Why isn't report typo in my right click Context menu?
Make sure that on the right-hand side of the context menu you've got the top-most item selected.
As Mark says
Please remember you need to be online to use the Report Typo function
How do I easily pick more than one search field at a time?
This may be old news to some, but I only just discovered it and so I'm sharing it: the find box in the field picker of the search window supports comma-separated lists. Just list every field you want to search and then click the check box next to "search fields" to select them all or hand pick those you want:
How do I get the Translation ring contents into MS Word in multiple translations?
1. Right click in the top area of the section of the report that contains the passages you'd like to save.
2. Select "Save as Passage List"
Print/Export | Copy to Clipboard or to Word, etc.
The other software I have can print KJV, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and German for each verse in the list. Can Logos do that?
Pick the version / language you want.
let me try to give a little more detail.
I see you've figured out how to get the passage list. Once there, the little box (arrow, below) at the top is your friend (sort of). If you want to see multiple versions when it gets to Word, you need to select them here.
Selecting them is easy...use the abbreviations for the versions you want, separated by a comma, with NO spaces.
Here's the hard part. You can't just hit enter. (This has been a bug for a while, and FL knows about it.) You have to click the little arrow in the box, and usually, you have to click it a couple or three times (where the x is below, lower arrow).
Now (assuming you got the arrow to work), you'll see multiple columns, one for each version you put in the box.
To print, use the Print/Export tool in the panel menu (I think you've found this). When the P/E window opens, make sure "Print as shown on screen" is selected, then send it to MS word.
You should get a Word doc that looks like what you had in Logos.
BTW, if you check "Print as minimized list", you get a list of verses with no text.
I hope this makes it more clear. If not, keep asking.
Why do parts of my text not show?
It looks like you might have "Bible Text Only" selected under the visual filters menu.
How do I build a visual filter for all the questions in the Bible?
From the Speech Acts Dataset Documentation:
Questions:
{Section <Sentence ~ Interrogative>} AND {Section <SpeechAct = Info: Quest>}
Rhetorical Questions:
{Section <SpeechAct = Info: Assert>} WITHIN {Section <Sentence ~ Interrogative>}
As Schumitinu has pointed out that depends a little on if you are looking for surface level questions or where the speech act type is also a question. I've created a visual filter for surface level questions in the faithlife group of the Sentence Types dataset. Feel free to copy that and format it however you might like. If you want the speech act information, you'll need to add another line to the visual filter.
If you're not connected to faithlife, setting up the visual filter would look something like this:
The only issue with this approach is that it will only currently work for the New Testament. We are actively working on tagging for the Hebrew Bible, but aren't able to give a timeline for when that will be completed at this stage.
What do I call the various "boxes" in the workspace?
A quick note on vocabulary for the desktop:
- A TILE is a rectangular portion of the application’s available viewing space in which resources/guides/tools may be displayed. Tiles never overlap, so if you are seeing four texts at once, you have four tiles in your layout.
- A PANEL shows a single resource, tool, or guide. A panel normally breaks down into a TAB STRIP, a TOOLBAR, and main VIEW AREA
- A TAB is the physical part of a resource panel that sticks up so you can switch between panels that are in the same tile (although most users use TAB and PANEL interchangeably).
- A PANE is a subservient part of a panel that displays data, controls, or divides content within a panel. So the table of contents in a resource panel is the CONTENTS PANE, never “contents panel.” When a pane is just one line high, we usually call it a BAR, so we say that the “Locator Bar” sometimes appears at the top of the resource view area.
How do I get parallel resources show both study Bibles and commentaries?
The Passage Guide show hits for all of what I would consider "commentaries". But parallel resources seem to be limited to single "Types" When I click a link to ESB Study Bible in the Passage Guide, the right arrow is limited to the "Bible Notes" type and do not include the "Bible Commentary" type. Similarly when I click on the Bible Knowledge Commentary in the Passage Guide, the opposite is true. The work around I found was to create a new collection including both types. Now I can select that new collection in my parallel resources and it picks up everything. I much prefer using the right arrow rather than the Passage Guide.
Wny isn't Nazareth tagged as a place in Mk 16:6?
Though many English translations read "of Nazareth", the Greek text has an adjective referring to people from Nazareth, that is, Nazarene or Nazarite.
Terms like this (technically called demonyms) are common in the Bible, and pose an annotation challenge: it's not a reference to a place, strictly speaking, but a reference to people from a place. Our practice has been not to annotate these as place names, rather then encode an inference "people from a place count as a reference to that place". But I recognize that isn't always what users expect, and it would require a more complex annotation system to have it both ways (without incorrectly claiming this is a direct reference to a place).
One search strategy for demonyms:
- Use Bible Word Study's Root section to find the root term
- Search the combination of root and place reference: <Root = lbs/el/Ναζωραιος> OR <Place Nazareth>
Where do I find information about the various datasets, their queries et. al.?
Feature Set purchase OR Logos Now subscription includes Library resources with dataset documentation:
Caveat: stopping Logos Now subscription removes dataset usability and documentation. Please advise if would to see some dataset document examples.
- Where do I look up detailed answers to queries about the various Datasets?
- Is there somewhere that I can look to see precisely what each Dataset can do
- is there somewhere that I can look to see what resources one needs to have for the Dataset to shine
Logos Now membership includes access to many datasets. Timeline => https://www.logos.com/now-timeline includes when dataset(s) were released plus links to Logos Pro videos showing dataset in action. Many datasets have forum threads: What's Included in Logos 7 includes links to many dataset threads.
Datasets
- Discourse Datasets and Visual Filters (Subscription Only)
- New Feature: Cascadia Syntax Graphs of LXX Deuterocanon and Apocrypha
- Miracles of the Bible
- Syntactic Force
- Speaking to God
- Proverbs Explorer, vol. 2
- Biblical Theologies Section
- Israelite Sacrifices
- Reported Speech, Speakers, and Addressees for Deuterocanon
- New Testament Use of the Old
- Confessional Documents Section
- Proverbs Explorer Dataset
- Bullinger's Figures of Speech Dataset
- Addressees in Reported Speech
- Greek Grammatical Constructions
- Old Testament Propositional Bible Outlines
- Psalms Explorer Dataset
- RSVCE Hebrew Old Testament Reverse Interlinear
- Systematic Theologies Section
What Denise supplied is excellent, but realise that
- you can't buy them individually
- you don't get documentation until you buy them e.g. https://www.logos.com/product/120029/logos-7-full-feature-set
- dataset documentation (type:manual) is not complete, but 16 is a good start!
- you may get a Glossary of terms in the manual, or as a separate resource (type:Glossary).
- hovering over the title in the Feature Set web page may be the only way to get information!
The documentation should clarify whether the dataset information is revealed in a Guide, Factbook, Interactive or Search e.g.
- Semantic Roles are revealed via Bible Word Study (Case Frames). When you hover over a term, the meaning comes from the appropriate Glossary; which then enables you to search for specific terms (roles) via Clause Search. Resources include LHB, SBLGNT and Reverse Interlinears
- Literary Type is revealed via Passage Guide (Literary Typing) or you can Search e.g. {Section <LiteraryType Allusion, Old Testament>} using terms from the Glossary. Most bibles can be searched for this.
- If you like Syntax Searching the Full Feature Set seems to include the necessary resources.
Where datasets are not documented e.g.
- Logos Controlled Vocabulary (LCV) provides topics/concepts via Topic Guide, Everything Search & Factbook. The necessary resources are bible dictionaries (type:encyclopedia, or type:concordance). For the most part, the lack of a glossary doesn't matter when there are 14 000 topics
- Psalms Explorer, Proverbs Explorer, and New Testament use of the Old Testament are revealed via their Interactive resource, and can be searched as per this wiki. Also see Searchable Labels in the “Logos Help” resource. Most bibles can be searched for these labels.
- Resource Excerpts are revealed via articles in the Home page
As you can see it's not easy to get the required information, let alone summarise and classify it e.g. one dataset is fundamental to original language searching and another only provides pericopes for passage drop-down menus (and for Compare Pericopes in the Passage Analysis tool).
If one dataset is useful to you then you have to buy the appropriate Logos 7 Feature Set (it may be available in Starter) but ask specific questions before (and after) you buy OR try Logos Now for a free month to make your decision.
How do I get more search ideas than the Context Menu offers?
So here I was study John 6 and I had need to look up where else the resurrection is spoken of in John. I did not want to do a mere lemma or word search since this is too limiting. My usual approach is to investigate the context menu to see how a relevant passage was tagged and launch the initial search from there.
I tried to search senses, but it was too restrictive. I would either get the verb or the noun but not both. Supersets were too broad, subsets were not it. I did not want to do a x AND y AND z AND... type of search. To make a long story short, I found nothing from the context menu that worked.
But I did find something elsewhere...
I explored the "Topic" section of the Passage Guide on a relevant passage for ideas. It gave me a good topic to look for: eschatology. Turned out it was a preaching theme and one can even get specifically "Eschatology: Resurrection". Looked for it in the Bible tab, but was unhappy with how the results were displayed. The Bible section breaks down the results in individual verses but the theme pertains to a section (so it looks like there are irrelevant verses). In the end, I was happy with searching the Basic tab for {Section <PreachingTheme Eschatology: Resurrection>} WITHIN {Milestone <John 1-21>} in my default Bible. Worked great.
The point of the story is this: it would have been difficult for me to spot "eschatology:resurrection" from the context menu, but using the PG gave me more ideas.
So I'm passing along this experience in case it can be helpful to some.
The information panel is also good for this. I usually keep the "Other References" and "Preaching Themes" sections open when I'm using a Bible.
Is there a way to see a list of other resources in one's library which refer to the passage one is reading?
If the resource has location indexing: e.g. "Institutes of the Christian Religion", then right click shows location with search options and Top five resources with that indexing:
Searching all resources can find many references:
You may use Cited By
What's the differences among introductions, backgrounds and surveys?
It varies from author to author and publisher to publisher but my rough guess is:
- introduction - written for someone unfamiliar with the material
- background - focus on the parallel written materials and culture rather than on the text
- survey - a high-level view for a particular take on the material; audience may or may not be beginners
I agree with MJ. Another way of looking at it (in very general terms) would be:
- Introduction: Read this before you read the text, and it will help you put the text in context.
- Background: Read this as you read the text, and it will fill in some blanks.
- Survey: Read this instead of reading the text, and it will give you a summary.
What's up with WIVU?
Back in February I posted about updated WIVU Constituency Trees (forum post) from the old configurations of the SESB product. The missing syntax search capability with WIVU has been a longstanding issue (here's a post from the Logos 4 forum). At the time we released the updated syntax graphs, I mentioned an update to the underlying syntax database was "still pending for a future release."
To the best of our ability, we've set it up so that users who were licensed for the old LDLS-era material should be automatically updated today (Monday, Oct 3, 2016) with a new version of the resource.
What we've done is update the old LDLS-era resource data to function in the new Logos 6/7 world. So this is the same data (in essence) that shipped with LDLS 3.x, updated to function in the new world. Thanks, all, for your patience as we worked out the issues that prevented supplying this resource earlier.
Here's a sample:
I just checked again today, as I used to use this a lot in the Logos 3 days, and I have not gotten any update to the syntax graphs/data resource that I can see - plus when I try a "New Query" in the Syntax search, there is nothing to build a customer search with.
It's working for me on 7.1. There are no templates, but you should be to see the "+ Add search terms here" button for you to create your own search.
(The bottom pane is a reproduction of Rick's criteria.)
