Stuart Robertson Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 I have started doing a lot of word-level highlighting in the ESV (which I use as my primary English Bible). However, given the changes that were made in the (recent?) ESV update (I don't recall the exact date, but it was updated a few months ago) --- where a fair number of verses were changed --- I've gotten to wondering: "What will happen to word-level highlighting when the text is updated?" My preference would be to be able to keep the ESV text that I have today (and keep it stable) as I find it annoying when texts that I have memorized change suddenly. However, I understand from previous posts to this forum that the ESV text publishers refused (?) to allow the older version to be kept in addition to the new version. All of which raises the question - what will happen to my word-level highlighting should a new ESV text be released in future? I would very much not like to find I've wasted my time and find that my word-level highlighting is broken or (worse) highlights end up on the wrong words (e.g. if a verse is replaced with a shorter one in a new version). I'm assuming that word-level formatting stores offsets from the start of the verse to know where to start and end highlighting...? <sarcasm> If there is no way to keep the ESV text stable (that is, to keep an older version when a new one is released) then perhaps I should ditch the ESV completely and start memorizing and marking up the KJV... ? </sarcasm> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen Brown Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 Yes, the highlighting depends on the word order within a verse, so it may be slightly displaced when a text is updated. If you are worried about it, you can keep a copy of the current module and replace the new one with the old one if you inadvertently update it. There really isn't any other way to keep an index of the highlighted words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Robertson Posted March 18, 2012 Author Share Posted March 18, 2012 Is there any way to keep the current ESV as well as a new ESV (assuming another update is released sometime) and have both be available within Accordance at the same time? That is, can the original ESV module be backed up and then renamed or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen Brown Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 Short answer: no. You can do what Rick Mansfield suggested and keep the old plain text and update the tagged text or vice versa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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