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[Josh Bond]

Welcome aboard everyone! Let's spread the word about this new resource!

[grams]

I would like to give a hearty welcome to myself as a new member.

[Samwise]

Just wanted to say "Hi" and a big "Thank you" for starting this resource.

[journey]

I echo the thanks for this site. I will be praying that God richly blesses this ministry.

[Josh Bond]

I echo the thanks for this site. I will be praying that God richly blesses this ministry.

Welcome aboard Journey. Thank you for uploading the files too!

[car54]

Hi Josh, and thank you As a new member here I found your excellent work on the Unofficial e-Sword User Manual very helpful. It helped to answer 2 questions that I had (that now no longer need to ask here ) as far as "un-highlighting" a verse (I didn't see the white box option, until I saw your instructions) and how to hide some of the Bible versions on the tabs, Resource/Options/Bible Tabs.

Thanks again, as that resource has already paid dividends for me, and I Bookmarked it as a resource for future reference.

Scott

[Josh Bond]

Hi Josh, and thank you As a new member here I found your excellent work on the Unofficial e-Sword User Manual very helpful. It helped to answer 2 questions that I had (that now no longer need to ask here ) as far as "un-highlighting" a verse (I didn't see the white box option, until I saw your instructions) and how to hide some of the Bible versions on the tabs, Resource/Options/Bible Tabs.

Thanks again, as that resource has already paid dividends for me, and I Bookmarked it as a resource for future reference.

Scott

Awesome! Very glad to hear that. Be sure to tell your friends (if they use e-Sword) about this website and the User's Manual.

[Josh Bond]

Hi Josh, and thank you As a new member here I found your excellent work on the Unofficial e-Sword User Manual very helpful. It helped to answer 2 questions that I had (that now no longer need to ask here ) as far as "un-highlighting" a verse (I didn't see the white box option, until I saw your instructions) and how to hide some of the Bible versions on the tabs, Resource/Options/Bible Tabs.

Thanks again, as that resource has already paid dividends for me, and I Bookmarked it as a resource for future reference.

Scott

I was talking to Brent Hildebrand tonight. He correctly pointed out that e-Sword highlights by counting the number of characters from the beginning of the chapter for the starting/stopping points. The real-life meaning is: your highlights in one translation don't show in another. I should probably add that to the documentation.

Another big ramification (from Brent again): Any time the Bible abbreviation tabs change, you lose your highlights For example, now that e-Sword has changed the NIV to NIV84, your highlights for the 1984 NIV will no longer show. But they will show in the 2011 NIV (because 2011 NIV took over the NIV abbreviation in e-Sword). But when the highlights show in the 2011 NIV, they will be wrong when the number of characters differs from the 1984 NIV. Yep, that's a mouthful. I may add this problem and the fix for it as it's own tutorial.

[car54]

I was talking to Brent Hildebrand tonight. He correctly pointed out that e-Sword highlights by counting the number of characters from the beginning of the chapter for the starting/stopping points. The real-life meaning is: your highlights in one translation don't show in another. I should probably add that to the documentation.

Wow Josh, that was kind of you to take the time to follow up on some of your after thoughts you had, thanks I did find out what you mean as far as highlights only work on the version that you highlight, as I did out of curiosity toggle back and forth to see if they were highlighted in the other versions, and as you mentioned, it doesn't work that way.

Another big ramification (from Brent again): Any time the Bible abbreviation tabs change, you lose your highlights For example, now that e-Sword has changed the NIV to NIV84, your highlights for the 1984 NIV will no longer show. But they will show in the 2011 NIV (because 2011 NIV took over the NIV abbreviation in e-Sword). But when the highlights show in the 2011 NIV, they will be wrong when the number of characters differs from the 1984 NIV. Yep, that's a mouthful. I may add this problem and the fix for it as it's own tutorial.

Again, how timeless of you to mention this fact also, as I had just bought the NIV package from eSource yesterday (as it was mentioned in the email I received from them, that the NIV84 version would no longer be available after July), so that too, is good to know.

Thanks again for your time, and follow up Josh, I appreciate it.

Scott

[jonathon]

He correctly pointed out that e-Sword highlights by counting the number of characters from the beginning of the chapter for the starting/stopping points. The real-life meaning is: your highlights in one translation don't show in another.

It also means that if the content, or markup within the chapter changes, the highlighting, underlining, or sidelining will be thrown off. Fortunately, users are unable to do that type of editing with official resources.

jonathon