Linking Question

Chris Elford

I'm not sure how to ask this question.

I'm wondering if there is a way to choose the kind of link you get to certain data.

I was looking at a section of Blass DeBrunner Funk's Grammar of the New Testament . . .  and found a term in Latin I didn't know. Right clicking didn't seem to give me any options, other than searching in the my whole library. Double clicking links to just one word and got the definition in the Dictionary of the Vulgate. What I wanted was to go to my copy of Pocket Dictionary for the Study of New Testament Greek.

Prioritizing it might get me there, but is there some other way to set up a link to resources that either help in a situation like this or are "guides" to certain other resources (e.g., Lexham High Definition Glossary or Introduction when you're reading the Lexham High Def NT). I know I could open them or set up a layout that has them all open with each other, but sometimes you link to a Grammar and then need help with understanding the Grammar.

I hope this makes sense and someone can help give a good solution -- even better if there is a way to do it built in that I haven't discovered or read about yet.

Chris

Dave Hooton

Chris Elford said:

I'm wondering if there is a way to choose the kind of link you get to certain data.

Prioritizing will set up your preferred resources for each data type (unfashionable old v3 word!) e.g. English, Latin, Greek, Bible. You should select at least 5 of each type. Then choose your resource from the right click menu. If a Latin word make sure you select the Latin tab. If Pocket Dictionary for the Study of New Testament Greek is a latin source** it would appear in the list along with Dictionary of the Vulgate.

** open your Pocket Dictionary and click on Information ( i within a circle) - you need to see Latin headwords as below.

 

Chris Elford

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/16440#Comment_16440

Dave Hooton said:

Prioritizing will set up your preferred resources for each data type (unfashionable old v3 word!) e.g. English, Latin, Greek, Bible. You should select at least 5 of each type. Then choose your resource from the right click menu. If a Latin word make sure you select the Latin tab. If Pocket Dictionary for the Study of New Testament Greek is a latin source** it would appear in the list along with Dictionary of the Vulgate.

** open your Pocket Dictionary and click on Information ( i within a circle) - you need to see Latin headwords as below.

Dave,

I understand the prioritization process and the problem is that the Pocket Dictionary is not indexed by Latin headwords. Yet, the purpose of the Pocket Dictionary is to define grammatical, syntactical, textual criticism, literary analysis, etc. terminology As the preface says:

This book is about the terminology. It is primarily for students—a companion volume to help them use the standard tools, understand the jargon and survive academic life.
The majority of the entries pertain to language study: some are terms from traditional grammar and literary analysis; others are peculiar to learning Koine; still others are derived from modern linguistic studies. This book also contains a corpus of terms pertaining to textual criticism.
Matthew S. DeMoss, Pocket Dictionary for the Study of New Testament Greek (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2001), 8–9.

-- some of those terms are latin terms, some are abbrev. In the case I was looking up it was two words, so double clicking only picks up one. Highlighting both words leaves you with only the right click option, but prioritizing the resources will not connect the Pocket Dictionary to the terms it is intended to define. If you can't link this resource to the Grammars, Syntactical analyses, Discourse analyses, etc. it is unable to serve that purpose.

This would be a weakness, IMHO. I hope there is a way to do this.

Chris

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/16459#Comment_16459

Chris Elford said:

If you can't link this resource to the Grammars, Syntactical analyses, Discourse analyses, etc. it is unable to serve that purpose.

Many books with potentially useful links are not indexed that way**. Go to v3, open the Pocket Dictionary and then select About This Resource from the Help menu. Scroll down to the Search Capabilities section, make sure all of the Data Types are showing and capture a screen image for me. Also capture an image of the Resource Information in L4, with all the Indexes showing.

 

** the latin words in the Grammar resource also have to be classed as Latin, but they may well be classed as English. Right click a word to check if Latin or English is shown on one of the tabs.