[ACK] @Kyle - tagging issue exposed/exacerbated by Concordance reference feature

https://community.logos.com/forums/p/105529/730455.aspx#730455

We are discussing Psalters. Those identified as Bibles are behaving correctly including the metrical psalter by Keble. There is a systematic problem with the other metrical psalters although the precise errors vary.

I am using the metrical psalter of Isaac Watts as the example of the problem. It can be shown by comparing context menus to those of Keble, but I have chosen to show it by the results of two searches - one on the scriptural reference <Psalm 3> and one on the string "Psalm 3".

This first example is the entire Psalm 3:1-8 which in the resource is simply titled "Psalm 3". As such it did not receive a milestone marker that the text is Psalm 3 in a metrical version (as in Keble).

In the second example, the metrical translation of Psalm3 is incomplete - it contains only verse 1-5, 8. In this case the verses are taken as references. In fact they are milestones for the text below - not references. As references do appear in the concordance and milestones do not, running a concordance shows that this error is pervasive.

I have known for some time that metrical psalters had search problems but had not identified the error precisely.

Note that metrical psalters differ from hymns which may be included in the same resource. Hymns are creations of the author in which most Bible citations are references. Metrical psalms are translations in metrical form in which the Bible citations are normally milestones.

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Kyle G. Anderson

Thanks for the screen shot of your library. That will help me target a few more resources for evaluation purposes.

If I'm understanding you correctly, the underlying problem that is being exposed are cases where a Psalter is included a "monograph" and is generally A) lacking Bible milestones and using Bible references instead.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/730587#Comment_730587

Correct.

For the benefit of anyone still confused: Psalters are translations of the Psalms e.g. the BCP Psalters are mainly the Coverdale translation, the Catholic Latin Psalter in Jerome's first translation etc. The difference is that Psalters are translated for the express purpose of chanting or singing. Those for chanting can stay close to the original text; those for singing (metrical psalters) may be paraphrases. But they still are translations of the Psalms.. Churches that believe only Psalms can be sung in church generally use metrical psalters.