Question about linked sets and second editions

I understand Stephens's use case to be that he has any NICONT commentary open and then wants to switch to Romans and open the Romans edition in the commentary series. This works in Logos - by looking into the series field. The problem is if a series has more than one commentaries for a biblical book and the user, such as Stephen, wants a specific of e.g. the three existing ones.

The real (and simple) solution is to take out the ambiguity for Logos and have the desired work go with the same series name as the other ones, and change the series field for the undesired versions (thus changing both to be more precise won't cut it, and a layout won't work either, unless you open the specific Romans resource, which will be unnecessary if Stephen studies e.g. James).

Beloved Amodeo said:

NB.Mick said:

The real (and simple) solution is to take out the ambiguity for Logos and have the desired work go with the same series name as the other ones, and change the series field for the undesired versions (...)

I want to be sure where you're coming from here, would you kindly set up this example and define the problem?

The problem is that when entering a new bible verse location into the locator bar of a commentary, Logos looks whether this bible verse is dealt with in the current book, if not, it looks up for a book in the same series that treats this verse. If there are multiple such books, it might open the one first indexed, possibly the older one, or any of the two/three. The solution is to have only the newest edition in the series   

I set it up for my NICONT series and put "old edition" in front of the series names where I have more than one commentary for a book (I use numeric mytags to be able to sort/filter commentaries by bible book, the numbers resembling those Logos uses internally for the resourcenames)

For Logos, I now have two different series, NICONT and "old version - NICONT". The NICONT series only has the newest editions of those books I own.

EDIT: the link set will be carried along to new resources opened from the series, so the commentary will follow when the location of the bible in the link set is changed, and the newly opened resource will be in the the link set. The former commentary resource will automatically close. 

Beloved Amodeo said:

NB.Mick said:

(I use numeric mytags to be able to sort/filter commentaries by bible book, the numbers resembling those Logos uses internally for the resourcenames)

Where did you find these numbers that Logos uses?

I used them many years ago for collections (I think those are still in the wiki somewhere and maybe were built first by Mark Barnes), but the idea is easy. Gen = #01, Ex = #02 through Maleachi = #39. Mt = #61, Mk = #62 ... making Rev = #87. Deuterocanonical books fill #40 through #59 like this:

Beloved Amodeo said:

Is it critical to only have two named elements composing this series? I have three: Classic, 1st, 2nd.

It is not critical, but different: I understand the use case to intend the most current edition to open, but to have as full coverage as possible. If 2nd is a series name for you, you can jump only from new edition to new edition, but will miss out all the many many books that only have a "first" edition - and within the 1st edition you can never automatically open a 2nd edition because it's in a different series. If the info about which wave of editions is relevant for you, in my opinion it is better kept in tags or title changes - the series name needs to be the same for all most current editions to work (and it might be worthwhile to keep the FL-provided standard there)   

NB.Mick said:

Beloved Amodeo said:

NB.Mick said:

(I use numeric mytags to be able to sort/filter commentaries by bible book, the numbers resembling those Logos uses internally for the resourcenames)

Where did you find these numbers that Logos uses?

I used them many years ago for collections (I think those are still in the wiki somewhere ...

Logos Wiki => Canonical Commentary Collections

Note: Minor Prophets may include up to 12 Bible Books in one Bible Commentary resource.

Beloved Amodeo said:

" rel="nofollow">Keep Smiling 4 Jesus said:

NICNT series has three editions of Romans

For Murray's I use Classic. KS4J your approach is exacting and extends to your approach with Bibles. I'm not saying you're wrong, but as a layman I prefer less precision. There are other books in the NICNT series with "classic" editions.

My past experience has had many opportunities for old, prior, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, ... so learned naming using date allows for more than one old version.

When changing Bible location in a series, which has more than one resource with desired Bible location, the first one shown is alphabetical by title. For my "Top 2 Commentary" Series with more than one commentary for most Bible verses, my oldest Top 2 Commentary appears first. Can use right key for quick navigation to newer parallel resource (tend to read/skim oldest one first for Jewish insights - content year written reminds me of newer items not known by John Gill: e.g. Dead Sea Scrolls, Israel becoming a nation, ...).

Keep Smiling [:)]

Beloved Amodeo said:

Would you care to either direct us to a source or list the books and parts of books you're referencing?

Although Faithlife allowed an uninformed Orthodox employee to modify the data to be inaccurate and less complete, the canon comparison tool covers this.

• additions to Esther are precisely that - the LXX Esther is longer than the MT Esther.
• Azariah, Susanna, and Bel are additions to Daniel for the same manuscript tradition reasons.
• Letter of Jeremiah is usually the final chapter of Baruch
• Prayer of Manasseh is usually the final chapter of 2 Chronicles in Eastern Christianity but not Western
• 1 Esdras is generally canonical in Eastern Christianity but not Western
• 2 Esdras & Ps 151 most notably are in the Slavonic canon
• 3 & 4 Maccabees and Psalms of Solomon appear only in less common or historical canons

Regarding the Prayer of Manasseh:

Wikipedia said:

The prayer is included in some editions of the Greek Septuagint. For example, the 5th century Codex Alexandrinus includes the prayer among fourteen Odes appearing just after the Psalms.^[3] It is accepted as a deuterocanonical book by Orthodox Christians. The prayer is chanted during the Orthodox Christian and Byzantine Catholic service of Great Compline. It is used in the Roman Rite as part of the Responsory after the first reading in the Office of Readings on the 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time (along with Psalm 51). In the Extraordinary Form, in the Roman Rite Breviary; in the corpus of responsories sung with the readings from the books of Kings between Trinity Sunday and August, the seventh cites the Prayer of Manasseh, together with verses of Psalm 50, the penitential Psalm par excellence.^[4] It is used also as a canticle in the Daily Office of the 1979 U.S. Book of Common Prayer used by the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, and as Canticle 52 in Common Worship: Daily Prayer of the Church of England.

I strongly encourage you to read Müller, Mogens. The First Bible of the Church: A Plea for the Septuagint. Vol. 206. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996. (The First Bible of the Church: A Plea for the Septuagint | Logos Bible Software)

NB.Mick said:

For Logos, I now have two different series, NICONT and "old version - NICONT". The NICONT series only has the newest editions of those books I own.

I follow a similar strategy for Tyndale Commentaries (49 vols) and use Tyndale Originals (21 vols) for the previous versions (and I will soon be getting another 3 updated volumes!).

But I renamed the main series as Tyndale's Commentaries to avoid volumes being abbreviated as TNTC and TOTC in Passage Guide (Logos 9)! 

John C Connell Jr. said:

Is there a way in the LIbrary to select all of the second editions in a series, say Tyndale Commendaries? 

I think you may have missed my response just prior to your query.

If you put them in a separate series, you can access them via the Series name in the Filter sidebar.

John C Connell Jr. said:

But you must do each one separately, not as a batch operation. Is that correct?

OK!

In Library, select Series in the sidebar Filter and select your Tyndale series (there may be two or more, so you will have to repeat what follows):

• select each "second edition" title using CTRL+Click (but don't click the actual title)
• click the Information icon in the toolbar at the top  (the "i" in a circle)
• click the series name under Series and alter it for all the titles you selected
• repeat as necessary if there is another (Tyndale) series

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The Series name will show "Set series for all" only if the selected resources belong to different series.

Note that you can select all Tyndale series if you type series:Tyndale in the Library Find box.