citations and footnotes

Larry Craig
Larry Craig Member Posts: 1,481 ✭✭✭
edited December 2024 in English Forum

Logos program settings gives two options here when I think there should be three.  And I would suggest also that they be clarified to ease the pain of those trying to learn the system.

The first options is citations.  But does this refer to writers that the author cites?  No, apparently it refers just to bibliographic data on the book, when you are citing your sources.

The second is footnotes, the books the authors cites and additional notes.  BUT along with this, you get the full version of all the abbreviations used in the copied text.  And this can be quite an extensive list for a lot of books.  But this is information a lot of scholars don't want or need.  We know what LXX or OT stand for.  We just want the author's footnotes.

I suggest first of all that footnotes and abbreviations be separated into separate functions.  It can be very time consuming these abbreviation listings.  

I would suggest citations be labeled bibliography or some other term that shows it refers to only the author of the selection and not citations in the text, which would be footnotes.

I think this would make things clearer as well as save a lot of us a lot of time.

Thank you

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