Alignment issues with Berit Olam Commentary series

[Lorinda H. M. Hoover]

This is not a bug report, but a report of a systemic issue with a module.  I'm guessing it's not Mac specific, but since I use my Mac more than the Office Windows machine, I'm reporting it here.  I know about "report a correction," and have done that with at least one use-case, but "report a correction" is not a good avenue for reporting more wide-spread issues with a module, as it is always tied to a specific location in the module.

 

To the issue at hand: The 1 Kings and Genesis sections of Berit Olam do not line up properly with the Biblical text when in a parallel pane, or when it is in its own tab and tab-tied to a text text or search tab.  I first ran into this in 1 Kings.  One place it is especially egregious is 1 Kings 11.  When the top of the text tab is set to 1 Kings 11, Berit Olam shows the bibliography for the section on 1 Kings 11, not the commentary text itself.  

 

Genesis 1 links/ties to a later discussion about Genesis 1:1-2:3 "in the Tradition," rather than to the beginning of the commentary on the passage.  I haven't looked more fully at line ups in Genesis.

 

On a quick cursory check, the other book commentaries in Berit Olam appear to scroll/link/tie correctly.

[Mark Allison]

Yes, that's definitely an issue with the module itself and is easily fixed when the Accordance team has a chance to look at it.

Sadly, I haven't seen any content updates in weeks.

[Dr. Nathan Parker]

Definitely send to "Report Corrections" and link to this thread. They'll know to work on it.

[Lorinda H. M. Hoover]

11 hours ago, Mark Allison said:

Yes, that's definitely an issue with the module itself and is easily fixed when the Accordance team has a chance to look at it.

Sadly, I haven't seen any content updates in weeks.

Over the last few years, I've often thought that Accordance should hire one or more people whose dedicated task is to do module corrections. I understand why the corrections get pushed to the back burner when those correcting older modules are the same people developing new ones.  But a lot of the corrections (maybe not these specifically) feel to me like ones that don't need someone with the full skill set to develop modules.  For example, the plethora of linking errors in the JPS Commentaries strike me as something anyone who does "hidden" links in User Tools could probably learn to handle.  If I were working part time (like I was when my children were small) or if I were retired (not for several more years yet), it's something I'd be thrilled to be hired and trained to do.

[Dr. Nathan Parker]

I'm going to speak with our team to see what the progress is on corrections (even inching the needle forward a little bit). I had considered getting into working on corrections myself, but I'm not trained enough in module development to pull it off, and the time I would need to invest in learning it would take me away from projects better aligned to my current skillset.