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Barnabas
Barnabas Member Posts: 508
edited November 2024 in English Forum

My question is this: is there a way to make double clicking on a word open up a reference to my own encyclopedia instead of / as well as Lexham Bible Dictionary?

John 3:17 (ESV)
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

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  • NB.Mick
    NB.Mick MVP Posts: 16,045

    My question is this: is there a way to make double clicking on a word open up a reference to my own encyclopedia instead of / as well as Lexham Bible Dictionary?

    If you built it the proper way (with headword milestones and as type:encyclopedia), you just need to prioritize it higher than LBD for that. 

    Have joy in the Lord! Smile

  • Barnabas
    Barnabas Member Posts: 508

    Alright Mick. I probably did not. I set it to encyclopedia and deleted the cover page prior, but if I have to manually, page by page change stuff, it's not going to work. I have an ebook of a Dictionary its 10 thousand pages or so.

    John 3:17 (ESV)
    For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

  • NB.Mick
    NB.Mick MVP Posts: 16,045

    if I have to manually, page by page change stuff, it's not going to work

    If your ebook in Word has a way to identify headwords (the Logos edition has them in larger, all-caps, bold type), there could be a Word search & replace function to search for that format and replace all occurrences with something like [[@Headword: %1 ]] or so, where [[@Headword:xxxxx]] is the syntax for a headword and you will have Word supply the found text as argument of the replace text.

    This should work in cases like yours - but please refrain from posting an example or sharing the completed work, as PBs are not intended as competition to books sold on logos.com.

     

    Have joy in the Lord! Smile

  • Barnabas
    Barnabas Member Posts: 508

    I'm not trying to compete and I won't post links or further examples. I thought specificity might help because I have no clue what I'm doing. I was reading the headword instructions on Logos' wiki but I don't understand it really.

    John 3:17 (ESV)
    For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.