L/V 10+ Tip of the Day #102 Program settings: prefer lemmas

MJ. Smith

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This tip is inspired by the forum post: Double Clicking Not Working from Bible - Logos Forums

Verbum Help (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2022). said:

Double-Click and Triple-Click actions

This setting controls how the Double-Click and Triple-Click Actions behave when text is selected in Verbum resources.

• Look up — This action will run the Look up action on the selected word.
• Search — This action will open the search panel and run a search.
• Search inline — This action will run an inline search within the resource.
• Select word — Double-Clicking within a resource will select a single word.
• Select paragraph — Triple-Clicking within a resource will select a single paragraph.

Text Selection

This setting controls how text is selected in Verbum resources.

• Character — selects one character at a time. Allows for the most precision, with no automatic help to “snap” to word or phrase boundaries.
• Word — selection snaps to word boundaries as defined by the Unicode standard. This is the default setting.
• Smart — selection snaps to "smart" text boundaries, such as phrases, verses, sentences, or paragraphs.

Note: The Word and Smart selections can be temporarily overridden by holding Ctrl (Windows/Mac) while making a selection. Text selection will be character by character as long as the key is held down.

Show Selection Menu

This setting controls whether the Resource Text Selection Menu is displayed.

Prefer Lemmas

The Prefer Lemmas setting controls what actions can be taken on surface text or underlying lemmas selected in Verbum resources.

For our test we want Double-Click Action set to Look up and Prefer Lemma set to No. This means that we expect to see the surface text used to find the word in a dictionary.

To illustrate the behavior we select the NRSV which has a reverse interlinear and the Darby which does not have a reverse interlinear.

Double clicking on either Bible opens the highest priority English dictionary - in this case "brother".

However, if Prefer Lemma is set to Yes, one is asking to use the reverse interlinear lemma for the dictionary instead of the surface text; if there is no reverse interlinear, the surface text will be used.

Now double-clicking on "brother" in the NRSV uses the lemma data to bring up the highest priority Greek dictionary (lexicon); in the Darby, there is no lemma data so the English dictionary is brought up.