red to distinguish them from normal links.
- Clicking the scripture reference will open the user’s default web hyperlink version to that reference.
- Hovering over the scripture reference will bring up instant details from that version.
- Holding Command/Ctrl will show the alternate text in Instant Details, if possible.
- There are now new preferences available for the Web Browser, in the “Web & Text Browser” preferences:
- The home page can now be set by the user.
- The default texts for hyperlinking scripture references in the web browser can now be selected.
- Right clicking on web scripture references now shows the “Text Browser” option in the “Look Up” menu.
- Items can now be added directly to the Stack from the Web Browser.
- Copy as citation will use “Psalm” instead of the plural “Psalms” unless multiple chapters are being cited.
- Added a preference to split discontiguous verses when using “Copy as Citation”
- Improved reliability when copying several verses as citation.
- Added an radio button in citation preferences specifying whether the entire citation should be enclosed in markers, or just the text title.
- When a citation uses a book abbreviation, it will now add a period after the abbreviation unless the “Use SBL standard abbreviations” option is checked.
- Enhanced the import of User Bibles as follows:
- Import of any UTF16 file is now supported.
- Import of a UTF8 or UTF16 file which mainly uses a standard Accordance font, such as Greek, Hebrew, Syriac, etc., is now converted to be a regular Text module with Accordance fonts instead of Unicode fonts. (This gives better compatibility between other Accordance texts that use the same font.)
- Other language groups such as Chinese, Russian, or even “extended” Latin Unicode remain as Unicode Bible texts.
- Added Italian localization.
- If the localization is changed, then any user settable default item (e.g. highlight style name, route layer, library categories, etc.) will be changed to the current localization.
- Fixed the region and route lists from the region and route layers dialogs to properly display in current localization.
- Stack and Paper can now be synced between your Desktop and Device.
- Updated list icons to use modern library type icons, since there is no old color Stack or Paper icon.
- Improved conflict detection when syncing User notes.
- The Research and User Notes table of contents can now be hidden.
- Switching pictures in a popover picture doc will now scroll to the same picture in the document under the popover.
- Accordance web links in tools, papers, stacks, and notes will be parsed for instant details the same way it gets instant details for the older square bracket link types.
- Updated workspaces names and workspace path names to support unicode and much longer filenames.
- Added RTF parsing support of the superscript style. Also support for pasting smallcaps and HTML from RTF.
- Added “Safe Mode” options to remove timeline and/or atlas files. Also the ability to uninstall Syntax Files, Diagram Files, and Interlinear Files.
- When importing a User Tool from HTML, the area inside of “href” tags will not be checked for scripture auto-linking, so that the original link will not be destroyed.
- Added an “Accordance Exchange” link to the Help menu.
- Updated help for 12.3
- Several crashes and issues when doing Undo/Redo actions on the floating edit text box of a Paper Endnote.
- Pasting to a Paper issues that sometimes prevented the pasted text or the ability to edit endnotes.
- Live click bug where 1.5 clicks would still trigger the delayed live click.
- Issue in the Research Table of Contents that would cause it to open the top hyperlink in a folder when the folder was double clicked.
- Issue in the Paper tab in which the Instant Details were not shown for verse references at the very beginning of a text item in which the book name begins with a number, such as 2 Cor. or 1 Kings.
- Where ‘slow find’ text research results wouldn’t sort by Importance.
- Where tool scripture research results would be missing if there was more than one field (such as different corpora) and the first field didn’t have it.
- Crash that would occur in a Paper when using the “Tab” key to move from the regular items down to the endnotes or vice versa.
- Crash when adding to the Stack with an active selection in the GoTo box.
- Hang/Crash in Research that would occur if the tool had a search hit from the end of a long article.
- The inability to do a character search when the character is the very end of the scope, such as verse, chapter, etc.
- Now the character search works properly when there are two adjacent characters in the text separated by a space, and each of those characters are part of a contiguous “phrase” search, or use the WITHIN 1 command between them.
- Searching errors in the handling of variants of ketiv/qere and variants in brackets in the HMT-W4 text.
- Several bugs related to searching for individual characters in the Search tab, especially when a phrase with characters is used, or if the character is punctuation at the very end of a verse or other scope.
- The scope of Syntax searching of items in a clause or phrase to provide somewhat faster searching.
- When performing a Syntax search:
- fixed the display of lines shown as an overlay over the words, when searching for a phrase or clause with no enclosed words. Previous searches would sometimes show too many redundant lines.
- with a phrase or clause with no enclosed words, fixed the case of a non-contiguous phrase or clause to show all parts of the phrase or clause in the search result.
- in the Construct tab with a non-contiguous phrase enclosing a negative element at the beginning or end of its items.
- Where texts that have a verse beginning with one word then a paragraph marker, incorrectly think that verse is a new line break (e.g. LEO-NT-GKE 1Pt 3:10).
- In the “Enter Tag” submenu where a unicode string was being appended with a non-unicode ellipsis, which drew an undesired character.
- Where amplifying to a workspace from the right click context menu was failing.
- Where the construct wouldn’t be marked as having changed after an undo, which would mean the linked tab’s search text would be greyed out even thought the search had not been run.
- Concordance references, if Use Native Names is on, now properly display in the correct font.
- Where selecting the entry search field after selecting the go-to search field would fail the first time it was done in a new tab.
- When printing the interlinear didn’t respect the Default Print Font Size preference, so its locations were correct, but font sizes too big or small.
- Bar or pie chart issue with the “Tags” class, where Shift-Clicking on an item with a “Person” tag would fail, due to using the shortened version of the person tag i.e. “3” vs “third”.
- Where amplifying to a workspace would leave user note tabs with an empty search.
- Where Ctrl+[ and Ctrl+] would both cycle to the next pane to the left, instead of Ctrl+] cycling right.
- Cross-highlighting issues:
- for variant word forms (such as in Matthew 1:16; 2:23) when going from GNT28-T to its Syntax pane.
- for variant word forms when going to the GNT28-T from its Syntax pane, such as in Matthew 1:16.
- when going from Syntax letter codes in the Syntax pane to the GNT28-T, if the Syntax code was non-contiguous, such the Sentence in Matthew 1:16 or the split Subject in Matthew 1:17.
- where items in the syntax tree would keep cross-highlighting when the mouse was moved off of them, until another item was moused over.
- with variant Greek tagged text forms from the Syntax pane to the original text. This case involved a variant form at the very beginning of the verse.
- Potential crash that could occur when doing a Syntax search with the Construct tab for the entire Hebrew Bible.
- Potential crash when searching for a Syntax subject.
- When clicking on the verse reference for a note would not open the reference due to corpus issues.
- Where putting the mouse over user note icon in a pane would not give instant details in certain cases.
- Where user notes would lump different corpuses into the Bible corpus in the Table of Contents when a tab was dragged to a new location.
- Where adding a note in a new corpus would not properly add that corpus to currently open note tabs, so that they would get mixed into an existing corpus until the next time the notes were loaded from file.
- Where the “Notes Order” dropdown menu would not fill in the corpus submenu name for several corpuses.
- Where the primary Bible corpus text could be set to a non-biblical corpus text when amplifying to the note file from that text.
- Issue that would sometime prevent notes from a corpus from showing up in the “Other” category when not present in the preferred text.
- Where hits would not show up for tools if the “show all text” option was selected.
- When pasting non-unicode Rosetta, MSS, Sylvanus type content into a unicode item, like a user note, that didn’t convert the font name to a proper unicode font.
- Where “Copy As Citation” could omit the verse reference in certain cases if the “Split discontiguous verses” option was not checked.
- Where font size above 96 would not be capped to 96 point, but would be improperly set to 12 point.
- Where the amplify button in the library wouldn’t activate for a selection in the Web Browser.
- Accordance URLs pointing to a Tool paragraph were not getting instant details on mouse-over.
- The help button on the Web Browser preference page will now point to the Web Browser Help.
- Issue that was preventing the "Learn more about the Atlas…" and "Learn more about the Timeline…" links from working.
- The “Add Folder” option is now enabled in the right click menu when clicking on the top level My Tools, My Notes, Stacks, Papers, or Bookmarks folders.
- Where the icon for one of the default tool folders would not revert to a plain folder icon during a rename.
- Citation preferences dialog:
- Where items in the verse display menu could be greyed out immediately after the dialog opened.
- The verse display dropdown menu will no longer show “Reference Only”.
- Setup Assistant “Text Format” page:
- The value will initialize the same way it is done in user preferences, rather than always resetting to the default.
- The preference value will also be written to Text modules that have already been loaded into memory, instead of only updating the file.
- Crash that could occur when opening a user notes file that had never had any notes added to it.
- Crash that could occur if one of two papers being merged during a dropbox sync contained no items.