Perseus Tamed

Thanks! I've been able to create this one plus a few others I'd been wanting to create.

tom collinge said:

You might want to take a closer look at this collection because it has more than just Perseus and papyri.

Yes, subject:pap picks up these two works which you might not want excluded:

• the Monograph Saint Bernard on Consideration (because the subject contains "Papacy")
• the Lexicon Vocabulary of the Greek New Testament (because the subject contains "Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri)")

tom collinge said:

I do not know how you are using your collections, but only putting these items into a collection will not hide them.

If you make a collection of everything BUT the items you want to exclude, which is what Ud Laugh 2 is doing, then you can use that as your basic collection to search in and avoid getting hits in those works. (You could also use it for Passage Guides.) That seems to be the goal here, and it seems like a fine way to omit these works most of the time but still have them available in case you wanted to look in them. Hiding them would take them out of your library completely.

Isn't that the same? The resulting collection has an equal number of resources

Ud Laugh 2 said:

Rosie Perera said:

Yes, subject:pap picks up these two works which you might not want excluded:

• the Monograph Saint Bernard on Consideration (because the subject contains "Papacy")
• the Lexicon Vocabulary of the Greek New Testament (because the subject contains "Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri)")

Rosie I don't have these so I didn't see them. Do you have a suggestion for a change?

Try changing subject:pap to something more specific that will still match all the papyri in your library, for example perhaps subject:"Manuscripts (Papyri)" will work. I can't seem to unhide other papyri in my library right now to test whether that will exclude all the papyri. But at least it won't match the lexicon I mentioned, nor any resource that has a subject containing Papacy or Papal or Epaphras, etc. If you have other papyri that don't have the subject Manuscripts (Papyri) then figure out a unique subject line which they contain and add it after a comma separator (within parentheses) to the subject filter, for example:

subject:("Manuscripts (Papyri)", "some other papyri subject")

Rosie Perera said:

Ud Laugh 2 said:

Rosie Perera said:

Yes, subject:pap picks up these two works which you might not want excluded:

• the Monograph Saint Bernard on Consideration (because the subject contains "Papacy")
• the Lexicon Vocabulary of the Greek New Testament (because the subject contains "Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri)")

Rosie I don't have these so I didn't see them. Do you have a suggestion for a change?

Try changing subject:pap to something more specific that will still match all the papyri in your library, for example perhaps subject:"Manuscripts (Papyri)" will work. I can't seem to unhide other papyri in my library right now to test whether that will exclude all the papyri. But at least it won't match the lexicon I mentioned, nor any resource that has a subject containing Papacy or Papal or Epaphras, etc. If you have other papyri that don't have the subject Manuscripts (Papyri) then figure out a unique subject line which they contain and add it after a comma separator (within parentheses) to the subject filter, for example:

subject:("Manuscripts (Papyri)", "some other papyri subject")

OK, I finally managed to unhide the other papyri and there's another subject you'd want to add to that collection if you were trying to exclude papyri, since this one is included in Perseus: "Manuscripts--Ancient--Papyri". Thus a corrected version of my suggestion would be to have the subject part of your rule look like this:

subject:("Manuscripts (Papyri)", "Manuscripts--Ancient--Papyri")