Versions, Editable Tags, and System-Wide Font Size

Versioned notes and editable part-of-speech tags are live today, as is a less-intrusive font size control.

Versioned Notes

Accidentally deleting or overwriting a note or a Bible study is no longer a problem, as long as you catch it within a week. Select the new "Versions" checkbox in a notes panel or in the study text panel, and view the past seven days of changes. See the help on the Chapters page and on the Study Text page for more details, and remember that any associated PDFs might need to be regenerated after you go back to an old version.

If the version you're looking for isn't there because it's more than a week old, consider your generated PDFs and TXTs under the main "Study" area; you might have generated a document of that study before you deleted or overwrote its raw text. If you have lost it for good there might still be a chance it can be recovered from the site's disaster recovery backups, but a special request like that would likely be billable. Use the contact page if you have any questions.

Editable Tags

With the general availability of the site this past April, part-of-speech tagging worked functionally but had some incorrect content. In other words, tags could be used, but some of them were wrong. An automated tagger had made correct guesses for most of the words, but it was always known that people would have to correct the rest. Users were invited to contribute their corrections, and as of today this is easier.

In the Concordance page, under Results Options, select "Edit Tags," in the Search Phrase enter the single word you want to fix, show all its occurrences, and finally select an occurrence with an incorrect tag and fix the tag right there. See the help on that page for more details. When you want to submit a batch of fixes go to the POS Tags page, open the new "Edited Tags" area, and copy and paste the listed corrections into the contact form. If they're approved and merged into the site's tagged Bibles, you'll be notified and your edited tags will be automatically deleted.

If you don't submit your changes (or if they're not approved) then you'll still see your changes when you use the Chapters and Concordance tools, but they won't work for searching. This is explained more in the help on the Concordance page. The plan for the future is to allow you to search on your unapproved tags, but today the main push is getting tags corrected and merged so everyone has an accurate tagged Bible, and so the study backend can begin its move into the next phase of Bible annotation after POS tags, called parse trees. See the Natural Language Processing section of the About pages to learn more about the long-term plans for Bible annotation.

System-Wide Font Size

A large-print Bible is easier to read, and a large-print Bible study site is, too! You've always been able to change the font size of each page of the site separately for each device you use, but today you can also decide on a fixed size for all pages and all your devices, at the same time getting rid of the font size buttons at the top of every page. On the Settings page read about and then use the new "Screen Font Size" setting. Also, the page-by-page controls are now collapsed by default, so, even if you don't use the new system-wide size, you still get a bit of vertical real estate back on each page.