L/V 10 Tip of the Day #25 Bible formatting

MJ. Smith
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edited November 21 in English Forum

Another tip of the day (TOTD) series for Logos/Verbum 10. They will be short and often drawn from forum posts. Feel free to ask questions and/or suggest forum posts you'd like to see included. Adding comments about the behavior on mobile and web apps would be appreciated by your fellow forumites. A search for "L/V 10 Tip of the Day site:community.logos.com" on Google should bring the tips up.

This tip is based on the forum post: Significance of some verse numbers in bold? - Logos Forums

One thing that is not well-done by Logos/Verbum, in my opinion, is the documentation of the meaning of typographical features in the Bible text. In some cases, it is documented in the front material of the Bible. Some examples:

  1. In some cases, e.g. the NASB95, a verse number in bold indicates the start of a new paragraph.
  2. In some cases, e.g. the NABRE, an asterisk indicates a footnote while a superscript letter indicates a cross-reference.
  3. In some cases, e.g. the LSB, a superscript letter indicates a cross-reference while a superscript number indicates a footnote; a word may be italicized to indicate an imperfect tense.
  4. In some cases, e.g. the AMP, parens indicate additional meaning in original language, brackets indicate clarifying language added to the original text, . . .

In short, you as the reader will need to tease out the typographical conventions of the translations you use. There are, however, some conventions that as a reader, you have control over.

Here is the text of the ESV-CE with all the Bible formatting turned off. This is useful for what was called in the 60's & 70's "manuscript study" although it retains the paragraphs.

This shows the text with all options turned on. Note that the Bible Text Formatting option had no effect as there are no small caps, italics, bolds ... to show in the Bible text.  

The Show Red Letter in Bibles option is in Program Settings accessed via the Application Menu rather than in the Visual Filters.

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