SUGGESTION:highlighting in multiple bibles

Is it possible to highlight a passage in one bible and have all the bibles highlighted the same? As far as I can see from an old post this is not possible. If so then this is a suggestion. It would be nice to be able to decide if you want just one bible highlighted or all by a menu option etc.

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Dave Hooton

Transferring manual highlights to other bibles would be difficult due to different wording, formatting and headings. If you want it on a whole passage then a Visual Filter is the best method, although there would need to be improvements because using a wildcard (*) for all text is very slow.

You could use a Morph Search and have a search term consisting of all parts of speech:-

@V OR @N OR @P OR @A etc.

But the highlighting is not continuous.

It is possible ...

Tim Engwer

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/153677#Comment_153677

Transferring manual highlights to other bibles would be difficult due to different wording, formatting and headings

Why would it be difficult to, for example, highlight John 15:1 in the NASB and then have the same verse automatically highlighted in other bibles. Perhaps I shouldn't have said "passages" but rather verses.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/153717#Comment_153717

Why would it be difficult to, for example, highlight John 15:1 in the NASB and then have the same verse automatically highlighted in other bibles. Perhaps I shouldn't have said "passages" but rather verses.

I wasn't sure about the extent of highlighting you envisaged as the Highlighing tool can apply to any part of a verse (or text in general) and be near impossible to transfer to other bibles. The Visual Filter would be ideal for whole verses if Logos would provide a faster method than those I put forward and not just highlight the individual words!

Bohuslav Wojnar

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/153740#Comment_153740

Why would it be difficult to, for example, highlight John 15:1 in the NASB and then have the same verse automatically highlighted in other bibles. Perhaps I shouldn't have said "passages" but rather verses.

I wasn't sure about the extent of highlighting you envisaged as the Highlighing tool can apply to any part of a verse (or text in general) and be near impossible to transfer to other bibles. The Visual Filter would be ideal for whole verses if Logos would provide a faster method than those I put forward and not just highlight the individual words!

I suggested that long time ago but understand the difficulty of doing that with all the flexibility of highlighting Logos provides. I don't know the way highlighting is tagged by Logos but it would be nice to have an option to use some kind of general highlighting in the Bibles that would be bound to the verses. Or, what about using the Reverse interlinear underlying original text as base for the highlighting tagging? I know it would show differently in each Bible since the word-order is different, but it might be the way to go.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/153758#Comment_153758

what about using the Reverse interlinear underlying original text as base for the highlighting tagging?

This is the cleanest solution - but implies that Logos will create reverse interlinear's for all translations and still leaves open the question of textual variants.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/153758#Comment_153758

I suggested that long time ago but understand the difficulty of doing that with all the flexibility of highlighting Logos provides. I don't know the way highlighting is tagged by Logos but it would be nice to have an option to use some kind of general highlighting in the Bibles that would be bound to the verses.

The more I think about it the more possible it becomes to implement in the Highlighting tool whilst the Visual Filter remains the most likely!

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/153771#Comment_153771

what about using the Reverse interlinear underlying original text as base for the highlighting tagging?

This is the cleanest solution - but implies that Logos will create reverse interlinear's for all translations and still leaves open the question of textual variants.

How would it work with this verse (ESV)?

Bohuslav Wojnar

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/153810#Comment_153810

what about using the Reverse interlinear underlying original text as base for the highlighting tagging?

This is the cleanest solution - but implies that Logos will create reverse interlinear's for all translations and still leaves open the question of textual variants.

How would it work with this verse (ESV)?

What about something like that? For me it would be very interesting, to see the different word order according to what Bible I open. Of course it would have to be available only with the RI Bibles (that are many and, according to Bob, we will see even more of them). Here is just simple example of Sympathetic Highlighting, what can show how it would look like:

EDIT: It would I think keep together expressions that are to be together (indivisible sequence of words that translate one Hebrew word etc.) For example: in ESV Hebrew word chesed is translated most often as "steadfast love" while in NASB it is "lovingkindness" and in NKJV it is just "mercy". That fact would make it even more interesting feature IMHO.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/153817#Comment_153817

It would I think keep together expressions that are to be together (indivisible sequence of words that translate one Hebrew word etc.)

One thing I appreciate from linguistics that has been slow to make it into dictionaries is the use of "lexical unit" rather than "word" - mind you the concept of word is nearly meaningless in my primary foreign language. The difference is that a lexical unit covers multi-word units of meaning such as idioms and (English) verb-preposition pairs etc. "Grow up," "Shut up," "Close up" are examples. So I like the idea of keeping expressions together for parallel markups