LSB Asterisk incorrectly removed as a footnote
Request for the Asterisk to remain when you remove footnotes in reformatting. It's helpful for reading and it is not a footnote indicator.
For those who don't know, an asterisk in the LSB indicates that a verb translated in past tense is actual historical present in the Greek. I believe the NASB has this too.
This means you can translate it in your head as you read. It makes for a more dramatic (as intended) read, especially in Mark.
E.g. "Such and such walked* into the market and said* 'can I buy a sack of potatoes?'" becomes "Such and such walks into the market and says 'can I buy a sack of potatoes?'"
It is used in modern English.
Even better would be an option to convert those words to the historical present where an asterisk is present.
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This bug report has received no attention.
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Doesn't anyone else who uses LSB on Logos notice and use this translation feature (the asterisk)?
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I don't question a preference for leaving in an asterisk in the LSB. I don't use it, though the asterisks do act as a footnote (intruding in the reading and explaining a translation).
It just seems to me, it's a 'modern' translating practice (supplying a past, to a 'historical present'). I sort my translations, in Text Comparison, by date, and the common philosophy/practice seems (*seemed?) to begin in the 1960s. Since I use an early 1900s translation, I never notice the issue.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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