Tips & Tricks

Logos 4 Beta 1 doesn't have full documentation yet, so here's a few tips and tricks for features that may be a little hard to discover:

Use Alt+L or Ctrl+L to quickly open My Library; Alt+S opens Search
Drag My Library from the icon in the top left to dock it anywhere in the main window (for extended use)
Click the "Interlinear" button in the ESV, NASB, NRSV, NKJV resource toolbar to see reverse interlinear data.
Use the "Prioritize" panel in My Library to set your favourite Bibles, lexicons, commentaries
Press Alt+` (that's the backtick, in the top-left of the keyboard) to get a quick comparison of the active verse/selected text
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spitzerpl

Rename your resources to change the default selected from the command line. for instance I renamed the BHS 4.2 shortname to BHS, BHS 4.0 to 2BHS and BHS WIVU to 1BHS. To do so from the library select the item you want to edit and click next to the little pencil next to the current short name.

Todd White

Drag and drop external applications to shortcuts or bookmarks (like a shortcut to Word).
Drag and drop layouts and tile arangments to shortcuts or bookmarks.
F8 to show a presentation layer where you can draw.
Right click left side of interlienar area to turn of rows I don't care about.
ctrl+drag a tab to create a duplicate of that panel (some panels don't duplicate like My Library).
shift+drag a tab to move a whole group of panels.

Bob Pritchett

The command bar remembers the option you selected after typing something. So if you type BHS and it brings up two resources, but you select the second, the next time you type BHS it will default to selecting the second.

spitzerpl

So if you type BHS and it brings up two resources, but you select the second, the next time you type BHS it will default to selecting the second.

very nice, but what your telling me is that my changing the short name did nothing, right :-) Is the new shortname what shows up in the tabs when there are a lot of them opened in a pane?

Robert Pavich

This is slick...

You can create a custom PG (or EG or BWS etc) and drop it's icon onto the short cut area and then one click opens your custom PG like Logos V3 homepage...

nice.

Bradley Grainger (Logos)

Alt+D puts focus in the command bar, which allows you to quickly launch many things in the application; try "open ..." or "search for ..."
Ctrl+G puts the focus in the "reference box" of the current resource/guide

Lynden O. Williams

Alt+D puts focus in the command bar, which allows you to quickly launch many things in the application; try "open ..." or "search for ..."

Ctrl+G puts the focus in the "reference box" of the current resource/guide

Thanks Bradley. The more I read, the more I like it. Hmmm and we are just in the first beta. Wonder what is up the road? BTW do not drop the PBB or anything in v3.0. We want it all.

Robert Pavich

Scrolling the Interlinear pane:

If you left click/hold in the Interlinear pane of the ESV and drag..you can scroll fwd and back.

Why you'd need this I don't know....[:D]

Robert Pavich

From the other thread:

Hitting F8 allows you to draw right on the screen!

Hitting ESC takes Logos back out of drawing mode...

very very cool!

for those who teach using a projector this is a big thing!

Melissa Snyder

Logos 4 Beta 1 doesn't have full documentation yet, so here's a few tips and tricks for features that may be a little hard to discover:

Check out the Logos 4 Help resource, which is still under construction, by pressing F1 or clicking on the Help icon (?) on the right side of the command bar. You can also type show help on ... in the Command box to find help on a specific topic. For example, typing show help on guides will open the Help panel to information on Passage Guide, Edit Guide Template, etc.

Rick Brannan (Logos)

Logos 4 Beta 1 doesn't have full documentation yet, so here's a few tips and tricks for features that may be a little hard to discover:

I've found that I like to use the "Cited By" tool in conjunction with a collection of Greek Lexicons to give a quick list of articles that cite the active verse. This works with the Apostolic Fathers too (as shown below).

Also note how I formed the collection -- "title:lexicon -title:hebrew -title:syriac -title:targum -title:old -title:strong" (the minus '-' excludes, I made this list iteratively as I examined the results of the rule), and then drug L&S Intermediate (not one of my faves) to the ignore section. If/when I get another Greek lexicon that matches that rule, it'll automatically be part of the collection.

J.R. Miller

Sweet tip Rick. As I learn more about collections, I am liking the power to manage large libraries.

davidphillips

When in drawing mode, you can turn the scroll wheel while drawing a line to make the color of the line darker or lighter.

Also, you remain in drawing mode even if you alt+tab to different resources. This is a very cool feature! Note: to exit drawing mode, you must alt+tab back to logos 4.0 and then press escape. The screen will still appear to be in the other program, but pressing escape will then return you to 4.0. If you do not alt+tab back first, pressing escape will not do anything.

Robert Pavich

When I do that it changes colors completely...red, green, yellow, blue...

davidphillips

When I do that it changes colors completely...red, green, yellow, blue...

Are you turning the scroll wheel while you're still holding down the mouse button, that is, while you are still in the process of drawing the line?

Robert Pavich

No I wasn't but I just did and nothing happened...

Robert Pavich

I realize that this is a Logos feature but there are freeware utilities that do this; Sketch it! being one of them.

George Allakhverdyan

Also, you remain in drawing mode even if you alt+tab to different resources. This is a very cool feature! Note: to exit drawing mode, you must alt+tab back to logos 4.0 and then press escape. The screen will still appear to be in the other program, but pressing escape will then return you to 4.0. If you do not alt+tab back first, pressing escape will not do anything.

Good catch!

davidphillips

I just discovered that the reference box (Navigation box) is much more helpful than in 3.0!

In 3.0, if you were reading Romans 8 in the NIV and wanted to jump to Romans 10, you would have to type "Romans 10" into the box. In 4.0, you simply have to type "10." Or if you want to specify a verse, "10:3" etc. It assumes you are in the same place unless you specify otherwise. This is a great feature for quickly jumping around.

EDIT -- Actually, if you're in Romans 8 and you type in "10", it will take you to 8:10. It's even more precise. To switch chapters you do need to type 10:1 or 10.1.

For some reason if you are in chapter 1 of a book and you type "2" (or any other number) into the ref box, it will take you to chapter 2 (or whatever chapter number you chose). But if you are in any other chapter, the number typed into the reference box will take you to the verse of that chapter.

Melissa Snyder

For some reason if you are in chapter 1 of a book and you type "2" (or any other number) into the ref box, it will take you to chapter 2 (or whatever chapter number you chose). But if you are in any other chapter, the number typed into the reference box will take you to the verse of that chapter.

When I'm in chapter 1 of Romans, Genesis, 1 Peter, etc. and type "2" or another number, it goes to the verse: Romans 1:2, Genesis 1:2, 1 Peter 1:2. As soon as I type the number in the reference box the drop-down says Go to: Romans 1:2. I wonder what we're doing differently?

Melissa

davidphillips

Melissa,

Well, I don't know how this all works, but here's what I'm finding. If I Ctrl+G to Gen 1 --- Acts 1 and then Ctrl+G and type "2", it will take me to Gen 1:2 -- Acts 1:2.

Starting in Romans - 2 Peter, if I Ctrl+G to Rom 1 then Ctrl+G 2, I go to Rom 2 --- 2 Pet 2

I didn't check every book, but Revelation works like the first set. Ctrl+G Rev 1 Ctrl+G 2 --> Rev 1:2.

Further, if I scroll around in the book first, and then manually scroll back to Rom 1, then pressing Ctrl+G, 2 takes me to Rom 1:2.

Ok. I think I have found the reason for all this! If you open a Bible (or at least the NIV) and type Ctrl+G, Rom 1, the reference box displays "Romans 1" without a colon and verse number. From this spot, Ctrl+G followed by any number will take you to the chapter. However, not all books work lilke this. For some reason if you type Ctrl+G, Gen 1, the reference box displays "Genesis 1:1-31" not "Genesis 1". Once the colon and verse numbers are displayed, pressing Ctrl+G, then entering a number, will take you to the verse. So it all has to do with how the passage is displayed in the reference box, whether it is displayed with or without the colon and verse numbers.

I hope that makes sense. It's kind of difficult to type about

Robert Pavich

That's what drove me nuts with V3....the PG displays whole pericopes instead of the chosen passage