I was a long-time MS-DOS user, but I had graduated to Windows by the time I first used Logos (Version 2). About 3 years ago, I moved (kicking and screaming!!) in the Mac world (I still use Windows computers too). When I saw that previously created LINKS to some resources I had created for use in PowerPoint no longer worked, I almost threw my first MacBook out the window.
Then I learned how to adjust the LINK created, to include an "https://ref.ly" resource, which would navigate to the spot in my Logos library from a PowerPoint for Mac link.
Some time back (I can’t remember when), PowerPoint for Mac changed the way they processed those links, going directly to the spot in my Logos library, making it so that I no longer needed to edit the links to resources created with the OPTION-COMMAND-C keystroke. I was happy!
Example of a link I created in April of this year, that opened directly to BDAG’s entry #6 for the Greek preposition παρά: logosres:bdag;hw=$CF$80$CE$B1$CF$81$CE$B1$CC$81;off=15980
With the arrival of Logos 7 (I am a Logos Now subscriber, so my system started updating to Logos 7 as soon as I launched it this morning, I was surprised when I created a link to a spot in Mounce’s Basics of Biblical Greek, and the keystroke that made the link (OPTION-COMMAND-C) created a new kind of link, with the http://ref.ly inserted. Was that an intentional change within Logos 7? If so, why was that change instituted? It would have made sense had PowerPoint for Mac persisted in not going to a Logos resource directly. But, at least on my system (I just tested this out), it works, without the necessity of going to an external web page before opening the Logos resource.
Links that I have created just this morning at that https://ref.ly prefix to the LINK created by Logos 7. For example, I was creating a Note to the word Ἱδρωσάτω in Didache 1.6. The content of my note was this:
The verb ἱδρόω (can you see the concept of "water" there?) means "to sweat" or "to perspire." Your alm(s) must sweat in your hands until you know to whom you might give it." Unknown source, similar to what is in Sirach 12.1-7.
I had previously created the note. I created a link from the word ἱδρόω in the note directly to BDAG (I know that it is not necessary—I could simply double-click on the word ἱδρωσάτω in the text of the Didache to go right to BDAG’s entry. I created the link just to confirm that links are automatically created with the web reference (https://ref.ly) automatically inserted. Currently the links in that note are:
https://ref.ly/logosres/bdag;hw=$CE$B9$CC$94$CE$B4$CF$81$CE$BF$CC$81$CF$89
and
https://ref.ly/logosres/nrsv;ref=BibleNRSV.Sir12.1-7
Can someone at Logos explain why they decided on this change?
