textView.setMovementMethod(new LinkTouchMovementMethod());
ssb = addClickablePart(chapterTextStr,markupCharactersArray, false);

textView.setText(ssb);
// PARSE MARKERS AND CREATE CLICKABLE SPANS FUNCTION
private static SpannableStringBuilder addClickablePart(
        String chapterTextStr2, final String[] mcArray,
        final boolean parseVocab) {
    SpannableStringBuilder ssb2 = new SpannableStringBuilder(chapterTextStr2);

    String[] markupOpen = { "|*", "|_", "|=", "|@" };
    String [] markupClose = {  "*|", "_|", "=|", "@|"};
    String [] spantype = {   "idea", "topic", "detail", "dummy"};
    for( int i=0; i<markupOpen.length; i++){
        index = chapterTextStr2.indexOf(markupOpen[i]);
        index2 = 0;
        while (index != -1) {

            index2 = chapterTextStr2.indexOf(markupClose[i], index);
            TouchableSpan touchableSpan = new TouchableSpan() {

                @Override
                public void onClick(View widget) {
                    this.setPressed(true);

                    if (selectedHighlighter == "detail") {
                        this.setSpanColor(detailColor);
                        this.setSpanTypeSelected("detailSelected");
                    } else if (selectedHighlighter == "idea") {
                        this.setSpanColor(ideaColor);
                        this.setSpanTypeSelected("ideaSelected");
                    } else if (selectedHighlighter == "topic") {
                        this.setSpanColor(topicColor);
                        this.setSpanTypeSelected("topicSelected");
                    } else {
                        this.setSpanColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);
                        this.setSpanTypeSelected("");
                    }
                }

                private boolean mIsPressed;

                public void setPressed(boolean isSelected) {
                    mIsPressed = isSelected;
                }

                // THIS UPDATES THE DRAW STATE TO CHANGE THE SPAN BACKGROUND COLOR DEPENDING ON THE "SELECTED HIGHLIGHTER"
                @Override
                public void updateDrawState(TextPaint ds) {
                    int spanColor = this.getSpanColor();
                    super.updateDrawState(ds);
                    ds.setColor(Color.BLACK);
                    ds.bgColor = mIsPressed ? spanColor : 0xffeeeeee;
                    ds.setUnderlineText(false);
                }

            };
            touchableSpan.setSpanType(spantype[i]);
            ssb2.setSpan(touchableSpan, index + 2, index2, 0);

            try {
                chapterTextStr2 = chapterTextStr2.substring(0,index)
                    +chapterTextStr2.substring(index+2,index2)
                    +chapterTextStr2.substring(index2+2,chapterTextStr2.length());
                ssb2.delete(index, index+2);
                ssb2.delete(index2-2, index2);
            } catch(RuntimeException e) {

            }

            index = chapterTextStr2.indexOf(markupOpen[i],index2-4);

        }
    }

    chapterTextStr = chapterTextStr2;

    return ssb2;
}