Logos vs. Accordance, Part 3: Bibliographic Citations
Friday, November 13, 2009 at 1:06AM
R. Mansfield in Accordance, Faith & Reason, Logos, Technology
This is the third in a series of video comparisons between Libronix/Logos and Accordance Bible Software. This particular comparison focuses on both programs' ability to produce bibliographic citations in word processing documents. Logos has had this ability for a while, and Accordance added it a couple of days ago with the release of v. 8.4.
In the first example which looks at commentary citations, I'm not suggesting that it's incorrect for Logos or Accordance to provide information that designates the source as an electronic one. Actually, it's very correct, but I find it very interesting that the two programs do this quite differently. And in part of my "corrections," I am merely demonstrating how one might remove this information if turning a paper into someone who might be biased against electronic sources. Believe me, these folks still exist!
In one example, I paste a sentence from the TDNT in Logos 4/Windows into Word 2008/Mac. I comment that the transliterated word érōs was capitalized in the process to Érōs. I have confirmed that this does not occur when pasting from Logos 4/Windows to Word 2007/Windows. Therefore, Mac users pasting in a native word processor will want to watch for these kinds of alterations. Once Logos 4/Mac is more fully developed, I assume this won't be an issue.