Logos Apparatus Tool Needs Some Work

I never used it. It showed up at some point. And yesterday I was looking at it ... maybe it'd be a good replacement for my apparatus panel in my layout. Nope.

- If you pull it up, you have to click every single apparatus listing to see it (or mouse every single listing).

- Even though there's ample room, you have to click the 'More' to see more. Logos designers super-love that one. Get paid by 'More'.

- For the Majority text (Hodges/Farstad), if the verse isn't included, it still displays the apparatus at Chapter 1 (whichever book)

- The tool doesn't respect the specialized font symbols (eg Hodges/Farstad)

- I guess by design, Comfort and Metzger aren't included (requiring separate reviews)

- And Logos' own textual variant resource is ignored

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MJ. Smith

Not disagreeing but I thought the Textual variants section was a replacement for the Apparatus section ...

DMB

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1279492#Comment_1279492

You're probably correct! I wonder why they did that. More money?

As above, I was hoping to use it, but the design is too inefficient; the Text Varients design also wastes time. Pretty though.

I'm one of those crazy people that looks to see what's in Logos (after many years!).

EDIT:

Looking at some more guides (there's bunches). I wonder if they've done a 'usability' test. I tried their examples. I'd say about 1/3 of the time, nothing happened. Personal Letters was especially mysterious.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1279493#Comment_1279493

Personal Letters was especially mysterious.

They've created almost none of the required labels; a case of vapor-ware.

Mal Walker

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1279576#Comment_1279576

Oh wow, I quite enjoy that term vaporware. Going to be using it from now on.