Various places in Logos 4 don't allow the text to be selected. One example is the book info page. Another is the library. Please restore this functionality. Thanks!
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Various places in Logos 4 don't allow the text to be selected.
Which ones did you have in mind, apart from Resource Info and Library?
Mouse selection in Library is not a good idea because of resource selection conflicts. Ctrl+A Ctrl+C might work better.
Well, you can't select in search, either. It seems a pointless decision. In Logos 3 I would sometimes perfom a search and copy/paste the results (or a subset of them) but now I can't. It seems to be that select/copy is disabled almost everywhere apart from when reading the resource.
As for the library, I accept your point. But its still needed because we don't have a bibliographic report.
I brought this up often in the beta testing:
http://community.logos.com/forums/t/2937.aspx
It seems it is being worked on, but I don't know at what priority level.
Her is my thoughts on copy and paste:
Currently copy and past is either nonexistent - or where it is implemented it's behavior varies from tool to tool.
The type of copy and past behavior I like the best is how it is done in the information tool.
In the picture above I am able to ctrl + click as many articles or verses as I want and then copy them in one click.
The only thing I would add to this is a copy and paste button on the right like there is in the "copy bible verse tool" (see below)
It would be essential (I think) for this Idea to work for the "copy bible verse tool" (pictured above) to have the settings set by a drop down menu from the copy and paste icon.
So now all of your tools would have the same copy and paste behavior. For example if you did a lemma search for the word δίδωμι you would get the following:
You could now ctrl + select as many verses (or all the verses) click on "copy and paste" (with it set to go directly to your word processor of choice) and you are done.
Better yet, you do not have to have the copy bible verse tool open at all to copy and paste directly into Word, OpenOffice, etc.
So to sum up:
1. Have consistent copy and paste behavior in all tools.
2. Have "copy" and "copy and paste" and for some tools "select all" icons integrated into the tools.
3. Have the "copy and paste" icon have a drop down menu so you can select the formating and where it is to be pasted to in all tools.
4. The selecting of verses in search results would be treated like they are in the current information tool (see markup above)
5. When setting up formating for the "copy and past" behavior there should be a setting to retain the highlighting. This would make life a lot easier.
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