Poetry Formatting in Loeb

As excited as I am to see Logos moving into publishing works from the classical tradition (ie. Noet), I've been a little disappointed to note that the Greek in the latest Homer editions appear to be formatted in paragraph format instead of as verse. While I don't yet have access to the files to verify this, I have already noticed that the Aeneid has been published like this (see below).

Could anyone comment?

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Greg F

I should also note that I have hard copies of both the Aeneid and the Iliad in the Loeb editions used by Logos for their scans, and none of the original language material is printed in paragraph format.

Dean J

I've been concerned about the number of transcription errors in the Latin references of some Logos books. I hope the Loeb series are of a better quality, though the cauo instead of cano in the first line doesn't inspire confidence. But this seems to be the only error on the page.

Greg F

Yes, after I get done posting about the paragraph versus verse problem, I'll post some screenshots of tagging and transcription problems in the Loeb Latin versions. You're right, Dean, the cauo/cano error in the very first line of the Aeneid doesn't bode well.

But in the meantime, I just received the Loeb Homer editions, and they're in paragraph format. I haven't yet returned a purchased Logos resource, but this is close to unacceptable.

As a comparison, here is a correctly formatted Iliad:

Dean J

They really need to do better than this if they want to make inroads in the Classics market--using their Loeb edition (minus the Loeb formatting) one doesn't even know what line they are reading.

MJ. Smith

Logos is usually very quick to correct this type of systemic error - let's wait for a response from them.

Kyle G. Anderson

We apologize for this. This was a mistake on our part. We are currently working to get the affected resources updated. We will let you know when they are updated.

George Somsel

My guess is that this is the result of following the format of Logos' exemplar. The Perseus files have it formatted as poetry. Perhaps you could give an URL since there is more than one listing.