Logos vs. Verbum Factbook

Sean
Sean Member Posts: 1,774 ✭✭✭
edited November 20 in Resources Forum

I principally use Logos but have a few Verbum base packages from the various L# versions.

Today I was looking for information on St. Valentine and decided to start with Factbook. It only pulled up one dictionary article for me. I do have a number of Catholic dictionaries as well as works such as Lives of the Saints, but they didn't come up in the Factbook entry.

Question: do you have these automatically populate your Factbook in Verbum? If so, that seems somewhat of an artificial limitation to put on Logos. Is there any workaround other than installing Verbum parallelly?

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  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,402

    Sean said:

    Question: do you have these automatically populate your Factbook in Verbum? If so, that seems somewhat of an artificial limitation to put on Logos. Is there any workaround other than installing Verbum parallelly?

    Don't ask and I won't rant. But since you asked -- Most of the books of saints don't even have the saint names as headwords. However, even if they were appropriately indexed, the links to Factbook require some manual alignment. I believe they have yet to finish all the dictionaries and encyclopedias which have priority.When I look for Saint Valentine I find a personal name but no person ... in short, this is one aspect of why the Saints calendars are so messed up.

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

  • Sean
    Sean Member Posts: 1,774 ✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1192533#Comment_1192533

    Okay, thanks MJ! I knew I could depend on you to respond. [:)]

  • SineNomine
    SineNomine Member Posts: 7,043

    Sean said:

    Question: do you have these automatically populate your Factbook in Verbum?

    For Saint Valentine, I have a Key Article from the Catholic Encyclopedia and a dictionary article from ODCC. Meanwhile, the Factbook article on Valentinus gets me, among other things, four different articles from the EAC about not less than four men named Valentinus.

    “The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.” St. Peter of Alcántara

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,402
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1192748#Comment_1192748

    See Sean: Factbook entry issue - Faithlife Forums (logos.com) on Valentine

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

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