This is the fourth in a series of posts on Accordance preferences. We’ve already covered the General and Appearance settings. Today, we’ll look at the Workspace settings. The first three options all have to do with the look and behavior of workspace zones. The active zone in a workspace is highlighted with a certain color. […]
How often do you hold down the option key when using Accordance? If your answer is seldom to never, you’re missing out on a lot of Accordance’s power and convenience. In this new series of posts, I’ll be sharing a series of option key secrets. Learn a few of these, and you’ll be well on […]
In my previous post, I explained the difference between opening a commentary in a pane alongside your Bible text and opening it in a separate zone. In brief, opening a commentary in a pane has the advantage of automatically scrolling with the text, while opening a commentary in a separate zone lets you search and […]
In Accordance, you can open a commentary (or any other reference-based tool) in a pane within your Bible search tab, or in a separate zone. So what are the strengths and weaknesses of each approach? To open a commentary as a pane, select it from the Reference Tool pop-up menu on the right side of […]
In my previous two posts I’ve discussed the new zones feature of Accordance 9. Zones lets you open different kinds of Accordance resources in different areas of your workspace. But what if you find the proliferation of zones to be a little too much? On a 27-inch iMac screen, you can view a half-dozen or […]
Yesterday I described the new Zones feature of Accordance 9. Zones are areas of a workspace which can each contain multiple tabs. You might have a zone with tabs containing Bible texts, another zone with tabs containing dictionaries, and a third with tabs containing commentaries. Or you might divide your resources among zones completely differently. […]
Yesterday I was at the library of the local seminary doing final checks on a major new Accordance module. I removed twenty-six thick volumes from the shelves and spread them across the table in order. As I found errors I needed to check against the print copies, I would locate each volume in turn, returning […]