Searching for dictionary articles
Greetings all:
I have a collection of all my dictionaries and encyclopedias.
How do I search for the "main" article of APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE in that collection?
I do not want to search for every article that contains the words "APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE".
Thank you !
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Chuck Forsythe said:
How do I search for the "main" article of APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE in that collection?
Try clicking the All Text link and select Heading from within the Search Fields section of the dropdown.
The search will now only return results from those resources that have your selected phrase in the heading.
Note, some - older - resources don't have that tagging so some people choose to include the Large Text search field as well.
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Thank you Graham:
I clearly am doing something wrong.
When I add apocalyptic literature to the sear field I get these results (which lead Logos to say I have nothing that matches in the Dictionary-Encyclopedia collection:
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I guess pasting an image in the forums does not work.
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Well,
I guess someone is going to to have to teach me how to add an image to a forum post. Neither pasting it in the post or adding it as an attachment seemed to work.
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Chuck Forsythe said:
I guess someone is going to to have to teach me how to add an image to a forum post. Neither pasting it in the post or adding it as an attachment seemed to work.
Does this help? https://wiki.logos.com/Screenshot#Attaching_a_Screenshot
May need to make a page with pictures, though.
Have joy in the Lord!
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Thank you Mick
When I think I am following Graham's instructions, this is the menu I get. Then when I select Apocalyptic literature, Logos does not find anything in my library (despite owning 25 plus dictionaries and encyclopedias. :
Clearly I am doing something wrong, but do not know what.
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Two things.
First in your screen shot have you pressed ENTER yet?
The drop down displayed is a list of suggestions to further refine your search, but it is not your search results.
In case you did not know, ignore the drop down and press enter.
Second, if you have already done the above, what does your collection rule look like?
I created one as type:encyclopedia OR title:dictionary.
My apologies if you already know this, but I did not want to simply assume anything.
EDIT: p.s. You might want to add quotation marks around your search string "Apocalyptic literature".
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Chuck Forsythe said:
When I think I am following Graham's instructions, this is the menu I get.
Hm. I just used "type:enc" as the ad-hoc collection to look into, which looks like this:
Chuck Forsythe said:Logos does not find anything in my library
Do you by chance have "match case" turned on?
Have joy in the Lord!
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I did what Graham said (heading text) and in <encyclopedia> I get 82 results and in my Bible Dictionaries collection I got 66 results).
So it does work!
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Thank you all for your help. My problem is solved by your kindness,
Turns out, I was confused by the drop down menu. I assumed I needed to select "topic" to run the search. Wrong assumption. I only need to wade through the 80+ hits now.
BTW, I did not have match case turned on.
Chuck
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Have joy in the Lord!
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