This project will be complete in
14 days. I've dropped all my sideline projects and special requests so I can focus on getting this out the door.
I think everyone will be will be surprised at how well this turned out. The footnotes are linked, so that when you click a footnote, it shows you the footnote text. (If you have e-Sword 10.1). The footnotes are numbered, beginning with 1 and all footnotes match, 1 is linked to 1, rather than 1 being linked to a * or ^ or other odd characters used for the bookmark designation. It looks better and makes sense.
I took some liberties with the presentation of the text. We're not bound by printed page restrictions and expenses like the original typesetter was. I found the pattern used to "run comments together" throughout the text to save space in the printed edition. I separated those back out so that there's more vertical white space. This makes the text
much more readable. It's easier to see how much further you have to read to complete the current thought, which makes reading easier in my view.
The headers for a given section usually look like:
EXEGETICAL AND CRITICAL
DOCTRINAL AND ETHICAL
HOMILETICAL AND PRACTICAL
So I color coded these sections with a dark blue (pleasing to the eye) so as you scan the text, these leap out at you, showing you where you are in the text.
I also color coded the author names. Langes like to say LUTHER: and then provide Luther's thoughts, for example. This is now much more readable because the coloring breaks up the text and you instantly see he's summarizing another author. These summaries can be quite extensive and so it's helpful to know (without thinking about it) that Langes is switching gears and providing another author's viewpoints.
I colored the foreign language words and have preserved them so they will render properly in e-Sword's (to avoid all these Greek Commentary issues we've had with Greek not rendering properly in Windows XP). Not that 3/4 of you understand Hebrew or Greek (myself included), but now you can stare at it and (not know whether you) agree with the author's conclusions, haha.