BUG in Resource: Something wrong with the Qur'an!

The direction of the Arabic body text in the Qur'an (Al-Qur'an Al-Kareem (Arabic)) on the PC is reversed: It should be Right-to-Left (just like Hebrew). As it is now, it is unreadable:

On the iPad, the text direction is correct, yet the paragraph and page flows from left to right which is confusing. i.e you read a column on the left before you start at the top of the next column (on the same page) on the right and then you flip the pages in reverse as well: this should also be corrected.

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Bradley Grainger (Logos)

This is fixed in 5.1 (currently in beta; and this specific fix may only be in Beta 5, which should be released next week).

Sleiman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/484035#Comment_484035

Thank you

Sleiman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/484035#Comment_484035

I noticed a few more things (number 3 below is a huge issue for me):

1- The book should be in the Arabic Language, it is currently identified as in English in my library:

2- Even though the direction of the text in the book itself is reversed, the hover text on a Quran footnote/link shows the correct direction anyway:

3- I'm not sure why there are so many link errors: ALL of the Qur'an references that I ran into are incorrect. They are 'off' by 4 verses in "The Bible and Islam" (LLS:BBLISLAMSMITH). The example in the image above shows the text of Surah 2:172 correctly from the Quran, but the English quotation in the text itself is from Surah 2:176. At first you'd think this is a typo, but this is consistent everywhere in that resource. Of course this 'significant' error might be in the original book and not Logos' fault. HOWEVER, in another resource, "The Religion of the Crescent" (LLS:RELIGCRESCENT), they are consistently off by 2 verses only this time, again all throughout the book. Which makes me wonder! So far, I have only checked these two new resources.

fgh

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/484085#Comment_484085

ALL of the Qur'an references that I ran into are incorrect. They are 'off' by 4 verses in "The Bible and Islam" (LLS:BBLISLAMSMITH). (...) in another resource, "The Religion of the Crescent" (LLS:RELIGCRESCENT), they are consistently off by 2 verses

Perhaps there are different versification schemes for the Quran, just as there is for the Bible?

Sleiman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/484208#Comment_484208

Perhaps there are different versification schemes for the Quran, just as there is for the Bible?

I'd be really surprised. Since many Muslims believe that the numbering system for the chapters and verses of the Quran is not only inspired but also directly revealed, this tells me that there can only be one.

[edit]: I just realized that my last statement does not necessarily logically follow the argument. However, if there are numbering systems other than the universally official one, then using such in these books without explicitly stating the reason doesn't make much sense.

Sleiman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/484085#Comment_484085

After further investigation, I realize now that the skewed references are not universal throughout either book, and they exist in the original printed versions. In all likelihood, they were typos carried over to Logos.

Bradley Grainger (Logos)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/484085#Comment_484085

1- The book should be in the Arabic Language, it is currently identified as in English in my library:

We've published a metadata update to fix this; it should now be categorised correctly in the library.

Sleiman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/484981#Comment_484981

We've published a metadata update to fix this; it should now be categorised correctly in the library.

Indeed it does now, thanks. Are metadata updates automatic and over-the-air?

Bradley Grainger (Logos)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/485026#Comment_485026

Are metadata updates automatic and over-the-air?

Yes: Logos 5 will check for metadata updates at startup, and then periodically throughout the day (if you leave it running).