Sermon Builder Bugs in 39.0
Here are a few things (bugs?) I noticed in the Sermon Builder over the weekend. Some might be intended. Others might need to be corrected. (I am using Logos 39.0.408 and Windows 10 Pro 22H2)
- Typing two hyphens no longer autocorrects to a dash.
- The formatting keyboard shortcut Ctl+Alt+Shift 0 (zero) no longer returns the selection to the default Sermon Builder formatting.
- Selecting text in the Sermon Builder and then using the top menu formatting options causes funny text selection results after Logos applies the formatting style. To reproduce:
- Select text in a sermon document.
- Use the top formatting menu to select a color.
- Click any where inside the Sermon Builder document in order to close out the formatting panel popup. The red arrow shows where I clicked. And you can see that rather than deselecting my original text selection, Logos has now extended my text selection to include additional text.
- Then, you must still click one more time inside the Sermon Builder document to get Logos to release the text from being selected.
- Select text in a sermon document.
- Backspacing a line of text immediately following a Scripture verse causes the line to become part of the verse.
- Here's an example.
- Here's what happens. Performing this action in the previous version of Logos would have deleted the Scripture verse (which was my intention in the moment originally).
- Realizing my mistake, I tried to return the sentence to its original location (by typing Enter), and this was the result.
- Typing Enter one more time creates this situation.
- Here's an example.
- One thing I suggest adjusting: in Slides tab, the slides are now HUGE (with a LOT of space in between each slide)! Adjusting the slide size via the Panel menu also adjusts the text size in the Editor tab; so I didn't find that to a workable solution.
I hope those finds are helpful to your team. Blessings.
Edward
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I hvae seen a number of issues reported in Sermon Builder in Logos 39 - and hopefully your detailed list will help in addressing those.
One thing that intrigued me:
in Slides tab, the slides are now HUGE (with a LOT of space in between each slide)!
My office computer was still running Logos 38 so I took a screenshot of the slides view of a sermon document
I then applied the Logos 39 install and - without any changes - took another screenshot. For me, the slides are smaller in Logos 39 as well as having more space between them.
I am running Logos on Windows 11, what platform are you using?
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Began to work on 2nd draft of sermon in the Editor. Unusable. Everytime I try and make an addition it copies whole blocks, and then the keyboard becomes unusable for making corrections. There appears to be a fairly significant bug which is evidently impacting imput. Like to get my message done on Monday so I hope they get a fix out soon.
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There’s also a huge blank space on the left where the slides go. I think if you’re not using slides the blank space shouldn’t be there.
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Previously when I typed a Bible reference in a sermon and hit enter it pasted the text in the sermon. It was a huge time saver but it no longer does this after the update.
Also, when I clink on the three dots on a note, and selected "Send to: sermon:xxx" it would past the note into the sermon wherever I had my cursor last in the sermon, allowing me to paste my notes into my sermon template exactely where I wanted to. Again, huge help. Now however, it will only past the note at the end of the sermon template after the conclusion rather that where in the sermon outline I want it.
This is going to cost alot of time until yall get the bugs worked out.
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Also, I went I try to change a Scripture to a different style, it does so but deletes the reference.
The update also adds all kinds of extra spaces when pasteing.
And there are bugs in selecting text.
Can I go back to the previous version? This update has ruined Sermon Writer.
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I had a number of oddities when copying and pasting content in my Sermon Document that came from other sources in my library, like what you mention. But I haven't been able to get those bugs consistently reproducible yet. For example, …
- When I inserted an image slide (a map I made) into my Sermon Document, the image slide became the background of all of my other text-based slides in the Sermon Document (again, I couldn't get that to reproduce).
- I had inserted a quote from a commentary in my document; but when I decided to move it to a different location by cutting and pasting when I pasted it in its new location, it was no longer linked to the commentary location (I couldn't reproduce it).
- When copying and pasting quotes from books in my library that occurred one immediately after another, when I pasted them, they were merged into one quotation as if they all came from the same resource (I couldn't reproduce this).
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Graham, here's a screen shot of mine. It seems that the slide sizes dynamically adjust based upon the Logos window size. But notice the spacing between slides in my screenshot.
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No other news on this issue, except my concern that this issue was flagged while this iteration was in Beta. From various comments it appears that the issue is cross platform making it virtually impossible to use the Sermon Editor. As such, but many of us this is a big deal.
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Thank you all for your great feedback and bug reports in this thread. I have verified that cases have been created for a number of these issues, and I am creating cases for some of the new ones I have found in this thread. As for the few sometimes reproducible ones, I will take a further look at those and see about getting cases passed onto the team for those as well.
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