Daniel Saunders Posted May 19, 2021 Share Posted May 19, 2021 I love the Accordance services - especially the Insert Verses tools. I use them all the time. The only problem I run into is when the divine name appears in the text. In versions where small caps is used, LORD is inserted as Lord. This means I need to double check and correct the formatting. I realise the service/api is probably not able to format with small caps (that feature isn't available in many programs) - but I'd find it very helpful if the Name was inserted in all caps, for translations that follow this convention. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Weaks Posted May 19, 2021 Share Posted May 19, 2021 (edited) Daniel, Glad the Services are useful to you. (Apple is now trying to call them "Quick Actions".) This is a limitation of Apple's underlying AppleEvent technology that the Services rely on. They store the text string but not any formatting information. Hence, formatting markers such as bold or small caps don't get transferred. I can provide you a tweak to the Service that would change any occurrence of "Lord" to "LORD", in all-caps (not small caps). Problem is, it would be non-discerning, analyzing only the text string, not the original formatting. So, if a translation has a non-divine-name use of "Lord" or "Lord's" that has a capital "L", it will all-cap it as well. Of course, this would be rare. Attached is the new Service. It has a second action in it that simply replaces every "Lord" with "LORD". It's named "Insert Verses LORD". Let me know if you encounter a problem. Acc - Insert Verses LORD.workflow.zip Edited May 19, 2021 by Joe Weaks attached file 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 19, 2021 Share Posted May 19, 2021 Joe, it might be a good idea to post that to the Exchange, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Weaks Posted May 20, 2021 Share Posted May 20, 2021 That's great for someone to put it on the exchange. And, if there's ever a Services post that I don't see, feel free to tag me. I try and keep up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 20, 2021 Share Posted May 20, 2021 3 minutes ago, Joe Weaks said: That's great for someone to put it on the exchange. Well, I meant for you to submit it to the exchange... 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Weaks Posted May 20, 2021 Share Posted May 20, 2021 I know you did. 😃 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Saunders Posted May 21, 2021 Author Share Posted May 21, 2021 Thanks Joe! I've installed it and will give it a run through. I think you're right that's going to be pretty rare to get a 'false hit' with your work around. I'm guessing a more robust solution would require modifying the output from the API - but that's a much bigger job. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabian Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 I'm interested too. As the old Services doesn't work anymore by me on Big Sur. But should not the Services be updated on https://www.accordancebible.com/Accordance-Installers/#Services too? Fabian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Weaks Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 Fabian, the Accordance Services work. What is the problem you're encountering? Are you using Microsoft Word? The current version of Word has broken Services… any text replacing Service, not just Accordance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabian Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 Hello Joe I was not able to Search for Words, Search with Options and View Verses. Unfortunately I have deleted the error messages. Now under 10.5 Beta all works again. I had then deleted all Services and installed it again without success. So I deleted it again. Now under 11.5 I installed it again and it works flawlessly. And now I can't reduplicate the error. Thanks Fabian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Weaks Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 Glad you gave it another shot. Glad it's working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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