Effective CNTTS Searching

I have the CNTTS on Logos. It has been helpful. However, I can't figure out how to do a really effective search. Searching for the occurrence of a single manuscript is easy enough. However, I would like to do more useful searches. The example I have given elsewhere is this. How would I search for every single variance occurrence of a third column code "50" and final column code "TR"? Of course, there could be many helpful variations.

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Derrick Pemberton

No hints? The proximity searches don't seem to help much for this. For a resource like this, it would be helpful to be able to search on a single line, or paragraph, or however it is actually set up. Better yet, it would be most helpful if one could search according to various CNTTS codes within variant and sub-variant units. Without such capabilities, this resources is helpful for me, but not nearly as helpful as it could be. Do I have these search capabilities and just not know it?

Dave Hooton

How would I search for every single variance occurrence of a third column code "50" and final column code "TR"?

Text searching depends on linear separation rather than columns, so you would have something like "50" BEFORE 3-3 WORDS TR, and you could tick "Match Case" in the Search menu to avoid matches on lower case combinations like "Tr". This query assumes a fixed column layout of 1 word per column e.g.

... | 50 | nextcolumn | TR | TR | lastcolumn |

so it will find the second TR which is separated by exactly 3 words (3-3 WORDS) from "50". It will match both occurrences if you use "3 WORDS", which means separated by 1 to 3 WORDS.

For columns with more than 1 word you would have to specify a separation like 3-10 WORDS.

Derrick Pemberton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/640119#Comment_640119

The problem is that the number of words in one of the middle columns is so variable that this type of approach couldn't possibly give really meaningful, accurate results. Unfortunately, I don't think that any other approach in Logos could give any better results. Looks like if I want this capability enough, I will have to save up for BW9.