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Logos 5.1

New Features

Bibliography
- Added Undo and Redo support for adding and removing citations.
Citations
- Implemented new citation engine. This new engine updates citation formats, and improves citation rendering.
Command Box
- Added command ‘Update active layout.’ (See this thread.)
Home Page
- Running ‘Go’ on a topic from the Home Page will now open a pre-made layout.
  - A Topic Guide, a Sermon Starter Guide (if applicable), and a Bible Word Study will be displayed in the left panel.
  - Preferred Bible will be displayed in the upper right panel.
  - Up to five Dictionaries will appear in the bottom right panel in order of preference.
- Clicking on the Lectionary widget in the Home Page ribbon launches a pre-made ‘Lectionary Layout’.
  - Clicking on the title of the Lectionary widget in the ribbon will open the resources in the layout to the first reading.
  - Clicking on a particular reading will open the Bibles, commentaries, and tools to that reading.
Importing
- Implemented support for importing Sermon Files from Libronix DLS. To import sermon files enter ‘Import Sermon Files’ into command line.
  - Running the command to import Sermon Files will:
    - Create a new folder called ‘Imported LDLS3 Sermons.’ This folder will be located in the Documents folder on Windows and the Home folder on Mac.
    - Generate a .docx file for each imported sermon, and place these files in the new ‘Imported LDLS3 Sermons’ folder.
    - Create two stubs in Personal Books panel, one for Sermons and one for Illustrations. These will be titled ‘Sermons of [user name]’ and ‘Illustrations of [user name].’
    - Populate stubs with .docx files generated.
  - To build Sermons or Illustrations personal book after running import command, select generated stub in Personal Books panel and press ‘Build book’ button.
Indexer
- Added new Retina Display indexing icon for status bar.
My Library
- Implemented ‘Collections’ section in the info pane which will display hyperlinks for the Collections of which the selected resource is a part.
- Implemented support for custom Series metadata which can be edited in the resource information pane.
- Implemented support to transfer series prioritization when resources are assigned to new series. (See this thread.)
Media Resources
- Added capability to skip back 30 seconds in audio resources.
- Implemented saving and syncing the last positon played to in audio and video resources.
Performance
- Improved performance of some resource pickers in the application. (See this thread.)
Personal Book Builder
- Implemented support for Lectionaries and Bible Harmonies using dynamic text. (See this thread for a sample .docx file.)
- Added ability to create a text input box.
  - To create a text input box use the syntax {{input id=IDENTIFIER | type=text | lines=number | width=number | prompt=“text”}}
  - ‘input id = IDENTIFIER’ is mandatory. The identifier value of the id attribute must be uppercase, start with a letter, and may consist of letters, numbers, underscores, hyphens, and periods. It must be unique within the resource.
  - ‘lines=number’ is optional. This controls the vertical size of the text box, in whole number line-heights. Default is 1.
  - ‘width=number’ is optional. This controls the horizontal size of the text box, in whole number character-widths. Note: you can only specify either lines or width. If both are given then the compiler will use lines and ignore width.
  - ‘prompt=“text”’ is optional. This may be used to specify text that will be displayed in the text box until the user inputs something.
Rich Text Editor
- Implemented new rich text editor. Some of the issues this should fix are:
  - Indentation buttons not functioning as expected in Notes on Mac.
  - Potential crash when cutting text from Notes on Mac. (See this thread.)
  - Crash when deleting text from bulleted Notes on Mac. (See this thread.)
- Implemented automatic hyperlink detection on Mac.
- Added a button to ‘Apply default formatting’. The keystrokes Ctrl+Space will also apply the default formatting on any selected text.
Read Aloud
- Implemented changes to Read Aloud function in preparation for Audio Resource availability.
- Implemented voice picker in panel menu. ‘System Narrator’ will be the only voice available for resources without dedicated audio.
Resource Panel
- Implemented new Reverse Interlinear ribbon which now supports dragging left/right with the mouse.
Search
- Added Image search panel.
- ‘OTQuote’ added as an alias for OT Quotation search field.
Synchronization
- Implemented sync v2 for resource inline display preferences.
- Implemented sync v2 for collapsed or expanded state of Guides sections.
- Implemented sync v2 for ‘Show Alerts’ setting.
- Implemented sync v2 for search results view preference in Search Panels.
- Implemented sync v2 for resource selected from drop down in Search Panels.
- Implemented sync v2 for column display preferences in Word Lists and Analysis view in Search Panels.
- Implemented sync v2 for ‘Match case’ and ‘Match all word forms’ settings in Search panel menu.
- Implemented sync v2 for last viewed category, such as ‘Selection’ or ‘Reference,’ in context menu.
- Implemented sync v2 for currently selected style in Copy Bible Verses.
- Implemented sync v2 for Home Page preferences.
- Implemented sync v2 for Notes preferences.

Bug Fixes

Bible Facts
- Fixed bug which caused copying from ‘Referred To As’ section to omit hidden data. (See this thread.)
- Fixed bug which prevented graphics from displaying when panel was opened using a shortcut. (See this thread.)
- Improved popups displayed for external links. (See this thread.)
- Added ‘Setting’ section for Events.
- Added measurement and conversion information when relevant.
Bible Sense Lexicon
- Added ‘Lemmas’ section for lemma information and reference list.
Bible Word Study Guide
- Fixed bug which displayed inaccurate links for English words in the Definitions section. (See this thread.)
- Fixed bug which prevented translation from displaying next to original language phrases in Phrases section.
- Fixed bug which prevented idioms from displaying in Septuagint Translation section.
- Fixed crash which could occur when expanding the Phrases section. (See this thread.)
- Added New Testament Apocrypha as a possible result in Textual Searches section.
Bibliography
- Fixed bug which caused notes field to incorrectly stay in focus.
Clippings
- Fixed bug which caused extra ‘p’ to be added when page numbers were exported to Excerpts.
Collections
- Improved use of collections in Visual Filters, Passsage Lists, and Search Panels to use the name of collection if ID is not found. This facilitates sharing Visual Filters and Passage Lists that run on a collection.
Command Box
- Fixed bug which caused all old versions of a named layout to appear in results. (See this thread.)
- Fixed bug which did not allow for the exact match of a resource title to appear in the results. (See this thread.)
Community Notes
- Fixed a bug which prevented certain links from functioning correctly.
- Fixed bug which caused Bible references to open a web browser rather than opening a Bible. (See this thread.)
Context Menu
- Fixed bug which prevented various options from appearing when ‘Manuscript’ was selected.
Exegetical Guide
- Fixed bug which caused morph terms to appear duplicated.
Explorer
- Fixed crash when any section is expanded without a reference in the reference text box.
- Fixed bug which caused Cross References section to omit results based on prioritized Bible. (See this thread.)
Favorites
- Added separator between ‘Rename’ and ‘Delete’ in Favorites context menu.
Guides
- Improved sorting of Guides menu by reference column.
- Fixed crash which could occur when a custom Guide template type was changed.
- Fixed crash when opening a custom Guide after the Guide template had been deleted.
- Fixed a bug which hid ‘Definition’ section of the Topic Guide when no Dictionary was found in the library. (See this thread.)
- Fixed a bug which pulled Bible resources above Dictionary resources in Definition section of the Topic Guide.
- Fixed bug which prevented some guide sections from respecting changes in guide template settings. (See this thread.)
Highlighting
- Fixed bug which caused spacing issues when using margin lines. (See this thread.)
- Fixed bug which prevented the ability to erase a portion of a highlight.
Handouts
- Fixed crash when opening handout containing an invalid diagram name. (See this thread.)
History
- Improved display of citations.
Importing
- Improved formatting, retention, and readability of notes imported from Libronix. (See this thread, this thread, this thread, this thread, and this thread.)
Information
- Fixed bug which included superscript letters in speaker information section.
- Fixed bug which caused Translated section to only show prepositions when translating Hebrew words.
- Fixed bug which could prevent panel from updating when clicking ‘Show information’ in Resource Panel context menu.
Layouts
- Fixed bug which prevented named layout from becoming active when saving ‘Now’ snapshot as named layout.
- Fixed bug which prevented updating a named layout from activating that layout. (See this thread.)
- Fixed bug which prevented layout name in program title bar from updating when the active layout title was edited. (See this thread.)
- Added tooltip for long layout names.
- Added a commit button when saving layout as named layout or renaming a layout.
- Fixed bug which caused “At Startup Open To – Named Layout” to revert to Blank Layout when the name of the layout is changed.
Localization
- Fixed bug which caused title bar to read ‘Logos 4’ when in Portuguese UI. (See this thread.)
- Fixed bug which prevented ‘Root’ in reverse interlinear ribbon in Resource Panel from being localized when in Spanish UI.
Media Resources
- Fixed bug which prevented audio navigation bar from properly displaying hours.
My Library
- Fixed bug which caused two ‘Lectionary’ types to appear when sorted by Type.
- Rearranged content in resource information panel.
- Added ability to set user series on multiple resources at once.
- Improved loading of Library panel.
- Fixed crash which could occur when closing a floating Library panel after updating metadata. (See this thread.)
Passage Guide
- Added ‘more>>’ link in Tags and Cloud views for Topics and Illustrations sections.
- Fixed bug which prevented some results from displaying correcting in ‘Parallel Passages’ section.
- Fixed bug which caused Cross References section to omit results based on prioritized Bible. (See this thread.)
Passage Lists
- Fixed bug which truncated the top of Hebrew text in Practice mode.
- Fixed bug which prevented references missing a space from being recognized when adding from clipboard. (See this thread.)
- Fixed bug which parsed common phrases ‘Am I,’ ‘So I,’ and ‘Sir I’ as Bible references when adding from clipboard.
Personal Book Builder
- Fixed bug which could cause tagging to display in Table of Contents. (See this thread.)
- Fixed bug which could cause ‘Unknown language’ warnings when creating a Personal Book.
- Fixed crash due to invalid image reference. (See this thread.)
- Fixed bug which could cause incorrect font to be used.
- Fixed bug which prevented headings using Bible datatype syntax from being recognized in the TOC.
- Fixed crash when building certain Personal Books. (See this thread.)
- Removed confusing line borders between sections when creating a new personal book.
Power Lookup
- Fixed bug which prevented references to LLS:CATCATHCHRCH from copying correctly.
Print/Export
- Fixed bug which could cause blank pages to export when printing from LLS:KAIROSGRAM.
- Fixed crash when selecting various sections of a resource with ‘Popular Highlights’ visual filter enabled.
- Fixed crash which could occur when selecting or unselecting sections. (See this thread.)
- Fixed bug which prevented footnotes from exporting. (See this thread.)
Program Settings
- ‘At Startup Open to’ has been changed to a machine specific setting.
- Fixed bug which caused “At Startup Open To – Named Layout” to revert to Home Page when named layout was deleted.
- Fixed bug which cause “At Startup Open to – Named Layout” to open to a blank page when an old snapshot was deleted. (See this thread.)
- Fixed bug which caused “At Startup Open To – Named Layout” to revert to open to old snapshot of the named layout. (See this thread.)
Read Aloud
- Fixed bug which did not display the panel menu option correctly when playing the Greek Audio New Testament audio. (See this thread.)
- Fixed bug which caused some characters to be read individually.
Resource Panel
- Fixed crash which could occur when opening resource due to missing resource information.
- Added Root and Root (Transliterated) rows to reverse interlinear ribbon.
- Added link to Sermon Starter Guide for ‘Reference’ context menu.
- Added link to Sermon Starter Guide and Topic Guide for ‘Selection’ context menu when selected word is a supported topic.
- Fixed bug which allowed unowned resource preview to function as a web browser.
- Fixed by which caused resource in a series to change when a generic data type was entered. (See this thread.)
- Fixed bug which caused some items in the context menu of an internal link to be unavailable. (See this thread.)
- Fixed bug which caused incorrect tagging of words preceeded by a footnote and a single quote. (See this thread.)
- Improved ‘Copy Location as URL’ option in panel menu to allow for links to selected text. When text is selected, link will point to start of selection.
- Fixed bug which caused Hebrew text to render outside of table borders.
- Fixed bug which could allow footnote text to extend into second column of resource when in Paged view.
Search Analysis
- Improved grouping of search results into rows.
- Fixed bug which caused ‘Lemma’ and ‘Root’ columns to export incorrectly.
- Fixed bug which allowed verse numbers to appear in ‘Previous Context’ and ‘Previous Word’ columns.
- Improved display of number of rows under each heading when results are grouped.
- Updated ‘WordSense’ column header to ‘Sense.’
Search Panel Basic
- Fixed bug which caused deleted searches to reappear when search panel was closed and reopened.
Search Panel Bible
- Fixed bug which caused footnote markers to be treated as results in Analysis view. (See this thread.)
- Fixed crash that could occur when reopening a Search Panel after adding a reference to the Passage List it had previously searched.
- Fixed crash which could occur when clicking ‘Graph Results’ with no search term present in the query box.
Search Panel Clause
- Fixed bug which caused suggestive text to only show Greek examples. (See this thread.)
- Fixed bug which prevented ‘participant:’ queries from displaying all results in Analysis view.
- Fixed bug which prevented various columns in Analysis view from correctly exporting to Excel.
- Added surface text columns in Analysis view such as ‘Subject Text’ and ‘Object Text.’
- Added translation columns in Analysis view such as ‘Subject Translation’ and ‘Object Translation.’
- Added ‘Translation’ column in Analysis view which displays clause translation.
Search Panel Morph
- Fixed bug which prevented references from displaying for search results in LLS:GRKAPOCGFA.
- Updated Logos Hebrew Morphology.
- Updated Logos Aramaic Morphology.
Sermon Starter Guide
- Improved results generated in Collections section.
Startup
- Fixed crash which could occur at startup due to resource data failing to download. (See this thread.)
Syntax Search
- Fixed crash when running search on unavailable resource.
Timeline
- Implemented ‘lock’ icon for timeline event references that are located in a resource not in the user’s library.
- Fixed bug which did not allow ‘Find’ to locate words that are not typed in the filter box.
- Fixed bug which prevented full titles from displaying on hover and click. (See this thread.)
- Fixed crash when entering ‘(’ symbol into filter.
- Fixed bug which returned zero results when any character was entered into the filter box when the application was set to Swedish or Portuguese. (See this thread.)
Topic Guide
- Fixed bug which displayed headword results in Definitions section rather than topic results.
- Improved results generated in Definition and Collections. (See this thread.)
- Added display of article titles in Collections section.
Visual Filters
- Modified filter style selector to use a fixed width.
- Fixed bug which caused speaker labels to appear incorrectly in specific locations.

Bug Fixes for Mac

Bibliography
- Fixed bug which caused some options in Add menu to be truncated in Spanish UI.
Bible Facts
- Fixed bug which could cause family tree diagrams to truncate when docking panel.
- Fixed a bug which kept focus on the initially searched city in a Biblical World Map rather than switching focus to the newly searched city.
- Fixed bug which could cause map in upper right corner of Bible Facts panel to display incorrectly.
Bible Sense Lexicon
- Fixed bug which caused first term to be a smaller font than subsequent terms. (See this thread.)
Bible Word Study Guide
- Fixed bug which caused main root in ‘Root’ section to appear in bold text.
- Improved speed of row highlighting in ‘Root’ section.
- Fixed bug which could cause some labels to be truncated in ‘Preposition Use’ section.
Bibliography
- Fixed bug which prevented keyboard shortcuts from working in Collections section of the ‘Add’ menu.
Collections
- Fixed crash which could occur when removing columns for an empty collection.
Command Box
- Fixed bug which allowed resource tab tool tips to appear through the command box suggestion drop down. (See this thread.)
Copy Bible Verses
- Added option to copy verses to Powerpoint.
- Fixed bug which caused extra text to appear when copying to Evernote. (See this thread.)
Display
- Fixed bug which caused Greek letter ‘pi’ to be displayed in a different font.
Explorer
- Improved input text box by specifying maximum width.
Guides
- Fixed bug which caused ‘more >>’ link to display too high in See Also ribbon.
- Fixed bug which prevented Cmd+G keyboard shortcut from putting focus in the query box.
- Fixed bug which prevented notes in Guides sections from displaying.
- Fixed crash which could occur when deleting search term without results.
Help Panel
- Fixed bug which prevented font scaling in the Help panel.
Highlighting
- Fixed bug which caused ‘Strikethrough’ to appear too low. (See this thread.)
Home Page
- Fixed bug which allowed Library preview to resize rather than remaining a fixed hight. (See this thread.)
- Fixed bug which prevented long suggestions in ‘Go’ drop down from truncating correctly.
- Fixed bug which caused tool tips for Reading List titles to persist after mouse exited link.
Layouts
- Fixed bug which caused “Update active” link to display in black text when inactive.
- Fixed bug which prevented “Update active” and “Close active layout” keyboard shortcuts from working with Layouts panel open.
- Fixed bug which did not hide other controls when ‘Save as named layout’ textbox was opened.
- Implemented behavior that when a named layout is selected with a right-click in the left side panel, the right side panel scrolls to the last used snapshot of that layout.
- Fixed bug which prevented commit button from appearing when saving layout with long title.
Localization
- Fixed bug which caused ‘Query’ in Syntax Search Panel to appear in English when in Spanish UI.
Media Resources
- Fixed bug which prevented off-line error messages from appearing during uncached audio file playback.
My Library
- Fixed bug which caused the font used in the column title bar to be inconsistent.
- Fixed bug which caused text to overlap at larger font sizes.
- Fixed bug which caused ‘Short title’ hyperlink to disappear.
- Fixed bug which prevented community ratings from displaying when in Tile view.
Notes
- Fixed bug which prevented document title from responding to font slider changes. (See this thread.)
Personal Book Builder
- Fixed bug which prevented text boxes from increasing in size when font size was increased. (See this thread.)
Power Lookup
- Improved display of title text to match Windows.
Prayer Lists
- Fixed bug which caused semicolon to appear at enter of tag on shared prayers.
Prononciation
- Fixed bug which prevented hyperlinks in information panel from playing audio.
Read Aloud
- Fixed crash which could occur when beginning Read Aloud in LLS:LOGOSNA27.
- Fixed bug which could cause Read Aloud to incorrectly switch between speaker voices. (See this thread.)
Resource Panel
- Fixed text sizing issue in Faithlife Study Bible.
- Fixed bug which caused keyboard navigation to be inverted in paged view for Hebrew resources. (See this thread.)
- Fixed bug which prevented Visual Filter menu from accurately representing if Visual Filter items were checked.
- Fixed bug which caused morphology popup to persist when keyboard shortcuts switched focus to other programs. (See this thread.)
- Fixed bug which prevented resource indicator in parallel resources panel from displaying. (See this thread.)
- Fixed bug which caused morphology popup to persist when keyboard shortcuts floated other panels. (See this thread.)
- Fixed bug which caused incorrect spacing of some Hebrew text. (See this thread.)
- Fixed bug which caused some text to appear incorrectly in LLS:13.0.2.
- Fixed bug which caused ‘Default Font Size’ in Program Settings to overwrite font slider settings of currently open resources. (See this thread.)
Resource Updates
- Updated message in adding resources dialog.
Search Panel Basic
- Implemented arrow button in query box in Search panel for initiating searches.
- Fixed bug which prevented open resources list from updating correctly. (See this thread.)
Search Panel Bible
- Fixed bug which prevented the ‘Add Versions’ textbox from correctly receiving focus. (See this thread.)
- Fixed bug which prevented selected resource from being initially highlighted in Grid view.
- Fixed bug which caused ‘Save’ button for range selection drop down to be truncated in Spanish UI.
- Fixed bug which caused different Greek font to be utilized for words containing the letter pi. (See this thread.)
- Fixed bug which caused clicking on a Strong’s number to navigate to incorrect resource location when font scale was large.
- Fixed bug which could cause incorrect popup display when hovering over Strong’s numbers.
- Fixed crash which could occur when hovering over Strong’s numbers.
Search Panel Morph
- Fixed crash when scrolling through search results for h:kbd. (See this thread.)
Sermon Starter Guide
- Fixed bug which caused ‘Copy to’ drop down menu in Thematic Outlines section to appear out of place on Retina displays.
Settings
- Fixed bug which caused font size setting to be incorrectly capitalized in Spanish UI.
Startup
- Fixed bug which could occur when logging in with incorrect credentials.
Syntax Search
- Fixed crash which could occur when adding a clause. (See this thread.)
Text Comparison
- Fixed bug which caused initial Hebrew entry to appear smaller than subsequent entries. (See this thread.)
Topic Guide
- Fixed bug which prevented ‘Related Topics’ from displaying in the Definition section.
Word Find Puzzle
- Fixed crash when Print/Export panel was opened before a puzzle was generated.
- Fixed bug which caused long passages to produce a scroll bar rather than paging.

Bug Fixes for Windows

Bible Word Study
- Fixed bug which could prevent pronunciation audio from playing. (See this thread.)
Bibliography
- Removed unnecessary ‘Add’ button in ‘...a collection’ section of the Add menu.
Explain
- Updated Documents menu explanation text.
Guides
- Moved ‘Copy’ above separater in section header right-click menu.
Highlighting
- Fixed bug which caused Hebrew text in highlights to appear reversed. (See this thread.)
- Fixed bug which caused Highlights containing English text and a single Hebrew character to display reversed.
Layouts
- Added hint text for ‘Save as named layout’ textbox.
- Improved loading of Layouts panel.
Media Resources
- Fixed crash when navigating to parent articles in audio resources.
- Implemented playback of cached media for Windows Vista. (See this thread.)
- Fixed crash which could occur when selecting images from table of contents in image media resources.
Notes
- Changed default note text color to be black. (See this thread and this thread.)
- Fixed crash when opening Print/Export panel in Split view with no note selected.
Passage Lists
- Fixed bug which truncated the bottom of Hebrew text when inputting text in Practice mode.
Pronunciation
- Fixed bug which caused system dialog box to appear when playing audio from information panel on Windows 8. (See this thread.)
Reading Plan
- Fixed crash when closing Logos from Windows task bar with a Reading Plan open in a floating panel.
Resource Panel
- Fixed bug which prevented some font styles from properly displaying bold text. (See this thread.)
- Fixed bug which caused some brackets to display incorrectly in Hebrew texts. (See this thread.)
- Fixed bug which cause some text to display incorrectly in Hebrew texts. (See this thread.)
- Fixed bug which caused Syriac to display incorrectly.
- Improved display of Greek combining marks.
- Fixed bug which prevented correct display of combining comma. (See this thread.)
- Fixed crash when accessing print menu multiple times in a row from context menu for large images.
Search Panel Basic
- Removed unnecessary context menu in resource selection drop down.
Search Panel Bible
- Removed unnecessary context menu in range selection drop down. (See this thread.)
Search Panel Morph
- Fixed bug which caused definition tool tips for search terms to expire too quickly.
- Fixed bug which caused inconsistent capitalization of some tags for Logos Hebrew and Logos Aramaic Morphologies.
Syntax Search
- Fixed bug which prevented link to Syntax Search document from working correctly.
Visual Filters
- Fixed bug which caused all text in Highlighting drop down menu to be bold.
- Fixed bug which caused search text box to expand to fit search criteria. (See this thread.)
- Fixed bug which could cause formatting drop down to extend across entire screen.