So far I have talked mostly about the advantage of the having a large library on Logos and the portability of having all of them to go at a moments notice. However, Logos Mac Edition also has an excellent morphological search. The picture below shows the window used for doing Greek morphological searches (The Hebrew and Aramaic windows are set up in similar layouts.) The options for categorizing your Greek search include part of speech, case, number, gender, person, tense, voice, mood, pronoun types, conjunction options adjective degrees, adverb/particle types and indeclinable types. The options for categorizing your Hebrew search include part of speech, number, gender, person, state; noun options: noun families, noun subclass, derivation suffix, stem; verb options: stem, voice, family; conjunction, pronoun and miscellany subclasses; preposition options; adverbial options and whether to search both Hebrew and Aramaic sections. As you can see in the picture, the check boxes filled with the options for each search category make setting up the search extremely easy and fast. As I have used this option over the past few weeks, I have found doing simple morphological searches in Logos Mac Edition easier and faster than the morphological search in Accordance.
However, this does not mean that Accordance has lost its edge in searching. Logos does not yet have the ability to easily do many of the more advanced syntactical and grammatical order searches that Accordance can do. While there is a way to do most of the searches Accordance’s search program can do they can be done easier on Accordance. How to do these more advanced searches in Logos is explained in “Advanced Search” section of “Libronix DLS Help”.
August 24, 2009 at 6:14 pm
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August 26, 2009 at 9:17 pm
Daniel, in what way is Logos’ morphological search easier and faster than Accordance’s?
You show a picture of the screen in Logos, but not Accordance. There’s nothing here that says easier and faster to me. In fact, when I run the comparison on my on machine, it seems to me that Accordance is easier, and definitely faster.
In your last paragraph, you even say the search is easier in Accordance contradicting your earlier statement.
This might be a good idea for a comparison video, in fact.
August 26, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Rick,
I will leave the comparison videos to you, which have been very helpful by the way. But thanks for the opportunity to clear up that confusion. I find simple morphological searches on Logos a bit easier because of the click menu instead of Accordance search where you have to enter the form. You can pick a bunch of different lexemes and search for certain morphological criteria with ease. It may be a personal preference for me, buy I like the click menu more than inflected forms search on Accordance.
What I was saying at the end is that some of the more complicated searches are far easier on Accordance. You can do most of the stuff on Logos but it is much more complicated. I still love Accordance and it is still my main Greek and Hebrew search engine, but the review was about Logos so I did not want to go into to much depth on Accordance.
Thanks for the comment, does that help?
August 27, 2009 at 6:44 am
Yes, that helps.
But you know, of course, that you can search for forms in Accordance using menus as well. Use the Search menu and then select Enter Grammatical Tag. Accordance doesn’t require memorization of any of the search tags.
David Lang wrote about this very thing on the Accordance blog the other day: http://www.accordancebible.com/3336974/
I have no idea whether he had seen your post, but it does address the same issue.