L/V 10 Tip of the Day #59 Navigation box with multiple entry types (Etymological Dictionary)

MJ. Smith
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edited November 21 in English Forum

Another tip of the day (TOTD) series for Logos/Verbum 10. They will be short and often drawn from forum posts. Feel free to ask questions and/or suggest forum posts you'd like to see included. Adding comments about the behavior on mobile and web apps would be appreciated by your fellow forumites. A search for "L/V 10 Tip of the Day site:community.logos.com" on Google should bring the tips up as should this Reading List within the application.

This tip is inspired the forum post: L/V 10 Tip of the Day #58 Navigation box abbreviated entry - Logos Forums

In resources there are often multiple reference type one can enter into the navigation. Each type has an index but not all indices can be used for navigation. Essentially, consider references as necessarily sequential as in page numbers or head words or Bible reference. In the example, the dictionary is in sequence by Latin headword - however, an entry has additional headwords under the alphabetized entry (see right column mapping to center). When one looks at the indices, there are many that cannot be used in the reference box e.g. Polish headwords, German headwords, English headwords . . .

The multiplicity of language can lead to humorous results. For example, if I enter the Sanskrit gha without identifying the language, I end up with the Greek ye in a different volume of the same Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series. 

To "navigate" to a Sanskrit word, I must use a search. Using the Search in this book from the right-click Context Menu, I get:

How does one discover what the references can be? At any location in the resource, the dropdown menu will show you the different references that can be used to open to that location - in this case Latin head words, page, and volume/page references (see center column of first screen shot above). Note that again, within the same volume one can enter only the page number.

I will create another tip that illustrates Bible only references e.g. LN, Strong's . . .

Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

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