L/V 10+ Tip of the Day #148 Bible text formatting, an FYI

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 as should this Reading List within the application.

This tip is inspired by the forum post: Bible does not appear to be properly formated - Logos Forums

As a rule of thumb, Faithlife produces a Bible in the same format as the publisher from whom they got the rights. Therefore, in this unusual case, the print is in short lines for easy reading and quick comprehension. At least that's the purpose if you believe the research on the subject.

Resource: BasisBibel: Altes Und Neues Testament. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2021.

Format: 

However, in some cases the user may override the publisher's format by using the visual filter option: Visual filter > Resource > Bible text only > One verse per line.

Resource: The Cambridge Paragraph Bible: Of the Authorized English Version. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1873.

Format (default)

Format (one verse per line)

As for the Bible initially shown:

How about if you put it in 2- or 3-column view, and then it won't look so bad, because all the screen real estate is being used.

To put a book in multi-column view, click the 3-dots menu icon in the upper right corner, and then choose the number of columns you want:

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