Automatic Biblical People/Places tagging in PBs

I just recompiled a bunch of PB Bibles in 4.5a and noticed that Biblical Places/People are being automatically found and tagged. That's terrific! Is that a new feature, or have I not been paying attention? It even tags 'Galile' (note the spelling) in my Tyndale Bible (though it understandably misses Ierusalem and Iordan).

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David Sawyer

Nice

Bradley Grainger (Logos)

I assume you're referring to Biblical People and Places appearing on the context menu? If so, that's a feature of the context menu (in all Bibles), and not part of PBB. It uses a heuristic based matching the word you clicked on to known spellings of names of people mentioned in the current verse to determine what to display. (Though sometimes this heuristic is wrong: http://community.logos.com/forums/t/27677.aspx.)

Mark Barnes

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/335251#Comment_335251

I assume you're referring to Biblical People and Places appearing on the context menu? If so, that's a feature of the context menu (in all Bibles), and not part of PBB. It uses a heuristic based matching the word you clicked on to known spellings of names of people mentioned in the current verse to determine what to display. (Though sometimes this heuristic is wrong: http://community.logos.com/forums/t/27677.aspx.)

I hadn't realised that's how the Biblical People and Places links were done. It avoids tagging multiple Bibles, and now has this nice bonus of working for PBs too — a really elegant solution!

Bohuslav Wojnar

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/335251#Comment_335251

I assume you're referring to Biblical People and Places appearing on the context menu? If so, that's a feature of the context menu (in all Bibles), and not part of PBB. It uses a heuristic based matching the word you clicked on to known spellings of names of people mentioned in the current verse to determine what to display. (Though sometimes this heuristic is wrong: http://community.logos.com/forums/t/27677.aspx.)

...and now we need to teach Logos heuristic based matching of the words to speak Czech ...and Polish ...and you know... [:P]

Jerry M

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/335377#Comment_335377

This function only works if you have every verse tagged with Bible milestones. I have a Bible where I omitted verse markers and only used chapter markers. So it is in paragraph form without any clutter. Only the chapters were given Bible milestones. Biblical people, places and things are not picked up in this Bible.

Mark Barnes

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/335397#Comment_335397

This function only works if you have every verse tagged with Bible milestones. I have a Bible where I omitted verse markers and only used chapter markers. So it is in paragraph form without any clutter. Only the chapters were given Bible milestones. Biblical people, places and things are not picked up in this Bible.

That would make sense. Because the same word could be used in different contexts, the 'tagging' relies on knowing exactly what verse the word occurs in. (Incidentally, as milestones are invisible, there's no reason why they couldn't be used even if the verse numbers aren't shown in the text.)