Highlighting
When I apply a highlighting style to all the hits in a search, the highlight extends beyond the selected word. For example, if in this sentence I want to highlight the word “sentence”, it will highlight “sentence I”….selecting the space and first letter of the next word. It does this for all the hits in the search.
Is this a known issue and is there a fix?
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What specific version of Accordance and operating system? Have you tried with other highlight files?
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Sorry, I'm not very experienced with this. I have not tried it with another highlight file, though I must confess I don't know what a highlight file is.
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You can go to Window>New Highlight file and see if that works.
We also need to know if you're on Mac or Windows and which version of Mac or Windows.
We also need to know what specific version of Accordance you're on. You can find it on “About Accordance” the Accordance menu (Mac) or the Help menu (Windows).
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In my experience, apply highlighting to hits results can have some unexpected quirks such as David Hart notes. I too have seen the highlighting omit or extend by a character or two. My suspicion is that buried in the coding are some characters that are either ignored or included by the search, e.g., periods, accents… It would be great if it worked perfectly, but for now, I've had to manually clean up highlighting.
The other option, to use your example, instead of searching for “sentence,” search for “sentenc”
See what that does.0
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