Reading plan question

I set up a reading plan to read Romans in a certain number of days. And even if the standard verse and chapter boundaries are not logical (since we cannot change that, anyway), I liked that way it usually created daily reading boundaries based on reasonable paragraph and/or chapter markings. For example, on one day, I was assigned the 23 verses of Romans 6 and the following day, the first 9 verses of Romans 7. And that's cool.

But what I would like to avoid is stopping in the middle of a sentence. In both my preferred Bible (NA 27) and my top priority Bible (NRSV), Romans 7.9 stops in the middle of a sentence. It's as if the NIV (which ends a sentence at the end of 7.9) determines where the reading boundaries should be. Otherwise, it's hard to understand how it determined to stop at such a peculiar spot.

Is there any way to make daily readings obey more closely the sentence structure of a particular Bible?

Thank you in advance,

Lew

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John Bowling

I don't think the program is capable of distinguishing sentence endings and marking the reading there. But it really shouldn't be a big problem either way. If it marks the end of your reading in the middle of a sentence, just go ahead and read the rest of the sentence anyway...

Lew Worthington

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/42994#Comment_42994

Perhaps it isn't a problem for you either way, but in order to truly study a passage, it's not just a matter of flying past a comma and finishing the paragraph or sentence. I was just wondering why it worked the way it did and if there was any way around it.

Tom Geswein

I had a similar concern with a reading plan of mine. Sometimes it would have me reading 8-10 chapters per day and one day it had me reading only two. (That was about 140 verses compared to 40 verses.) It didn't make any sense to me... If I remember correctly, L3 let you choose chapter boundaries or pericope boundaries.

Tim Hensler

It would be really helpful if the reading plan did allow breaks on chapter or pericope boundaries for Bibles and have an option for non-Bible books to read X chapters per reading session. I'd like to read some books at a rate of one complete chapter a day for however long it takes, but with the current options, that's really not possible.

Karen Campbell

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/43683#Comment_43683

It would be really helpful if the reading plan did allow breaks on chapter or pericope boundaries for Bibles

I, too, would like breaks on pericope boundaries. I thought there was something amiss with my bible reading plans. That is it.

John Bowling

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/43124#Comment_43124

Perhaps it isn't a problem for you either way, but in order to truly study a passage, it's not just a matter of flying past a comma and finishing the paragraph or sentence. I was just wondering why it worked the way it did and if there was any way around it.

I'm still not sure why this would be a problem. You can simply ignore the "Stop Reading" marker and keep reading or "truly studying" the passage, if you prefer. However, I certainly agree that it would be more convenient if the user had more control over how the daily readings were divided.

Todd K. Pedlar

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/43841#Comment_43841

Logos 3 used to allow this... why is this capability not present in Logos 4? (or so it seems) I hope someone from Logos can help here!