L/V 10+ Tip of the Day #224 Context Menu: below the line grouping: Labels

MJ. Smith
MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,407
edited November 21 in English Forum

Another tip of the day (TOTD) series for Logos/Verbum 10. They will be short and often drawn from forum posts. Feel free to ask questions and/or suggest forum posts you'd like to see included. Adding comments about the behavior on mobile and web apps would be appreciated by your fellow forumites. A search for "L/V 10+ Tip of the Day site:community.logos.com" on Google should bring the tips up as should this Reading List within the application.

This tip is inspired by the forum post: L/V 10+ Tip of the Day #175 Context Menu: below the line: Preaching theme & theological topic - Logos Forums

Labels are one of the most powerful tagging provided by Logos but one of the hardest to remember to use outside the Bible browser. Even when you become comfortable with the Context Menu it is easy to miss some of them as your selection must start on the first word tagged for the label to show in the Context Menu. Therefore, it is worthwhile building a visual filter for the labels to have a comprehensive view of them on the text.

  • On the upper left, the Concordance section of the Passage Guide shows all the labels in a passage, one kind of label at a time. Setting allow you to select the label to be shown.
  • On the lower left is my filter for labels. I usually set accents, semantic features, and syllables to a pencil underline as I don't wish to have the display overwhelmed with them. A simple change to the palette style returns them to the display
  • The middle column shows my preferred Bible with all other labels marked. The label has a 2 character abbreviation with a + following if the data also supports an interactive.
  • The right column shows the information panel in which the labels are expanded to show content.
  • I have marked a Figurative Language label in each panel.

My layout to explore labels so I remember enough to recognize when to go looking for one is:

  1. The Concordance Guide section of the Passage Guide
  2. Label documentation manual or glossary and the Help file
  3. The Bible with my label filter turned on
  4. The Bible Browser so I can easily play with the parameters. Note not all labels are supported in the Bible Browser.

Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

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  • JBR
    JBR Member Posts: 211 ✭✭

    This seems really interesting. I'm intrigued. Would you be willing to share the palette and visual filters you have set up for this? I've spent the past couple days looking at doing something like this and frankly I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed. I think I've figured out part of it but there's just a lot that I don't know and that will take me a long time to figure out.

    For God and For Neighbor

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,407

    I'm still tinkering with this as I'm not entirely happy with it but https://flshare.net/q34sp6 provides the visual filter MJES Tips Useful Labels Visual Filter.

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

  • JBR
    JBR Member Posts: 211 ✭✭

    Thanks for this. At first glance I can tell I was trying to make it more difficult than it needed to be. I'll spend some time getting more acquainted with it and then likely I'll be back with some questions.

    For God and For Neighbor