New Features since 8.0

New Features in 8.2.3 (May 11, 09):

Although only a free dot-dot upgrade, Accordance 8.2.3 will make a lot of users happy with the changes it offers:

Scripture References in Instant Details

• When the cursor is over a multi-verse reference in a Tool or User Notes window, the Instant Details box now displays up to 8 verses of the text.

Spaces Between Book Names and Numbers

• When entering verse references it is no longer necessary to avoid entering a space between a book number and name, so that 2 Kings is now acceptable anywhere in a list of references. However, now you must add a comma or semi-colon after the last number of the previous reference so that it is not interpreted as a book number. Thus Gen 1:1; Ex 1:1 must be used rather than Gen 1:1 Ex 1:1.
• Copy as Citation and Copy as References now automatically add a space between a book number and name, so that 2Kings becomes 2 Kings. This is separate from the setting of Use SBL Standard notation in Preferences/Appearance.

Other Text Export Enhancements

• Accordance now converts to the the correct Unicode characters when exporting NA27 apparatus sigla. Slight changes were also made in the "stripping" of characters in Greek and Syriac.

Reference List Window

• Control-command-R adds the selected verse(s) to the top item in the Add Selection To submenu, making it easier to add verses to a Reference List. The limit of verses has been raised from 1000 to 10,000.

Keyboard Shortcuts

• Command-+ and Command- - now resize the text in the Analysis, Concordance, Table, Parsing, and Text Differences windows, as they already did in the main windows.

• Control-0 changes the current search text to the tenth item in the pop-up menu.
  

New Features in 8.2 (March 8, 09):

International

Accordance 8.2 Universal is now localized to German and Spanish, so these languages are automatically supported if the primary System language is German or Spanish.

Additional minor enhancements in this release include:

Amplifying

• When triple-clicking a word, if the word is not found in a search of the first dictionary, the other dictionaries in the category are searched in turn until the word is found.
• Hebrew prefixes and suffixes are considered part of a single selected word when amplifying to a tagged text, so the equal sign is correctly added to the separate lemmas or inflected forms.
• Hebrew vowels are now correctly divided between a word and its suffix, when these are separated by a space.

References

Adding f after a verse reference now adds a single unit, verse, chapter, or book, intead of adding all of the last unit like ff does. A period is now ignored after f or ff, rather than generating an error message.

Windows

• Option-click on a pane close button closes all the other panes.
• Further refinements to the diagram window include pressing option with an arrow key to move the object one pixel at a time.
• Command-double-click on a module in the Library window opens an independent window instead of a tab.
• Printing of 3 columns with side margins of 1 inch is now supported.

New Features in 8.1.2 (December 5, 08):

• Character searching is now supported in tools, allowing you to look for symbols and punctuation
• The INFER and Search Back search features were further refined
• The Compare Texts feature supports lemma compare between the GNT Papyri and other texts

New Features in 8.1 (November 1, 08):

Version 8.1 offers an exciting new look which coordinates better with the appearance of Leopard, as well as some significant features and enhancements:

Redesigned Tabs and Buttons throughout the windows.

Built in and automatic Check for Updates to download updates of the program and modules.

Major enhancements to the diagram window including:

• Magnification pop-up menu to zoom in and out
• New Palette Items

  Arcs, arrows, box, and flexible diagonal lines and dotted lines

  Option-drag to reverse the direction of the palette item for Hebrew

• Options in Set Diagram Display allow selection of:

  Variable default font size

  Variable grid allows easier organization in columns

  Horizontal and Vertical Pages

Amplifying:

• Option to automatically search for the verse reference with the word, when amplifying from a text to a tool
• Search for inflected form when the lexical form is not found, when amplifying from a tagged text to a tool
• Amplify from a single word in a tagged text to a tagged text adds the equal sign for exact search, unless the exact form is not found
• Amplify from a pane to the same search text adds all the current panes

Preferences:

• General pane reorganized
• Parallel pane allows the additional text to be set for each parallel

Other:

• Set Default Display of selected modules in the Library window sets a batch of modules
• User Note edit window can be opened in place when typing in a user note.
• User Tools support hyperlinks to texts, tools, user tools, files on the hard drive, or URLs
• Timeline has a new World History region, and an All Items list
• The Apple Help button appears on most dialog boxes and many windows to link to the relevant Help page.
• Support for Mac mouse special scrolling options
• Tying of windows is preserved if a single workspace is saved

New Features in 8.0.5 (August 31, 08):

Accordance 8.0.5 provides improved import of HTML files into user tools, and more options for the export of selected text.

Keyboard shortcuts were changed as follows: option-command-X removes selected verses from the Reference List window, and shift-command-N adds a new folder to the Library window (instead of F).

This is in addition to the fixes in 10.3 for the two serious crashes on some Intel Macs (in 8.0 to 8.0.2). One occurred when printing to certain HP printers from OS 10.5.3 on the iMac. The other happened on opening the 3D Map window on Macs which use an NVidia graphics chipset with OS 10.5.2 or above.

Each release also corrects known bugs.

See also New Features in 8.0