Kudos to New Logos7 Manual err 'Help' Resource

DMB

Most of the documentation resources have authors ... kind of nice to see who did so much work. The 'help' one is un-authored.

The Logos7 'help' resource seems to me to be closer to a manual. I know manuals aren't allowed, so shhhh.  And whoever the mystery person is, thank you!

I compared the L6 to the L7. It's much the same, except the L7 now fits my brain .... it looks like a manual, reads like a manual, AND is quite interesting too.  Per the Francis thread, maybe some beefing up on search details.

After I calmed down, I also re-organized the documentation resources (I re-tagged as manuals!!). I re-titled them to sort them, by tools (eg text compare), views (eg lexicons), and search-sets (usable for searching). Whoa ... this is getting good.

Anyway, my thanks to the mystery person ... nice!

Eli Evans (Logos)

Thanks, Denise.

"We are unworthy servants, and have only done what was our duty." (Luke 17:10)

But yes, we're trying, and I'm glad it shows.

I guess I'll take the thanks on behalf of the team. I've been leading a slow and steady behind-the-scenes campaign to improve not only the content of the Logos help resource (to make it more like a manual, don't tell) but also the workflow that exists to create it and keep it up to date.

In terms of writing and testing, it's been a team effort. Philana wrote some in addition to her QA duties, and her contribution will be ongoing, since part of her job is to make sure the help is up to date in sync with the release notes. Some contributions were also written by Lydia Husser from the content production department, who I don't think has posted on the forums. She does a lot of our internal documentation for book production, and brought the Verbum Logos 7 help up to parity with Logos, which was no small task. The Logos Pro team has contributed some guidance as well. Several developers have helped with project management and tooling.

The dataset documentation is credited because the dataset usually represents a new contribution to the field and is written by the dataset editorial team. The documentation resources is a convenient (and citable) place to put their name so the whole dataset can go on their CV. The standard software application help, on the other hand, is considered staff editorial.