Dreams for Logos 4.5
Sorry can't help myself 
I know there's still plenty planned for the Logos team for the next few months, but dreaming about 12 months down the track....
It would be great to have a better way of doing finding textual critical information in Logos, at the moment some of the apparatuses are available in SESB and there are books on the subject and a new collection in prepub available. The TENTGM series is great but no real advance on using the print version.
While producing an electronic version of a print apparatus is useful, there is the potential to do it so much better! Since you're designing for software use and not limited by paper, why not build a Logos text-critical greek bible with every known variant from every known manuscript? If you succeeded in this Logos would become the standard for any serious textual critical work.
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Here here! I'll second that!
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While producing an electronic version of a print apparatus is useful, there is the potential to do it so much better! Since you're designing for software use and not limited by paper, why not build a Logos text-critical greek bible with every known variant from every known manuscript? If you succeeded in this Logos would become the standard for any serious textual critical work.
That's an impossible task given that new manuscripts are "found" all the time. I'm also not sure what use it would be. The science of textual criticism isn't based on counting noses and looking at every known variant from every known manuscript. It based on giving priority to certain old and reliable manuscripts that reflect the major families. You would also have to decided whether to include second and third hand changes to manuscripts. All extant manuscripts are copies of copies of copies and only the oldest copies in a family are worth studying. Having every known variant might help us discern how those families relate but it would be an overwhelming amount of work for minimal gain. But feel free to get started and I will buy a copy when you are finished!
Tom
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Tom, I take your point and maybe having every extant reading is unnecessary, but it would be possible with Logos to produce a critical text that's integrated rather than just producing electronic versions of print versions and apparatuses, even if it wasn't exhaustive...
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That would be amazing!!!!! But let's not forget the Hebrew Bible. [:)]
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