Question about hyperlinks in PBs; want popup to show ranges within a non-Biblical text

Rosie Perera said:

All I know how to do is get Logos to generate the URL for me and then paste it into the link like this:

([[Didache
2:6-7 >> logosres:anf07;ref=ApostolicFathers.Did_2.6;off=34]]

But how do I get it to do a range, so that when I hover over the link text, it shows me both verses 6 and 7?

You can always put Didache 2:6-7 in the reference box and use Wiki copy, which will give you something like [[Didache 2.6–7 >> logosres:apfthlkeng;ref=ApostolicFathers.Did_2.6-7]], which will work just fine.

However, what you really want is a reference, not a resource, link. That would look like this: [[Didache 2:6-7 >>
ApostolicFathers:Did 2.6-7]]. (Remove everything up to the = and from the semicolon onwards, and change underscores into spaces, and dots into colons.) The Wiki page you want is http://wiki.logos.com/Finding_the_right_datatype_name_and_reference. 

EDIT: when I said "change ... dots into colons", I did, of course, mean the dots between the datatype and the reference, not necessarily dots within the reference (though in this case I would assume Did 2:6-7 works as well as Did 2.6-7 (at least it does with Bible references); not sure if that is true with every possible kind of reference, though).

EDIT 2: Yes, it worked with a colon in a Didache reference, and also in Josephus. 

Rosie Perera said:

I'm getting some bizarre behavior which I think is a bug (can anyone confirm that it is?) -- the popup shows not just Didache 2:6, but also some commentary on it from Hermeneia. Say what?! That came from out of the blue, and I didn't ask for it and don't particularly want it in this context.

No, it's not quite out of the blue. What happens is you have a resource (not a reference) link, that doesn't go to your prioritized resource of that kind, so Logos is showing you the same reference both in the version it's directly linked to, and the version you have told Logos you prefer (which in this case happens to be a commentary). Don't blame Logos if your resources aren't prioritized the way you want them [;)].

Mark Barnes said:

Having recently written the Wiki page fgh refers to, I was looking forward to answering this. But I cannot improve one tiny bit on what she just wrote!

Sorry! Thanks!

Now I feel really bad about suggesting an improvement to the Wiki page, but I'm going to do it anyway. You explicitly say 'change underscores to spaces', but I can't find that you explicitly say 'change dots to colons', which threw me off for a while. I couldn't understand why on earth my experimental tags didn't compile as they should, and even began to suspect a bug, but thankfully I figured it out before I posted. It's certainly there, it just doesn't hit the eyes, and if I could miss it, so can others.

Kenneth McGuire said:

1) I hate typing and so use "af" instead of "ApostolicFathers"...

Good point. Since I started out with a resource link this time, I didn't think that far. If I'd typed it out myself I probably would have (just as I would have automatically used a colon instead of getting stuck on the dot).

It has to be small letters, though, for some reason. Did and did both work, but AF and Af do not work, only af. I just tested.

(Seems my answer could be improved upon after all [:D].)

Mark Barnes said:

The long and short versions of all the datatype codes are listed here, if you ever need to look them up: http://wiki.logos.com/List_of_Datatypes

I think we've gotten a few new ones, though: http://community.logos.com/forums/p/44241/330058.aspx#330058.

Mark Barnes said:

I've made that clearer now, I hope.

Thanks. Much better! (Like I said above, I generally type myself, and then I probably would have gotten it right, but now I started with that resource link and worked from your page in order to see what Rosie would see, and then I didn't catch it.)

Mark Barnes said:

If you feel it could be improved just go ahead. The Wiki belongs to us all .

a) I'm not that good at Wiki editing, and haven't had time to learn. I can add metadata correction proposals and correct typos, and that's about all. [:)]

b) I hesitate to touch pages that are so carefully composed by someone as that one is.

c) I tried to correct a couple of typos (or rather the same typo twice) on your Bible Verse Map page a couple of weeks ago, but in spite of trying at several different occasions I only ended up with error messages (I just saw you've now fixed them yourself).

Mark Barnes said:

I had large problems editing that page too. I think it wound up simply being too big.

Ah! First I thought it was server errors, since there were a lot of those that day, but then when it went on, I thought you had somehow 'locked' the page because you didn't want anyone to mess it up while you were still working on it. But 'too big' makes sense.