Book Titles in Passage Guide

It appears that the passage guide displays the short title for books rather than the long title. Prior to Logos 9, the passage guide would display the long title. In my library, I have edited the long titles of my commentaries to reflect the commentary ranking in bestcommentaries.

My question is this: is there any way to shift the passage guide to display the long title for books (especially commentaries) rather than the short title?

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SineNomine

My question is this: is there any way to shift the passage guide to display the long title for books (especially commentaries) rather than the short title?

Other than by deleting the short title (which is only possible if there is no default short title, i.e., the short title exists because you made one), no.

But you can edit the short titles.

In addition, editing the Series will cause the Series to display in the Passage Guide rather than the short title.

Paul Yeager

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1132701#Comment_1132701

Thanks for your reply

As far as I know, every book from Logos comes with both a long title and a short title. Each can be edited. Having edited a few hundred long titles, I'd like to have the passage guide default to the long titles when commentaries are displayed in the guide. It would be disappointing to have to repeat the work I've already done.

SineNomine

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1132712#Comment_1132712

As far as I know, every book from Logos comes with both a long title and a short title.

They all come with a long title. They do not all come with a short title. For example, The Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible and N. T. Wright's Mark for Everyone do not come with short titles.

Having edited a few hundred long titles, I'd like to have the passage guide default to the long titles when commentaries are displayed in the guide. It would be disappointing to have to repeat the work I've already done.

I sympathize with you. I've already edited dozens--possibly hundreds--of commentaries' titles, short titles, and series since I got my hands on Verbum 9.

Simon’s Brother

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1132712#Comment_1132712

FL made design choices in Logos 8 to cater for users of smaller screens, e.g. 13” MacBook Pro, at the expense of users with larger screens. It seems they have done that again here with this decision. I would much rather see the long title like you. Short title useless to me.

Thanks for your reply

As far as I know, every book from Logos comes with both a long title and a short title. Each can be edited. Having edited a few hundred long titles, I'd like to have the passage guide default to the long titles when commentaries are displayed in the guide. It would be disappointing to have to repeat the work I've already done.

Michael Hunt

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1132736#Comment_1132736

My main bugbear is that there is no consistency. If I pull up the passage guide for Luke 3:1-20 I get a random mix of short and long titles.

Along with consistency, I would like to see the alternate title displayed in the pop box when you hover over.

André Kamphuis

It appears that the passage guide displays the short title for books rather than the long title. Prior to Logos 9, the passage guide would display the long title. In my library, I have edited the long titles of my commentaries

I did the same and would love to have the guide use my own edited titles.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1132837#Comment_1132837

My main bugbear is that there is no consistency.

This bugbear should be quickly squashed ... unfortunately, I can't find the post from FL that gave the rules and Dave's minor correction to it. As I recall there was even a mention of SBL standards on series abbreviations.

Michael Hunt

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1133030#Comment_1133030

I know it is a bit pedantic but the user design architect inside of me always seems to wake up to this kind of thing.

Nice to hear that FL is looking to squash this. Still hope that the series abbreviations have a means of finding out easily and intuitively what they stand for.

André Kamphuis

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1133030#Comment_1133030

My main bugbear is that there is no consistency.

This bugbear should be quickly squashed ... unfortunately, I can't find the post from FL that gave the rules and Dave's minor correction to it. As I recall there was even a mention of SBL standards on series abbreviations.

Was it this thread? https://community.logos.com/forums/p/194962/1128531.aspx#1128531

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1133146#Comment_1133146

Yes, thank you.

Michael Hunt

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1133146#Comment_1133146

Yes thankyou. And I see from that post that I can get the details of the resource by hovering over its icon.

Jeremy

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1132701#Comment_1132701

My question is this: is there any way to shift the passage guide to display the long title for books (especially commentaries) rather than the short title?

Other than by deleting the short title (which is only possible if there is no default short title, i.e., the short title exists because you made one), no.

But you can edit the short titles.

In addition, editing the Series will cause the Series to display in the Passage Guide rather than the short title.

How do you edit the series?

SineNomine

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1141305#Comment_1141305

How do you edit the series?

Open a Library pane, select all the books you want to change, make sure the Info pane is open, and change the Series in the same way you would change the title. (You may have to scroll down to see it.)

Kiyah

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1132736#Comment_1132736

FL made design choices in Logos 8 to cater for users of smaller screens, e.g. 13” MacBook Pro, at the expense of users with larger screens. It seems they have done that again here with this decision. I would much rather see the long title like you. Short title useless to me.

As someone with a small screen (14 inch) I often feel like Faithlife forgets to design Logos with small screens in mind. I just had to report an issue recently that only affects folks with small screens yesterday.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1141514#Comment_1141514

As someone with a small screen (14 inch) I often feel like Faithlife forgets to design Logos with small screens in mind.

Many of the standard beta testers run multiple or large screens - I suspect we need more small screen users to test.

Kiyah

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1141517#Comment_1141517

As someone with a small screen (14 inch) I often feel like Faithlife forgets to design Logos with small screens in mind.

Many of the standard beta testers run multiple or large screens - I suspect we need more small screen users to test.

If this little 14-inch laptop of mine wasn't my sole computer that I can't afford to replace I'd be a beta tester myself. As it is, I've decided to heed the warnings to not install the unstable versions on my machine. Every now and then I'll install a release candidate if there's a fix or enhancement I've been waiting for (as I have done with 9.1 RC). But I don't install the beta versions.

Maybe they should make their developers use laptops. I bet they all have big fancy hi-res monitors. lol

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1141519#Comment_1141519

Maybe they should make their developers use laptops. I bet they all have big fancy hi-res monitors. lol

Of course they do, but they also have (their own) portable computers.

Jeremy

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1141760#Comment_1141760

Do the edited titles not make their way over to the Logos iPhone app?