4.0d Beta 1
Logos 4.0d Beta 1 (v4.04.3.9992) was released on May 25, 2010.
New Features
- COM API implemented.
- “Copy to Clipboard” has been added to more panels.
- “Export” added for Clippings, Information, and Text Comparison tools.
- Clippings
- Drag and drop reordering is now available.
- Passage Lists document
- Add from Clipboard is now available.
- Search panel
- Improved Morph Searching.
- Improved Syntax search query template display by adding the template title (e.g., “English Verb (Andersen-Forbes)”) above the input box.
- Verses, Aligned, and Analysis views are now available for non-Bibles (such as “The Works of Philo: Greek Text with Morphology”) in Morph search results.
Bug Fixes
- Bible Word Study
- Fixed hangs when clicking translation graph for a frequent word by a) optimizing the display, and b) reducing the default number of hits that are shown.
- Fixed Preposition Use graph to display correct hotspot for preposition “ב” (“in”).
- Biblical People
- Current person is now highlighted when switching diagrams.
- Themes revised for program universality. Options in 4.0d: Subtle, Minimal, Liquid, Classic, Informal, Cartoon, Industrial.
- Clippings
- Fixed bug that prevented the “Add a clipping to ...” context menu option from working with a resource with a hyphen in its ID (e.g., LLS:AWP-ANTH).
- Collections
- Compare Pericopes
- Fixed bug that caused the last verse to get clipped with screen resolution at 1280x800.
- Favorites
- Items can now be dropped any place in the Favorites panel rather than just after the last entry. An insertion line is visible at the drop point.
- Graph Bible Search Results
- Guides
- “Include only these parts of speech” radio button, in Exegetical Guide Word by Word section, is automatically selected when a ‘parts of speech’ box is checked.
- “Interesting Words” for Greek and Hebrew in Passage Guide are now based on lemmas. (http://community.logos.com/forums/t/15649.aspx)
- Indexing
- Merging has been reintegrated.
- Prayer List
- When hovering over Prayer Name, Notes, or Answer in Prayer List document, the tooltip will now display for up to an hour. This is also true for prayers viewed on the Home Page ribbon.
- Reading Plan
- Fixed bug that caused the Stop Reading and Keep Reading markers to be displayed in the middle of the last verse of a Psalms chapter.
- Resource Panel
- Hebrew vowels are no longer clipped on Locator Bar. (See known issue with reference text box.)
- “Search this resource” is no longer available from a Bible’s context menu when non-Bible text (e.g., a pericope) is selected.
- Resources
- Default font change is applied to Transliterated and Morphology display lines in reverse interlinear Bibles immediately (as with Surface text), no longer requiring a refresh.
- Tables and text no longer overlap. (Exceptions include “You Can Understand the Bible Seminar,” which needs to be rebuilt.)
- Rich Text Editor
- Added tooltip when hovering over hyperlink that shows the destination of hyperlink and the instruction to execute the link (Ctrl+Click to follow link).
- Fixed crash (XamlParseException) when pasting resource text into a note (e.g., Amos 4:11-5:17 in LLS:29.35.1).
- Search panel
- Choosing a Bible version from the resource selector drop-down is much faster now. Top Bibles, All Bibles, and Open Bibles are available right away.
- Clicking My Content result in Basic search now jumps to result in Clippings, Notes, and Prayer List documents.
- Fixed bug that caused a resource to be listed twice under Open Resources on the resource selector drop-down when resource was opened in two tabs. (http://community.logos.com/forums/t/16797.aspx)
- Fixed bug that caused bullets, indicating a hit in non-surface text (e.g., lemma, morph) to be included in search results.
- Fixed crash (InvalidOperationException) when running a Basic search of Entire Library for the phrase “later Mishnah.” (http://community.logos.com/forums/t/17378.aspx)
- Last used syntax database is remembered in Syntax search.
- Self Tests tool
- Course averages will now be updated when a test’s answers are cleared.
- Syntax Search document
- Fixed cropping of “Add search terms here” text in Syntax Search Document when font scaling is greater than 100%.
- Fixed vertical clipping of “Templates”/”Previous searches” content in Syntax Search Document.
- Last used syntax database is remembered in document.
- Text language under Segment Specifics no longer defaults to “Either” when switching between search terms.
- Timeline resources
- Themes revised for program universality. Options in 4.0d: Subtle, Minimal, Liquid, Classic, Informal, Cartoon, Industrial. Timelines that had been set to a theme that no longer exists will use Subtle.
Known Issues
- Copy Bible Verses
- Text copied from a Hebrew Bible will be pasted in left-to-right order.
- Text copied from an interlinear copies all interlinear lines (merged together).
- Handouts
- Themes revised for program universality are incomplete.
- Morph Search
- Results in non-Bible morph resources will show unnecessary verse numbers, or not appear in search results at all (when searching a collection of Bibles and non-Bibles); this will be fixed with an upcoming resource update.
- Resource Panel:
- Hebrew vowels can be clipped in the reference text box.
- Rich Text:
- Paste option on Hyperlink box context menu is grayed out after copy function. Workaround: Ctrl+V.
- Self Tests:
- The courses in the self tests tool are collapsible, but the settings are not saved in Beta 1.
- Title bar
- With Custom Chrome enabled in Logos 4 on a Windows 7 system, the “Logos Bible Software 4” title bar may be black with the Minimize, Maximize, and Close buttons not visible (the buttons are there and still work, but cannot be seen). The workaround is to enter Set Custom Chrome to No in the Command box.