L/V 10 Tip of the Day #47 Greek New Testament variants visual filter

MJ. Smith

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 as should this Reading List within the application.

This tip is inspired by the forum post:Textual Variant - Logos Forums

This tip is built specifically for this pair of resources:

• Holmes, Michael W. The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition. Lexham Press; Society of Biblical Literature, 2011–2013.
• Holmes, Michael W. Apparatus for the Greek New Testament: SBL Edition. Logos Bible Software, 2010.

This visual filter is built off searches suggested by Dave Hooton (variationUnit:*) to identify all variations and by Rick Brannan (negapp:(NA27 OR NA28 OR NIV)) to identify negative apparatus where NA27, NA28, or NIV take a different text.

• To make a highlight of the small superscript more visible, create a new highlight style -- I used a vertical red line and a bright text highlight. Save.
• Use a search to verify that Rick's search argument generates the results you want. You may want to modify the list of critical editions.
• Open the Panel Menu in the Search panel; select Save as Visual Filter
• Set the highlight to the style you created in the first step; save.
• Verify that the SBLGNT has the visual filter you created turned on (checked).

To also show all textual variants as per Dave Hooton:

• Add (variationUnit:*) as a second line in the visual filter.
• Choose a highlight -- I chose a green underline; save (yes, it is silly of me to use the common colorblind pair of red/green)

This solution is specific to the SBLGNT; each critical edition must be approached independently to see if it has fields equivalent to negapp and variationUnit to build the criteria around. As for the fields and their definitions, they can be found in the resource information panel in the Search fields section.