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New Features & Improvements for Subscribers
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- Factbook
- Updated Journals section that includes:
- Options to group by Journal, Year and Author.
- Summarization of each journal article.
- Updated Sermons section that includes:
- Options to group by Author, Reference, and Topic.
- Summarization of each sermon.
- Search
- Added auto-switch to precise search for numerous scenarios when executing a search.
- All Search will use Precise Search when:
- Query is in Greek or Hebrew
- Quotation marks are included around the entire query
- Book Search will use Precise Search when:
- Query is in Greek or Hebrew
- Quotation marks are included around the entire query
- Update Books Search Settings to avoid persisting Search Mode when programmatically changed.
- Any search with “advanced” search syntax.
- Run a Books search via the context menu in a resource.
- Move search mode selector in books search to left of input.
- When executing a smart search using smart syntax. We will now omit the Precise search suggestion text.
Tweaks & Bug Fixes
- AI Credit Ring
- Will only show a percentage once you have used an AI feature at least once.
- Factbook
- Text within the Further Reading section will now wrap when viewing on a smaller screen size.
- People references are now draggable out of the PPT section.
- Switching lenses will no longer causes the first article titles to come back.
- The first Featured event for “Jesus’ Virgin Birth” will now contain a Wikipedia link at the end.
- The link text in the Referred to As section will now be aligned with the sub-text.
- Single line rich text links will continue to wrap in the People, Place and Things section.
- Dynamic Toolbar
- The ability to copy locations as “A Logos4 Link” has been removed from the Copy Special menu (View discussion).
- Existing logos4 links will continue to function.
- Insights
- Related books section will no longer be empty if any of the cards fail to load.
- “A bigger Library” URL will now redirect to the correct application store front.
- When opening the LXX or LES there will no longer be an empty Related Books card.
- Opening Insights and expanding the Related Books card will now show images in the card.
- Toolbar
- Performing an inline search for morph-tagged Lexicons will display “All Text” rather then “All Morph Text” in the Search Field selector.
- Sermon Builder
- Passage blocks are now completely deleted when the whole block and the lines above it are selected and deleted.
- Passage insertion helpers are now suppressed with the Escape key.
- The sermon / homily description field is now limited to 5,000 characters to prevent sync errors.
- Deleted heading slides have stopped being recreated when the sermon is re-opened.
- Sermon Builder won’t crash when additional outlines are generated and inserted.
- User edits to a passage block with Christ’s words in red will no longer be red.
Windows Tweaks & Bug Fixes
- Toolbar
- Tooltips will now remain a consistent size regardless of monitor configuration.
- Clicking into the reference navigator will no longer flash and disappear.
General Changes
Changes & Improvements
- Application
- ref.ly links in external Windows applications will open directly in Logos without opening the browser. This matches what we already do on Mac.
- ref.ly links in a browser will continue to open a browser tab.
- Command Box
- The command “set top Bible to” will trigger the command to set a preferred Bible.
- Factbook
- Updated styling in Journals section.
- Updated styling in Sermons section.
- Resources
- Highlights anchored to verse references will no longer highlight the passage entry in commentaries.
- Resource content in workflows will now display the correct styling in dark mode.
- Selection Menu
- There will no longer be any missing icons in the Selection Menu.
Bug Fixes
- Books
- Bible Dictionaries and other books with headword milestone will now show the Add Parallel Text/Multi-book display option.
- Command Box
- When the toolbar is set to the top, the Command Box retains its original width after executing a command.
- Courses
- The application will no longer crash when clicking “Import reading progress”.
- Documents
- Overly long documents will no longer cause overlapping text in Print/Export.
- Factbook
- Clicking the link for a Topic Study layout in the “Dig Deeper” section will now open the layout to the correct entry.
- References that match UAV references will now display similar results.
- Favorites Tool
- Resources added to the Favorites sidebar that aren’t in a folder will now populate.
- Get Started Card
- Will no longer have line breaks that start with a special character.
- Library panel
- Clearing the user rating if set will no longer cause the application to crash.
- Tool Menu
- Titles with long words will break more evenly in the Tools and Guides menu.
- Top Bible Card
- Will no longer re-appear if the card is dismissed.
- Notes
- The application will no longer crash when creating a new note.
- Clicking an anchor link will now open the resource to the correct location.
- Read aloud
- Read aloud stop reading label will now be “Stop reading”.
- Search
- Links that perform an all search in the Lexham Cultural Ontology Glossary will now perform the correct search type. View discussion
- Indexing will no longer cause a rare crash to occur in the Search Panel.
- Sermon Builder
- Last-used media style will now become your default.
- White text style background no longer hides the text in Light mode.
- Contrast between selection highlighting and text is improved.
- Media export to sermon document is restored.
- Optimized text input functionality for non-English keyboards.
- Sermon slides created offline will now display correctly when reconnecting to the internet.
macOS Bug Fixes
- Application
- The Update menu will no longer flicker when the height of the menu changes.
- Bible Word Study
- Clicking on the Bible Word Wheel in the Translation section will now highlight the results.
- Favorites tool
- Opening the Favorites tool will display the “add” button on initial render.
- Highlighting panel
- Italics will now be respected in Custom Highlight Preview.
- Menus
- Menus with text boxes will now respect the “Esc” key to clear the text while hitting the “Esc” a second time will close the menu.
- Tags
- The application will no longer crash when viewing book information for tagged books.
Windows Bug Fixes
- Interactives
- The Multi-View resource option will no longer be present in the Hebrew Cantillations or Parallel Gospel Reader Interactive.
- Selection Menu
- The menu will now respect the program settings with different scaling options.