Logos 7.4 Beta 2
7.4 Beta 2 (7.4.0.0008) was released on January 09, 2017.
Known Issue: Clicking on Morph Search on Mac will cause the app to crash (this was discovered after 7.4 Beta 2 was shipped.
New Features
Guides
- Figurative Language data is now available in Guides. (Windows Only)
Search
- Bible Search results now display full Bible Reference. (Mac only)
UI
- Add items to Documents and Tools which the user doesn’t current have a license for. Can be disabled with the command “Set Show unavailable features to No”
- Icons for Documents and Tools that are unavailable will be greyed out on Windows.
Improvements
Sermon Editor
- Add Bible version picker to passage cards.
- Add smart text replacement. The following patterns are automatically replaced by the editor. The Undo command will restore the original text if the replacement is not desired.
- Straight single and double quotes are replaced with smart quotes.
- Two dashes are replaced with an emdash.
- Three dots are replaced with an ellipsis.
- An empty normal paragraph starting with “* ” or “- ” is converted to a bulleted list.
- An empty normal paragraph starting with “1. ” or “1) ” is converted to a numbered list.
- Move paragraph type toolbar buttons into a single picker dropdown.
- Ctrl+Click on a detected reference now triggers a navigation to the reference.
- Add fields for “occasions”. Occasions are date + venue pairs that may be used to track when and where the sermon was used.
- Add Illustration paragraphs, which are visually similar to blockquotes.
Bug Fixes
Factbook
- Long results in Works section of Factbook now wrap properly. (Thread)
Homepage
- Improved Homepage layout display on retina displays. (There are still known issues that should be fixed in the next beta) (Thread), (Thread)
Search
- Reference searches are now optimized in the new search engine. (Thread)
Sermon Editor
- Bible abbreviations are now properly included on passage slides.
- Improve the styling and error messages displayed in the export dialog when no internet connection is available.
- Autocomplete popup for Key Passages and Key Topics inputs is now shown more consistently. (Thread)
- Turn off “Fill-in” style when pressing Enter to start a new paragraph.