BUGS, ERRORS and improvement wishes: Catholic Comparison chart

fgh

I assume you know about most of these, but I thought it would be a good idea to collect them in one place.

1) The customized prices don't show up:

Compare with product page:

2) Should the middle one be that much bigger? To me it just looks ugly.

3) The page opens with all sections collapsed. Extremely annoying. (Best would be if it remembered our last setting, but all expanded is at least better than all collapsed. (I very much appreciate the collapse/expand option itself, though!))

4) The nice popups when hovering over titles are missing.

5) Links to the individual product pages would be very much appreciated.

6) No New to you option.

7) No option to show the dots only for one package.

8) No Customize button. I can't believe Logos intended those extra offers only for Protestants. Admittedly some of them are rather Evangelical, but at least AYBD, Hermeneia, SESB and BDAG/HALOT should be of interest to Catholics. And the prices are very good.

(The Customize button should also be called something else, perhaps Add-ons or Additional offers. When I first saw it, I immediately clicked it, assuming it would customize the prices and/or the 'dots'. I was rather surprised to be taken to another page. And judging from some other forum posts, I am not alone in being confused.)

9) The page could print better.

10) As on the other comparison chart, all 'License included, File coming later' footnotes are missing, as are footnotes for only partially completed resources, and footnotes for texts that substantially differ from the printed versions (like Bibles missing apparatuses). These kinds of errors could get you into some substantial legal troubles, I suspect.

11) It seems the lists are intended to be in Alphabetical order, but in some sections that order is quite messed up.

12) Some series get one line, some series get multiple lines:

One line would be appreciated, in most cases.

13) I see Richter and WIVU morphologies, but no BHS. Is that correct? (Asked Vincent in another thread which he follows, so would expect answer later.)

14) Will I actually get the New Jerusalem, even though I'm in Europe?

15) The von Balthasar collection lacks number of volumes.

16) Several features and databases have different names than in the other comparison chart. This makes it very hard to compare! Are all the new databases included or not?

17) Some typos:

• Rahfs (Rahlf's)
• EcclesiasticalHistory
• Bernard Of Clairvaux
• Several (Armstrong) with no space in front

 

(Safari on Mac)

Louis St. Hilaire

Thanks for your report.

See my comments here on the state of the Verbum comparison page.

fgh said:

14) Will I actually get the New Jerusalem, even though I'm in Europe?

This refers to the Chesterton title by that name, not the New Jerusalem Bible. The error is that it has been miscategorized under "Bibles".

fgh said:

16) Several features and databases have different names than in the other comparison chart. This makes it very hard to compare! Are all the new databases included or not?

Yes. All of the new databases in main product line are available in the Verbum line. I think you get everything in Master's and up.

Louis St. Hilaire

fgh said:

13) I see Richter and WIVU morphologies, but no BHS. Is that correct? (Asked Vincent in another thread which he follows, so would expect answer later.)

I can answer this one as well. This is just another inconsistency in our titles. "WIVU Morphology" is the same as "Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia: with Werkgroep Informatica, Vrije Universiteit Morphology" in the main chart.

Thanks for catching this.

fgh

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/417123#Comment_417123

Louis St. Hilaire said:

See my comments here on the state of the Verbum comparison page.

I did, and I already assumed as much. I just wanted to list things together. Though just once it would be nice if you finished things first and launched them afterwards.[;)] (Bob's fault, I know; I'm not blaming anyone else.)

Though even in this state the website is better than the one I had to buy from two years ago.

Louis St. Hilaire said:

This refers to the Chesterton title by that name, not the New Jerusalem Bible.

Not quite the same thing.[:D]

Louis St. Hilaire said:

Yes. All of the new databases in main product line are available in the Verbum line. I think you get everything in Master's and up.

Good to know, However, I think things should have the same name here, on the other comparison chart, and in Logos itself.

And this goes for resources as well: Dear Logos: Please use same name.

Louis St. Hilaire said:

This is just another inconsistency in our titles. "WIVU Morphology" is the same as "Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia: with Werkgroep Informatica, Vrije Universiteit Morphology" in the main chart.

I suspected that, but since I'm no good at these things, I wasn't sure. Should be changed in both comparison charts (the other one lists these in a third way).

Addition:

18) I don't think Tooman should be under Modern Scripture Studies. It's a feature/database, isn't it?

 

fgh

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/417187#Comment_417187

19) New editions of existing books should have "rev. ed." or something like that after the title.

20) The Catholic pages should be linked from the 'Protestant' base package pages, as that's where potential customers are directed to look.