I suggested that Logos have a way to prioritize books by authors. Did I miss something>
Did I miss something
What do you mean "Did I miss something?" When did you suggest it? What response or reaction were you expecting?
Did I miss a feature that the program already has? I can prioritize individual books, but I would like to prioritize books by author.
No, you haven't missed something. There is no way to prioritize by author.
Do you mean you'd like to prioritize all books by a certain author? I'm not sure how functional that would be. You see, Logos's prioritization feature works with categories of books. For example, your highest priority Greek lexicon will come up when you double-click a word in your Greek NT, your five highest priority Bibles will be used for doing a search in Top Bibles, your highest priority commentary will come up when you enter a passage to look up on the Home Page, your highest priority encyclopedias will be shown first in a Topic Guide.
But when you say you want to prioritize books by a particular author, those are most likely monographs. There isn't any area in Logos where prioritized monographs have precedence over any other books, so I'm not sure that what you want to do would be useful for anything. Can you describe how you imagine it might be used? I suppose it might automatically prioritize commentaries by that particular author. Let's say you prioritized author Gordon Fee. He's written some commentaries, so those commentaries would go higher up in the list than others by other authors. So it would save you the multi-step process of prioritizing the several commentaries by Fee. But it wouldn't give you as much control over where in the priority list they go. Fee might have the best commentary on 1 Corinthians, but you might prefer someone else's commentary on Revelation. But is that the sort of functionality you're envisioning? Other than that, I can't really see a point to prioritizing by author.
EDIT: What would be more helpful, I think, would be to be able to drag multiple resources at once to the prioritization panel. So you could easily select all the books by Fee you wanted (filter library by author:Fee and then use multi-select to select the ones you want to prioritize) and then drag them all together to prioritize. This feature has been asked for before.
HI,
I know what you may be trying to say...what does (author) say about _____.
I have created collections of my favourite authors (see below for a sample) and do a search of that collection. You can (as i have done) create a custom passage guide and insert this collection in there too.
Hope this helps.
Tim
Logos allows us to format the guides, so I added categories that draw from the monographs. And since most books are in that category, the list of books can be quite long when I use, say, my passage guide to find all material referencing a particular verse. It would be good to have everything that D A Carson wrote near the top of the list or Martin Lloyd-Jones.
Thank you. That does. I need to get ready for work, so I will look at that more later. Thanks again.
There isn't any area in Logos where prioritized monographs have precedence over any other books
Almost but not entirely true. There are monographs that may be worth prioritizing, e g church fathers, council and papal documents, the Summa, certain Jewish writings... The criteria are that a) they're tagged with one or more datatypes, and b) you have more than one edition.
I don't think Logos pays any attention to prioritization for how far up the list monographs appear in guides. I know that prioritization has no effect on the order of search results, which is frustrating. But searching within specific collections is the way to go on that.
It looks like I need to make a collection with my favorite authors. I need help, though, on the syntax in the command box. The example shown had one name, Spurgeon. How would I add other names?
I don't make collections often... I think you add a comma or semi-colon. If that doesn't work, you can always create several collections for different authors and then add those collections to another collection. [;)]
You use commas to separate the names, and parentheses around all the comma-separated names to group them together after the colon after author. No space after the colon. Also if any name has to include first and last name in order to be unique, then that whole name needs to be in quotation marks. Put the commas outside the quotations marks, unlike in American English punctuation.
So, here's an example:
author:(Augustine, Spurgeon, "N.T. Wright", "Douglas Wilson")
It looks like I need to make a collection with my favorite authors.
For multiple authors try something like:-
author:("Wright N. T.", "Wright, Tom", Spurgeon, "Peterson, Eugene")
Wright has to be qualified as there is a John Wright (but N.T. Wright = Tom Wright!).
EDIT: Rosie's use of "N.T. Wright" is incorrect. Check the Author column in Library.
Thank you all!
What are your favorite authors ?
Library can be sorted by author (click column header) and filtered too:
Keep Smiling [:)]
Here's another example.
If you are interested in these types of collections (pre done you you) you can head over to https://faithlife.com/logos-library-theology-denomination-tags/documents
and see what's on offer.
Just forgot to mention, John at www.learnlogos.com has some great training videos that will take you step by step through this whole mastering your library process if you're interested http://www.learnlogos.com/category_s/1855.htm
Sorry, but I beg to differ. Logos is smart enough to let you put the author's name in either order ("first last" or "last, first"). See, the former works:
Sorry, but I beg to differ. Logos is smart enough to let you put the author's name in either order
Weird! I only got 2 out of 22 this morning. It must have been the famous "blank rows" bug of 5.2a[:D]
For multiple authors try something like:- author:("Wright N. T.", "Wright, Tom", Spurgeon, "Peterson, Eugene") Wright has to be qualified as there is a John Wright (but N.T. Wright = Tom Wright!). EDIT: Rosie's use of "N.T. Wright" is incorrect. Check the Author column in Library.
If you check yours, I think you will find that there is no Tom Wright. Logos lists all his books as N.T. Wright.[;)]
(Unless, of course, something I don't have has been given the wrong metadata.)
If you check yours, I think you will find that there is no Tom Wright. Logos lists all his books as N.T. Wright.
Yes, Logos does strive to use only one version of an author's name (though they are behind on fixing inconsistencies), but in this case Dave was referring mostly to the order of how I'd put the name, with his initials first. Note how Dave put all the names as "last, first". Either way works. I'm not sure why he wasn't seeing all his N.T. Wright books when he tried it that way before.
Yes, but look at the beginning of my quote.[;)]
If you check yours, I think you will find that there is no Tom Wright. Logos lists all his books as N.T. Wright. Yes, Logos does strive to use only one version of an author's name (though they are behind on fixing inconsistencies), but in this case Dave was referring mostly to the order of how I'd put the name, with his initials first.
Yes, Logos does strive to use only one version of an author's name (though they are behind on fixing inconsistencies), but in this case Dave was referring mostly to the order of how I'd put the name, with his initials first.
I was emphasising the need to include the first name, because I have "Wright, John Robert" and "Wright, J. Stafford" as authors. author:"Wright J" will select only the latter whilst author:"Wright John" will select the former! author:"Wright Tom" was being conservative because his more popular works in paperback are credited that way and Logos could have continued the tradition.
