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Sync tab tied commentaries


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It's often helpful to open a commentary in a separate 'tab tied' pane, giving access to the contents and more space to the text. However, when I switch to another commentary in the tab tied pane it opens on the first title page of the first book in the series not to the tied passage in question. I have to switch to the source text, move the text up and down to get the tab tied commentary to sync.

 

Is it possible when switching commentary in a tab tied pane for Accordance to recognise the tie and open to the right place? Accordance knows this info after the source text is moved and before the tab tied commentary was changed so in my mind this doesn't seem like a huge ask and it will make the whole process of switching titles in a tab tied pane so much smoother.

 

Is this possible?

 

Thanks Paul

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What you wish to accomplish is easily done from the Info Pane. On a Mac I option-click (Ctrl-clk on Win?) on the commentary of interest and it opens in a new zone tied to the original text and reference. 

 

—Joseph

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Hi Joesph,

 

This is not exactly what I’m asking. Once the tied commentary is open, if I click the drop down list on the left and open a new commentary set, although the pane is tied, the new commentary opens to the title page of the first volume in the set, not the source of the tied text. To get the new commentary to sync with the source text I have to move the source text up and down.

 

Paul

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Yes, that is what I must do as well. I consider this a minor inconvenience compared to not being able to swap out commentaries at all. You would not believe the machinations we went through a few decades ago. ;) 

 

Happy for a half full glass,

Joseph

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I agree, it’s not a major inconvenience, but wouldn’t this improvement make the experience even better and smoother?

 

It does seem strange that a tied pane would open a tied resource to the wrong page, when in the background it really knows the right place to open since the pane is already tied to a source text.

 

Hoping this little feature request may be easy to implement to top up this little glass

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Paul, I think I understand why the reference is not used when you open a new commentary as described in your workflow.

  1. I observe that when opening a commentary from the library, it opens to the last location used in that resource. That is rather nice.
  2. If one opens another commentary in this same tab via drop down menu or Ctrl-#, the original context is lost and the new commentary opens at the title page. I see that the original reference is not used when opening up the new commentary. I also understands why this makes sense.
  3. When Cmd-clicking from the info pane, the commentary opens in a new pane and is tied to the reference of the tied text. Again, very nice.
  4. If another commentary is opened in this tab via drop down menu or Ctrl-#, one observes the same as in 2 above. I now understand why the behavior mentioned in your original post is happening, since steps 2 and 4 are pretty much the same procedure. 

As I think about this, if I want another commentary to compare to the first I opened in the new zone, I most often use Cmd-Click on a commentary listed in the Info Pane and open another tab with commentary linked to the reference of the source text. Often I will want to see both commentaries side by side (old guy memory can't remember all the details of the first) and if I need screen space I just close the first commentary since it is only a Cmd-click away. 

 

I guess I have stopped using the drop-down list or Ctrl-# method of opening an alternate commentary in the same tab because I find the Info Pane so handy for this task that I don't really miss the old work flow. Yes, as I have gotten older I have found a graphical approach more comfortable that a command line or menu approach.

 

I haven't written any programs since using Turbo Pascal a few decades ago (started with FORTRAN IV in 1967), so I don't know if the work flow you prefer would be easy or difficult to implement, but I do understand why the current version works as it does. On the other hand, Accordance very often implements user suggestions.

 

Shalom,

Joseph

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Thanks for the detailed response Joesph.

 

I haven’t really got on with the info pane, it seems to take up too much space on already small screen, although I love the concept. Reading your comments I will revisit It and see if I can implement a new work flow around the info pane.

It’s good that there are various ways of accomplishing the same tasks, since we work in different ways.

 

Appreciate your suggestions and advice.

 

Paul

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