How to adjust the colums in the Biblical Terms window

Question

In most programs, we can tweak the width of colums as needed when grabbing the right location somewhere near the top (often the mouse pointer changes for visual feedback) and just sliding right or left.

I normally show a target language and three other so called Comparative Texts, so having four columns in the lower part of the Biblical Terms window.

But they always spread out evenly, while I need them in different sizes. I might be too clumsy with my mouse. If I get confirmation that for the present version of PT8 we cannot slide, then I will submit a feature request.

My reasons for needing different columns:

Different languages are showing different complexity. For an African language with extended alphabet plus plenty diacritics, I read better with bigger font - but need more space that way.

Same for Greek, can never be big enough to really see all that detail.

English can go smaller, because my brain can do instant word recognition.

French could also go smaller, or stay on default.

I am using two screens, so one Comparative Text always gets chopped: Typically I put English and the first 1 1/2 letters end up on my left screen and the rest on the right-hand screen. A real bother.

Any ideas?

Anybody else would +1 such a feature request, if presently the columns are indeed locked?

Thank you.

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Answer 1

Tim:

If I get confirmation that for the present version of PT8 we cannot slide

I’ll confirm that you can not change the size of columns in the Biblical Terms bottom pane. This also applies to a bunch of other views (Wordlist, Parallel Passages, Project Progress, etc.). These are all HTML views and letting the user resize columns in HTML is complicated/difficult so we have never done it.

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Comments

Thank you for precise confirmation. So I can stop trying.

And submit a request, once I find the time. Interestingly, nobody else has confirmed this need.

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Fixed. The column widths are adjustable in Paratext 9 (tested 9.5).

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He was wanting the columns in the bottom pane of the Biblical Terms tool (having multiple comparative texts) to be adjustable. They are still not adjustable in 9.5.