What do red vertical lines represent?
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What do red vertical lines such as those below indicate? They don't seem to mark phrases or important words, but appear to be randomly scattered about. There is also apparently random light blue highlighting and dark blue underlining.
Kristin asked about something similar in another post, but there it was cantillation marks in the Hebrew text. Here, they don't appear in the UBS5 Greek text, just in the English texts.
PS: Just before posting this query, I noticed that “Compare” was ticked (that's the “Com…” in the top-right corner of the picture). It looks like the highlighting shows where English versions use different words, the red vertical lines show where words are ‘omitted’ in one version relative to another version, and underlines show those words in the other version.
Some of these are just English word orderings, such as “the Lord's brothers” (NIV) vs “the brothers of the Lord” (ESV) in 1 Cor 9:5, where “Lord's” is marked as missing in ESV and underlined in NIV, and the other way around for “of the Lord”.
If I unclick “Compare”, all three types of marks disappear.
I'll still post this as it might be helpful regarding a useful feature that can appear puzzling at first glance.
There also doesn't seem to be a topic heading for this kind of “I don't understand this user interface feature” question, where it's not necessarily a bug. Perhaps a new “User Interface” category can be added to the community forum.
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Correct! This is the compare texts feature, and it is describing exactly that you're seeing. This will make for a good training video we will add to our training library in the future.
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