Bug: Headwords not 'closing' in Personal Books

When you add a new headword in a Personal Book, the old headword is supposed to close, so you only have one headword at a time. For some reason that's not working for me in one of my Personal Books:

What's also interesting is that this menu appears anywhere after the first headword (i.e. even before the second-fourth headwords appear in the text).

The following document is an extract from my PB that will reproduce the error: 0167.Headwords.docx

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Don Awalt

According to this thread the Headword notation itself also has to be in the Heading 1 style. Have you tried that?

Mark Barnes

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/512802#Comment_512802

According to this thread the Headword notation itself also has to be in the Heading 1 style. Have you tried that?

Thanks for pointing that out. I'm pretty sure that never used to be the case. Can anyone else remember what the behaviour used to be/should be? My document doesn't really lend itself to H1 headings at that point.

DominicM

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/512844#Comment_512844

I think it used to back in L3, but not in 4 or 5

I think we do need an anchor type tag, would make such a difference like in this case being able to link to the correct place in a document

Mark Barnes

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/512909#Comment_512909

I've done some more experimenting, and it's not that the Headword needs to be in a heading 1 style. I think it's possibly some combination of the length of the line, the headword's position, and the style. I don't know. But I do know that a headword in the middle of a long paragraph in a heading 1 style will produce this error, whilst a headword and the beginning of a short paragraph that's not a heading style won't produce the error.

Mark Barnes

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/512909#Comment_512909

I think we do need an anchor type tag,

You can do that with Word bookmarks.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/512930#Comment_512930

When you add a new headword in a Personal Book, the old headword is supposed to close, so you only have one headword at a time. For some reason that's not working for me

It's always been my understanding that headwords are associated with an article and do not assume their position in the text, unlike bible milestones. My document structure is:-

Heading 1

Heading 2

...

Heading 2

...

....

Heading 1

Heading 2

...

etc.

Headwords are listed with their Heading 2 article, irrespective of position (some are in the heading line, some near the end), and all search results appear under the Heading 2 article. And the list from your document is consistent; all headwords being part of a Heading 2b.

But I do know that a headword in the middle of a long paragraph in a heading 1 style will produce this error, whilst a headword and the beginning of a short paragraph that's not a heading style won't produce the error.

Where is the short para in relation to the start of the article (Heading 1)? Logos could have divided your Heading 1 into multiple articles because the text was too long!

Mark Barnes

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/513003#Comment_513003

It's always been my understanding that headwords are associated with an article

That makes sense, actually, even though it's a frustrating limitation. I'm sure that you're right.

Where is the short para in relation to the start of the article (Heading 1)? Logos could have divided your Heading 1 into multiple articles because the text was too long!

If you're right that headwords are associated with articles, then my testing makes sense. The one occasion when I got it working not in a heading was when it was at the beginning of an article.

I guess therefore to make this work, we would need the ability to create arbitrary article breaks, as proper Logos books sometimes have.

Michael Chambers

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/513007#Comment_513007

3568.test.htmlI've been working on this and have a solution that works (for me).

I am creating Personal Books for online documents with 500-1000 or so numbered paragraphs, broken into 50-100 deeply nested sections.

I wanted to be able to

jump to any numbered paragraph, and
display a paragraph number in the jump box

when clicking on it
scrolling the page so the paragraphs was at the top of the page

keep the Table-of-Contents-Headings (Left Pane) clean with just the named section titles and without all the numbers

My solution was a header that only has the Headword in it : <h6>[[@Headword]]</h6>

It appears that Logos pulls out the special Headword syntax, and then finds the header tag is empty, and so does not include it in the TOC.

I can't tell if the forum accepted my attachment, so they are available on my Google Drive here: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B2eWQkQh4CwiQkczS0VWSE03dGM&usp=sharing

(I edit in HTML, and then open the html in Libre Office, save it to docx, and then build in Logos)

Michael Chambers

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/552685#Comment_552685

LibreOffice likes to override my stylesheet with extra inline styles, so I've added inline styles for the paragraph spacing in my Personal Book templates (updated in the Google Drive link above)