[resolved] Not WITHIN {Speaker }

Justin Gatlin

I am running the neat search (ἐγώ AND εἰμι) WITHIN {Speaker <Person Jesus>} which produces the exact results expected. Logos is very smart and handles all sorts of variations; it is lovely. 

However, I was wondering if there is a way to run the same search with the specific parameter that Jesus is not the speaker to see if the . I know how to do this in one sense (make a passage list for the search above, a passage list for just ego eimi and subtract, or the equivalent (ἐγώ AND εἰμι) ANDNOT ((ἐγώ AND εἰμι) WITHIN {Speaker <Person Jesus>})), but I was wondering if there is a more elegant solution-some kind of NOTWITHIN. The collective wisdom of the forum is much appreciated.

Dave Hooton

Unfortunately, Logos does not have an elegant negation operator (-) so we could search  (ἐγώ AND εἰμι) -WITHIN {Speaker <Person Jesus>}. At worst it would parse that as the longer (equivalent) query you provide.

Justin Gatlin

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/723554#Comment_723554

Okay. That will work, Dave, thank you.