L/V 10+ Tip of the Day #248 Understanding the Interlinear and the Reverse Interlinear

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: n/a

There are some very useful interactives to help users understand what an interlinear and reverse interlinear are and how one goes from an interlinear to a translation. Once you understand, you'll likely never use the interactives again except in a teaching capacity. There interactives are found in the Library:

• Interlinear Explorer
• Reverse Interlinear Explorer

They each have an initial page on which you select and example. I am showing them side by side.

Selecting the verse brings up the text of the verse:

Each subsequent page (note navigation at the bottom) adds a line to the interlinear and provides and explanation for that line.

Eventually you reach the end of available new lines.

At that point the Bible Interlinear Explorer switches mode to consider the translation process:

and one can navigate through the five steps listed ... complete with animation

and

This information is fundamental to using the Bible tools effectively although there is nothing special to bring them to a new user's attention.

danwdoo

I had no idea these existed. This should be something exposed in a way that most new users encounter it in a natural way as they use the program. Seems like the home page if nothing else is missing a great opportunity for helping new users learn the program better.