Bug with "Note" Icon?
I had highlighted some text in a resource and also added a couple of notes within the highlighted text. I decided to change the highlight color, so I selected the highlighted text and did a CTRL+SHIFT+K to remove the highlight. When I did, I noticed the icons for my notes also disappeared. I wasn't expecting that, but thought maybe they would reappear after applying the new highlight color. They didn't. The actual notes were still in the notes file, but there weren't any note icons in the text. So I selected each of the notes in the notes file and changed the style of the note icon, thinking that might bring it back in the selected text in the resource, but no such luck. I had to create new notes, so I did that and deleted the old ones.
It doesn't seem right that changing a highlight color should have any impact on note icons within the selected text, let alone remove them completely while leaving the actual notes in the notes file. Is this a bug?
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Removing the highlight operates by modifying the attachment point. For a text range attachment point, this could mean removing part or all of the attachment range, or even splitting it into two ranges (if you remove a middle portion of the highlight).
You can restore your attachment point range by selecting the text again, then using the Edit attachment points option in the note menu and selecting Attach to current selection.
In the future, if you just want to remove the highlighting, but keep the attachment point, click the note indicator to the left of the note in the the note document and select No highlight under the Note Highlight section of the popup menu.
I hope that helps.
Andrew Batishko | Logos software developer
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Andrew, thanks so much for the help.Removing the highlight operates by modifying the attachment point. For a text range attachment point, this could mean removing part or all of the attachment range, or even splitting it into two ranges (if you remove a middle portion of the highlight).
You can restore your attachment point range by selecting the text again, then using the Edit attachment points option in the note menu and selecting Attach to current selection.
In the future, if you just want to remove the highlighting, but keep the attachment point, click the note indicator to the left of the note in the the note document and select No highlight under the Note Highlight section of the popup menu.
I hope that helps.
I played around with it a bit and the Edit attachment points works to get the note icon back in the resource, but use of the No highlight option does nothing to protect the note icon from being removed in the first place nor does selecting it bring after the note icon is removed, bring the icon back. I should also note that the No highlight option is the default on my system, so it's already set that way when the note is first created.
To test this, I tried highlighting the text first and then adding the note. I also tried adding the note first and then highlighting the text. In both cases, the No highlight option was already the default in affect when the note was created but the note icon still disappeared when the CTRL+SHIFT+K was applied to the text selection. After the icon disappeared from the text, I tried getting it back by selecting the note in the notes file and re-selecting the No highlight option for it, but that didn't bring it back.
In summary: the note disappears even when it's created with the No highlight option on, and attempts to re-apply the No highlight option after the icon has disappeared does not bring it back. The only thing that works (for me) is to select the Edit attachment points option and reselect the text where the icon should be.
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My apologies for confusion on this issue.
It sounds to me like you are using "note" and "highlighting" as terms to describe two separate things, but actually there is no difference between them.
If I understand your usage correctly, then a "note" is an entry added to a note file that has been set to display a note indicator and optionally a note color (using the popup to the left of the note in the note document). A "highlight" is a entry added to a note file that has been set to display a highlight (an option that is available in the menu to the left of the note as long as the entry has a text range attachment point).
Depending on your attachment points and the settings you manually pick, you can make any entry in a note document look like either a "note" or a "highlight". So, in the future, I'll just call an entry in a note document a note.
When you use the erase highlighting option, it removes the selected text range from all text range attachment points in your visible note documents (which could affect multiple notes, and which might split an existing text range attachment point into two text range attachment points). If doing this results in a note with no remaining attachment points, and the note does not have a modified title or content fields, then the note is deleted from the note document, since without an attachment point or title or content, it doesn't have any purpose.
If you want to remove just one of the notes in your note document, and not all of the ones that are being displayed, then you are better off using the Open annotation option in the context menu in the resource. Then just manually deleting the note with the highlighting you want to remove.
Andrew Batishko | Logos software developer
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If I understand your usage correctly, then a "note" is an entry added to a note file that has been set to display a note indicator and optionally a note color (using the popup to the left of the note in the note document). A "highlight" is a entry added to a note file that has been set to display a highlight (an option that is available in the menu to the left of the note as long as the entry has a text range attachment point).
Yes, that's what I meant. I guess I'm not using the right terminology (i.e. Logos terminology), but I'm not sure how else to explain it. I wish highlights and notes were seen as different/separate animals.
If doing this results in a note with no remaining attachment points, and the note does not have a modified title or content fields, then the note is deleted from the note document, since without an attachment point or title or content, it doesn't have any purpose.
I just want to clarify that using the CTRL-SHIFT-K handles the highlights differently than the notes. I.e. when it removes the highlight from the library resource, it also removes the entry for the highlight from the notes document. But... while it also removes the note icons from the library resource (thereby removing any indication in the library resource that the notes exist), it does NOT remove the entries for the notes from the notes document. Bottom line: In regard to highlights, the library resource and the notes document ARE in sync--i.e. they are removed from both. But in regard to notes, the library resource and the notes document are NOT in sync--i.e. the note icons have been removed from the library resource but the note entries are still in the notes document.
While I'm thankful the actual notes were not deleted from the notes document, I wish the library resource was kept in sync with that and continued to display the note icons in the library resource.
But since it's not working that way, I do appreciate the explanations you've provided as they will help me to deal with the situation.
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