New Features in Version 13

Following is an overview of new features in Version 13 of Accordance Bible Software. For more information on working with one of these new features, click the linked text.

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New Features in Version 13
  • New Library and toolbar icons.
  • Library and Table of Contents views have been updated.
  • Full support for macOS Dark Mode (requires macOS 10.14 Mojave+)
  • New Accordance interface themes.
  • A search field has been added to the Accordance Preference panes.
  • Mouseover highlighting can be used with the MT and LXX. (This feature requires the MT-LXXClosed The MT-LXX Interlinear Database is a purchased Accordance resource that enables Interlinear Display of your installed Hebrew and Septuagint texts. Interlinear or the full MT-LXX Parallel Tool).
  • A new TEXT Search command allows for cross-textual searching.
  • New In-App Tutorials
  • Highlighting Enhancements:
  • Highlight buttons appear when selecting text in a Text or Tool allowing access to recent highlights, erase highlights, and the Highlight Styles popover.
  • A new floating Highlight palette can be accessed from the menu bar or from an icon on the Toolbar.
  • Live Highlighting modes:
  • Highlighter (add a highlight by dragging the cursor on the text)
  • Pen (add graphic highlighting elements, such as circles, lines, boxes, etc.)
  • Live Whiteboard Highlighting (mimics Pen Highlighting, except all drawings are never saved, for easy temporary markup of a text.
  • Eraser (erase a highlight or portion of a highlight by dragging the cursor on the text).
  • Automatically generate a Graphical Construct search.
  • New Speech Synthesizer:
  • Accordance now takes advantage of modern macOS system voices.
  • New preferences for Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic voices, including separate voice rate preferences.
  • User Tool Improvements:
  • Ability to Import PDF files including automatic verse reference hyperlinks.
  • Added Small Caps to the styles supported by User Tools.
  • Easy Install & Check for Updates enhancements:
  • A search field has been added.
  • Option to hide unwanted items.
  • The Easy Install and Update lists can now be sorted by clicking on the header row.
  • Atlas Enhancements:
  • Added "Auto," a new 3D Map generation feature to automatically pick the amount of vertical exaggeration.
  • Library Enhancements:
  • Visual updates.
  • The Library Filter section has been replaced by a Library Filter pop-up button.
  • Searching Improvements:
  • In a Tool tab, added the ability to search all fields of the same language at one time.
  • Significant updates to multi-monitor support.
  • Updated Help files.
Version 13 Updates
  • Added message for Tool Browser search with no results - same message given in Library.
  • Restored ability to navigate to the last hit by using GoTo entry with a verse/book beyond the range of the hits.
  • Added basic edit text right click menu/actions when editing Stack Edit text items.
  • A User Tool problem with a pasted Location URL would prevent updating. For now, Accordance will detect the hyperlink style and convert the color to black. A future rev will update the User Tool to extract the links and build a proper hyperlink.
  • Updated German localization
  • Improved Unicode Tool Support
  • Bug fixes.
  • Updated Help files
  • Released 10/05/2022
  • Added [Style *] search support in Tools.
  • Now Accordance will maintain the “Enable” state of Live Highlight when closing the Highlight palette during an Accordance session.
  • Minor Japanese, French, and German Localization updates.
  • Bug fixes.
  • Added the option of hiding the German glosses for the MT-ETCBC Texts in the Instant Details.
  • Hebrew texts that support Letters searching are now displayed in the drop-down list for the “TEXT” command.
  • Updated help files.
  • Bug fixes.
  • Updated help files.
  • Bug fixes.
  • A new application icon and splash screen for version 13.3
  • When search for Greek or Hebrew words in the Research tab, results in unicode Texts/Tools will now be displayed.
  • Updated help files.
  • Bug fixes.
  • Italian Localization updates for 13.2.
  • Updated help files.
  • Bug fixes.
  • Updated help files.
  • Bug fixes.

Searching Enhancements:

Text Display Enhancements

Parallel Texts improvements

  • Parallel Text panes can now combine three Texts in the pane view.
  • Added support for the display of parallel Text modules with books with other corpora besides the Text’s primary corpusClosed Collection of writings.
  • If the Search Text has books with other corpora, the pull-down menus for each pane and for the submenu for Add Parallel>Texts now show all parallel texts for each corpus present in the Search Text. The extra texts for corpora that are not the main corpus of the search text are listed below texts with the main corpus separated by a divider in the menu.
  • Added the option to include alternate texts from other corpora when adding Alternate Texts to a pane. These extra alternative texts are added as a submenu in the menu item “Other Texts”.
  • Alternative Texts panes are able to remove individual alternative texts in a pane.

Expanded Localization

  • Added initial support of Localized Hebrew and Greek Glosses, and Parallel Section Heading titles. Localizers are still working to complete the supporting information.
  • Added support for localized Topic titles, including searching for them, and their word list. This also has a change where the (TOPIC) command has UTF8 characters, like already done for LINK, HITS, etc.
  • Section Headings are localized in the Info Pane, if pulling from the Outlines module (i.e. no Section Headings in the text from the publisher).
  • The Parallel Section Heading title is localized in the Info Pane.
  • The Hebrew and Greek Glosses is localized in Instant Details.

Scrolled content improvements:

  • Mouseover highlighting now works between tied tabs, instead of only between panes in the same tab. This applies to tied Text and Text Browser tabs.

Updated Find/Replace features

  • Added support for a simple Find dialog box to find text within the immediate context of Search results in the following tab or panes: Research, Text, Tool, User Note, User Tool, Paper, or Stack.
  • Significant redesign of the Find/Replace dialog into a floating window, with Find and Replace modes, optimized controls, and language entry button.
  • A Find result is displayed in a yellow rectangle with drop shadow rather than the normal selection color.
  • Various optimizations of the Find algorithm to better support Edit windows with mixed encodings.
  • New keyboard shortcuts to change the language of the Find or Replace fields.

Major upgrades to the PDF Import Parser:

  • Much better compatibility and support.
  • Fully cross-platform code, so PDFs imported on either Mac or Windows should look the same.

Other Enhancements

  • Added new Safe Mode dialog option "Remove unused settings files" that will clean up many files left in the Accordance Preference folders.
  • Added tutorial support for dragging and dropping items around the Set Analysis Display dialog and a large variety of construct actions.
  • Accordance is now a Universal app (M1/Apple Silicone/ARM).
  • Minimum version is macOS 10.9.
  • Updated help files.
  • Bug fixes.
  • Improved support for MT-ETCBC if HMT-W4 isn’t installed.
  • Added support for searching for SUFFIX pronom on the updated MT-ETCBC text that specifies gender/number/person. To maintain support in old version, the search can be for either P, 1, 2, or 3.
  • Updated Hebrew Roots to include new ETCBC suffix roots (all "nn" roots).
  • Updated help files.
  • Bug fixes.
  • French Timeline localization completed.
  • Library context menu items:
  • The "Export Selected Data" is now dimmed if a text is selected, since this option only works with Tools.
  • When nothing is selected, the option now reads "Export All Data", to indicate that bibliography data will be exported for ALL tools where it is available.
  • The "Print" and "Copy Picture" options will now be dimmed unless nothing is selected, to indicate that these options apply to the Library as a whole, not to selected items.
  • Updated the rendering of the Syntax Tree pane for the Andersen-Forbes Hebrew database to not draw any lines to the Qere words in brackets.
  • Changed preference name "Insert citation as footnote" to read "Insert citation only as footnote", to help clarify that no citation will appear when pasting into apps that don’t support RTF footnotes.
  • Changed Help menu link from "Podcasts" to "Videos" to reflect current training resources.
  • Spanish, French, Italian, and Chinese updates
  • Updated help files.
  • Bug fixes.
  • Live click now works in the Alignment pane for verse lookup, lexicon lookup, and word usage.
  • Added support for the analytics of a negative Intertext search using the Text command, like ברא@-[LXX1 ποιεω]
  • When clicking on a Hebrew Research Pie chart section, the resulting search will now be the same (grammatical vs literal) as the source research. Because of this, the “Letters” and “Flex” fields will now work in Accordance URLs.
  • Added Accord URL support for opening a Syntax database and optionally scrolling to a verse:
  • Syntax is the "study" action with "syntaxClosed The analysis of the function of each word in a clause or phrase" as the type. (e.g. accord://study/syntax?MT-AFD.syntax#Psa._10:3)
  • Links can be generated with a right-click in the Syntax pane to link to the verse clicked inside.
  • Added support for performing MT-LXX actions on new MT-AFD text using the TEXT command.
  • Added support, when displaying Syntax results in the Analysis, to account for both bracket type and subType, distinguishing between forms like P and Pc.
  • Tutorial categories in the tutorial menu are alphabetized based on the selected interface language.
  • It is now possible to copy information from Accordance error messages using +c. The text of the error message does not need to be selected for this to work. The copied text will include debug information which should help developers identify the circumstances that lead to the error message.
  • French and Chinese Localization updates.
  • Updated help files.
  • Bug fixes.
  • Added support for the Greek Crasis in the Construct tab palette.
  • Tutorials and Expanded Timeline have been Localized for Spanish and Korean.
  • Updated help files.
  • Bug fixes.
  • Added the option of showing word glosses in the Syntax Tree pane, using the respective lexical formClosed The canonical (dictionary) form of a word glosses for the Holmstedt and ETCBC syntax.
  • Added a new Parenthesis option when drawing a highlight on a Text or Tool.
  • Added support for a new form of Greek Crasis searching, parsing, and analysis by making Crasis a new part of speech for Greek.
  • Users with more than 50 Highlight styles in their current Highlight file will now have the “Symbols” menu appear at the top of the Right Click -> Highlight menu, for easier access.
  • Updated help files.
  • Bug fixes.
  • When searching the Library by Author, a Tool opened from the Library will be opened to the first article written by the author.
  • Initial implementation of French and Spanish localized Tutorials.
  • When copying as a citation, with "Include ‘accord://' location URL" selected in the Citation or Bibliography settings, the hidden link to the Accordance URL will now be blue and underlined.
  • Two new tutorials: Opening the Timeline and Amplifying to the Timeline.
  • Improved amplifying to the Timeline when the selected text has a wide range:
  • If the amplified items (such as "John") span more than 500 years, or are in non-adjacent regions, a dialog is displayed allowing the user to choose which items to add to the Timeline.
  • Timeline items show their localized name, if appropriate.
  • If there are multiple times with the same name (such as "Titus") then the item class is also shown.
  • The “Dropbox Sync” toolbar button is now just “Sync”.
  • Repeat author search in opened tool.
  • Updated help files.
  • Bug fixes.
  • Updated help files.
  • Bug fixes.
  • New Targums WordMap feature:
  • Targums WordMap Text pane displays alignments between the HMT-W4 and Targum Texts.
    Note: Requires grammatically-tagged Hebrew Texts and Aramaic Targums.
  • The Targums WordMap Text pane supports Instant Details, cross highlighting, triple click, and text selection.
  • The Targums WordMap is accessed from the Library, or as a Parallel Pane.
  • The Targums WordMap is found in the "Databases" Library section, which was previously named "Syntax & Diagram".
  • Amplify to Website
  • Added the ability to amplifyClosed To select words or a reference and search for the selection in the text or tool of your choice. You can select the resource in the Library or Amplify menus. A triple-click is a shortcut which amplifies to the top tool of the relevant category. to a website from the Right-Click menu, Amplify menu, and Toolbar Button.
  • Items in the new "Website" menu can be customized through the External Websites preference page.
  • Default External Websites list includes a set of default search engines and free access resources.
  • Interface Enhancements
  • Added an option to the Right-Click "Look Up" menu to open the Instant Details pop-up (helpful for users on Windows tablets).
  • Added a new General Theme: Grayscale.
  • TEXT Command Search Improvements
  • Added a "Show Characters…" option to the bottom of the TEXT command list, allowing use of the Character Palette.
  • The TEXT command can now limit search results based on the number of words in the match.
  • Intertext Analysis:
  • The Set Analysis Display for Key Number Texts uses the same interface as the Analysis display for grammatically-tagged Texts, with columns and a palette.
  • The Intertext Select dialog works from the Analysis Graph tab or the Set Analysis display dialog.
  • Searching Improvements
  • When Live Click is set to open a Research Tab in a custom group, an "=" will be inserted before the reference if holding the Opt key. This forces a search for the exact reference instead of a verse range.
  • Added "Recent Modules" to the list of items on the Amplify menu.
  • Added new Text Comparison option to ignore homograph differences, such as ברא_2 vs ברא_1.
  • Syntax database Improvements
  • All Syntax dialog boxes and Preferences with the item label “Maximum search depth” have been changed to “Default depth” to support the new flexibility of the depth item for Syntax searching.
  • The interface for handling the depth of searching in a clause (or in a phrase) in the Construct tab has been changed as follows:
  • Instead of a single depth for the entire clause, the depth can be set for individual items within the clause.
  • In the clause dialogs, the depth setting is now the default depth setting. Any new items added under the clause will use the current default, which can be changed after items are added.
  • The individual depths are displayed as a single number above each column. This number can be changed by use of a floating pop-up menu which appears when the cursor is near the depth numbers along the bottom of the clause item.
  • Added support for setting the individual column depths when pressing a number on a selected clause or phrase item.
  • If the search depth option to “Allow hits within sub-clauses” is off or disabled, the depth numbers will appear red rather than black.
  • Saving and recalling the new option for individual depths is supported.
  • Added a new Syntax Tree display dialog
  • User Content Improvements
  • Added a new feature: "Modify Entire User Note/Tool":
  • This opens a dialog that allows for a batch application of a variety of style changes, such as scaling all font sizes, removing styling, etc.
  • It has a default shortcut of Cmd-Opt-U and appears in the Selection menu.
  • Papers
  • Add a new Paper item as the parent by pressing Shift+Opt+Return.
  • User Tools
  • Pictures are now included when importing a PDF to a User Tool.
  • User Notes
  • Added a preference to auto-save User Notes when the edit window is closed.
  • Easy Install & Check for Updates Improvements
  • Updated Easy Install with a new “Download All” button.
  • Importing/Exporting Content Improvements
  • A new Web & Text Browser preference allows interleaving of verses when exporting.
  • A new Export preference allows drag-and-dropped content from a Text or a Tool to be formatted using the appropriate citation or bibliography format settings.
  • Timeline
  • Added a Report button on Timeline item popovers to open a report for the timespan of the selected item.
  • Added the ability to amplify to the Timeline by verse reference.
  • Added 5 new Timeline background colors and 1 new Timeline item color, so all possible options can have a unique color.
  • Miscellaneous
  • The Library Action Menu now has the option to display the location of a User Tool, User Note, Stack, Paper, or Workspace in the Finder. This action can also be performed by right-clicking on the User Item.
  • Added a new Export preference to preserve original diacriticals when not exporting all characters with Unicode format.
  • Added a Dark Mode skin for the Accordance Help interface.
  • Location URLs in a Text citation are now embedded in the verse reference.
  • Updated help files
  • Bug fixes.
  • Reference Lists now support non-biblical Texts.
  • Speed enhancement when performing KEY command searches in the Research Tab using transliterated words instead of a Key Number.
  • The Wasla is now automatically stripped from Arabic letters when performing a Word search.
  • Updated help files
  • Bug fixes.
  • Targum Enhancements:
  • Mouseover highlighting has been added between Hebrew Texts and all Targums.
  • TEXT searches of Hebrew Texts and all Targums are now supported.
  • The architecture for saved Research tabs has been updated, so Research tabs saved in 13.0.3 or later will not be compatible with earlier versions of Accordance.
  • In Easy Install, the download sizes are no longer displayed for installed items, since they can’t be downloaded.
  • Dark Mode support has been added for the Diagram Pane, Syntax Tree Pane, and Stack.
  • Unicode Arabic search results will always highlight the entire word (space to space) rather than just a portion of the word.
  • Keyboard Shortcuts have been added to the Preference Search.
  • Usage, a new user metric, has been added to the About Accordance dialog. Usage shows the percent of activeClosed The application, window, tab, or other screen element which is currently being used; sometimes called the "front" or "frontmost" screen element time in Accordance over the prior 6 months.
  • Updated Korean and Japanese localizations.
  • Updated help files
  • Bug fixes.
  • Added the ability to insert words/lex/keynumbers/roots directly inside the TEXT command dialog.
  • In Easy Install, bundled resources show the number of items in the bundle that have been hidden by the user.
  • Preliminary support for localizations interacting with tutorials (primarily in menu items).
  • Updated help files
  • Bug fixes.
  • Added ETCBC support for MT-LXX interlinear and cross-highlighting.
  • Updated help files
  • Bug fixes.