BUG: Incredible Context Menu dependence on verse number??

This genuinely provoked incredulity ... who would have thought that including/excluding the verse number in a selection had such a dramatic effect on the Context Menu? I tracked this down as I was trying to figure out why some of the speech did not seem to be tagged as direct speech ... but it also explains other seemingly random Context Menu quirks over the last few months.

This is the context menu as it appears when I start at the first letter of the text:

This is the Context Menu when I start at the first digit of the verse number:

Color me naive, but I don't consider verse numbers part of the Bible text and don't expect them to have any effect on the Context Menu beyond the reference element. Nor do I think the inclusion/exclusion of a leading space should affect the Context Menu if that is the true culprit. I am also concerned that this has not previously been caught because it is, to me, truly bizarre behavior.

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DMB

I won't color you naive.

But coincidentally, I was admiring that logic today. But it chose reference, if I highlighted the number, else selection. Yours look like both selection?

Andrew Batishko

Generally speaking, most things on the left side of the context menu come from the content at the first selected word. Compare the lemmas that are provided by right clicking on a word in your Bible compared to a phrase. There are a few obvious exceptions, including the "Selection" option (which includes your entire selection), the milestone option (which includes all milestones that intersect your select), and situations where you have multiple words selected that are aligned with a single original language word in the reverse interlinear, but everything else is displaying the data associated with the first word in your selection.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1264303#Comment_1264303

Generally speaking, most things on the left side of the context menu come from the content at the first selected word.

I know but you missed my point. Including the verse number (or a space) doesn't change the first selected word but it does change the Context Menu. I am one of those odd people who think "first selected word" should mean "first selected word" not "first selected non-textual character" or "first selected space".