PT8 Scripture Range in Wordlist hidden under "Choose verses"

Question

I wouldn’t look for a range of books under “Choose verses”. It is somehow counter-intuitive:-(

Answer 1

ChrDre:

I wouldn’t look for a range of books under “Choose verses”. It is somehow counter-intuitive

It may be named badly, but in 7.6+, the Wordlist tool and Parallel Passages are now using the new filtering that was put into the Notes List window and the Biblical Terms tool and it all uses the same naming convention. All saved verse/book filters will show up in all these tools.

Answer 2

ChrDre:

It would be nice to get the option back in Wordlist tool to set a range of books, rather than just “all books” or “current book”. If you have the whole Bible drafted, and a substantial number of books fully checked and want to publish those, it is really useful to have the option to spell-check those books together.

Yes! … and to be able to save that list of fully-checked books, so that if you do a check somewhere else on, say, all the NT books, you haven’t lost your selection of, say, 14 books that you’d then have to again manually pick by holding down the Control key.

Comments

wdavidhj:

and to be able to save that list

I’m really sorry: this feature does exist in 7.6, in the “new filter” referred to by @anon291708:

anon291708:

in 7.6+, the Wordlist tool and Parallel Passages are now using the new filtering that was put into the Notes List window and the Biblical Terms tool

I had even used it to save my list of consultant-checked books, but I’d forgotten that I’d done that. Being able to name and save sets of books is excellent!

My only comment would be that the box and buttons are very small, and tucked away in the top left-hand corner – which is consistent with the save-named-project-list feature that three or four relevant dialog boxes use – maybe they would be more visible in the lower left, under the other selection buttons?

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wdavidhj:

maybe they would be more visible in the lower left, under the other selection buttons?

Well, it was put there to match existing, similar functionality in the File > Open Project and any Comparative Texts dialog boxes so anyone familiar with those would recognize it as being a similar feature.

Of course, people may not have noticed those either over the past 7+ years, so it may have been a bad decision.

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anon291708:

Of course, people may not have noticed those either over the past 7+ years

I’ve only just started using the save-named-project-list feature. I now find it useful for sets of projects to S/R and sets to include in a Text Collection Window (I used to have everything I might ever use in that window, but it made PT slow whenever I moved from the current verse).

I really think I’d spent years either not noticing or ignoring the Save box lurking in the corner. Perhaps a title above it could also help point out that you it’s not just for choosing a selection (and a user might think, Selections? I don’t have any of those), but it’s also for defining/saving them.

Answer 3

You did quite a serious edit on that post! I guess you’re implying they’ve moved that feature to a button called Choose Verses, right?