Better formatting in Sermons

xnman

I have often said I would like to see better formatting in Sermons.. and I realized today that I have never relayed what I meant by that. So here's my try at correcting that. The formatting I am talking about is as follows: (I am sure others will add their thoughts also as I don't see my thoughts as being end all to end all - lol)

1. I would like to better colors of words when I chose to color words. I run in "Dark Mode" most of the time. In "Dark Mode" say I color words to "yellow" to have them show up more readily, when I am speaking or teaching. The Green, the Red, the Blue just don't work. They are so "pastel looking" that they just don't stand out in "Dark Mode" and as such are almost useless in my opinion. Yellow does work, being more vibrant than the others, but still not as vibrant as it is in Notes.
   1. So I would suggest changing the colors in Sermons to at least match the colors that are used in other places of the Logos program, like Highlighting and Notes. This would be very helpful to people like me that use "Dark Mode"
2. I don't know if there is a way to accomplish this but….. I would like to see the "Slides" in Sermons take up less of the real estate that does now. The slide itself takes up about 1/5 to 1/4 of the real estate that Sermons use. When I get my layout of 3 vertical panes that I am working with, Bibles, Sermons, study aids, then the real estate for Sermons becomes important and with the slide taking up 1/4 of it, compacts the rest of the text.
   1. I might suggest something like…. a smaller Slide, and being able to "click on the slide" to pop up a screen to work on the slide presentation itself. That way the text of the Sermon could have more horizontal space and have more text on a line.

I know these are not "barn burning" thoughts. But I do think these would enhance Sermons quite a bit. 😎

Maria

@xnman

I am sure others will add their thoughts also

I'll take that as an invitation, lol… 😊

I'm with you on the text colors in dark mode. I'm able to use yellow, green, and orange; but, I'd vote for the contrast of all the colors being stronger. If you made a feature suggestion for this, I'd gladly add my vote.

As for making the slides smaller…I like being able to see which slide accompanies which text at a glance, as I review my lesson before I present. I feel like, if they were any smaller, I wouldn't be able to differentiate which slide was which. (I suppose you already know you can unclick "Show Slides" in the top-right hamburger menu? The slides will still show up under the "Slides" tab, but will stop showing in the "Edit" tab.)

My greatest desire is to be able to add text boxes to the slides at will, and to be able to insert images on the slides. Here's my post on that from 2 years ago, where a Logos employee replied and said he'd made a note of the idea. I don't think I ever created a feature request for it though…

https://community.logos.com/discussion/206045/sermon-builder-possible-to-have-multiple-text-boxes-and-images-on-a-slide

xnman

@Maria I agree with your thought of text boxes! Great idea!

And I would also like to be able to have links in Sermons to other documents. Who knows… maybe one day???? 😎