Power Lookup - unexpected behaviour, problems, suggestions
I like the possibilities offered by the Power Lookup feature. BUT:
1) I think that it's trying to be two thinks at once: auto-lookup and power-lookup. When I click on a bible reference and chose power lookup, I am presented with a range of possible texts featuring the reference. It appears to follow down the prioritised list of resources and then work alphabetically through my bibles. But, if I open one of these books and scroll slightly, it changes to an auto-lookup feature presenting me with all the information in the footnotes. I lose all the information in my power lookup. When run from a bible reference, this should not be set automatically to "Follow".
2) The way the results are displayed has taken me a while to understand. It is not immediately clear that the way to open these resources is to click on the bookname title. I can't work out why the HBC reference is cut-off mid word.
3) Several resources appear as purely blank. They appear to be graphical resources and the like. These should be permanently excluded from the feature.
4) I would still like some explanation about how these bible reference "hits" are arrived at. Sometimes the commentaries appear in these lists and sometimes they don't even if the verses are dealt with in the broader pericope.
5) As I've mentioned elsewhere, this feature appears in different places on the context menu depending on the datatype.
6) When I do a power lookup on an English word, the quick search of bible dictionaries is wonderful. Some of the same problems occur as with bible references. Note the lack of information in the NBD:
7) Note also the different information when one searches for "Pharisee" (sing.). The search really needs to be 'fuzzier'.
8) I am unable to trigger a Power Lookup for expressions rather than just single words, eg Son of Man.
9) It is not at all clear to me when I want to view footnotes etc. in a separate pane that I should open a feature called "Power Lookup." This makes perfect sense for the sorts of searches above - and those on Greek or Hebrew Words, but it is not at all descriptive of the practice of viewing references. Would not a Feature called Reference Viewer or somesuch be clearer?
10) I really appreciate the easy "copy" feature, once I worked out how it functioned.
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Yes, I'm very frustrated with my Power Lookup window changing by itself after I've done a lookup on a word...usually an automatic reference lookup on the resource to which I just switched to do more reading.
And it can't get back to the original lookup listing without repeating the original lookup from scratch!
[:@] <- angry eyes
Thanks Damian for pointing out want I need to do to work around it.
MacBook Pro (2019), ThinkPad E540
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Any chance of a response...? esp. regarding "fuzzier" searching?
I just did a power look up on the English Word "Parables" and got only two hits: New American Standard Updated Edition Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible and in Nave's Topical Bible. "Parable" (sing.) provides a wealth of possible places to explore.
I really do love the possibilities inherent in Power Lookup for Words and for Bible References (less so for it's seemingly intended purpose of following along references).
The problems in Power Lookup are carried over into the oddly named "Open" item. When I accidently hit "Open 'Parables' in a new tab', it churched away until I got the concordance.
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All of these issues remain unaddressed.
It's not much of a power lookup if it can't find anything for "parables"
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