After running a search like a responsible forum user would, when I found users having a similar issue, I first attempted this reply in a Mac Forum. A man named Graham recommended I cross-post it here, so here I am....
Anthony Grubb | Forum Activity | Replied: Today 6:06 AM
David Medina:
For example, I am doing a study on Psalm 27. In the home page I enter Psalm 27 and after a delay it sends me to the Passage guide for Psalm 27. But wait.... while the Passage Guide and the Exegetical Guides are on Psalm 27 the MOST important item is not... the Bible goes to other psalms. Basically I have to enter Psalm 27 on the Bible just to get the right text.
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I am having a similar problem running the 5.2.1.0155 engine on Windows. I've got three screenshots that help show the problem. Say I was reading 1 Peter 3:6 and wanted to look at it in different resources, "as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening." 1 Pe 3:6 ESV For one who has familiarized himself with the NIV for decades, the last part of the verse sounds a little quirky or redundant, so one may be curious enough to look at it in other resources, such as an interlinear.
Now, as you see, when I am scrolling to that verse using the ESV as the "Link Driver" (A term used with Zondervan's Pradis) to get the other resources on the correct verse, suddenly, I am missing half the verse in the ESV, but I do have the entire verse displayed in the other resources. The "Link Driver" takes to long to change the reference, waiting until half the verse is hidden to count it as the appropriate reference (See Fig. 1):
Figure 1
This pushes users into doing unnecessary things like running a second instance of the version they prefer, thus crowding their workspace and memory (See Fig. 2):
Figure 2
Now, to answer the question, "Well, user, why not try scrolling your preferred resource up just slightly to view the whole verse?" Okay then I get something like this (note that in Figure 3, the reference has changed, and now the interlinear has jumped to an entirely different verse--but note that the two ESVs have not, even though 1Pe 3:5 is now the reference--or maybe they have, after all, they were careful to hide most of the verse which is now the accepted reference for the linked set):
Figure 3
In fact, I must admit, this workspace for the forum is working better for me than the main program! Awesome. Get these programmers over to the Logos 5 engine to get the "link driver" to set the reference to the first ENTIRE verse fully displayed, not set to the verse that is already halfway invisible. If there is some reason other users may like it otherwise, then may I suggest putting an option in "Settings" for this. But really, I can't foresee why anyone would want the verse halfway invisible to count as the reference for the entire linked set, and do we want too many confusing user options?
I hope someone in Logos programming and implementation can see this post and let me know...
Thank You!
