Format Layout of Clippings

Hi Deon

I haven't come across multiple columns in clippings before.

What section of which commentary are you clipping?

Are you able to provide a screenshot of the commentary section and the resultant clipping? (For details of providing screen shots please see http://wiki.logos.com/Screenshot)

Graham

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224898#Comment_224898

Thank you Graham, for the reply.

Please find below: Bible commentary and then clipping.

Thank you so long.

Regards,
Deon

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224918#Comment_224918

When you made your clipping was the graphic included or excluded from the selected text? I'm trying to recreate the problem on a different text.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224919#Comment_224919

Hi and thank you for the reply. Graphic was excluded. I have just tried again to make sure the graphic was excluded.

I have also just tried to drag only one sentence from the commentary to the clipping. It kept the format at 2 columns.

Deon

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224920#Comment_224920

Hi Deon

I don't have that commentary and can't reproduce it with other texts (MJ may do better)

Does this happen with other commentaries in the same series?

Graham

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224918#Comment_224918

I have done a few experiments with this. In order to reproduce you result, I needed to have the resource in 2 column view with the graphic selected. You said that you were dragging the text to the clipping file. I cannot do that in L4 Mac; I had to use the right-click menu.

As I said, I could not reproduce your result unless I also selected the graphic. In that case, I am not sure whether the clipping is in 2-column, or if it is just leaving room for the graphic, which is not copied into the clipping.

Please find below: Bible commentary and then clipping.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224934#Comment_224934

Graham & Jack. Thank you once again for time in helping me out.

This happens for all clippings of this commentary where the image of the little tree is.

A screenshot below where I have selected both columns to confirm that it is indeed 2 columns.

It is not a train smash when in 2 columns but it is now taking up double the space it should.

Thank you once again.

Deon

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224944#Comment_224944

Hi Deon

The fact that this occurs in a different commentary (your latest shot shows Matthew in the same series) shows that it's not specific to a particular resource.

Per Jack's comment above, do you have the commentary set to show 2 columns when you are producing the clipping?

Graham

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224946#Comment_224946

Graham, how do I set the display into one or two columns? I can add that when selecting something without the tree, the clipping is in one column.

Deon

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224947#Comment_224947

Graham, how do I set the display into one or two columns?

Deon, I'm not Graham, but I will answer your question. The following screenshot was taken with the resource as a floating window (Cmd-Opt-F).

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224947#Comment_224947

Deon

Left-click in the icon at the top left of the resource and choose "Paged view" - see http://wiki.logos.com/Paged_View for details..

Graham

(Note: If you are running the beta the details of this change slightly but the principle stays the same!)

Edit: Thanks, Jack!

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224955#Comment_224955

Hi Deon, I can confirm this problem happens regardless of whether you have your display set to 2 columns or not, because it is laid out in the resource in a 2-column table (the tree is column 1). So when you copy even just the right-hand column to a clipping, the 2-column table formatting comes across. I might suggest this is possibly a bug or undesirable behavior that Logos should consider fixing. But in the meantime, a workaround for you follows:

After creating the clipping, select all the text in it (Ctrl+A), cut (Ctrl+X), paste into Word:

Then select just the text in the right-hand column:

Copy that, and go back to Logos. Paste the text back into the clipping where you cut the table out. Voila!

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224954#Comment_224954

Deon, I was finally able to duplicate your clipping. In the screen shot below (Resource in 1 column throughout), the first clip was with all text selected, but not the graphic. In the second clip, I selected all the text and the graphic. In the final clip, I selected just the text beside the graphic, and this one gave me the result you are seeing. If you select text that extends even a few words beyond the graphic, the clip should be normal. You can then delete the extra text.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224960#Comment_224960

If you select text that extends even a few words beyond the graphic, the clip should be normal. You can then delete the extra text.

I tried my own advice, and it worked. The first clip is the last one in my post above. The second one is with three words selected from the next line.

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224961#Comment_224961

Jack, your trick didn't work for me. It copied the 2-column table with the three words after it (I had selected only the right-hand column, not the graphic, and the three words after the table):

I wonder whether this is a difference between the Mac version and the Windows version. I know you're using the former and I'm using the latter.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224963#Comment_224963

I wonder whether this is a difference between the Mac version and the Windows version. I know you're using the former and I'm using the latter.

I was wondering that myself even before I read your last line. At one point, I had even forgotten I was not in the Mac forum. [8-|]

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224966#Comment_224966

I wonder whether this is a difference between the Mac version and the Windows version. I know you're using the former and I'm using the latter.

I was wondering that myself even before I read your last line. At one point, I had even forgotten I was not in the Mac forum.

I've always kind of considered the Logos 4 forum to be platform neutral (we Windows users can share), with I guess a slight tilt towards Windows only questions. We don't really have a Windows only forum. Maybe we should.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224969#Comment_224969

Rosie & Jack.

Thanx for both of you. I have Win 7 OS and the "trick" that works in Mac, also did not work for me.

Rosie, your trick worked 100% for me.

Thank you once again for your time and effort in assisting me.

Deon