Language-version of linked resource?
When I am reading the Latin dictionary Lewis & Short, for example the entry on philologus, the definition has links to various resources where that word is used, such as Cicero's Letters to Atticus, 13, 12, 3. One of the best features of Verbum is the ability to simply click the link and have the referenced document open (if that document is one of my resources).
My question is this: how do I specify which version of that document opens: the Latin or the English, since I have both of them in my library? Is there a way to specify that they both open into a linked set of windows?
Thanks in advance for anyone's help.
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Are you familiar with the Prioritization feature in Verbum? It's easily accessible when you have your Library open (top right). Prioritizing the Latin version of a text will make it open up when a non-edition-specific link is made in another resource.
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SineNomine, I have not played with that, and perhaps it would help. I would be grateful if there is any further information on how such things work. I just don't see why it would random, so there must be some logic governing it, right?0
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There is, but I'm not sure whether it's meaningfully different from randomness.
“The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.” St. Peter of Alcántara
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Priority is always used. If you have not set your personal priorities, the default logos/Verbum priorities are used. For some datatypes there is careful thought behind these priorities, for others the priorities don't matter much and may be considered "random".
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OK, I've been playing around with Priority, but I might now I have a problem. I wanted to set priority so that as I'm looking up words in Latin and Greek dictionaries, the resources linked to would open up in the language that the dictionary is illustrating. It's kind of a wasted step for my to click on a citation of the Iliad only to have it open up an English-language translation of Homer's work. I'd rather see the word in context (hence clicking the link) in the original language, then look in the translation, if needed.
So, with that in mind, I created two collections, one of all my Latin-language resources, and one of all my Greek-language resources, hoping I could add the collections to the priority list. Alas, I could not. Which meant that I needed to go into the resources panel and do a search for language:Latin and then select and add all of those resources. I think between the Greek and Latin, I added about a 1,000 resources.
Now, I think that having all of those documents in the priority list might have slowed the menu down (at least initially it was slow opening up), but now I'm not sure if it has, but I worry that it has.
My problem is this: to remove the recently-added resources, I have to remove each one individually, even though I was able to add them all as a group.
Have I missed something here, or have I missed a couple of steps?
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