Calvin's Commentaries Bugs/Problems

Some bugs/problems I've found so far:

1. The book titles are not consistent (eg. "Calvin’s Commentaries: Commentary on the First Book of Moses Called Genesis", "Commentary on the Book of Joshua")

2. Series metadata is missing for the following volumes, 1&2 Corinthians, Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Ezekiel, John.

3. The commentary on Daniel didn't download automatically (to resolve this download it manually, type 'Scan x:\[File Path], restart logos)

4. Passage Guide>Commentaries doesn't show Calvin's Commentaries.

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5. Calvin's Commentaries on The Twelve Minor Prophets don't contain hyper linked verse numbers preceding the commentary on each verse. This renders 'Cited by' and custom 'Passage Guide>Collection (Calvin's comm.)' useless if searching for a specific verse.

6. Entering the page number in a commentary jumps to the wrong book. (eg. While in the commentary on Genesis, entering 'p.258' jumps to the commentary on Joshua; Page 258 in Genesis should be Genesis 6:18)

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Aaron Sauer

Good find(s). I am having all of the same issues.

nikk

Download the book to 'C:\daniel'

In Logos command line type 'Scan C:\daniel'

Restart Logos

John Hapgood

How many actual resources should there be. I can only count 99 but I can only verify two missing which are "Institution de la Religion" and "Institutio Christianae". I already had the commentaries and I got 56 new files downloaded.

The two missing books are not missing in my Logos 3.0 setup.

David Gullick

I can get his commentaries working in my passage guides. Did you try multiple references? i.e. If I enter Luke 4:4 I dont get Calvins commentaries in my PG,but if I look at Luke 4:3-4 I do.

And i get 33 resources under the command author:"John Calvin" Is that right? Downloaded the 500 collection.

NetworkGeek

How many actual resources should there be. I can only count 99 but I can only verify two missing which are "Institution de la Religion" and "Institutio Christianae". I already had the commentaries and I got 56 new files downloaded.

The two missing books are not missing in my Logos 3.0 setup.

There are 75 files, so that's how many resources you should see get added. That's how many links were on my email confirmation, and how many resources are shown on the product page at http://www.logos.com/products/details/5170.

The reason there are 75 resources for 108 books is because quite a few have multiple books in one Logos book - for example, "Letters of John Calvin" is 4 volumes, but they are one book in Logos.

I did some checking, and I am satisfied all the resources are there. The two resources you mentioned are there in mine, you might need to carefully check spelling etc. because I believe they have some different letters in them due to the Spanish titles - just my guess. Anyway,I attached a graphic showing the resources in mine:

Jonathan West

Some bugs/problems I've found so far:

1. The book titles are not consistent (eg. "Calvin’s Commentaries: Commentary on the First Book of Moses Called Genesis", "Commentary on the Book of Joshua")

2. Series metadata is missing for the following volumes, 1&2 Corinthians, Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Ezekiel, John.

3. The commentary on Daniel didn't download automatically (to resolve this download it manually, type 'Scan x:\[File Path], restart logos)

4. Passage Guide>Commentaries doesn't show Calvin's Commentaries.

Edit:

5. Calvin's Commentaries on The Twelve Minor Prophets don't contain hyper linked verse numbers preceding the commentary on each verse. This renders 'Cited by' and custom 'Passage Guide>Collection (Calvin's comm.)' useless if searching for a specific verse.

6. Entering the page number in a commentary jumps to the wrong book. (eg. While in the commentary on Genesis, entering 'p.258' jumps to the commentary on Joshua; Page 258 in Genesis should be Genesis 6:18)

4 - MINE DOES in Daniel - I have prioritised the (15-book) series (not sure if that makes a difference) - but not in 1 Co, or John, but it appears in books where the Series metadata is correct

Hope they fix 4 and 5 especially very quickly. 1 is annoying ...

Michael Newnham

#4 is priority 1 for me...that's why I bought the commentaries even though I have them in another software package.

I'm frustrated...using incomplete resources on unfinished software.

Louis St. Hilaire

Some bugs/problems I've found so far:

1. The book titles are not consistent (eg. "Calvin’s Commentaries: Commentary on the First Book of Moses Called Genesis", "Commentary on the Book of Joshua")

2. Series metadata is missing for the following volumes, 1&2 Corinthians, Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Ezekiel, John.

3. The commentary on Daniel didn't download automatically (to resolve this download it manually, type 'Scan x:\[File Path], restart logos)

4. Passage Guide>Commentaries doesn't show Calvin's Commentaries.

Edit:

5. Calvin's Commentaries on The Twelve Minor Prophets don't contain hyper linked verse numbers preceding the commentary on each verse. This renders 'Cited by' and custom 'Passage Guide>Collection (Calvin's comm.)' useless if searching for a specific verse.

6. Entering the page number in a commentary jumps to the wrong book. (eg. While in the commentary on Genesis, entering 'p.258' jumps to the commentary on Joshua; Page 258 in Genesis should be Genesis 6:18)

I can speak to a few of these:

1 & 2. As is clear, we've had some problems moving over to the new metadata system. These errors should be fixed shortly (and automatically on your side), and we'll be tightening things up for future releases. Thanks for your patience.

5. I'm going to suggest that we add this content to the book, as it would be quite useful and fairly simple for us to do so. Hopefully, we'll have an update before too long.

6. The Genesis volume combines two volumes, and uses the volume/page data type. If you specify volume 1 or 2 with your page, you'll get to the correct location.

A "series" in 4.0 works like a 3.0 Serial Resource Association, so that if Logos fails to find an appropriate location in the volume you're looking at, it searches the rest of the series. Thus, when it fails to find a "Page 258" in Genesis, it looks through the rest of the series until it finds one. Admittedly, in this case, this is really only useful for the Bible data type and not for page and volume/page. I'll investigate the possibility of limiting these associations to specific data types.

Blair Laird

I can speak to a few of these:

1 & 2. As is clear, we've had some problems moving over to the new metadata system. These errors should be fixed shortly (and automatically on your side), and we'll be tightening things up for future releases. Thanks for your patience.

5. I'm going to suggest that we add this content to the book, as it would be quite useful and fairly simple for us to do so. Hopefully, we'll have an update before too long.

6. The Genesis volume combines two volumes, and uses the volume/page data type. If you specify volume 1 or 2 with your page, you'll get to the correct location.

A "series" in 4.0 works like a 3.0 Serial Resource Association, so that if Logos fails to find an appropriate location in the volume you're looking at, it searches the rest of the series. Thus, when it fails to find a "Page 258" in Genesis, it looks through the rest of the series until it finds one. Admittedly, in this case, this is really only useful for the Bible data type and not for page and volume/page. I'll investigate the possibility of limiting these associations to specific data types.

Glad to hear Logos is looking into the problems..

Mark Smith

Just an update on Calvin in the Passage Guide. I tried the same PG setting as before but in my 4.0b Beta version and Calvin's Commentary comes up. I've tried it on a couple of passages in other books and get his commentaries there also. So for now the problem is limited to my SR-3 version which I'll check again shortly.

Mark Smith

So for now the problem is limited to my SR-3 version which I'll check again shortly.

No improvement. Calvin's Commentaries still do not come up under the Passage Guide in 4.0a SR-3.