Pick a Verse - Any Verse ...
Hey, does anyone know how to get Logos 4 to pick a verse at random from within a predetermined range (e.g. the book of Job, the NT, or the Pentateuch)?
Thanks in advance for your suggestions!
peace, rob
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Not sure if there's an undocumented random verse generator, but there is this undocumented random resource opener: type Facilitate Serendipitous Discovery (or fsd) into the command box and see what happens. [:)]
Is this an "Easter Egg"?[;)]
Yeah - except it is not very hidden. I think I saw mention of it on the day L4 was released from one of the Beta testers.
Blessings,
Floyd
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It's also been broadcast publicly on the Logos blog: http://blog.logos.com/archives/2006/02/facilitate_serendipitous_disco.html
It's just not documented in the Help file, but that doesn't mean it's a secret.
Kind of a fancy name for channel surfing, or in this case resource surfing. I guess it's better than playing video games.
Elder/Pastor, Hope Now Bible Church, Fresno CA
It's a way to help introduce you to some of the vast number of books in your library (you do have a library with a vast number of books in it, don't you [;)]). Some of us are used to just referring back again and again to the same old books, and this way we can discover more of what we've got available.
My thoughts exactly ... except I wanted to use a "facilitate random verse discovery" command to test-drive some of the less-used commentaries in my collection. So my "Book o' the Day" for today was "A Handbook on the Book of Job." Thought it might be fun (and instructive) to spend 20 min. or so studying a random vs. from Job using this resource (and whatever else I run across in the course of my work) (I'm pretty conversant w/Job itself, so a lack of context isn't really a concern for me.)
So I gather that the "Facilitate Serendipitous Discovery" command is the algorhythm Logos 4 uses to select the "Book o' the Day" ... ? [Y]
peace, rob
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Well that's cool --- I didn't realize (until I actually tried it out) that "fsd" takes you, not only to a random resource, but to a random location within that resource! Although it's not exactly what I was looking for, it'll do for my random exploration purposes. Thanks, y'all!
peace, rob
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If you hide all your books besides Bibles, it will take you to a random verse in the Bible (in a random version). [;)]