BUGS: Greek read aloud + weird window behaviour

1) Is the Greek 'Read aloud' supposed to work, or is it not implemented yet? I tried it a week or two ago, just to find out what the Greek would sound like -- but instead of giving me audio the text started scrolling super-fast with lots of yellow stars appearing, and there was no way to shut it off, except to press down on the x until the computer finally found a split second to recognize the command and shut down the entire tab.

When I try it again today, it reads the chapter numbers in English with a few seconds between, but no Greek. The scrolling seems to be slightly slower, and the shutting down a little bit more responsive, but other than that there's no difference.

If it's supposed to work, it should work; if it's not supposed to work yet, the command ought to be toned down and not work at all.

2) When I tried this out again today, I had only the Greek NT open, covering only half the window. I then opened the info window, to check if the pronunciation there worked (which it now did). However, in spite of the whole right half of the window being empty, and the info window being very narrow, the Greek NT shrank when the info window opened! Logos is supposed to make best use of all available space, not shrink a resource to preserve the size of the unused area...

Mac 10.6.4
Logos 4.0a SR-1 (4.10.4.6104)
UBS4

(And, again, that Logos version above should be possible to copy from the About Logos Bible Software window. It's far too many figures to remember!)

PS. Tried BHS and NA as well. Same result.

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Jared Burke

I believe you have to purchase the Greek Audio New Testament resource before the Greek Read Aloud function becomes available (someone please correct me if I'm wrong)... Still, the first point you mention is a bug in which it attempts to read aloud the greek without the greek audio Bible and it simply skips over the verses.

And also if I'm not mistaken, the Greek Audio Bible is only compatible with the NA27 and UBS4 resources (as they are the same greek text).

David Mitchell

Jared is correct regarding the Greek Audio New Testament.

As for the information panel, a brief explanation…

The main window of Logos 4 is divided into three primary areas: left sidebar, right sidebar, and center. Each of these areas is divided into smaller regions, which are the spaces into which you can put tabs. While the center has a flexible width, both of the sidebars are fixed in size and are collapsed when there's nothing in them. The reason that your Greek New Testament shrank when you opened the information panel is because it was the first item to be opened in the sidebar: this caused the sidebar to open, which caused the center area to shrink (which then has an effect on the size of all panels in the center).

If you'd like the Greek NT panel to be larger, you can either resize it by dragging on its edge or move the information panel into the main area.

Steven Baxley

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/181668#Comment_181668

According to the logos web page for the Greek audio NT, it is not functional on the Mac platform. Is that still the case, or is that old info.?

David Mitchell

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/181681#Comment_181681

Old info.

David Leland

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/181691#Comment_181691

[Newbie here]

On this page http://www.logos.com/mac/leaders I see a reference to "Learn the pronunciation of Greek and Hebrew words." Now that I bought "Leaders" L4M for the life of me I can't seem to find how to get Logos to pronounce the Greek. The "Pronunciation" menu item under the Tools menu is disabled. Right clicking up a contextual menu on a word gives me no option to "Pronounce" as I see in Windows screen shots.

Can someone set me straight? Thanks!

David Mitchell

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/181996#Comment_181996

I believe the statement refers to the pronunciation guides contained in the original language lexicons, as the comparison chart (http://www.logos.com/comparison) shows that the Erasmian and Modern Greek Pronunciation sets (which drive the pronunciation tool) only come with Scholar's and above.

Sorry for any confusion.