Two Logos Shortcut Questions
I'm wondering if there are two shortcuts that are similar to shortcuts in Accordance. The first is to quickly search a Greek word in the first lexicon. For example, in Accordance you triple-click to search the English word in a Bible dictionary, but if you hold down Cmd (I'm on Mac) when you triple-click it searches the underlying Greek or Hebrew word in the top lexicon. I know in Logos I can double click to search the English word in a Bible dictionary. Is there an equivalent shortcut to search the underlying Greek or Hebrew word? I know I can right click, select the Lemma, and then select the lexicon to have it loaded, but I'm looking for something that can work in a single click.
The other shortcut I'm wondering about is the fastest way to open a reference in my default commentary. For example, if I have a passage up in a certain Bible and I want to open the NAC commentary on that passage is there a quick way other than right clicking and selecting verse and selecting it from the context menu? I'm able to add individuals books to the shortcut bar and when I click them they load to the reference that is active, but it doesn't switch to other books in the series. For example, if I have Logos open to Matthew 10.1 and have a shortcut to the Matthew commentary in my tool bar I can click it and Matthew 10.1 will load in the commentary. However, if I have Luke 11.1 active in my Bible and click the shortcut to the Matthew commentary it just opens, it does not open and navigate to the commentary on Luke and the current reference. The reason this behavior seems strange is if I type in the Luke reference in the open Matthew commentary, Logos automatically switches to the Luke volume in the series. Is this a bug in the way the shortcuts on the toolbar are working or is there a way to put a shortcut to a series rather than a particular volume?
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Samuel Clough said:
I'm wondering if there are two shortcuts that are similar to shortcuts in Accordance. The first is to quickly search a Greek word in the first lexicon. For example, in Accordance you triple-click to search the English word in a Bible dictionary, but if you hold down Cmd (I'm on Mac) when you triple-click it searches the underlying Greek or Hebrew word in the top lexicon. I know in Logos I can double click to search the English word in a Bible dictionary. Is there an equivalent shortcut to search the underlying Greek or Hebrew word? I know I can right click, select the Lemma, and then select the lexicon to have it loaded, but I'm looking for something that can work in a single click.
No, this isn't possible. But the request doesn't really make sense to me. How can there by an underlying Greek or Hebrew work in a Bible dictionary? Have I misunderstood?
Samuel Clough said:Is this a bug in the way the shortcuts on the toolbar are working or is there a way to put a shortcut to a series rather than a particular volume?
I don't think it's a bug, because not everyone would want it to work in the way that you do. But it's not possible at the moment to do what you're requesting. Right-click is still the quickest way to open a commentary from a Bible. (Unless you want to go to the trouble of creating a custom passage guide with a section for your favourite commentary series, then link that to your Bible in your layout.)
Being able to add a series to the shortcuts bar would be a useful feature though. Perhaps you could suggest it in the suggestions forum.
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Yes, you misunderstood on the first question. Here is the behavior in Accordance that started my question:
If you are in an English Bible you can triple-click the word "love" in a verse. Accordance will open your first Bible dictionary to the word love. You can also triple-click while holding down the Cmd key and instead of using the English word love, it will search the underlying Greek word for love and open your first Greek lexicon. It's a quick way to look up a word and I was looking for its equivalent.
Right now I use Power lookup to get close to that, I was just wondering if there was a quick way that didn't require the right click, choose the lemma, choose power lookup steps.
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Samuel Clough said:
Right now I use Power lookup to get close to that, I was just wondering if there was a quick way that didn't require the right click, choose the lemma, choose power lookup steps
In my opinion there is a much better option. For a bit of a demonstration see this screencast. Note that if you keep "top resource" selected, it will pull the entry from your top prioritized lexicon that contains an entry, rather than simply disappearing as you can see happens with TDNT when hovering over "children." What's more...the info panel can be fairly thoroughly customized as to what you wish to see and how you wish to see it. If you haven't tried it out recently, I'd highly recommend giving it a swing!
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Samuel Clough said:
Right now I use Power lookup to get close to that, I was just wondering if there was a quick way that didn't require the right click, choose the lemma, choose power lookup steps.
No, I don't think that's possible, sorry.
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