Return to contentsActually, this will work with any Microsoft-standard OLE compatible application. Simply maximize your word processor (I use Word 6.0), then Alt+Tab back to Logos. Open up the text you'd like to copy. Type Ctrl+B to close the Library Browser. Now you'll see the left side of the open document in your word processor "behind" the Logos desktop. Highlight your text, drag, and drop it into Word 6.0. When you're done, type Ctrl+B once more to bring the browser back.
When you're in the proper Bible, hit Tab or Ctrl+G. Type in the reference you want to go to. Abbreviations are O.K. For instance, type jn 3.16 to go to John 3:16. Instead of hitting Tab or Ctrl+G, you could simply swipe the reference box with your mouse cursor, and type in the appropriate references.
Another way to go about this is to bring up the Reference Navigator by hitting either Tab or Ctrl+G twice. Once the Reference Navigator is displayed, selecting the verse is pretty intuitive.
There are a few ways of doing this, as well. First of all, you could simply click on the desired Bible, drag it from the Library Browser and drop on an empty spot on your desktop (to open a new window) or on an already existing window (to change that window to the selected Bible). If you drop it on an active Bible window, the LLS will open the new Bible to the already active verse.
If you're into using the keyboard, as I am, you've got two options. You can simply use the right and left arrow keys to cycle through your available Bibles. Or, you can type Ctrl+F5 to open a new Bible to a specific reference.
In the LLS, notefiles are much more than mere holders of textual data. You can actually create your own hypertext links in your notefiles to related articles and Bible verses, and it's really quite simple to do. While you're taking a note, if you want to refer yourself (or whomever you may share your notefiles with) to, say, the New Bible Dictionary article on Eschatology, you've got a couple of options. From the note window, you could click on the Add Cross Reference icon. This brings up the Add Cross Reference dialog, complete with Library Browser and a naming field, so that you can name your cross reference. Type in a cross reference name (for example, NBD Article on Eschatology), select the proper article from the Library Browser, and click on the OK button. Presto, you've created your own cross reference in your notefield. You'll notice the text is now "hot" and when you place your mouse cursor over it, the mouse cursor changes to a hand, indicating "hot" text.
However, there is another, even easier way to do this. It's so simple, almost no one would ever think to do it. Rather than clicking on the Add Cross Reference icon, simply go over to the Library Browser, find the article/reference you want in your notefield, click on it, drag it over to your notefield, and drop it at the desired location. Now you've got a hypertext link in your notefile to that article. This works with anything -- create links to New Nave's, to the Logos Hymnal, to New Manners and Customs -- anything. Finally, rather than putting a footnote on the bottom of a page so you can look it up later, you can actually refer people to the article with a mouse click. It's a real efficient way to put together studies and share them among a group of Logos users who have similar sets of Logos Compatible books available.
Many LLS users I've spoken with think that they can only use the mouse in the Library Browser. Nothing is further from the truth! Actually, I find the keyboard shortcuts in the browser to be faster and easier. Here's a table of some keystrokes you may find useful.
| Library Browser Keyboard Shortcuts |
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|---|---|
| Ctrl+B | Toggles the Library Browser on and off |
| Alt+F6 | Toggles between the Library Browser and the active text window |
| Up Arrow | Moves up one book/line in the Library Browser |
| Dn Arrow | Moves down one book/line in the Library Browser |
| Rt Arrow | Expands the current selection to the next level |
| Lt Arrow | Contracts the current level to the previous level |
| Pg Down | Moves to the last viewable item on the current browser |
| Pg Up | Moves to the topmost viewable item on the current browser |
| Home | Moves to the first entry in the browser (Bibles) |
| End | Moves to the bottom entry in the browser |
| Enter | Expands the browser to it's next logical level; or opens the selection if it is at the bottom level |
One of my biggest frustrations with Logos 1.6 was that if I had linked a Greek text with an English text, when I went to an Old Testament reference, the Greek window would be blank. The LLS solves this problem by allowing users to "associate" texts. This feature is a little harder to do, though, as it requires you to edit your logos20.ini file, found in your Windows directory.
First, close down the LLS if you've got it running. Then, start the Windows notepad (or any ASCII text editor) and open up your logos20.ini file. I'd recommend you make a backup copy of this file, just in case anything weird happens! My logos20.ini backup has saved me many times. The logos20.ini file is divided into many sections, each section declared with a section title in square brackets like: [section title]. Look for the [Preferences] section. Somewhere hidden in there are lines like the following:
NumAssociationLists=1
AssociatedTitles0=BHSMORPH,NA26
AssociatedTitles1=KJV,KJVAPOC
I've edited these in my logos20.ini file to look like the following:
NumAssociationLists=2
AssociatedTitles0=NA26,LXX
AssociatedTitles1=NIV,KJVAPOC
AssociatedTitles2=KJV,KJVAPOC
First of all, note the patterns. The AssociatedTitles line starts its numbering with 0, and continues numbering by integer. Also, the number in the NumAssociationLists= line equals the highest integer used in the AssociatedTitles line. It is important that consistency remain.
The changes I made mean the following:
Getting tired of the plain-old nothing background in the LLS? Have a favorite bitmap (*.bmp) you want to tile back there? It's as easy as adding one line to your logos20.ini file (in your windows directory). Again, I strongly recommend that you make a backup of your logos20.ini file before you edit it! Find the [Preferences] section of the logos20.ini file. At the bottom of that section, add the following line:
wallpaper=+c:\windows\bitmap.bmp
Where "c:\windows\bitmap.bmp" is the path and name of the *.bmp file you want tiled in the background of your LLS desktop.
The sounds that the LLS emits upon opening books, completing searches, and the like are completely customizable. However, the LLS itself does not control these. They are controlled where the rest of the windows sound functionality is controlled -- in the Windows Control Panel. Double-click on the Control Panel icon in your Main Group in Program Manager. Double-click on the Sound icon. Listed in the Sound dialog, you'll see a number of sound options beginning with the word "Logos" like LogosSearchDone. Simply point them to a different sound (*.wav), re-start Logos, and listen to the new sounds.
The LLS allows the user to designate a "startup macro" with the logos20.ini file. Remember, make a backup of your logos20.ini file (found in c:\windows) prior to changing anything.
Insert the following line in the [Preferences] to go to the proverb of the day:
StartupMacro=GoToToday();
If you own a Logos daily devotional, such as Spurgeon's "Morning and Evening," or Oswald Chambers' "My Utmost for His Highest," you can specify that book.
StartupMacro=OpenBook("MORNEVE");GoToToday();
or
StartupMacro=OpenBook("UTMOST");GoToToday();
The LLS has a macro language that allows you to jump to any URL you want. The macro command is GoToURL("S") where S is a uniform resource location on the WWW. Here's how you do it. This should work in Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer (2.0 and 3.0 beta 2)
Now, the macro is saved, and all you need to do is assign it a button on the tool bar. Here's how you do that.
Now, when you click on the button, your favorite Web search engine will appear, and you'll be able to search the web for whatever you want!
A user asks the following question:
In Logos 1.6, I was able to copy the Bible references for Naves Topical Bible into a topical index and then print all the refereneces from the Nave's topic. I have been unable to do this in the LLS. Is there a way I can copy Bible references to a note file from a book?
Well, the answer is and emphatic
There is a way to do this, but it is just a bit more complex. Try this:
All the hits for this topic will show up as search hits in your selected Bible. The hits can then be transferred to a Note file, exported, printed, or whatever.
This is not quite as quick as it used to be in 1.6, but it also works with other topical books.
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