[ACK] Feedback on the new Grammars tool

I like the new Grammars tool so far. For example, I have found both views offered, "By Subject" and "By Resource", quite useful and well designed.

Just one little thing has kind of bugged me, and it is that some resources provide meaningless headings.

For example, one of the best Hebrew Grammars is "A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew: Revised Edition" by Joüon-Muraoka, but the headings that appear in the tool are just "a", "f", "j", etc.

There are some other resources that have similar problems, like "A Treatise on the Use of the Tenses in Hebrew...", and the "Ras Shamra Parallels".

I would much appreciate if Verbum could provide the last two headings for resources like these, instead of just the last heading. Looking through them I think it's the type of thing that could be programmed using rules, something like setting a minimum number of characters, or maybe of words, under which two headings are displayed instead of just one.

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Rick Brannan (Logos)

I like the new Grammars tool so far. For example, I have found both views offered, "By Subject" and "By Resource", quite useful and well designed.

Excellent. Thanks!

For example, one of the best Hebrew Grammars is "A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew: Revised Edition" by Joüon-Muraoka, but the headings that appear in the tool are just "a", "f", "j", etc.

There are some other resources that have similar problems, like "A Treatise on the Use of the Tenses in Hebrew...", and the "Ras Shamra Parallels".

I would much appreciate if Verbum could provide the last two headings for resources like these, instead of just the last heading. Looking through them I think it's the type of thing that could be programmed using rules, something like setting a minimum number of characters, or maybe of words, under which two headings are displayed instead of just one.

Yes, this is an issue, but I'm not sure of the best way around it. FWIW, BDF on the NT/Greek side has a similar issue at points. I'll try a few things and see what happens, but no promises. [:)]

Rick Brannan (Logos)

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For example, one of the best Hebrew Grammars is "A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew: Revised Edition" by Joüon-Muraoka, but the headings that appear in the tool are just "a", "f", "j", etc.

There are some other resources that have similar problems, like "A Treatise on the Use of the Tenses in Hebrew...", and the "Ras Shamra Parallels".

I would much appreciate if Verbum could provide the last two headings for resources like these, instead of just the last heading. Looking through them I think it's the type of thing that could be programmed using rules, something like setting a minimum number of characters, or maybe of words, under which two headings are displayed instead of just one.

Yes, this is an issue, but I'm not sure of the best way around it. FWIW, BDF on the NT/Greek side has a similar issue at points. I'll try a few things and see what happens, but no promises.

Just a note: 6.4 corrects this issue. Check out these hits (search was broad, Lev 13) for Juoun-Muraoka in 6.4 beta 1. The same code is used in the Systematic Theologies guide, so the issue is handled there as well. We hop up the TOC tree to get the text of the previous entry when the current entry is deduced to be too short/small.