Show Sentence Prior to Reference in Text Popup Windows

I love using the "cited by" feature in Logos to see where a verse I'm studying is quoted by authors in a particular collection. I can glance at the results and then hover over a given result to see what the author says about the verse in the popup window. It's a great tool!

However, often, in any given resource, the verse citation is quoted at the very end of a sentence. Unfortunately the popup window only shows from the citation forward. So if the citation is at the end of a sentence in any given resource, you're unable to see what the author said about the verse cited because the window doesn't show what's prior to the citation. If you're curious what the author said you must open the resource.

This wouldn't be a big deal if it didn't happen so frequently. Lots of the search results for a verse in the cited by tool are cited at the end of a sentence. This requires you to open a good chunk of the results listed.

In light of all this, I think it would be helpful if Logos changed the popup windows to show 15 words or so before the citation, so that the author's line of thought on it can be seen in the popup window instead of having to open the resource.

Would this be helpful to anyone else?

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Tim Hensler

Would this be helpful to anyone else?

[Y] [Y] [Y] YES! It would help immensely helpful to see the text before the citation on the preview pop-ups. Not only on the Cited by, but anywhere else the preview pop-ups are provided.

I think it would be most helpful if the citation could be in the middle of the pop-up text so I can see an equal amount of text before and after it to accommodate any position of the citation in relation to its context.

Graham Criddle

You might find the discussion at http://community.logos.com/forums/t/71587.aspx interesting and relevant to this request

Tim Hensler

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/638574#Comment_638574

You might find the discussion at http://community.logos.com/forums/t/71587.aspx interesting and relevant to this request

Thank you, Graham, for the reference. In that thread, Dave Hooton commented:

The significant point within the article could be any number of lines before the passage, so the best that could be done is to include an arbitrary number of lines before the passage and reduce the text shown after the passage.

I do agree that the significant point could be quite far before the citation, but grabbing an arbitrary number of words (i,e,. 15 as requested by Liam) would be helpful - it would at least give you a better idea if the article is related to what you are looking for and then you would get the significant point by going to that article.

Here is another thread on the topic: http://community.logos.com/forums/t/69749.aspx where a coupe of cases were created.