What obscure features of Logos/Verbum do you use or know of?

There are features of Logos/Verbum that I would have never found (or even thought to look for) if I hadn't been shown them sometime by someone. I am curious what features others have found that are not easily found by trial-and-error (aka the design is intuitive) or from documentation/training.

To start the list:

FSD in the command box is probably the most common "hidden" feature - Facilitate serendipitous discovery. You never know what this will introduce you to.
the + in the word-by-word guide section for alternative morphologies
the double click on a resource tab to open the next resource in priority order

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Rosie Perera

This one is REALLY obscure, and probably not many would find it useful, but you can insert a newline character into a highlighting style to force line breaks that aren't there in a resource.

The trick here is to do the following:

copy the Emphasis Markup palette

copy the Newline Before And After style

edit the new style to include your desired text with the line break at the desired spot in your added text

move the style to whatever palette you want

The full context of that trick might be helpful in understanding it. Here's the thread where it came up:

Is there any way to insert a line break using a Highlighting style?

Frank Hodges

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1240630#Comment_1240630

ooo ooo ooo, I think I finally got one that y'all might not know. When in the Bible text there's a gesture to skip ahead to the next pericope (and skip back if you so please). How you do it is hold down the right-click button and gesture down to go to the next pericope or gesture up to go to the last. If you gesture left or right, it will just open a new tab with similar resources.. I don't use it much but it's cool to know! I'd love to know if anyone finds any use cases outside of Bible text where it might be helpful!
Also: Middle click closes a tab! and when I shared the double-click a tab feature on the Circle a while back everyone said there's no use for it when you can just press right arrow, but I use this ALL the time, you don't always want to exit out of your primary tab, but sometimes want a secondary tab open to another resource at the same spot as the first one! That's my favorite tip!

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1240656#Comment_1240656

ooo ooo ooo, I think I finally got one that y'all might not know. When in the Bible text there's a gesture to skip ahead to the next pericope (and skip back if you so please). How you do it is hold down the right-click button and gesture down to go to the next pericope or gesture up to go to the last. If you gesture left or right, it will just open a new tab with similar resources.. I don't use it much but it's cool to know! I'd love to know if anyone finds any use cases outside of Bible text where it might be helpful!

Hmm, I can't reproduce this one. Are you doing this on Windows? Where is your mouse pointing when you press on the right-click button? If I do this (pointing to anywhere within the Bible text), nothing happens when I gesture left or right (i.e., move the mouse pointer left or right) or up or down, as long as I'm still holding down the right-click button. And when I finally release the button, no matter how much gesturing I did before releasing it, the right-click menu pops up, as I'd expect. What am I not doing that you're doing?

Frank Hodges

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1240660#Comment_1240660

So yes I'm on Windows, and I haven't tried it on Mac yet. So the left and the right gestures don't really do much but open a new tab (same as pressing new tab button essentially). If you give me a second I'll record a video and show you how it works on my end.

Andrew Batishko

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1240660#Comment_1240660

Hmm, I can't reproduce this one. Are you doing this on Windows? Where is your mouse pointing when you press on the right-click button? If I do this (pointing to anywhere within the Bible text), nothing happens when I gesture left or right (i.e., move the mouse pointer left or right) or up or down, as long as I'm still holding down the right-click button. And when I finally release the button, no matter how much gesturing I did before releasing it, the right-click menu pops up, as I'd expect. What am I not doing that you're doing?

Gestures are no longer an actively supported feature. They've been left in the application for those used to them. In order to turn them on, you need to use the command: set use gestures to yes

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1240701#Comment_1240701

So yes I'm on Windows, and I haven't tried it on Mac yet. So the left and the right gestures don't really do much but open a new tab (same as pressing new tab button essentially). If you give me a second I'll record a video and show you how it works on my end.

No need. Andrew just explained why I can't use them. I do have a foggy memory of trying the feature out at one point in the distant past, but turning it off again because I didn't think I'd use it and didn't want to accidentally engage it.

Frank Hodges

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1240701#Comment_1240701

Not sure how well this will work, this is the first place I found to host the file, it's an MKV file. Amber wasn't working to upload a video on the forums so that's the reason for the link. I don't know how to put the setting on OBS to show when I right click, if anyone knows I can upload another video. I'm curious though if it's only something that's on my computer for whatever reason.

Frank Hodges

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1240704#Comment_1240704

Andrew just explained

par for the course [:D]

Rosie, it may be worth checking out, especially considering you can turn them off. I never knew I even turned them on!

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1240706#Comment_1240706

this is the first place I found to host the file, it's an MKV file. Amber wasn't working to upload a video

I just use the paperclip icon, next to Amber, for videos (.mp4) and logs.

John Goodman

I've linked Hebrew and Greek texts in a series so that BHW and Tyndale GNT behave as one resource. Same with HALOT and BDAG.

Brian Davidson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1240837#Comment_1240837

What do you mean by “linked … in a series“?

Morgan

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1240840#Comment_1240840

Setting a series essentially combines two or more resources in a super-set. Example, I have NA28 and BHS linked together. When i enter any OT passage into NA28 it will automatically switch to BHS in the same tab.You can do so with Greek and Hebrew lexicons and other resources as well. I created a series of my no. 1 commentaries so that when I link it to my bible it will always open to my favorite one.

To edit a series go to Library - Info - Series and click the pen.

Brian Davidson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1240861#Comment_1240861

Thanks so much. This is super helpful.

Great idea for a forum thread.

DAL

The web app is usable on Xbox as someone on Facebook noticed 😁

DAL

John Goodman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1240886#Comment_1240886

I run Logos on my steam deck, that's pretty niche.

Rich McCabe

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1241099#Comment_1241099

I run Logos on my steam deck, that's pretty niche.

Hmmm, would be curious what you are doing or if you can send me your stream deck file. Curious how that works. I have a XL I use for other purposes. Never thought about Logos.

GregW

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1241108#Comment_1241108

Hmmm, would be curious what you are doing or if you can send me your stream deck file. Curious how that works. I have a XL I use for other purposes. Never thought about Logos.

Steam decks and Stream decks are two different things - a Steam deck is a PC gaming console. I use a Stream deck primarily for Zoom and OBS Studio, but also have a folder set up for some of the Logos keyboard shortcuts I use regularly, so that I can do things quickly at the push of a single button without having to remember a lot of keyboard shortcuts. Someone shared a lot of Logos-specific button designs on here a while ago, which you could probably find with a Google search (other search engines are available!)

I don’t have the XL, but the Mark 2 15-button model.

Rich McCabe

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1241179#Comment_1241179

Yea we are talking about the same thing. I dont know anything about Steam Deck.

I know you can do keystrokes with it obviously. Just really did not think about that and Logos.

John Brumett

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1240837#Comment_1240837

I've linked Hebrew and Greek texts in a series so that BHW and Tyndale GNT behave as one resource. Same with HALOT and BDAG.

Give me an example on how to use this.

Willem J. de Wit

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1241300#Comment_1241300

I noticed that combining my preferred Hebrew OT and preferred Greek NT into one series is especially helpful for reading the Bible on my mobile. I have there a Dutch Bible (OT+NT) in the upper half of the screen and the Hebrew OT/Greek NT in the lower half of the screen. When changing from an OT passage to an NT passage (or vice versa) in the Dutch Bible in the upper half of the screen, Logos needs to know which resource it should show in the lower half of the screen. By combining a specific Hebrew OT and a specific Greek NT into one series, Logos will always display a resource from that series in the lower half of the screen, and not, e.g., some other Hebrew OT, Greek OT, or Greek NT.
Perhaps there is another way to achieve the same, but this works.

John Goodman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1241300#Comment_1241300

I've linked Hebrew and Greek texts in a series so that BHW and Tyndale GNT behave as one resource. Same with HALOT and BDAG.

Give me an example on how to use this.

I use it as my primary Bible, it means as I'm clicking through verses it works. Otherwise if you are in the NT and try to follow an OT link you need a different resource open. It just reduces tab clutter I suppose. For the same reason I have many resources prioritised so that I can use left and right arrows to move between them all without tab clutter.

DMB

This one is truly obscure (for me anyway). In another thread a customer was wondering why there was no word-for-word for Latin/English (good question). That'd be in the Passage Guide.

But then I noticed Word-For-Word (Passage Guide), essentially 'translates' the Peshitta!

Sort of a poor lady's interlinear for Syriac. Now, it only translates if you have a syriac lexicon with the word form ... poor ladies can't be choosers when they don't read Syriac! But it's better than literally word by word, manually.

Beloved Amodeo

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1241335#Comment_1241335

This one is truly obscure (for me anyway). In another thread a customer was wondering why there was no word-for-word for Latin/English (good question). That'd be in the Passage Guide.

But then I noticed Word-For-Word (Passage Guide), essentially 'translates' the Peshitta!

Sort of a poor lady's interlinear for Syriac. Now, it only translates if you have a syriac lexicon with the word form ... poor ladies can't be choosers when they don't read Syriac! But it's better than literally word by word, manually.

Denise, You've again managed to open a new world for me. Never did I think to change the reference in the Word by Word section of the Guide. Thank you and Merry Christmas!

DMB

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1241342#Comment_1241342

Denise, You've again managed to open a new world for me. Never did I think to change the reference in the Word by Word section of the Guide. Thank you and Merry Christmas!

And you too, Beloved! Merry Christmas!

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1241343#Comment_1241343

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