Questions about creating Personal Books

Paul Gibson

I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction on how to create Logos Personal Books. I've been using the Logos Text Comparison tool, and I'm fascinated that at the end of the verses it shows a % difference. I've wondered how some of the modern English versions compare with early English versions.

I was able to download a copy of the King James Version 1611 text (Herbert 309, for Bible collectors) and I'm working on making it a Logos Personal Book. What I have so far isn't complete, but it's a pretty good start. It has the Old and New Testaments, but not the Apocrypha. The main text has the original spelling, but the pericope headers (is that the correct term?) have modern spellings. There aren't any marginal notes.

I've looked at the documentation for personal books, and I've had success at creating one, but there are a few things that aren't working quite as I'd like.

https://wiki.logos.com/Personal_Books

 1. Is there a way to create a link in the Personal Book to point to another location in the PB? For example, in the KJV, the pericope headers all come right after the chapter number, not at the beginning of the pericope, so I'd like to link those to the correct verses. If I put in this code by the pericope headers [[29 >> Genesis 29:1]], the PB moves to the top of the chapter, not the verse. At the beginning of each verse, I have something like [[@Bible:Genesis 1:29]] [[@Headword:Genesis 1:29]] for each verse. I've tried @Headword and the link both with and without the space after Genesis but it didn't work. I also tried changing the colon to a period, but that didn't help. If I type Genesis 1:29 or Gen 1:29 in the search bar, it moves as expected. I assume this is using the [[@Bible:Genesis 1:29]] rather than [[@Headword:Genesis 1:29]]. I'm stuck on how to get this to work.

 2. Is there a way to have one Personal Book link to another Personal Book? Study Bibles typically come as two resources, the Bible and the Notes. If I eventually add the notes, I'll need to figure out how to link the two documents. I think I need to hard-code a resource name into the documents (like KJV1611 and KJV1611Notes), but I'm not seeing a way of doing that.

 3. I found an article on search fields, but I couldn't get them to work. I'd rather put these in the document rather than have to type them in when imprint into Logos. I put these in the PB right before Genesis. The field names appeared to be recognized, as the text appears in the books (but not the field names), but I can't search on the info in the library. How can I add these to my PB?

https://wiki.logos.com/Search_Fields_List

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I downloaded a bunch of Personal Books that were linked to at the bottom of the first article, but I haven't found examples of how these features are supposed to be used.

If someone could point me to some more comprehensive instructions and/or examples, I'd appreciate it.

Dave Hooton

Paul Gibson said:

 1. Is there a way to create a link in the Personal Book to point to another location in the PB?

Paul Gibson said:

I have something like [[@Bible:Genesis 1:29]] [[@Headword:Genesis 1:29]] for each verse...

Verses should not automatically be an internal link in a bible. @Bible makes the verse accessible from outside, as with all bibles.

Internal link references should be restricted to non-bible text at the start of a Bible book or chapter, and kept to a minimum.  I suggest you use MS Word Bookmarks for this because @Headword creates an Index which is normally used in Dictionaries.

• Pericopes

{{field-on:heading}}Pericope Text {{field-off:heading}}   ----> normal style

You can use a Books Search like heading:"Pericope Text" to find this (as with other bibles).

• Book/Chapter

Mark

[[@Bible >> Mark 1]] Chapter 1  

Use a Heading style to get two TOC entries. Then follow with your pericope and  verses in normal style.

Paul Gibson said:

 2. Is there a way to have one Personal Book link to another Personal Book?

See https://wiki.logos.com/Personal_Books#Resource_links

Paul Gibson said:

 3. I found an article on search fields, but I couldn't get them to work

They are correctly formatted. But they are meant to be used in a Books Search.  

Most of the information can be input into the PB tool, where you see Add field, and then they will be visible in Library.