Option needed for a Bible margin

I am a professor. Currently, I bring a regular Bible to class when I teach Old or New Testament. I use a wide-margin Bible so I can write notes for teaching. What I usually do is turn pages until I see a note with a line drawn to certain texts and use that as a topic of discussion.

I would love to be able to use my iPad with LOGOS to teach, but there is no margin option. The closes is a reading pane and highlights linked to notes in the text. This will not work for me. I want to be able to have a Bible with a Margin and have the margin scroll along with the Bible. The Olive Tree Bible is the closest, but even there, the margin does not scroll with the Bible, so it does not work. If LOGOS created this option, it would be the first, and it would certainly be popular!

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Alan Charles Gielczyk

I don't understand why notes would not work. They put a marker in the text that scrolls with the text and pops up your note. Would this not suffice? Welcome to the forums also.

DMB

That's an interesting suggestion. I don't use the Logos notes. I do highlight, so I have a bunch of 'notes'.

I just assumed Logos-desktop would allow linking the note text to resources (e.g. a Bible). But I guess not. That's what I do with my own Bible software, so like the professor, I can quickly glance over. And since my notes are date-stamped, they're also sorted by verse/date-entered, so I can see the 'evolution' of my reviews.

Of course on the iPad, if you open a 2nd panel and view the 'notes', it's just a mass of notes; no linkage.

I do load my notes (maintained outside Logos) into a PB which is then directly linked to other resources (e.g. my Bibles). That solves the linking problem on the desktop. But Logos hasn't yet moved PBs up to the mobiles yet.

Margin notes however would be a good addition ... make the Bibles more similar to people's normal usage. I presume they'd be a small snippet.

Martin Dignard

Hi.

No, that does not work. The problem is that I have to click on the highlighted area to see the note. Also, it wouldn't work for seeing multiple notes at the same time, or have different font sizes, types, or add other items.

JT (alabama24)

Martin- I like your idea. I REALLY like your idea... But I don't know how it would work. What would the note be attached to? What would happen if the note became very long? Would you get a gap in the text? In a print Bible, you have a fixed layout. The bible text is ALWAYS the same width. The content is ALWAYS on the same page. That isn't true with e-books. Furthermore, you have an iPhone, iPad, MacBook and iMac to deal with, each with different resolutions and screen sizes. I have an idea of how this might work, but what were your thoughts?

Martin Dignard

Well, even in a print Bible, the text is usually a fixed width. In Bible apps, most of them are set so you have the option to scroll down to the end of the chapter. I believe I have seen some where you can even set it to scroll from the end of one book to the beginning of the next. I have seen word processing and PDF programs where you can click anywhere in the document and begin typing . . . so having a margin like that should not be too hard.

JT (alabama24)

Well, even in a print Bible, the text is usually a fixed width.

yes, that was my point. In ALL print bibles, the text is a fixed width. It is in ebooks which it is not! My iPhone allows for 4-6 words a line. My iPad allows 10-15. Depending upon my layout, my MacBook allows 15+ depending upon the layout... My iMac, much more. The point is that the text isn't fixed, and so neither would the notes. They would have to be attached to something. Limits in note size would need to be established or figured out how to solve The problem of what to do with the text. You would need to figure out how to attach the note

Martin Dignard

Oh, I get what you mean. Hmmm. Well, let's hope that LOGOS has a genius programmer that knows how to do it.