Text Highlight or Shading in a Personal Book .docx File

Hi!

I'm working on converting a .docx file to a Personal Book in Logos. The .docx file has text that is shaded:

When I convert the file to a Personal Book, the shading disappears:

I have also tried highlighting text in the .docx file with the Text Highlight function in Word. But this also disappears during conversion.

Is there a way to retain shading or text highlighting when converting a .docx file to a Personal Book?

Thanks,

Andrew

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Wolfgang Schneider

With charts like the above you could take a snapshot of the chart, save it in jpg or png format and insert the image into the text of the docx file at the appropriate place.

As far as I know, shading and highlighting of straight text is not supported in PBs and thus is lost when building the book.

JT (alabama24)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1210082#Comment_1210082

As far as I know, shading and highlighting of straight text is not supported in PBs and thus is lost when building the book.

That is my understanding as well. Your suggestion of an image file is a good one if the formatting is important. Conversely, one could create the highlights and markups within Logos itself AFTER the book is compiled.

Wolfgang Schneider

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1210130#Comment_1210130

Conversely, one could create the highlights and markups within Logos itself AFTER the book is compiled.

Indeed ... if such is done, the PB could even be included in searches for certain highlights.

However, such highlighting would reflect thoughts and markings by the reader/user of the book and could be changed, revised,deleted, etc. If the highlights are part of the author's original text, such editing and changing should not be possible.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1210192#Comment_1210192

The issue is the same as why highlights don't necessarily copy over with a copy text or print text. The highlighting supported by Word is very limited.

Rosie Perera

Could you use font color instead of shading to signify the author's intent to have those letters highlighted? Font colors do come through from Word in the PB building process.

Andrew Wergeland

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1210200#Comment_1210200

Thanks for all the helpful suggestions!

This is a Hebrew grammar I've published here in Norway and I'd like to make it available to my students (and any other Norwegian-speaking Logos-user who's interested). I would therefore prefer to have the highlighting/shading in the book itself and not add it afterwards.

I'll have to experiment a little with the suggestion of including the tables as images. But I just might end up using a different font color to draw attention to the phenomena I'm trying to illustrate.

I wish it were possible to change the color of a Hebrew diacritic without changing the color of the associated letter. Can't be done, as far as I can tell, with SBL Hebrew.

Best wishes,

Andrew

Wolfgang Schneider

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1210223#Comment_1210223

Here's a screenshot of a test PB I quickly made :

The docx file in the link below:

0207.Test for Table vs Image.docx

One problem with your table is that it contains scripture reference; in an image they would not be recognized as bible references and therefore could not be clicked to show the scripture text popup or link to the preferred Bible.
Thus you may want to rather use font-color highlights and keep the table as text.

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1210223#Comment_1210223

I wish it were possible to change the color of a Hebrew diacritic without changing the color of the associated letter. Can't be done, as far as I can tell, with SBL Hebrew.

I would have thought it should be possible to do it using combining characters, by formatting the diacritical mark on its own red, for example, and leaving the character it combines with black. But that doesn't seem to render as I'd expect it to in Word, though the "red" codes do get inserted in the right place (as I confirmed by saving it as HTML), but even a browser doesn't render that HTML the way I'd expect it to. So there doesn't appear to be an easy way to do it and keep the characters machine readable. You could, of course, do it in an image and manually change the color of those black diacritical marks using Photoshop or some such. It would be painstaking work.

Another solution, though not recommended, would be to use a different font that works differently. I've just been experimenting with various Greek and Hebrew fonts yesterday anyway, it so happens. And I just tried out your problem and found a solution. The legacy font SPEzra used a different kind of adjacent diacritical marks, and I am able to set those to a different color than the letter they combine with. You can download SPEzra and other legacy fonts from here.

Here's what it looks like in practice (screenshot from my Word document):

And here's the Word document with just that word in it, formatted in SPEzra font, for you to play around with.

6560.hebrew-test-SPEzra.docx

Note that it's quite difficult to select a diacritical mark to format it with a different color, because you can't see what you've selected. But if you move the cursor around in the text, you should be able to figure out where you are.

Since SPEzra is a legacy font, there is no support and no guarantee that it will work in the future.

Bradley Grainger (Logos)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1210317#Comment_1210317

I would have thought it should be possible to do it using combining characters, by formatting the diacritical mark on its own red, for example, and leaving the character it combines with black. But that doesn't seem to render as I'd expect it to in Word, though the "red" codes do get inserted in the right place (as I confirmed by saving it as HTML), but even a browser doesn't render that HTML the way I'd expect it to.

I'm not surprised that that doesn't work, given the complexities in laying out RTL text and positioning combining marks correctly in SBL Hebrew. I wrote some comments previously on why the Logos resource display doesn't support this feature (requested for some Hebrew grammars): https://community.logos.com/forums/p/163338/967167.aspx#967167

It's quite possible the font contains a single "precomposed" glyph for רָ in order to position the marks perfectly; in that case, there aren't even two different glyphs for the application to color independently: it's just one outline to be drawn.