Using That's Easy for You to Say with Bible Translations

Previously I have read and watched a video on how to coordinate my Bible translations with That's Easy...

What I want to do is to be able to select a word from a Bible Translation and have That's Easy automatically go to that word for pronunciation. As a older video about this subject showed, I made That's Easy a priority under the ESV. They are the first 2 on my list. Did not work per the video I watched.

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MJ. Smith

I'm having trouble with it as well - it seems to prefer the Hebrew to the English dictionary for an English Bible. I'll check for setting I may have forgotten and then report an error if necessary. In the meantime opening the Information Panel (under tools) and leaving it open with give you access to definition and pronunciation.

See BUG in double-click lookup (dictionary) function. - Faithlife Forums (logos.com)

Graham Criddle

What I want to do is to be able to select a word from a Bible Translation and have That's Easy automatically go to that word for pronunciation. As a older video about this subject showed, I made That's Easy a priority under the ESV. They are the first 2 on my list. Did not work per the video I

I have prioritised "That's Easy" as shown

Now when I right-click a word, click Selection on the top left, I see That's Easy as one of the lookup options

If you aren't seeing this, please post screenshots (using paperclip icon) of prioritizations and what you see in the context menu

NB.Mick

What I want to do is to be able to select a word from a Bible Translation and have That's Easy automatically go to that word for pronunciation. As a older video about this subject showed, I made That's Easy a priority under the ESV. They are the first 2 on my list. Did not work

With "automatic" I assume you mean by using double-click, invoking Lookup. I think the issue is (and it may be a bug, or a feature I wasn't aware of) that the ESV has a Reverse Interlinear. In this case, Logos seems to assume people want the Lookup feature to look up the underlying Greek or Hebrew word, thus it opens the highest prioritized lexicon that has an entry on the Greek or Hebrew headword. Which is nice, but doesn't help you if you don't do original languages and just want to pronounce the English word. Using a bible with no Reverse Interlinear (like all but the most-popular dozen or so) will work just like you want. The old NASB 77 that came with WordSearch will work just fine, or several of the KJV editions.

EDIT: In another thread Graham brought up the reason for this: It's a system setting, probably default:

So when setting the prefer lemmas to No, the functionality will work for any bible, regardless of Reverse Interlinear, including ESV.

If the setting is "Yes", /EDIT

For a bible with Reverse Interlinear (like the ESV, NIV, etc) you'd need to right-click and then in the context menu click the first button on lookup, which will be "That's Easy":

j fields

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1141468#Comment_1141468

Okay, I really appreciate the help and I can access through the earlier instructions you sent. But now I am trying to find these system settings below that you mention. Can you please step me through that so it will work effortlessly with any translation.

EDIT: In another thread Graham brought up the reason for this: It's a system setting, probably default:

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1141499#Comment_1141499

It's a system setting, probably default:

The application tool bar on the righthand side has a menu icon (kebab, three dots). Click it to open menu. Select Program setting. This opens the menu on which you set Prefer Lemmas.

xnman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1141468#Comment_1141468

maybe I'm missing something here...but.... In WS I used That's Easy For You To Say all the time.... but in Logos I find it easier to use the features of Logos to pronounce the word.. For example, in the Bible window, click on the Interlinears icon and then right click the word you want to use then click "little round circle looking icon then click pronounce and walla... the word speaks.

Graham Criddle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1141501#Comment_1141501

maybe I'm missing something here...but.... In WS I used That's Easy For You To Say all the time.... but in Logos I find it easier to use the features of Logos to pronounce the word.. For example, in the Bible window, click on the Interlinears icon and then right click the word you want to use then click "little round circle looking icon then click pronounce and walla... the word speaks.

This works well for pronouncing original language lemmas - assuming you have the appropriate feature set - but it doesn't provide support for pronouncing English words.

j fields

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1141500#Comment_1141500

Wonderful! Worked like a charm. Thanks for the help

j fields

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1141505#Comment_1141505

Want to Thank EVERYONE for you help. This is what I have been wanting to do.

NB.Mick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1141506#Comment_1141506

Want to Thank EVERYONE for you help. This is what I have been wanting to do.

Great to hear! [Y][H]

Graham Criddle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1141506#Comment_1141506

Want to Thank EVERYONE for you help. This is what I have been wanting to do.

So glad to hear that - and please post back with any other questions you might have about the use of Logos software.