L/V 10+ Tip of the Day #317 Tracking down the odd comment

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: TIP-ish: Scrounging the Outer Margins of a Subject in Logos - Logos Forums

DMB said:

Skip this tip, if you don't find yourself trying to track down an odd statement.

For me, yesterday, it was a note in one of the Bibles at Acts 16:1 ... Timothy's father as 'aramean' in the Peshitta.  Searching 'aramean' relative to Timothy was not a promising pathway ... the Peshitta doesn't get much depth, and the issue is translation. Instead I thought I'd scan all my Acts commentaries in hopes of a clue.  [As it turned out, the issue was on the greek side, that the Peshitta picked up.]

Tip #1: If you have a large number of commentaries, and you've tagged them by Bible book. the Multiview tool is a quick way to scan through all of them.  In my layout, I keep this in a background window and turned off.  Then when I want to flip thru all my commentaries, I turn it on.  I select my appropriate Bible book tag, and go to work.

The alternative is the commentary sections in the guides.  The issue there, is you get a popup of who-knows-what, and then one-by-one, you have to check them.  Multiview can handle a large number of resources for in-depth scrolling. Yes, narrow, but the goal is just quickly scanning down for the problem.

Tip #2: Sometimes the rabbit trail tracks down a reference, but then 'who else' has it?? An example, is a footnote to Pauline parallels in the Clementine Recognitions.  The actual reference was to Patrologeia in latin (which Logos has!).  But where else in my library??  Easy.  Right-click the reference, and then on the right-side, check the Lookup section.  Quickly mouse the choices.  Bingo.

Now, I'd think (as a Logosian non-professional), that the parallel button in resources would achieve the same thing.  Maybe.  Maybe not.  I found it was hit or miss. Oddly on the miss side, there'd be other resources listed, but clicking thru was invalid (the cross-reference).  The right-click menu's pretty accurate.