Commentaries and Bible not following.

Imagine a very simple layout with the Bible on the left and a 1-volume commentary on the right. They are both linked to "A."

I like to use the left and right arrows to scroll through commentaries (and Bible versions). Sometimes a certain commentary does not cover the verse or section I am looking at in the Bible. When I jump to that commentary, it goes to the next available section it has.

The problem is... is also moves my Bible. I want my Bible frozen but the commentary to follow it.

It seems like I should have figured out a solution by now, but I am stumped.

Hopefully I have described the issue clearly; ask questions if I haven't.

Thanks much for any help you can give.

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Paul M

If I've understood you correctly, this is the way that it is. See my original post here https://community.logos.com/forums/t/195814.aspx

DMB

It seems like I should have figured out a solution by now, but I am stumped.

Logos' solution to this problem was 'MultiView'. You open your Bible, click on the MultiView Icon, select one (or more ... I have 8) commentaries, and your Bible drives your commentaries.

When you scroll (left/right) as you'd like to, it's a disaster in the making ... Paul's thread above is a good example. Oddly, if you use MultiView and scroll left and right, it'll move thru your parallel Bibles (but not Multiview). But coming back, it pops open an in-text search panel ... that's an interesting mystery.

For anyone else, there's some interesting features about Multiview:

- Multiview works for more than just Bibles. You can line up your Josephus volumes, as an example.

- Vertical columns, you can adjust the column widths to enhance your favorite commentaries, vs less favorite.

- You can have multiple Multiviews. This is quite handy, when you want to group your commentaries by type, or some lexicons, etc.

- The software remembers your multiview choices per leader (my NRSV always has his commentaries lined up!).

- If you have a list of participating commentaries, for a passage, if a commentary doesn't talk about it, it drops out of the display. This is nice, when you have commentaries with only a few books (eg Continental).

- I keep two Multiviews in my standard layout. The viewable one has my main commentaries (6). But next door (tab), is a second one with 14! commentaries. The latter is for desperation ... does 'anyone' discuss this??