How can I create a set of Bible markups that I can turn on and off

Harry Hahne · 2025-02-06T21:42:06+00:00

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I know it is possible to have different notebooks and highlight palettes. I am working on how to make this all work together the way I want.

I want to create a set of markups for a biblical passage that I can turn on and off, for teaching purposes. My plan would be to show the unmarked biblical text and then to turn on the markups, when I want to emphasize a point.

Specifically, I want to highlight all of the repeated words, each in a different color.

I suspect this would involve creating a new notebook and perhaps a new highlighting palette. Then I could select it from the Visual Filters on the toolbar. I cannot see any way to have a note include multiple markups.

Could someone please provide the steps to create a set of highlights on passage that I could turn on and off?

Thanks!

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Harry Hahne

Thanks @Dave Hooton. I knew I had done this before, but I could not figure it out again. It turned out not to be as difficult as I thought to grab all of my highlights and drop them into a new notebook. Now I can turn the notebook on when I want to display the markup. Perfect!

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Jason Stone (Logos)

Are you looking to enable or disable the entire palette at once, or do you want to target specific words at particular points in your teaching? It seems you're on the right path, whether you're creating a Visual Filter or Highlights.

Harry Hahne

I want to turn on or off all of the markups at one time.

I realize I could accomplish what I want with a Visual Filter, if I limit it to a passage

However, I would like to show my students how to do markup of observations for inductive Bible study. I told them that they could mark up the Bible and then turn on and off the markups. However, I cannot figure out how to put the markups in a set, so I can turn on and off a particular set of markups, while leaving the others on.

MJ. Smith

~~I'm still thinking about it - I'm close but I can't get an automatic refresh at the right time.~~

https://community.logos.com/discussion/246203/malfunction-in-highlighting

See above to see what I believe should work but ended up identifying bugs. The bugs leave me not knowing how Logos intended things to work as the tab names give conflicting expectations.

Dave Hooton

Specifically, I want to highlight all of the repeated words, each in a different color. I suspect this would involve creating a new notebook and perhaps a new highlighting palette. Then I could select it from the Visual Filters on the toolbar. I cannot see any way to have a note include multiple markups.
Could someone please provide the steps to create a set of highlights on passage that I could turn on and off?

Highlighting repeated words would be manual, which should not be too onerous for a passage. You can dedicate a Palette (or multiple ones) to a single Notebook via Highlighting tool. Then use the new resource toolbar Notes > Show Notes and Highlights to switch on/off the Notebook. The provided Solid Colors palette may well satisfy the need for different colors.

If you wanted to switch on/off a specific set of repeated words you could change the Notebook in the Palette before highlighting, then you can use the Toggle at the top of Show Notes and Highlights to remove all highlights.

Searching for arbitrary repeated words via Visual Filters is not feasible.

Bill

"If you wanted to switch on/off a specific set of repeated words you could change the Notebook in the Palette before highlighting,"

@Dave Hooton Wouldn't changing the notebook for the palette change any previous markups to the new notebook also, or would the changed notebook only apply to highlights applied after the change?

MJ. Smith

@Dave Hooton

Then use the new resource toolbar
Notes > Show Notes and Highlights
to switch on/off the Notebook.

This is precisely what I couldn't get to work and reported as a bug.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1357128#Comment_1357128

The Notebook only applies to new highlights. To change the Notebook for previous highlights you have to use the Notes tool.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1357195#Comment_1357195

It worked OK for me when I used the same method to get highlights in new notebooks. See my comment in your bug report.

Bill

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1357380#Comment_1357380

Thank you Dave. I didn't realize that, good to know.

Harry Hahne