{"id":115,"date":"2014-08-05T14:43:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T19:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/?p=115"},"modified":"2017-08-18T15:37:48","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T20:37:48","slug":"different-bible-text-display-modes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/different-bible-text-display-modes\/115\/","title":{"rendered":"Different Bible text display modes"},"content":{"rendered":"

In its default configuration, the SwordSearcher Bible panel shows text in a columnar format along with a “study margin” for fast access to verse-based material within the chapter.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes you will want to quiet things down a bit. For example, during devotional reading it can be advantageous to switch off the margin area to devote more visual space to the Bible text, or change to paragraph format for a different reading flow.<\/p>\n

There are two helpful toolbar icons in the Bible panel that can be used to change the display format with one click. There is a button for margin<\/strong> toggle<\/strong><\/em> and one for paragraph mode toggle<\/em><\/strong>, as you can see in this screen shot:<\/p>\n

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Bible panel toolbar buttons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Clicking the margin toggle button switches the margin area off and on.<\/p>\n

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Bible margin is turned off.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And the paragraph mode toggle button changes the display format between column and paragraph:<\/p>\n

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Bible panel in paragraph mode<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(In paragraph mode, the Bible margin is always hidden.)<\/p>\n

Column-verse display has been the standard format in Bible publishing for well over 400 years because of the ease of verse lookup and how the format affords study, cross-referencing,\u00a0and\u00a0memorization.\u00a0Paragraph formatting can be a nice change when you want to set aside all of the non-Bible text and focus on the flow or story<\/em> of the chapter.<\/p>\n

And for those looking for something in-between, SwordSearcher offers a special “verse per line in paragraph mode” that can be useful, which looks like this:<\/p>\n

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Paragraph mode with “Newline every verse” option enabled.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This option is called “Newline every verse in Paragraph Mode” and forces each verse to appear on a new line even in paragraph display mode. This has the effect of turning Paragraph Mode into an ultra-lightweight text mode hiding the verse widgets and Bible margin while maintaining a column format for the Scripture content. (This option was added in version 7.1.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

To enable this type of paragraph mode, go to File, Preferences and Settings, and select it on the Text Display Options tab:<\/p>\n

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Preferences and Settings for special paragraph mode<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There is a companion video for this blog post here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In its default configuration, the SwordSearcher Bible panel shows text in a columnar format along with a “study margin” for fast access to verse-based material within the chapter. Watch the video (1:52) Sometimes you will want to quiet things down a bit. For example, during devotional reading it can be advantageous to switch off the … Continue reading “Different Bible text display modes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[20,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}