Is there a way to create a filter for a book that highlights in yellow all Greek transliterations contained in the book? Thank you!
I think the answer is no, but some clarification is in order:
Clarifications: This Filter capability is needed for:
1. MacBookPro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015)
2. MacOS Sierra (10.12.4)
3. Logos 7 (Software 7.5.0.0045, Logos 7 Basic Feature Set, Pre-Logos 7 Library)
4. Book: 1 Peter: The MacArthur New Testament Commentary
Is there a way to create a filter for a book that highlights in yellow all Greek transliterations contained in the book?
Based on your answers, I will say "no." I am sure if I am wrong, someone will correct me soon. [:)]
To create a visual filter for something like this, you would need to have special tagging. The application needs to know that "diakonos" is special and different than "deacon." In bibles with reverse interlinears, there is special tagging which allows you to create unique visual filters. That tagging isn't present here... I don't think any resources have this kind of tagging.
The one grasping-at-straws solution (which I don't know if is possible): Can a visual filter be created based on italicized surface text? If so, then you <might> be able to create something like this... but it would create the filter for everything italicized ... even if it isn't a transliteration.
Is there a way to create a filter for a book that highlights in yellow all Greek transliterations contained in the book? Based on your answers, I will say "no." I am sure if I am wrong, someone will correct me soon.
Based on your answers, I will say "no." I am sure if I am wrong, someone will correct me soon.
In Logos, "transliterated" is a language. So you can search for a transliterated term (e.g. eklektos) in Basic Search with: transliterated:eklektos or even transliterated:prog* (for prognosis or proginosko in that MacArthur commentary). So I'd guess you could make a visual filter for the book for transliterated:*. But I'd also guess that would slow things down when opening the book or opening a saved layout that contains the book because any unbounded * search is a really slow search.
IDEA FROM ALABAMA24:Creating a Visual Filter to highlight in yellow every italicized word in this book would be perfect! The only italicizing in this book are the Greek transliterations, which is what I need to be highlighted.
REQUEST FROM FRANK:If someone could let me know if this is possible, that would be great!
Some books have both original language text (Greek, Hebrew) and transliterations.
The transliterations are usually quite awkward, therefore also the ability to hide the transliteration would be nice (or the possibility to use black highlight?)
But I'd also guess that would slow things down when opening the book or opening a saved layout that contains the book because any unbounded * search is a really slow search.
Based on a somewhat similar approach, it took half an hour.
In my naivety, what I'm wondering is why you couldn't just do something along the lines of language=transliterated and avoid the whole wildcard search in the first place? Wouldn't it be more efficient to search for (all words with) a specific tag?
Alternately, if a filter could initially (or dynamically) search the visible text instead of having to pre(?)-search the entire text before the filter was applied, it would avoid having to search the majority of content which will likely never be visible.
Sounds reasonable... so what is wrong here? Am I right that this hasn't been tagged as you describe, or did I do something wrong?
EDIT: Nevermind. It just took a while to take effect (as you inferred)!
Nevermind. It just took a while to take effect (as you inferred)!
I was just going to say, "Wait for it..." but you snuck in that EDIT. [:)]
