BUG: Inconsistent Context Menu behavior

MJ. Smith

For the examples below I am using the following resources:

• Bercot, David W., ed. A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs: A Reference Guide to More than 700 Topics Discussed by the Early Church Fathers. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1998.
• Jones, Andrew, Robert Klesko, Louis St. Hilaire, and Jason Stellman, eds. Catholic Topical Index. Bellingham, WA: Verbum, 2013.

Example !: Here both a reference and a headword are shown. If one chooses Reference, no search section is built on the right and the Lookup goes into a prolonged build - sometimes in seconds, sometimes in minutes.

Example 2: Same example but with Headword selected. Note that there is no icon identifying the Headword. Here both Search and Lookup build quickly.

Example 3: However, in this resource there is no reference entry. However, the headword form behaves as expected ... assuming one expects it to build a simple text search ... ignoring completely that you are dealing with a headword.

Dave Hooton

MJ. Smith said:

Example !: If one chooses Reference, no search section is built on the right and the Lookup goes into a prolonged build - sometimes in seconds, sometimes in minutes.

I used A Dictionary of Christian Biography..  Vols I-IV (LLS:DICTCHRBIOLSD)

There is no Search and Lookup simply refers back to the same article.

MJ. Smith said:

Example 2: Same example but with Headword selected. Note that there is no icon identifying the Headword. Here both Search and Lookup build quickly.

Same experience with my book - which has two Headwords! I think the Headword should have an icon. But the Search does a text search instead of a {Headword ...} search (which does work).

MJ. Smith said:

Example 3: However, in this resource there is no reference entry. However, the headword form behaves as expected ... assuming one expects it to build a simple text search ... ignoring completely that you are dealing with a headword.

Same experience with NASB Topical Index. There is no Reference because it doesn't have a datatype (check the Indexes in Resource Information) e.g. your Dictionary probably has a Bibliographic Item datatype.