Randy Leedy
- Here's a suggestion for people who wish the diagrams contained interactive hyperlinks. How about setting up a workspace for working with the diagrams, in which three windows are all linked to move together: the SBLGNT text, the diagrams, and the accompanying notes to the diagrams? Then those hyperlinks you're wanting are pretty easily accessible through the Greek text window. Save the workspace under an appropriate name and you can easily bring it up whenever you need it. All that can be ported over from BibleWorks is the diagrams and notes--just the text and graphics. Other functionality is a matter of the BibleWorks software environment that doesn't transfer. It might be possible one way or another to provide similar functionality in Logos, but not without raising the production cost (and therefore the price) by a factor of probably at least 2 or 3.
- I see that replies I have written to a couple of critical reviews don't show up unless you click on "Reply" under the review. I've replied at length to a couple of those reviews, so I hope you'll be able to find those replies without too much trouble. I'll add a couple of comments here were they're easily visible. One reviewer complains of false advertising, since the product description reads "Explore grammatical details..." but he finds no grammatical details to explore because the words in the diagrams are not hyperlinked to underlying details of morphology, etc. The response is that the diagrams themselves encode the promised grammatical details; you get those details by reading the diagrams, not by clicking on words. The grammatical details that the reviewer does not find are part and parcel of every diagram in the set, right on the surface to be read at a glance, with no need to chase down into layers of hyperlinked information. All that's needed to unlock this trove of grammatical information is a working knowledge of the symbols used for this style of diagramming--which are explained in an appendix detailing the symbols and their meanings. Other reviewers have been disappointed that the diagrams do not include the same functionality that BibleWorks provided for the diagrams in that context. I wish we had anticipated that people would have some difficulty distinguishing between the diagrams themselves (along with their associated notes and other ancillary material) and the software functionality provided for the within BibleWorks. That software functionality is intrinsically NON-portable to other applications. All we can port over to various other publication forms at present are the text and graphics, as if the diagrams were printed in a paper book. It MIGHT be possible to develop a database and associated programming that would allow access to word information based on x-y coordinates of mouse clicks within the diagram images. But this would be a time-consuming and therefore expensive task that would require a very large user base to cover the development cost without having to attach a high price tag. So I don't currently see much of a basis for hope that such functionality will materialize. I really believe that people who begin using the diagrams in careful exegetical study will quickly find them to be well worth the investment. I wish they were ideally functional, too, but I hope any disappointment over what they DON'T do will not rob people of the benefit of what they DO do. Or, to put it in wording that's a little more fun, "Don't let what they ain't keep you from getting the good out of what they is!"
- Hi Randy, thank you for all your hard work on this resource. I use it daily.
- Thank you, Dr. Leedy! Your work has helped me IMMEASURABLY. I do have a remaining question, though: I see two "versions" of your diagrams in Logos. What's the difference? (I already own the SBL GNT version.)
- Thanks for the kind words, Stephen. I'm thankful that you've found the work helpful! The only difference between the two versions is that they present two different editions of the Greek NT. So if you are satisfied with the SBLGNT as your Greek NT in Logos, there is no need to buy the NA28 version of the diagrams. I did a video explaining the differences, which you can see here: https://youtu.be/OVaFEP4R5t8. Blessings!
- Here's a suggestion for people who wish the diagrams contained interactive hyperlinks. How about setting up a workspace for working with the diagrams, in which three windows are all linked to move together: the Greek NT (ideally the NA28 text if you're using the NA28 diagrams), the diagrams, and the accompanying notes to the diagrams? Then those hyperlinks you're wanting are pretty easily accessible through the Greek text window.