Format Layout of Clippings
Hi all and thank you so long for your help.
I am just at the beginning of using clippings for future reference, so please forgive me if this is a question with a very obvious answer. 
I have started a new Clipping named "In Christ - en Xristoo"
I have dragged a piece of commentary from my commentary but now in my clipping it is in 2 columns. It think it is because the piece in the commentary has a small picture on the left side and the text therefor is in the right column.
Is there a way to change the layout in the clipping to only one column?
Thank you so long.
Deon
Johannesburg, South Africa
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Hi Deon
I haven't come across multiple columns in clippings before.
What section of which commentary are you clipping?
Are you able to provide a screenshot of the commentary section and the resultant clipping? (For details of providing screen shots please see http://wiki.logos.com/Screenshot)
Graham
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Thank you Graham, for the reply.
Please find below: Bible commentary and then clipping.
Thank you so long.
Regards,
DeonJohannesburg, South Africa
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When you made your clipping was the graphic included or excluded from the selected text? I'm trying to recreate the problem on a different text.
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Hi and thank you for the reply. Graphic was excluded. I have just tried again to make sure the graphic was excluded.
I have also just tried to drag only one sentence from the commentary to the clipping. It kept the format at 2 columns.
Deon
Johannesburg, South Africa
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Hi Deon
I don't have that commentary and can't reproduce it with other texts (MJ may do better)
Does this happen with other commentaries in the same series?
Graham
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I have done a few experiments with this. In order to reproduce you result, I needed to have the resource in 2 column view with the graphic selected. You said that you were dragging the text to the clipping file. I cannot do that in L4 Mac; I had to use the right-click menu.
As I said, I could not reproduce your result unless I also selected the graphic. In that case, I am not sure whether the clipping is in 2-column, or if it is just leaving room for the graphic, which is not copied into the clipping.
Deon Holtzhausen said:Please find below: Bible commentary and then clipping.
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Graham & Jack. Thank you once again for time in helping me out.
This happens for all clippings of this commentary where the image of the little tree is.
A screenshot below where I have selected both columns to confirm that it is indeed 2 columns.
It is not a train smash when in 2 columns but it is now taking up double the space it should.
Thank you once again.
Deon
Johannesburg, South Africa
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Hi Deon
The fact that this occurs in a different commentary (your latest shot shows Matthew in the same series) shows that it's not specific to a particular resource.
Per Jack's comment above, do you have the commentary set to show 2 columns when you are producing the clipping?
Graham
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Graham, how do I set the display into one or two columns? I can add that when selecting something without the tree, the clipping is in one column.
Deon
Johannesburg, South Africa
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Deon Holtzhausen said:
Graham, how do I set the display into one or two columns?
Deon, I'm not Graham, but I will answer your question. The following screenshot was taken with the resource as a floating window (Cmd-Opt-F).
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Deon
Left-click in the icon at the top left of the resource and choose "Paged view" - see http://wiki.logos.com/Paged_View for details..
Graham
(Note: If you are running the beta the details of this change slightly but the principle stays the same!)
Edit: Thanks, Jack!
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Hi Deon, I can confirm this problem happens regardless of whether you have your display set to 2 columns or not, because it is laid out in the resource in a 2-column table (the tree is column 1). So when you copy even just the right-hand column to a clipping, the 2-column table formatting comes across. I might suggest this is possibly a bug or undesirable behavior that Logos should consider fixing. But in the meantime, a workaround for you follows:
After creating the clipping, select all the text in it (Ctrl+A), cut (Ctrl+X), paste into Word:
Then select just the text in the right-hand column:
Copy that, and go back to Logos. Paste the text back into the clipping where you cut the table out. Voila!
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Deon, I was finally able to duplicate your clipping. In the screen shot below (Resource in 1 column throughout), the first clip was with all text selected, but not the graphic. In the second clip, I selected all the text and the graphic. In the final clip, I selected just the text beside the graphic, and this one gave me the result you are seeing. If you select text that extends even a few words beyond the graphic, the clip should be normal. You can then delete the extra text.
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Jack Caviness said:
If you select text that extends even a few words beyond the graphic, the clip should be normal. You can then delete the extra text.
I tried my own advice, and it worked. The first clip is the last one in my post above. The second one is with three words selected from the next line.
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Jack, your trick didn't work for me. It copied the 2-column table with the three words after it (I had selected only the right-hand column, not the graphic, and the three words after the table):
I wonder whether this is a difference between the Mac version and the Windows version. I know you're using the former and I'm using the latter.
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Rosie Perera said:
I wonder whether this is a difference between the Mac version and the Windows version. I know you're using the former and I'm using the latter.
I was wondering that myself even before I read your last line. At one point, I had even forgotten I was not in the Mac forum. [8-|]
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Jack Caviness said:Rosie Perera said:
I wonder whether this is a difference between the Mac version and the Windows version. I know you're using the former and I'm using the latter.
I was wondering that myself even before I read your last line. At one point, I had even forgotten I was not in the Mac forum.
I've always kind of considered the Logos 4 forum to be platform neutral (we Windows users can share), with I guess a slight tilt towards Windows only questions. We don't really have a Windows only forum. Maybe we should.
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Rosie & Jack.
Thanx for both of you. I have Win 7 OS and the "trick" that works in Mac, also did not work for me.
Rosie, your trick worked 100% for me.
Thank you once again for your time and effort in assisting me.
Deon
Johannesburg, South Africa
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Deon Holtzhausen said:
Thank you once again for your time and effort in assisting me.
Thank you for raising the question. I learn something almost every time I try to assist someone else, and this was no exception.
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