Logos Apparatus Tool Needs Some Work

DMB
DMB Member Posts: 13,414 ✭✭✭
edited November 21 in English Forum

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

"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.

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  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith Member, MVP Posts: 53,072 ✭✭✭✭✭

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

    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."

  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 13,414 ✭✭✭
    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.

    "If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith Member, MVP Posts: 53,072 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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.

    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."

  • Mal Walker
    Mal Walker Member Posts: 388 ✭✭✭
    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.

    Current MDiv student at Trinity Theological College - Perth, Western Australia

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