BUG: Text Comparison Tool does not display first verse of a chapter well

Please have a look at these screenshots:

This is what I see when I navigate to the first verse of any chapter in my Text Comparison window:

When I enlarge my Text Comparison window, I see that the information is present, but only after a big white space containing a dash:

For any other verse, things are just fine:

Back to displaying the first verse of a chapter: Strangely enough, The Message places the dash and white space after the verb, not before like all other versions I have selected:

Can anyone confirm whether this is a bug, or not?

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Mark Barnes

When I enlarge my Text Comparison window, I see that the information is present, but only after a big white space containing a dash:

I'm not seeing that on my computer. It's possible that there's a problem with that verse in one of your Bibles (I don't own all the Bibles that you do, and can't see them all, anyway). Have you tried it using a smaller subset of Bibles to see if you can narrow down if there is one Bible that causes the problem?

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/518703#Comment_518703

The Message Bible does not appear to have verse 1 appropriately tagged. It should be reported as a typo.

André Kamphuis

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/518703#Comment_518703

Have you tried it using a smaller subset of Bibles to see if you can narrow down if there is one Bible that causes the problem?

I hadn't tried that, but this is it! It turns out that The Message was causing this issue. When I took this version out of the list, things appear to be normal.

So, is this a bug related to The Message? Or is Logos trying to tell me that this version simply does not belong between the other Bible Translations? ;-)

Thanks a lot for your great advice Mark! Much appreciated.

André

André Kamphuis

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/518704#Comment_518704

The Message Bible does not appear to have verse 1 appropriately tagged. It should be reported as a typo.

Okay, I will do that. But a random check throughout the Bible shows that it's not just a tagging error in this chapter, but in many more (though not all).

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/518707#Comment_518707

In general, paraphrases do not align well with versification. But the compare feature handles them fairly well - in this case treating it as verse zero.

JT (alabama24)

Does this behavior change when you play with which translations you are using?

EDIT: I'm guilty of not seeing past the first post. [:$]