Improve the HIghlighting system
I think it was after Accordance 12 that accordance ruined the great old highlighting system, so easy to use & with beautiful results. At this point, I think the best was to improve highlighting would be to enable font color changing. So if one wanted to highlight for some topic, one could choose a color & not actually highlight, but change the font color for selected passages. I particularly would like to be able to do this for Lexicons, as BDAG is hard to read, as everything is compacted together, a necessity in old days for getting it all in one volume. But nowadays with electronic books, you don't have to worry about it fitting in one volume. So I like to color the main divisions on a word into blue font; color meanings in magenta. I wish I could edit the entire BDAG, instead of having to do it word by word by copy & paste into a word processor for each separate word to make it legible. Ideally one would be able to put the Accordance BDAG into selectable displays; so one display would cut out all the non-Bible examples which one may find in long lists now inside parentheses, and put each main meaning category in separate paragraphs, something like this:
σημαίνω (σῆμα ‘sign’, Hom.+; LXX)
impf. ἐσήμαινον; fut. σημανῶ LXX; 1 aor. ἐσήμανα (Judg 7:21; pf. 1 pl. σεσημάγκαμεν .
Pass.: aor. 3 sg. ἐσημάνθη LXX; pf. 3 sg. σεσήμανται 2 Macc 2:1.
1. to make known, report, communicate (LXX)
τὶ someth. indicate charges Ac 25:27.
τινί to someone Rv 1:1.
2. to intimate someth. respecting the future, indicate, suggest, intimate
(cp. Appian προσημαίνειν τὰ μέλλοντα of divine prediction of the future)
w. acc. and inf. foll. Ac 11:28.
—Also of speech that simply offers a vague suggestion of what is to happen
(Heraclitus w. ref. to the Delphic oracle οὔτε λέγει, οὔτε κρύπτει, ἀλλὰ σημαίνει)
w. an indirect question foll. J 12:33; 18:32; 21:19.
3. to provide an explanation for someth. that is enigmatic, mean, signify
B 15:4, in ref. to a passage of Scripture
ἡ γὰρ ἡμέρα παῤ αὐτῷ σημαίνει χίλια ἔτη for a day with the Lord means a thousand years (s. Ps. 89:4).
—s.v. σῆμα.
This last 3 was included since it mentioned Ps. 89:4. And I used color in my own word processor, though I don't know if I can do this in this forum word processor.
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