Open Discussion: Indexing beyond Libronix?

tcblack said:

I was just thinking about the power of indexing, and the former mention of desktop search engines (somewhere in this forum).
What do you all think? More importantly what does Logos think. Would it be useful to include the ability to index Word Doc and PDF files also?
I know this can be incendiary, but I'm just thinking out loud... Wanna think outloud with me?

I'm 50/50 on this. While it would be good, I would rather the devs resources be used to keep their offerings top notch rather then have to mess with ours. I also in no way want Logos in bed with Microsoft again, so them using MS's index is a no for me. Not that I have anything against Microsoft, I just don't want Logos to be held back by MS going in a different direction with no concern for biblical research.

What I would love to see that this post brought to mind is a copy of the 4.0 command line outside of logos, maybe as a gadget, that would allow us to perform the same functions before opening Logos.

tcblack said:

In all fairness I should tip my hand.
I would not be satisfied with .Doc searching. I would need .odt searching and indexing as well.
All in all it's probably best to shelve the thought before it get's started. I shouldn't start topics like that without more thought I suppose but well... there you have it.

Its always worth throwing out there. I'm sure Logos is saying "I wish they would focus on the "beta rather then new features" but hey, I can't help myself. Besides the Devs might say "thats a good Idea and we can make it happen easily sometime in the future" whereas to me it sounds difficult.

Philip Spitzer said:

tcblack said:

I was just thinking about the power of indexing, and the former mention of desktop search engines (somewhere in this forum).
What do you all think? More importantly what does Logos think. Would it be useful to include the ability to index Word Doc and PDF files also?
I know this can be incendiary, but I'm just thinking out loud... Wanna think outloud with me?

What I would love to see that this post brought to mind is a copy of the 4.0 command line outside of logos, maybe as a gadget, that would allow us to perform the same functions before opening Logos.

Ahh you can though [:)] Logos4 accepts command-line options, we call them LibronixDLS: URIs, check it out here: http://blog.logos.com/archives/2007/12/external_linking_to_libronix_resour.html

and here: http://semanticbible.com/blogos/2007/12/05/libronix-links-as-knowledge-resources/