Footnotes are not tagged

Milkman

I just bought this resource,

Reprobation and God’s Sovereignty: Recovering a Biblical Doctrine

and every footnote is not linked to its referent; only Scripture texts are. Usually, the links are in blue.

Is this normal for such an "important" book? Published in 2022, or is there a setting that has been turned off?

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MJ. Smith

No it is not a setting but a function of (a) what was in the library when it was converted to Logos format (b) if it is a research edition (c) if the editions referenced are the same editions carried in Logos . . .

Milkman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1197099#Comment_1197099

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Rosie Perera

In my experience it is very rare that a book or article reference in a footnote is linked to the corresponding resource in Logos. In fact, in some spot checking just now, I couldn't find any that were links.

This is from an "important" book, N.T. Wright's The New Testament and the People of God.

Or did you mean that the footnote numbers were not links to bring up the footnote in a popup window? If that is what you meant, it could be that the book was not properly converted to Logos format. Do the footnote texts themselves appear at the bottom of each page in the book or at the end of each chapter? I don't own that book, so I can't check how it looks.

Milkman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1197105#Comment_1197105

The footnotes are found in the Appendix.

When I select the "link," the pop-up window appears, but the reference to the book is not hyperlinked, so I can't open that resource.

On page 78 of Reprobation the author writes:

When I click link 20, it opens to this, but page 497 is not blue and can not be opened.

497 refers to Schreiner's Romans commentary below and specifically the link number 15.

Throughout the book, links can not be selected to be opened.

Robert M. Warren

Hi True:

The book you bought is a Logos Reader Edition. See this link for details about the two Logos editions: https://www.logos.com/logos-editions . While the product page doesn't always note the Edition type (a sad reality), this one does. The second clue is that the Logos book was published right on the heels of the print book, which is a stated advantage of the Reader Edition. What I don't know is if there is an eventual expectation that the Reader Edition will grow up to be a man (i.e., be converted to a Research Edition).

Regarding footnote resource and page links in Logos Research Editions, there should be a general expectation that many will be 'live' links if the book being referenced is available in Logos, and your own it. This is 'general'. I don't know if, or how often, existing references are re-evaluated for links to recent Logos editions.

Milkman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1197117#Comment_1197117

Thanks, Robert. I should have read the book's description, whether it was a research/reader edition—my mistake. Thanks.