Tip: Don't Do Searches in Scrolling View (if offline)

In this week's exciting (and a bit risque) episode, I was trying to look up 'prostitute' in a Logos resource I was reading:

https://www.logos.com/product/9212/jerusalems-rise-to-sovereignty-zion-and-gerizim-in-competition

This resource has an absolutely finite analysis of the Judah/Israel kings and their sins, carefully curated in hebrew, racked and stacked, etc. Surprisingly 83.3% (maybe a little less) had nailable sins against YHWH. I knew it was pretty bad. Even Ashur (Assyrian kings) had better luck.

Anyway, a forum question today involved temple prostitutes, which reminded me the jewish kings had a similar problem. So, I tried to search 'prostitute'. No results. I found it the hard way .... look for 'male' (the worst kind). That's when I noticed 'prostitute' was hyphenated. Hmmm. I turned the iPad sideways to eliminate the hyphen. Didn't happen ... still there.

That's when I noticed FL mobile landscape is a waste (?) in scrolling view. Same width as portrait ... lots of white space.

So, I turned off scrolling, and used landscape ... re-formatted (good), eliminated the hyphen, and search could now find 3 prostitutes instances. Yea!

Lessons from this curious episode:

- don't search in scrolling view (I assume online search is not so unsophisticated)

- and be adept at remembering a 39 character string preceding a search word, in search results (it doesn't even bother with space delimiters).

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Comments

JT (alabama24)

I love reading your posts, even when I don't always understand them. [:)]

I <think> you were stating that you were performing an offline search and having troubles. It is true that much of the search capabilities are crippled while offline. The mobile apps are called "readers" for a reason. [:P]

Side note: There are many troubles that pop up with having large amounts of downloads... so having a crippled search capability is really the icing on the cake. There is no reason to download large portions of one's library unless you are really in the middle of nowhere without internet for long periods of time. Even if someone did not have home at internet but drove into town once a week to go to Starbucks... don't download everything.

SineNomine

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1181929#Comment_1181929

I <think> you were stating that you were performing an offline search and having troubles. It is true that much of the search capabilities are crippled while offline. The mobile apps are called "readers" for a reason.

She shouldn't have been having these problems. Changing from scrolling view to page view should not affect search results. That is a Very Serious BUG.

DMB

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1181929#Comment_1181929

I have mixed feelings about this week's episode.

1. The Judah kings seemed quite reluctant to eliminate the 'high places'. Only the super-good kings bothered. That's quite curious, given all the hoopla over OT YHWH theology.

2. As SineNomine noted, a search with random errors is a big no-no, especially at church in class. Super-egg-on-your-face in class discussion.

3. Agree on large library. I think my Biblia has maybe 10 loaded. My Verbum, maybe 30. But having my own software (and the forum has MANY coders), the search facility sure looks like ... ok, really insulting ... high school. Only showing preceding text, and character chops, not even delimiting. It's like it was coded one night, after mowing the lawn and a cool one.

JT (alabama24)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1181940#Comment_1181940

Changing from scrolling view to page view should not affect search results.

I concur, but didn't understand that part of the issue. Have you verified the issue on your installation? My iPad isn't with me at present.