I joined a post a month ago about creating PBB Bibles. In particular, I was concerned about what versification schemes are supported for a Bible with deuterocanonical content. Someone responded that Logos has about 80 mapping systems. With little other knowledge by users on the forum, I decided to ask Logos support for help.
The response was essentially: "We are not trained on formatting and tagging personal books. The forums would be the best place to get assistance on creating your books." Additionally, a link to the Personal Book Tool section of the wiki was given for more information.
If there was information at that link, or the questions were known to be answered on the forums, I might have accepted that response. But, a quick check of the wiki and search on the forums would have shown that they did not. With no information on the mappings (versification schemes) having been released to users (as far as I can see), this response is unsatisfactory. I responded that I was dissatisfied, but also that there should be an escalation procedure where genuine queries that frontline support staff cannot answer are escalated to assigned specialist(s) within each department, as is the norm for support in many professional companies. Sadly, the impression is reinforced, for me, that Logos relies too heavily on its really helpful users to fill some gaps in providing support for its product.
That aside, I still have a few questions that I would appreciate some help with, if anyone might be able to point me in the right direction.
- What mappings (versification schemes) are available to use when creating a PBB Bible? Specifically how many verses are in each chapter and how many chapters are in each book, and what list of books are used in each mapping?
- In the absence of a suitable mapping, or public information on existing mappings, is it possible to create a mapping that is unique to a new Bible? (The required mapping is a cross between Vulgate and KJVA but does not exactly fit any standard scheme that I have seen.) I somehow suspect that each Bible has its own mapping which is identified by its abbreviation, and that a new Bible would therefore have its own mapping and not that of another Bible, but I could be wrong.
If so, what is the global limit or range of book/chapter/verse references that can be used for all mappings? E.g. does the range of possible milestones for verses in Daniel end at chapter 12, or can chapters 13 and 14 be used for mappings too, where needed?
- When using milestones for each verse, I assume that milestones are independent of each other. My concern affects a number of instances where the verse order is not sequential (where the order of verses is disputed by translators/commentators as displaced from their proper location, where the translator in this case has rearranged the order of the verses with the result that some are non-sequential e.g. v1, v2, v3, v4, v9, v5, v6, v7, v8, v10...). Will milestones work normally if the verse order is occasionally not sequential?
Before spending time on this project (which would be significant as all verses require tagging individually from scratch), I would need to have sufficient information that would indicate that the project could be completed successfully.
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks,
John Duffy
