In many Logos resources you can often hover over an abbreviation and a pop-up will appear showing what the abbreviation refers to.
Can we do these in PBs? And if so, how?
In many Logos resources you can often hover over an abbreviation and a pop-up will appear showing what the abbreviation refers to. Can we do these in PBs? And if so, how?
The pop-ups are footnotes and links. Links will display and open the resource linked while a footnote will pop-up and open the footnote. Create footnotes using the Word facility for inserting footnotes.
I tried that, but Logos puts a footnote number in front of the link, which is just an abbreviation (without a number) in the original document. I changed the footnote number in Word to the abbreviation I wanted to use, but in Logos it appears with a "2" in front of it, as it would be the second footnote in the document. And the next footnote, "2" in the original document, appears as "3" in Logos.
Here are visual examples of what I described earlier.
This is the original Word document:
The "LXX" is a footnote that I changed to read "LXX" and changed the font so that it would no longer be a superscript.Here is what happens in Logos:
It put a "2" in front of LXX and changed footnote "2" to read "3."
There must be another way of doing this. (And if there isn't, there should be.)
It put a "2" in front of LXX and changed footnote "2" to read "3." There must be another way of doing this. (And if there isn't, there should be.)
Delete one you already entered. Place the cursor after the text you want footnoted. use the menu to enter the footnote.
I think I understand what you are trying to do.
You don't want the "LXX" to point to a footnote - rather you want this to bring up a description (Septuagint, for example) when you hover over the word.
I can't think of a good, general way to do this at the moment.
If I use a test document as below:
This is some text with a footnoteand a reference to [[LXX >> logosres:coed11;hw=LXX]] followed by anotherfootnote
Footnote 1
Footnote2
then you will see that I am using a resource link to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary for LXX.
When I compile the book and hover over LXX then I get its definition
But this is a specific example and not very flexible.
With the options available to us at the moment I don't see any way of doing anything better than this.
Hopefully others will!
Graham
It could be regarded as a bug; not recognising a custom footnote mark. One possible way around is to compile one's own PB book of abbreviations/acronyms of type Dictionary as it would require a similar resource link.
Thanks for the ideas, everyone. It's not really important enough (to me) right now to do anything so elaborate. I was just wondering if there's an easy way to do this.
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