What would it take?

spitzerpl
spitzerpl Member Posts: 4,998
edited November 20 in English Forum

So what would it take to convince someone else to invest half an hour in learning/creating a reading list?

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  • davidphillips
    davidphillips Member Posts: 640 ✭✭

    Philip. I see your reading lists in logos. That's cool! How do I create my own? I'll give it a go if I can find where to create one [:)]

    EDIT - Ok, I saw your other reponse. It has to do with topics.logos.com. I'll definately play around with this! First I have to think of something to create a list on though!

     

  • davidphillips
    davidphillips Member Posts: 640 ✭✭

    How do I get the reference to make a hyperlink to a libronix book?

     EDIT - Google answered the question for me. If anyone else is interested, see here:

    http://www.logos.com/training/linktolbx

     

  • spitzerpl
    spitzerpl Member Posts: 4,998

    How do I get the reference to make a hyperlink to a libronix book?

     

    I'll dissect one of the hyperlinks I created to give a bit of a tutorial.

     

    * [[Guthrie, D. (1996). New Testament introduction >> libronixdls:jump|pos=LLS-AOL:0<ntintro1.149>.0.0|res=LLS:38.0.6]] - */(...the period immediately preceding or during the Neronian persecutions)/*

     

    "* " - (Note the space after the astrick, it is important!) this declares the item as something that can be checked off when viewing the item in the reading list.

    "[[" - double brackets indicate the start of a hyperlink

    "Guthrie, D. (1996). New Testament introduction" - Is the part of the hyperlink you want displayed.

    " >> " - (note the space before and after the greater then signs. They are important!) divides what you want displayed from the link you want to go to.

    "libronixdls:jump|pos=LLS-AOL:0<ntintro1.149>.0.0|res=LLS:38.0.6" - The url you want to go to. You can get this by opening the resource you want to go to in L4, clicking the book in the upper left corner of the window, and select URL from the "Copy Location Block"

    "]]" - double brackets close the hyperlink.

    " - " - something I added in to visually separate the hyperlink from the following note.

    "*/" - Indicates the start of a bold and italic section. if you want just bold use "*". if you want just italic use "/".

    "(...the period immediately preceding or during the Neronian persecutions)" - A note to give the peruse an idea of the conclusion the author came to. This is to aide someone saying "I would like to find an author that supports e.g. a conclusion about the date.)

    "/*" - closes out the section you wanted bold and italics.

    you can view what this would look like in the "Epistle to First Peter" reading list under the "Date" section. Or you can copy and paste the line above into the article you want to edit and scroll down to the bottom of the page. This gives you a preview of what your current syntax will look like.

     

    Hope this helps!

  • spitzerpl
    spitzerpl Member Posts: 4,998

    I had trouble accessing your sermon mount reading list in Logos. I found the problem and it has to do with the name of the reading list.

     

    Logos, this is a bug. there was a "/" in the name of the reading list of the "Sermon on the Mount/Plain" list. When I  removed the "/" the reading list opened in Logos.

  • spitzerpl
    spitzerpl Member Posts: 4,998

    I had trouble accessing your sermon mount reading list in Logos. I found the problem and it has to do with the name of the reading list.

     

    Logos, this is a bug. there was a "/" in the name of the reading list of the "Sermon on the Mount/Plain" list. When I  removed the "/" the reading list opened in Logos.

    Sorry to report that bug and run...I was "stealing" 5 minutes from my wife before we went for a walk when I saw your reading list. When I couldn't open it I tried figuring out what it was quickly and had just enough time to find the problem and post the bug before I forgot :-)

    Great job starting a list! So what are your initial comments on the process?

    Initially I was thinking "its going to be way to hard to create lists to be practical." But then I got a rhythm and it started to get easy. naturally Logos will invest more then what they currently have planned in it when it sees value in it, and its value is not determined by what it can do but in how much it is used. I'm gonna try to be the "advocate" of reading lists so we can get enough power users creating content that more average users use in Logos so that Logos will simplify the process which would encourage a wider spectrum of people creating lists. I really don't want to see this potential wasted. It adds a level of intelligence to searches that you will never get from a string on syntax.

  • davidphillips
    davidphillips Member Posts: 640 ✭✭

    Philip,

    Thanks for the feedback and fixing the bug. After I created the list, I saw that it didn't open, but had to run.

    Once I learned how to get the location of a book by copying it to my clipboard using 3.0 (can this be done in 4.0? I couldn't find a similar command), it was pretty intuitive. The formatting is similar to the Sermon File add-in, which I use, so the exclamation points and asterik's made sense. I tried to throw a few things in quickly, and I'll work on it some more when I have time (probably Monday).

    I really like the idea, and I think it will be great to be able to see what other users indicate are useful resources. The ability to be specifc in the reading lists is a plus too. The fact that users could include such breakdowns as "Devotional Commentaries" "Exegetical" etc. or even things such as the best commentaries for specific, difficult passages is, in my opinion, a really cool feature. I think as more people take advantage of this (and I know there are many who will!) it will prove to be very valuable for the community. The one downside I see is that people could remove items from reading lists. As long as there aren't "editing wars" over reading lists, it will be great!

    I'm preaching through 1 Peter as well right now, so I'll be looking at your list to see what you're reading [:)]