BUG: Old Notes Issue that never got fixed

It's been about 3-4 years ago that I brought this issue up in a forum post, and a Logos employee said that this ought not happen, that it was a bug that needed to be fixed. I'm talking about the red underlines that occur when footnote markers precede a word in the note pic above.

Obviously, this issue still persists. Can this please be fixed? Fwiw, I don't see the red lines in the Mobile app.

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Graham Criddle

Hi David

Obviously, this issue still persists.

What translation are you seeing this in? I don't see the same issue on my system

And are you using the Logos-supplied red underline or one you have created?

David Paul

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1272308#Comment_1272308

Graham, it is a note I created. I copied that passage into a note, and for some reason those red lines don't distinguish that the numbers aren't part of the following word. It's a coding issue.

Graham Criddle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1272311#Comment_1272311

Graham, it is a note I created.

Now I understand

Thanks David

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1272311#Comment_1272311

This how it appears in Logos 27.3, Win 11:

Times New Roman 11 (Default Notes style).

How come your fn numbers are different, and the alpha ones are missing?

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1272419#Comment_1272419

My initial reaction to the report was it was a CBV format issue - whether in the definition or in the execution ... I think you're on the right track

David Paul

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1272419#Comment_1272419

This how it appears in Logos 27.3, Win 11:

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Times New Roman 11 (Default Notes style).

How come your fn numbers are different, and the alpha ones are missing?

I erased them. I don't want or need the letter characters, because I don't want the references in my note. I keep the numbered superscripts because they correspond to the footnotes that I do keep in the note. I renumber them for the note so that each unique footnote entry gets a unique numbered superscript.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1272529#Comment_1272529

I erased them.

If in doing that you removed the space between the fn numbers and the following word, you would get the results you show - nothing Logos can do about a layout problem you created. If you go back and add the space after the fn number and the red line disappears, it will prove my theory. The red line indicates a spelling error.

David Paul

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1272530#Comment_1272530

Yes, adding the space makes the red line go away, but I didn't create the problem. Those notes were created in L3, and L3 didn't have this issue, or at least it didn't present in the pop-up window. When FL ported the program (or whatever they did) to L4, that introduced the problem. Because the note pop-up window is functionally useless now due to its puny size, I have to actually click on the note icon to open the note input window. With a space between the superscript and the word it applies to, the number is just plopped in the middle of the verse with no indication what it is associated with. The NASB95 that I have in hard copy has the superscript immediately preceding the text with no space. The spell-checker should be programmed to ignore superscripts.

David Paul

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1272536#Comment_1272536

Another thing that I used to be able to do in L3 was select the first superscript, then hold the Ctrl button and select all the other superscripts and apply the particular change I wanted all at once. Now, that no longer works either. The devolution of this program is incredible.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1272538#Comment_1272538

You're talking to someone other than me as I was not a Libby fan at all.

David Paul

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1272539#Comment_1272539

It needed some tweaking and updates, tbs. But multiple bread and butter features disappeared and have never been returned.

David Paul

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1272536#Comment_1272536

With a space between the superscript and the word it applies to, the number is just plopped in the middle of the verse with no indication what it is associated with. The NASB95 that I have in hard copy has the superscript immediately preceding the text with no space. The spell-checker should be programmed to ignore superscripts.

Comparing my first screenshot at the top of this thread to this one, the thing that has made the red lines disappear is the addition of the colon after the superscript. I find this rather bizarre from a technical perspective. If I simply add a space after the superscript, that makes the red line go away, too, and that makes sense since it creates a space between one and the other. The problem with that, though, as I described above (my third post above this one), is that it isn't clear what the superscript (ss) is for or what it is "attached to"--does it address what came before or what comes after? I experimented to see what I could do in order to indicate what the ss is "informing", and decided the colon would help indicate that the ss is pointing to what follows it. At first, I had a space following the colon, but then I realized that it wasn't necessary. That is what I find bizarre--if the space isn't necessary between the colon and the word that follows, why is there a need for a space between the ss number and the word that follows? Additionally, if it isn't needed after the colon (even though they are contiguous), it ought to be possible to make it work in like manner for the ss number alone.

That ONE programming change would save me having to individually edit 10,000 notes.