New Original Language Bible Visual Filters

We had a discussion recently about a few new visual filter options (that would probably be nested under Bible Text Only) that I wanted to get your feedback on and see if you'd find them useful.

A year or so ago, we added an "Apparatus indicators" visual filter to a couple of Greek Bibles (NA28, UBS5), which allows you to hide the apparatus markers separately from other formatting (i.e., instead of having it grouped with non-Bible text).

We've talked about a few others in the Greek New Testament:

Diacritical marks
Punctuation
Spaces
ALL CAPS

On the Hebrew Bible side, we've discussed these:

Niqqud / vowel (and consonant) points
Cantillation / accent marks
Punctuation
Group as paragraphs

Cf. this, this, this, and this.

Which of these would you find useful? If we did only a couple, which ones should we do first?

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Lee

On the Hebrew Bible side, we've discussed these:

Niqqud / vowel (and consonant) points

Cantillation / accent marks

Punctuation

Group as paragraphs

Which of these would you find useful? If we did only a couple, which ones should we do first?

It would be great to have the ability to selectively highlight (NOT hide) 2 and 3 above.

DMB

GREEK:

4. ALL CAPS

HEBREW:

4. PARAGRAPHING

Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

Which of these would you find useful? If we did only a couple, which ones should we do first?

All of them would be helpful for various studies.

Hebrew & Aramaic (priority 1 & 2 for me)

Niqqud / vowel (and consonant) points
Cantillation / accent marks

Greek: New Testament plus LXX (priority 3)

Diacritical marks

Visual filter idea for Hebrew is "scroll" flow (so letters flow in a tab similar to an ancient scroll).

Keep Smiling [:)]

PetahChristian

Hebrew: Group as paragraphs

Lee

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1051891#Comment_1051891

Don't mean to take us on a rabbit trail. I am intrigued by "group as paragraphs" in the Hebrew text. What would that be based on?

Reuben Helmuth

Thanks for considering these, Phil!

My priorities would be:

H: Paragraphing
H: Cantillation
H: Niqqud

FWIW, I find the Bible Text Only section a bit backwards logically. The top level checkbox turns a set of filters ON then the second level checkboxes turn individual filters back OFF. In my mind the top level should be called something like "extra-textual elements" and should be on by default (consequently all the sub level boxes would be checked by default as well).

Veli Voipio

We've talked about a few others in the Greek New Testament:

Diacritical marks

Punctuation

Spaces

ALL CAPS

I've been using a tailor-made font doing 1. and 4. and I've been very pleased with it.

This might be off-topic, but I would like to have the ability to set resource-specific fonts: ancient fonts, and also such Latin font that looks different than the inerlinear below, also with the possibility with all caps.

Avi

On the Hebrew Bible side, we've discussed these:

Niqqud / vowel (and consonant) points

Cantillation / accent marks

Punctuation

Group as paragraphs

Cf. this, this, this, and this.

Which of these would you find useful? If we did only a couple, which ones should we do first?

I'd love to see the option for all four!

DMB

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1051892#Comment_1051892

Don't mean to take us on a rabbit trail. I am intrigued by "group as paragraphs" in the Hebrew text. What would that be based on?

Tiny rabbit trail. Only speaking for me.

Hebrew, the preference would be run-on. But I doubt most (99%?) would like that. Paragraphing was a (much) later feature, which in many cases, demands a later interpretive layer. But we must be practical ... at least removing versification, like greek options.

Greek caps, actually, just removing case (whichever). Case also speaks to later interpretations.

Added to short rabbit trail:

In designing neural nets for hebrew, you, by necessity, have to strip sentencing, for the neural layers to more accurately find the patterns (which means the interpretive sentencing layers are significant, especially when the neural is looking for redaction layers). Not germaine to Logos, but illustrating the issue.

Beloved Amodeo

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1051885#Comment_1051885

GREEK:

4. ALL CAPS

Most helpful for the non-specialist in the house. And for Hebrew:

Hebrew:

Non-pointing

Bruce Dunning

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1051885#Comment_1051885

GREEK:

4. ALL CAPS

HEBREW:

4. PARAGRAPHING

This is also my priority although all of the features would be wonderful to have at some point.

Phil Gons (Logos)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1051892#Comment_1051892

Don't mean to take us on a rabbit trail. I am intrigued by "group as paragraphs" in the Hebrew text. What would that be based on?

BHS in print uses paragraphs rather than one verse per line.

Mark Barnes

I've suggested several times a visual filter to transliterate text (not just in Bibles, but in all resources that have original-language material). That would be a big help for most people, especially for the less well-known languages such as Syriac.

Reuben Helmuth

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1052071#Comment_1052071

I've suggested several times a visual filter to transliterate text (not just in Bibles, but in all resources that have original-language material). That would be a big help for most people, especially for the less well-known languages such as Syriac.

I like that idea, especially in light of Syriac and Arabic.

Lee

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1052048#Comment_1052048

Don't mean to take us on a rabbit trail. I am intrigued by "group as paragraphs" in the Hebrew text. What would that be based on?

BHS in print uses paragraphs rather than one verse per line.

Thanks for the info.