View all commentaries on one page?
Is it possible to pick a text (Luke 15:1-2 for example) and aggregate all of your commentaries on those 2 specific passages into a document?
Would be incredibly helpful and time saving!
Thanks for the advice!
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Are you referring to more than the links Passage Guide (Guides>Passage Guide) provides?
do you want the software to follow each link and "copy-paste" a relevant section into a blank or existing Word document for example?
I can see some value in it, especially, if the resulting document will be more like a harmony (of commentaries) where they are organized in columns and follow each other verse-by verse...
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Could be very interesting. Although in my case I have to many commentaries to fit to one page in columns. perhaps select a few preferred commentaries and create a landscape page?
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If you have a finite number of go-to commentaries you could create a layout with them all up, including your Bible, linked so they scroll together. You could also create a Collection or a unique Tag of your favorite commentaries, and use the Cited By tool to have it pop up the related section of those commentaries as you scroll thru the Bible.
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Wordsearch bible software has a tool that is called instant verse study that will compile all of the commentary on a given verse or verses and allow you to paste it into word to be read from there or to be converted into a PDF or kindle document.
I think that it would be pretty cool to have the same tool in L5 IMHO.
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Jesse Blevins said:
Wordsearch bible software has a tool that is called instant verse study that will compile all of the commentary on a given verse or verses and allow you to paste it into word to be read from there or to be converted into a PDF or kindle document.
How is it different than a Search of Collection of chosen commentaries like this? Note also, it shows the challenge of making this a simple thing - the same passage is shown in A LOT of places in almost any commentary. To pick one is a very simplistic choice not likely useful to many.
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Brenton Jayatilaka said:
Is it possible to pick a text (Luke 15:1-2 for example) and aggregate all of your commentaries on those 2 specific passages into a document?
Natively using Logos 5.2b Beta 1 = No. Using Logos COM API, theoretically = Yes. Thread => Tutorial on Automating Logos4+ with ComApi in VBA
Ran Passage Guide (PG) for Luke 15:1-2 and searched Heading Text and All Text in a collection that includes Bible Commentary and Bible Notes resources.
Appears PG searches Bible Index for a resource so some resources are included that do not have these verses: e.g. "A Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Hebraica, Matthew-1 Corinthians: , Luke-John (Vol. 3)" and "Manners & customs of the Bible."
Dreaming of a PG option to show commentary text with triangle control next to title. Clicking triangle would retrieve verse(s) from resource. When desired resource(s) has verse(s) shown, then Print/Export
Searching Heading Text finds verses that have Heading text along with verse tagging, which is substantially less than searching Bible Index. Wish for Basic Search field of verse tagging.
Searching All Text finds many cross references.
Currently PG Print/Export can create a document with links to resources: (link on left opens resource to verse location)
Manually could open each link followed by copy and paste into Word. Potentially could use Logos COM to automate link opening with copy and paste.
Keep Smiling [:)]
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Don
It allows you to choose the commentaries from a list that you want to see the notes from. It instantly compiles them into a report that can then be read as a word document.
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Don Awalt said:
How is it different than a Search of Collection of chosen commentaries like this?
The Commentary Section provides a list of the commentary linked to the comments on the selected passage. The Search function provides a list of all references to the passage anywhere in the commentary.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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