Customize · Practice Views
Make every reading work the way you learn.
Build the Hebrew, supporting material, playback, and page arrangement that help you practice. Every change saves itself, so your next reading opens the same way.
Change it once. It stays changed.
Customize is not a form you submit. Every choice changes the reading immediately and saves itself to the setup you’re in, while Practice Views keep a different way of practicing apart when you want one.
Select Customize
Open the palette from the reading toolbar. The reading stays visible while you work.
Make a change
Every adjustment takes effect immediately and saves itself to the setup you’re in.
Select Done when you are ready
Done closes Customize. Your changes are already saved, and your next reading opens the same way.
Save as New View for another way to practice
Choose it from the menu beside Done to keep a different setup apart from your defaults.
Done only closes the panel. Your changes are already saved.
Changes save themselves to the setup you’re in.
The setup you choose stays chosen across your readings and devices, and keeps every change you make in it.
Default Display Settings
Your own settings, saved to your account. Most people only ever need these.
A Practice View
A slate for another way to practice. Changes you make in it stay in it.
A bookmark with its own setup
A bookmark that opens with What I’m Seeing Now keeps its own setup, and your changes save to it.
What happens next
Close Customize
Your changes are already saved to the setup you’re in.
Switch Practice Views
The reading changes to the one you choose, and your next changes save to it.
Open another reading
It opens in the setup you’re in, on any device.
Open a shared reading
It opens the way the sender set it up, and your changes last while you’re there.
The reading
Build the text you need in front of you.
Start with the same words and shape them around the task: learn from a fully marked text, transition between two columns, or practice from STaM as though you were at the scroll.
Use one or two Hebrew columns and resize the split.
Choose the layout and visible marks independently for each column.
Tune text size, line spacing, trope spacing, surrounding verses, and verse indicators.
Use phrase colors and tracked-word highlighting as visual landmarks.
Every part of the practice surface is adjustable.
The palette is organized by what changes, but the choices work together as one reading setup.
Text and layout
Choose one or two columns, adjust their widths, and combine Torah Lines, Continuous Text, verse stacks, vowels, trope, or STaM independently.
Learning aids
Tune the font, spacing, verse numbers, trope colors, phrase highlights, surrounding verses, and the tracked-word color.
Supporting material
Show the translation below each passage and the transliteration under each word, and place either one, or the sheet music, beside the reading or below it.
Playback and page
Control the melody, accent, voice, speed, pitch, looping, auto-scroll, toolbar position, and sheet-music following.
Translation · Transliteration · Sheet music
Put supporting material where it actually helps.
Inline aids and separate panels solve different problems, so they do not compete. Keep a pronunciation hint under each word while showing a full translation beside the reading, or put sheet music below while the Hebrew remains full width.
Show translation below each passage without giving up a separate panel.
Show transliteration under either Hebrew column and elsewhere at the same time.
Choose the content, size, position, and scroll behavior of the side and bottom panels.
Resize sheet-music staffs and optionally place Hebrew under the notes.
Practice Views
A slate for each way you practice.
A Practice View is a slate with its own reading layout, supporting panels, and page arrangement. Changes save themselves to whichever view you’re in, so you can keep different ways of practicing apart without rebuilding the screen.
With a subscription, build your own views, one for each way you practice or each student you teach.
Save as New View, then rename, duplicate, or delete your views.
Choose a view and your readings open in it, on any device, until you choose another.
Switch back to your defaults at any time; each view keeps its own changes.
Most people only ever need their defaults.
Practice Views are there for the day one way of practicing isn’t enough.
Default Display Settings
Your own settings, saved to your account. Your readings use them whenever you’re not in a Practice View.
A Practice View
A named slate with its own layout. Its melodies, voice, and other traditions follow your defaults until you change one in the view.
Traditions
See where a view differs from your defaults.
A view follows your defaults for melodies, accent, voice, pitch, speed, transliteration style, and phrase colors until you change one inside it. Customize says where a view or a shared reading differs, in a note at the top of each section.
A note names the difference: “This view uses the Chabad melody for Esther. Your defaults use Jacobson.”
Change a melody inside a view and the line under it reads “Changed for” and the view’s name.
Use Everywhere makes the view’s choice part of your defaults.
Match Defaults puts the view back on your defaults.
Settings
Manage your views from Settings, too.
Practice Views has its own Practice group in Settings. Open Default Display Settings or any view in a reading to edit it with Customize, and choose whether changes save automatically.
Each view lists what it sets apart from your defaults.
Edit in a Reading opens this week’s reading in that setup, with Customize open.
New Practice View starts from your defaults.
Turn off Save changes automatically to save by hand instead.
The practice session
Let the page follow the way you are practicing.
Customization continues after the text is arranged. Tune playback, tracked words, scrolling, sheet-music following, and the toolbar so the interface supports the moment instead of getting in the way.
Adjust speed and pitch, then choose the unit you want to hear.
Loop a selection or let playback advance normally.
Follow continuously, turn the page only when needed, or keep the page still.
Print the reading with its current layout and styling scaled to the page.
A setup can travel with the reading.
Bookmarks and shared readings can carry a setup of their own, and your defaults and Practice Views stay as they are.
Bookmarks
Open a bookmark in the setup you’re in, a Practice View, or a setup of its own that keeps your changes.
Shared readings
See a reading the way the sender set it up, then Keep Theirs, Use Mine, or Save as New View.
Carry the visible reading layout, type, spacing, and color treatment onto paper.
Build a reading around the way you learn.
Open the Demo, choose Customize, and make the reading yours.
Frequently asked questions
Does Done save my changes?
Your changes are already saved. Each one saves itself to the setup you’re in, your defaults or a Practice View, as you make it, and Done closes Customize.
What are Default Display Settings?
Default Display Settings are your own settings, saved to your account. Your readings use them whenever you’re not in a Practice View, and most people only ever use them. A melody or voice you change in your defaults is the one Settings shows too.
What happens when I switch Practice Views?
The reading changes to the view you choose, and the changes you make next save to it. The view you left keeps its own. Your readings open in the view you chose, on any device, until you choose another.
How can a Practice View differ from my defaults?
A view keeps its own layout. For the melody, accent, voice, pitch, speed, transliteration style, and phrase colors, it follows your defaults until you change one inside the view. Where it differs, a note in that section of Customize says how, for example: “This view uses the Chabad melody for Esther. Your defaults use Jacobson.”
What does Use Everywhere do?
Change the melody inside a view called Music and the line under it reads “Changed for Music.” Use Everywhere makes that melody part of your defaults, so every view that follows your defaults uses it too. In a section’s note, Match Defaults puts the view back on your defaults.
Can I save my changes myself instead?
Yes. Turn off Save changes automatically in Settings, under Practice Views. Your changes then last while you’re on the reading, Customize shows a Save button, and leaving with changes asks whether to save them.
Can translation or transliteration appear in more than one place?
Yes. Translation below each passage and transliteration under each Hebrew word are independent from the separate side and bottom panels. You can use an inline aid and a separate panel together.
Why do some options only appear on certain readings or screens?
TropeTrainer only offers choices the current reading and device can support. Sheet music requires a score, some layouts depend on the text, and narrow screens simplify the toolbar and companion panels so the Hebrew remains usable.
What happens when I reach the Practice View limit?
Your Practice Views keep working, and Save as New View is available again once you delete one.
What is saved with a bookmark or shared reading?
When you save a bookmark, you choose what it opens with: The Setup I’m In, A Practice View, or What I’m Seeing Now, which gives the bookmark a setup of its own that your later changes save to. A shared reading opens the way the sender set it up: Keep Theirs stays with it, Use Mine switches to your own, the setup your other readings open in, and Save as New View keeps theirs as a Practice View of your own.
Where are my defaults kept if I’m not signed in?
On this device, ready for your next reading. Create an account and they move into your account, ready on any device.
Will my printout use these choices?
Yes. Printing the reading uses the reading view’s text layout, type, spacing, colors, and visible reading aids, scaled for the selected paper and orientation. Separate print options are available for supporting resources such as sheet music.
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