Some initial thoughts on offline lookup in iOS 6.3.1.0490 beta

Graham Criddle
Graham Criddle MVP Posts: 32,455
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Ive been doing some initial testing of offline lookup - thanks for that - and noted some things .

When offline doing a lookup on a word in an RI-enabled Bible does a lookup in an English dictionary whereas the same lookup when online uses the lexicon corresponding to the underkying original language. Is the expected behaviour?

There seems to be no option which lexicon is used. Is it intended to give greater options here?

Thanks, Graham

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  • James McAdams
    James McAdams Member Posts: 762 ✭✭✭

    When offline doing a lookup on a word in an RI-enabled Bible does a lookup in an English dictionary whereas the same lookup when online uses the lexicon corresponding to the underkying original language. Is the expected behaviour?

    See Phil’s note at the end regarding English resources for a relevant-ish comment:

    We're making several important changes that are going to make original language study significantly improved:

    1. Info popup on selection. You'll now get the info popup on selection instead of having to invoke it from the selection menu. Just long or double tap a word and instantly get the original language word info. It's amazingly fast.
    2. Keylink preview in the info popup. Not only do you get the lemma, gloss, and morphological parsing, but you also get a preview of your preferred lexicon right in the popup.
    3. Keylink lookup. "Look up" now executes a keylink and opens to the full entry in your preferred lexicon.
    4. Improved info popup for multi-lemma Hebrew words. We've also improved the info popup for Hebrew words like בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית. We'll default to showing you the most important lemma, but you can swipe to quickly view the other lemmas.
    5. Offline. All of this works offline!

    Note: 1–3 work in English (and other) Bibles with reverse interlinear alignments, but #5 doesn't yet. That'll require some more work, and we're not sure yet when we'll get to it.

  • Graham Criddle
    Graham Criddle MVP Posts: 32,455
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/969685#Comment_969685

    Thanks James

  • James McAdams
    James McAdams Member Posts: 762 ✭✭✭

    No worries. I’m still very curious to hear a response to this part of your post:

    There seems to be no option which lexicon is used. Is it intended to give greater options here?

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