SUGGESTION: iPad/iPhone/Mobile Passage Guide Commentary abbreviations
I find the passage guide a useful way to bring up my prioritized commentary list and in the desktop version of Logos4 hovering over the name of each commentary will display the full name, description, and book cover which usually tips me off to what commentary series it is if I don't know.
However, in the mobile versions, there's no way to tell what commentary series it is unless you load the book and read the heading. The titles of some major commentary series' in the passage guide are very vague and usually unidentifiable
Ex. when looking up a passage in Jeremiah:
"The Book of Jeremiah" = New International Commentary of the Old Testament (NICOT)-Jeremiah
"Jeremiah and Lamentations: An Introduction and Commentary" = Tyndale Old Testament Commentary (TOTC)-Jeremiah/Lamentations
"Jeremiah: An Introduction and Commentary, Volume 1: Chapters 1-20" = Mentor Old Testament Commentary (MOT)-Jeremiah
"A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Jeremiah" = Lange's Commentary (LANGE)-Jeremiah
"Jeremiah 1: A Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah, Chapters 1-25" = Hermeneia (HERM)-Jeremiah Ch 1-25
"Jeremiah 2: A Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah, Chapters 26-52" = Hermeneia (HERM)-Jeremiah Ch 26-52
Right at slightly under half of my major commentary sets do not have the name of the commentary series in the title while the rest do. Is there a way to add this information to the title like the others or possibly an abbreviation? Has this been suggested already?
[EDIT] - for clarity
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Not to belabor my point:
Aside from the commentary series' listed above I've also found:
Boice
Godetto be vague and unidentifiable by title as well.
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In the Library function you can set the short titles to something that you prefer although I agree that a cheat sheet of short titles would be nice.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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MJ,
Would those short titles show up in place of their original titles in a passage guide, specifically for the iPad?
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Ok scenario time:
Last night I tucked myself in to bed with my iPad to do some commentary reading in Jeremiah for a sermon I'm preaching on Sunday.
I used the passage guide to look up Jeremiah 31 and then expanded the commentary section. Here is a screenshot:
I end up choosing one at the bottom of the list (off screen) with the title "Jeremiah: An Introduction and Commentary, Volume 2: Chapters 21-52". Although I'm where I want to be in the commentary I've got no idea what commentary I'm reading. The page heading doesn't reveal this information either:
I next have to click on the Table of Contents to navigate to the Title Page to discover I'm in the Mentor Commentary on Jeremiah. Is there a way to identify the vague commentary titles at the passage guide list screen on the iPad?
[EDIT] - from the passage guide commentary list above there are 5 commentaries listed that do not reveal their respective series
[EDIT 2] - MJ I took your advice and noticed half of the 10 mentor commentary series mention the series name in the title. The other half do not. I edited those that did not with the addition of the series name. It changed on my desktop. Would it take time but eventually sync and change on the iPad? I'll keep monitoring this just in case it does later on.
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Paul Newsome said:
It looks like this edit only affects the desktop name of the resource and does not transfer to any mobile device.
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I posted the same concern the other day.
Isn't it bizarre that this doesn't get noticed before first public release? I with I could sit down in person with the design team..
It's crazy how unintuitive the interface is, but man when it works right it's so nice - with all of the resources at hand!
In this case, the simple resolve would be it seems (I didn't try this yet) would be to allow the user-given names for resources (singles) or entire sets (like Calvin's commentaries) to be synced between all Logos instances.Honestly, these resource names should follow a better system of naming - some of them are alright and others are completely unhelpful. A long press on titles should give the Book info box at least, but it's all guess-work for now.
Thanks for posting the concern with screenshots, hopefully someone will fix things. I also posted my concern on Word Study via iOS - not a single dictionary resource comes up on the iOS apps! I've heard on that thread that it's being worked on and that there is no timeline or progress to be had.In the meantime, for simple quick word look-ups - Blue Letter Bible is very handy.
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Thanks Jacques, I would even be happy with some form of commentary series shorthand like HERM or NICNT, etc...
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