Looks like Zondervan bought themselves some Bible software...
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David Ames said:Don Awalt said:
What really seems to drive the Bible software market these days is content - people don't want to buy the same book multiple times, so it's hard to switch. You can bet the software companies like Logos know that. So if the Bible software market proves to be of a size that's worth going after for a new comer or an also-ran, the key is (1) good software (2) be able, both by license and through software, to convert existing resources to a new format. If you could move from software product A to B and take your resources, it's a new ball game.
Now this is a very daunting task and license issues most certainly prevent it today I would think, but none of these problems are insurmountable if money can be applied to the solution - money to influence publishers to modify licenses, and money for the technology team to convert resources. But this could happen if the market gets big enough - it has happened in quite a few software markets where the conversion challenges are much more substantial than in this market IMHO.
Until the next Supreme Court ruling on copyright. When some one convinces the nine that we bought the contents and not the format. And all the licenses prohibiting moving resources between programs are declared null and void. [[Yes, I know that that is wishful thinking]]
Some bible software do allow deep discounts on books that you already own with a competitor with proof.
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Randy W. Sims said:
Some bible software do allow deep discounts on books that you already own with a competitor with proof.
This seems to happen less and less. Crossgrades are nice but they happen when a company negotiates it with the publishers. I know a few inquires we made to Accordance on if the New Interpreter's Bible will have a crossgrade price for those owning it already in Abingdon CDROM format. We were told they would inquire but had no idea if Abingdon would approve it. The crossgrades typically happen when a software is retired and a successor is arranged by the publisher. There is nothing in it for the publisher expect good will to costumers and possibly lack of legal responsibility for software maintenance (assuming one could argue they are responsible for providing fixes for software for a certain period of time).
-Dan
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David Paul said:
if Zondervan pulls its stable from Logos
The same day this deal was announced we finalized terms to get even more HarperCollins content into Logos.
We have a great relationship with the HCCP (HarperCollins Christian Publishing = Zondervan + Thomas Nelson) team, and expect to continue to offer their great content. I think it's smart for publishers to build direct-to-consumer relationships, and I think this is part of HC's plans to improve in that area. I also think that publishing will continue to be a multi-channel, multi-customer business, and that HC understands that well.
My biggest disappointment about HCCP buying Olive Tree is that I probably won't be seeing Drew at industry events anymore; I always enjoy hanging out with him. :-)
--- Bob
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Don Awalt said:
While I love Logos, I grow very tired of the lack of attention of so many usability things
You are right -- we need to keep paying attention to the core user experience. We are working on improvements to a lot of features we haven't touched in a while, for upcoming releases. I'm sorry about some of the little details escaping attention in new features; we'll give them another review.
Don Awalt said:I also grow tired of the lack of transparency by Logos on their plans
You're right: we've been burned so many times by announcing things and then being unable to hit the date, or meet the raised expectations. We have found it better to just work quietly on new things and then release them.
The other problem is just size and information visibility. There was a day when I knew the status of every pre-pub off the top of my head, because we only did one or two a month. Today we're working on a goal of 10,000 new volumes per year, and between our staff and our contractor, there are over 900 people involved in book production. (And this summer, with interns, there will be 130+ software developers.) While what you want to know is known to the organization, the Logos employees who spend their time in the forums don't always have immediate access -- or even know where to find the information. And the time and distraction to hunt down 'What's the status of this book / bug / feature?' is very expensive. And even then the answer could be something that changes: a crisis or new priority could take precedence, and make that status update or delivery prediction wrong.
'Communication' is the biggest problem in every organization. And it's not easily solved, because it's always a compromise. The technology exists for me to read everyone's email, view every case in the bug-tracking database, and see all the databases. But there are 400 people processing 50-200 emails a day, each. So managers get summary reports, which they summarize for their managers, etc. I get a big picture view: 150 books will be posted this week. Yes, I can ask for and get the list. I may even be able to get next week's list -- but now that's 300 titles! And what I get asked in the forums is "When is Book X going to ship?" Well, that's in a database (that I don't use -- I get summary reports), and even if I did consult it, it might say "Status: Waiting for Contract". And the actual details of the waiting could be with one individual, who knows that they emailed the publisher Tuesday, but that the publisher's permissions person is on vacation until next Wednesday, and so they're just waiting for the response, etc.
You can accuse us of bad systems or management all you want, but I don't think there's a good solution to these problems that doesn't cost far more in productivity than the value returned. Because answering that question is next to impossible: the publisher's permissions person might be back Wednesday, but might take a week to dig out of their email -- we don't know! -- and even if we did know, and did tell you, it doesn't do anything to change the result, except slow it down by using staff time to answer the questions / send emails / create reports (and read them!).
If you've got a better solution, I'm open to hearing it. We try to be as transparent as we can, and I generally answer questions I do know the answer to. I just don't want to invest in hunting down all the answers to what are essentially "When will this happen?" questions, for these reasons.
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Bob Pritchett said:
... "When is Book X going to ship?" Well, that's in a database ..."Status: Waiting for Contract"...
Why not make that status available to the public on the product page? It sounds like it is a simple summary w/o details which would give people more information than the murky and indistinct, "Under Development".
Instead of Artificial Intelligence, I prefer to continue to rely on Divine Intelligence instructing my Natural Dullness (Ps 32:8, John 16:13a)
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Don Awalt said:
While I love Logos, I grow very tired of the lack of attention of so many usability things (my personal pet peeves these days are the long-standing lack of attention on Personal Books, Info Pane is unusable, Notes needs more attention, and searching My Content is as sophisticated as Google in 1996; but there are others).
Not discounting anything you are saying, but at least as a Mac user, as much as I would like to see some of this stuff done (i.e. improvement of interoperability of notes with the mobile platforms, syncing PBs to devices, clippings on mobile devices, more enhancements to tag management), I thought things had steadily improved. I have far fewer crashes and a lot of the UI sloppiness is gone. If the forums are anything to judge, there are a lot less bug reports than we saw during the Logos 4 Mac days.
Yet, if there are specific things are you are waiting for, it can be hoped deferred. I am in this huge quandary myself of what to do since Galaxie journals left. I have been using them again this week and realising that I do hope Logos has an ace card up their sleeve on this. I had to buy content on another platform!
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Bob Pritchett said:
We have a great relationship with the HCCP (HarperCollins Christian Publishing = Zondervan + Thomas Nelson) team, and expect to continue to offer their great content.
Thanks for weighing in on this. It is reassuring to know that there is no time limit on acquiring additional Zondervan titles. [Now if we can get Moody titles back on board ... - I was hoping that maybe Resurrection Day 2014 would have been a good time for such an announcement. But, alas!]
May all who read these posts pray for wisdom and grace upon Logos and you and your loved ones. [Y]
BTW - I don't agree that the NOTES feature needs a great deal of attention. Yes, a few tweaks, but Logos is a Bible program and not a desktop publishing program. I would rather see Logos put their time and energies into program improvements and resources. Things like improving search features, making Logos more intuitive, continuing to increase speed and expand current features is of greater value to me.
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Okay!
Logos needs to concentrate on notes somewhere between tweaks and great attention. Should user improvement preference reflect a binomial probability distribution or one more normal distribution?
Myself, I always recommend Logos forget what other users need since they're not right.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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Denise said:
Myself, I always recommend Logos Libronix -- forget what other users need since they're not right.
Denise, there was a minor (well, okay...major) oversight in your post...but don't worry--I fixed it for you. [:)]
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Ron Corbett said:
BTW - I don't agree that the NOTES feature needs a great deal of attention. Yes, a few tweaks, but Logos is a Bible program and not a desktop publishing program. I would rather see Logos put their time and energies into program improvements and resources. Things like improving search features, making Logos more intuitive, continuing to increase speed and expand current features is of greater value to me.
Notes IS a "current feature" of the program needing expansion and improvement. While the database/search/hyperlink function of the program is fundamental, "doing something" with the output is what Notes are all about. And the most important aspect of the Notes function is its "Bible-resident" capability.
Having these notes anywhere other than preccisely where they are in Book eviscerates their value almost entirely. I would love to have a photographic memory (or even a cybernetic equivalent), but absent that, Notes are the most important element of Logos (and this pic is obviously L3). Until L5 can do what L3 can where notes are concerned (and the cows have all lost their way permanently, I fear), then Notes will remain in desperate need of attention.
One day, when L5 grows up, it will be L3.
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David Paul said:
Notes are the most important element of Logos (and this pic is obviously L3). Until L5 can do what L3 can where notes are concerned
.... Thank you for sharing the pics. You made your point.
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David, I apologize. I don't know where my head was ... I think I was affected by the mushroom thread. But objectively looking at the problem, I think maybe the Talmud/Targum dictionary in Logos might be my only sigh. I like many Logos features, but Libronix is still the nice and easy. Five years later and counting, Logos4/5 remains the Jaguar parked in the garage. Powerful! Twelve cylinders of growling horsepower. Gets the guys glances! But a pain.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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Denise said:
Five years later and counting, Logos4/5 remains the Jaguar parked in the garage. Powerful! Twelve cylinders of growling horsepower. Gets the guys glances! But a pain.
LOL...Jaguar!! Perpetually at the bottom of all owner satisfaction polls. [U]
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Points will made in this thread.
Surely Logos can go "Back to the Future", and catch notes up to L3.
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[Y]Ron Corbett said:BTW - I don't agree that the NOTES feature needs a great deal of attention. Yes, a few tweaks, but Logos is a Bible program and not a desktop publishing program. I would rather see Logos put their time and energies into program improvements and resources. Things like improving search features, making Logos more intuitive, continuing to increase speed and expand current features is of greater value to me.
[Y]Ron Corbett said:May all who read these posts pray for wisdom and grace upon Logos and you and your loved ones.
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Ron Corbett said:
BTW - I don't agree that the NOTES feature needs a great deal of attention. Yes, a few tweaks, but Logos is a Bible program and not a desktop publishing program.
I beg to differ with you ... and suspect you may likely disagree with yourself if you look at it from a different perspective.
- Logos provides us with a variety of long lists of passages - cross-references, topics lists, bible fact lists, word translations . . . the lists are seemingly endless, and almost useless not to mention that they encourage repetitive work. Why? Because we have no way of attaching notes that allow us to classify relationships, identify subcategories and otherwise note our personal work in the actual resources/displays so that it is associated with the data rather than a particular project we are working on. This results in our exploring some items in the lists multiple times and never getting around to others.
- Logos does a lot of work for us - morphology tagging, clause visualization, attaching pronouns to their antecedents, identifying speakers, interlinears ... but doesn't allow for us to "correct" the data via overlays/notes if we don't happen to agree with the Logos scholars ... or if we wish to document the reasoning that allows us to agree with Logos.
- Logos makes no provision for Bible study that uses scripture to interpret scripture, explores the interplay between lectionary readings, original text/ quotation or allusion, prophecy / fulfillment, comparison of repetitions, possible contradictions ...because it does not allow notes to be attached to multiple passages
While there are some other items that have a major impact on actual study e.g. the ability to create a visual filter from a passage list, the shortcomings of notes is the largest single item preventing us from taking advantage of the power of Logos to move us beyond simply replicating dead tree format study methods in an environment that should revolutionize our study.
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MJ. Smith said:Ron Corbett said:
BTW - I don't agree that the NOTES feature needs a great deal of attention. Yes, a few tweaks, but Logos is a Bible program and not a desktop publishing program.
I beg to differ with you ... and suspect you may likely disagree with yourself if you look at it from a different perspective.
- Logos provides us with a variety of long lists of passages - cross-references, topics lists, bible fact lists, word translations . . . the lists are seemingly endless, and almost useless not to mention that they encourage repetitive work. Why? Because we have no way of attaching notes that allow us to classify relationships, identify subcategories and otherwise note our personal work in the actual resources/displays so that it is associated with the data rather than a particular project we are working on. This results in our exploring some items in the lists multiple times and never getting around to others.
- Logos does a lot of work for us - morphology tagging, clause visualization, attaching pronouns to their antecedents, identifying speakers, interlinears ... but doesn't allow for us to "correct" the data via overlays/notes if we don't happen to agree with the Logos scholars ... or if we wish to document the reasoning that allows us to agree with Logos.
- Logos makes no provision for Bible study that uses scripture to interpret scripture, explores the interplay between lectionary readings, original text/ quotation or allusion, prophecy / fulfillment, comparison of repetitions, possible contradictions ...because it does not allow notes to be attached to multiple passages
While there are some other items that have a major impact on actual study e.g. the ability to create a visual filter from a passage list, the shortcomings of notes is the largest single item preventing us from taking advantage of the power of Logos to move us beyond simply replicating dead tree format study methods in an environment that should revolutionize our study.
MJ,
I think you are both right [:D]
Ron's argument was directed against making the notes editor into a full-featured duplicate of MS Word, with all the formatting and structuring and object-embedding possibilites that this would bring.
Your post calls for a completely different direction of notes development: the "linkability" of notes (of whatever text formatting capability - you don't address this) to other Logos objects than verse references and resource text selection. I am 100% with you here.
Have joy in the Lord!
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NB.Mick said:
I think you are both right
That is deliberate on my part. While I would like more features available in notes in support of more contemporary note-rittaking techniques, that isn't the greatest need. Prioritize, prioritize, prioritize ...
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Bob Pritchett said:Don Awalt said:
While I love Logos, I grow very tired of the lack of attention of so many usability things
You are right -- we need to keep paying attention to the core user experience. We are working on improvements to a lot of features we haven't touched in a while, for upcoming releases. I'm sorry about some of the little details escaping attention in new features; we'll give them another review.
Don Awalt said:I also grow tired of the lack of transparency by Logos on their plans
You're right: we've been burned so many times by announcing things and then being unable to hit the date, or meet the raised expectations. We have found it better to just work quietly on new things and then release them.
The other problem is just size and information visibility. There was a day when I knew the status of every pre-pub off the top of my head, because we only did one or two a month. Today we're working on a goal of 10,000 new volumes per year, and between our staff and our contractor, there are over 900 people involved in book production. (And this summer, with interns, there will be 130+ software developers.) While what you want to know is known to the organization, the Logos employees who spend their time in the forums don't always have immediate access -- or even know where to find the information. And the time and distraction to hunt down 'What's the status of this book / bug / feature?' is very expensive. And even then the answer could be something that changes: a crisis or new priority could take precedence, and make that status update or delivery prediction wrong.
'Communication' is the biggest problem in every organization. And it's not easily solved, because it's always a compromise. The technology exists for me to read everyone's email, view every case in the bug-tracking database, and see all the databases. But there are 400 people processing 50-200 emails a day, each. So managers get summary reports, which they summarize for their managers, etc. I get a big picture view: 150 books will be posted this week. Yes, I can ask for and get the list. I may even be able to get next week's list -- but now that's 300 titles! And what I get asked in the forums is "When is Book X going to ship?" Well, that's in a database (that I don't use -- I get summary reports), and even if I did consult it, it might say "Status: Waiting for Contract". And the actual details of the waiting could be with one individual, who knows that they emailed the publisher Tuesday, but that the publisher's permissions person is on vacation until next Wednesday, and so they're just waiting for the response, etc.
You can accuse us of bad systems or management all you want, but I don't think there's a good solution to these problems that doesn't cost far more in productivity than the value returned. Because answering that question is next to impossible: the publisher's permissions person might be back Wednesday, but might take a week to dig out of their email -- we don't know! -- and even if we did know, and did tell you, it doesn't do anything to change the result, except slow it down by using staff time to answer the questions / send emails / create reports (and read them!).
If you've got a better solution, I'm open to hearing it. We try to be as transparent as we can, and I generally answer questions I do know the answer to. I just don't want to invest in hunting down all the answers to what are essentially "When will this happen?" questions, for these reasons.
First off Bob, thanks for the time spent to reply, it is appreciated.
Second, and I say this with humility after thinking about this for a day since I first read your response - while I totally appreciate the challenge customer communication presents to your company (I founded and ran a company that grew to 300 people in 6 cities across the country for 18 years), I think the challenges you represent here are no excuse for not focusing your organization on significant improvement. The message from Logos right now is "you are right, there are shortfalls in what/how we communicate things that customers want to know, but we are too big/distributed/doing too many things to respond, and the right solution is not obvious or affordable." What message does that send for what the next 5 years will be like? I won't belabor the point because I suspect you know it, and there are ample books and resources that say the exact same thing - in fact, they say a growing company that is not communicating well with customers is heading in a very dangerous direction.
I would only say you have an ample size of very bright and talented people in your organization. Innovation, creativity, and hard work is something they appear to embrace, Unaddressed difficult problems fester in companies more times than not because the top guy accepts it. I suspect if it became very important to you, and you challenged your organization to address it, a weakness would become a strength. Customer communications would be done in a way that was not only sustainable but helped the company's performance, vs. being a drag on it in time/resources/money. Good communication can in fact be a source of retention, as customers will know too much about Logos to consider another direction. Can anything good come from customers having little or no knowledge of Logos in the areas this conversation addresses? I don't think so - bad decisions will be made that hurt both sides.
This is Logos' challenge to solve, and there should be no solace in the current performance because customer(s) cannot suggest a solution - that's not what you need them for, and they are grossly unqualified to help.
Thanks for listening.
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Don Awalt said:
What message does that send for what the next 5 years will be like?
I often dwell on this, and I find that it is the reason that I can't bring myself to invest more heavily into the software.
To me, the perceived attitude to the unimportance of continually enhancing the core customer experience, and the evidential disregard of core customer requests for said improvements, always leads me to feel that the long term future of the company is less than promising.
Just saying...
"As any translator will attest, a literal translation is no translation at all."
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I agree with you, Don.
Perhaps Bob can divert some of the marketing staff (judging from the amount of marketing messages we all get, there seems to be an over abundance of them) to improving the actual customer experience / communication process.
Peter
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MJ. Smith said:
Logos provides us with a variety of long lists of passages - cross-references, topics lists, bible fact lists, word translations . . . the lists are seemingly endless, and almost useless not to mention that they encourage repetitive work. Why? Because we have no way of attaching notes that allow us to classify relationships, identify subcategories and otherwise note our personal work in the actual resources/displays so that it is associated with the data rather than a particular project we are working on. This results in our exploring some items in the lists multiple times and never getting around to others.
Is this a NOTES feature? It seems to me to be in a completely different category. Maybe it is semantics, but while I agree that work can be improved with some attention to the areas you mention, this is (to me) a question of tagging, user classification, cross-referencing, etc. As I recall, you [or maybe it was Denise] put a lot of time into personally tagging all your resources. Maybe some way of making better use of these tags is what might help you. What I am talking about is exporting notes - and I use Notes a lot - to my Word Processor. this already works in Logos. [Although my Notes are not exported in Turabian which would be nice as I have selected Turabian as the format for exporting text when I copy and paste]. I fine tune my paper in my Word Processor instead of within Logos. Maybe I heard you (and others) wrong, but I thought the posts were pushing for Logos to incorporate extra features already available in an external word-processing program. Sounds like you are looking for more - and no doubt your ideas would help to improve Logos. At the end of the day, I am all for anything that helps us to get faster, relevant and more precise results out of Logos.
MJ. Smith said:Logos makes no provision for Bible study that uses scripture to interpret scripture, explores the interplay between lectionary readings, original text/ quotation or allusion, prophecy / fulfillment, comparison of repetitions, possible contradictions ...because it does not allow notes to be attached to multiple passages
I also have a separate note file for 'Bible Commentary notes' - as in one of Mark Barnes' videos.All my notes are searchable in Logos and they all come up in all my top bibles - with numerous hyper-links, bullet lists and all. I have another note file in which I create notes WITHIN Resources. These notes: add a comment or cross reference or word study to the actual resource. I also use orange highlights exclusively to identify statements in a resource that I question. [The "O" in orange stands for the "o" in objectionable.] Again, some of your suggestions seem to suggest a need for different kinds of user labels, etc and that can be good. I just don't see this as being a necessary part of the Notes features.
If your suggestions could be incorporated into some kind of sermon classification tool / personal Bible commentary [perhaps interactive with selection / prioritization options for every user], I would quickly add my vote.
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I'd think 'communication' would have to be narrowed down.
Most customers probably either see 'books' as the criticality (when available; status), and software features/workability.
Both of these are tough even for a demanding boss, much less demanding customers. When, oh Lord, when?? (referring to Jesus coming of course).
But my criticism is much simpler. They are very poor self-horn-tooters. Logos has an immense number of advantages and uses that you'd never know about, if you depended on Logos to tell you.
Most of the tooting appears to come from people that don't know the product/feature set. And then the tooting is dispersed; not clear. A little of this; a little of that. The product managers seem to be more focused.
But as long as Bob & Co. don't sell to Zondervan, I'm ok.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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Yeah, a company of Logos size would probably need to be purchased by amazon :P.
If it HAD to sell (and I hope it doesn't ever), Z would probably be a better choice than amazon.L2 lvl4 (...) WORDsearch, all the way through L10,
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abondservant said:
Yeah, a company of Logos size would probably need to be purchased by amazon :P.
Actually, HarperCollins has about $14 Billion behind it in purchasing power.
"As any translator will attest, a literal translation is no translation at all."
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Ron ... yes, I'm the current vice president of the Logos Tagging Association. And our association (formed just seconds ago) has not been terribly successful in improving the tagging experience in Logos.
But ignoring I may loose my job, the notes functionality that MJ mentions, is a valid concern. I don't think I have a single note in my Logos (mainly highlight to keep my place and mind plugged in).
But that said I also have my own Bible software. And 'notes' are its premier functionality. That's how I have over a 100K of them. I can attach notes to multiple verses as needed. I can use my searches to assign notes. I can check off specific search results for notes/highlights. I can overlay my resource text with my own translations.
My software additionally supports documents to which notes are coordinated (rename/move doc; notes gets updated). And the documents are readable outside my software. My software also supports image additions along with image editing etc. Plus spreadsheets and cell connecting across notes.
Then there's my analytics, which are also embedded in my notes. Tells me who a phrasing is most like, when it normally might have been written and which words are unusual. I'm not a pastor but I'd think that be a neat ability.
My next goal is being able to 'note' across a wide segment of text, with highlighted lines to show the relationships (eg the Apostle Paul's logic flow).
My point is 'notes' is pretty basic in Logos. MJ's just touching the fringe of the opportunities.
EDIT: (can't resist; the potential in Logos is so great!)
My software also re-writes the text. So if you thought a Paulist wrote 1 Peter, how would the 'real' Paul have written it (in the greek). Which of course is .... a note. If you thought Luke wrote Acts, which words are the criticality? More notes!
I bring in other peoples notes too. My software includes about 20-30 parsers to allow automated inclusion from the internet.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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MJ. Smith said:
- Logos makes no provision for Bible study that uses scripture to interpret scripture, explores the interplay between lectionary readings, original text/ quotation or allusion, prophecy / fulfillment, comparison of repetitions, possible contradictions ...because it does not allow notes to be attached to multiple passages
good day MJ!
I'm coming into this conversation without studying all comments.
I notice a portion of this dot point stands out to me, and I also notice that I dont actually understand the the overall meaning of the dot point. can you please clarify?
thanks
LJI
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Just when we thought it couldn't get more unreliable than a Jaguar, You have to bring up a DeLorean. [:P]Michael Childs said:Surely Logos can go "Back to the Future"
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Don Awalt said:
What really seems to drive the Bible software market these days is content - people don't want to buy the same book multiple times, so it's hard to switch.
The Good news is that if Logos implements the Bible Sync Protocol which has been implemented by Xiphos (May 2014) (Karl at Xiphos being the first of the interested Bible Software Parties to implement it ), then purchasing content for each Bible Program Platform will not be an issue!
Instead Bible Software Developers can focus on "Bible Software" rather than "Content". This is the new era of Bible Software Development. ( I am speaking as a software developer
Bible software that is designed for study. Bible software that actually makes use of the existing content. And that utilizes the Bible text for all that it is worth rather than 'endless 'content' and words through commentators' ( some useful, some repetitious, some without merit ).etc.
References:
Xiphos 3.2.0 Reference (May 2014 Release): http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnomesword/
Logos Forum Reference (2012): Home>General>Automatic Sync of the Current Verse over multiple Bible Software Products (i.e Logos, The Word, e-Sword, etc)
I don't mind if Logos has no 'formal interest in this post', it is the actual potential benefit for users, and SWD's to become as passionate, and as mature as possible by the vision of using each bible software platform ( ie Logos, e-sword . etc ) for their benefits as platforms, so that users don't need to wait for those features, and so that each Bible Software Platform direction can focus on useful 'features' rather than content made by man ( which struggles with the issue of being tainted by bias )
May the Lord direct His servants.
LJI
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Denise said:
My point is 'notes' is pretty basic in Logos. MJ's just touching the fringe of the opportunities.
OK, I get it.
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+1 MJ
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Is this thread still about notes in Logos? Or have we gotten back to the original topic?
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ORIGINAL Topic??? I thought OT stood for "OFF Topic"! Now I'm confused. You mean all this time I've been trying to hi-jack threads on the forum to get them off topic...I was supposed to be staying ON Topic??? Next thing you know, someone is gonna say OT means Old Testament or something...
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Luigi Sam said:
The Good news is that if Logos implements the Bible Sync Protocol
We are not planning to implement this directly in Logos 5; instead, any interested party could implement a Bible Sync "wrapper" for Logos 5 using the COM API. For more details, see my existing post: http://community.logos.com/forums/p/56447/412978.aspx#412978
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Bradley Grainger (Logos) said:Luigi Sam said:
The Good news is that if Logos implements the Bible Sync Protocol
We are not planning to implement this directly in Logos 5; instead, any interested party could implement a Bible Sync "wrapper" for Logos 5 using the COM API. For more details, see my existing post: http://community.logos.com/forums/p/56447/412978.aspx#412978
Yep I know.
It was fresh on my mind.
I'd be happy to do it as a temporary / contracted job offer however that might work. But I suppose that isn't what you are saying
anyways:
a 'generic library can be viewed on Git Hub. ( as provided by Karl, and is public domain material.)
https://github.com/karlkleinpaste/biblesync
regards.
LGI
EDIT:
and you can view the Spec here: (But Please do not edit the wiki)
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