As the republication of Bryan D. Spinks’ Luther’s Liturgical Criteria and His Reform of the Canon of the Mass enters its third month, we are pleased with the rating readers are giving it. Six readers have provided ratings feedback. Luther reformed the Canon of the Mass, the way the Sacrament of the Altar is administered. […]

John T. Pless (CTSFW) forwards this text with a concise, yet strong affirmation of both the contents of this manuscript, but also the appropriateness of its being reprinted in the 21st century. Pless writes, “It took an Anglican to rescue Luther from the Lutheran liturgical gurus” (Spinks, iv). In Luther’s Liturgical Criteria and His Reform […]

Part A – Earn 1. Complete steps 2 through 5 to earn a copy of A Year in the Gospels with Martin Luther – 2 Volume Set, published by Concordia Publishing House. 2. Qualified Review. Write a qualified review of Bryan D. Spinks, Luther’s Liturgical Criteria and His Reform of the Canon of the Mass […]

Synoptic Text is pleased to be receiving Five-Star ratings for one of its publications, A Sketch of Francis McGee Thompson, a Founder of Montana. As of this writing, the Sketch has received three ratings, each of them Five Stars, and one very positive review. The Sketch is a slender and fast-reading little volume about a […]

By Version 3.0, PostSearch™ was becoming a mature application. The changes from Version 2 to Version 3.0 were a series of user-requested features. This post is comprised of two parts: Product page from the website while PostSearch™ still was being sold. User’s Guide Product Page PostSearch™ for Windows is a database search post-processor for BRS, […]

Following is material from a SICbase™ 2.0 brochure. This software product wrapped Synoptic Text’s TR/Win™ (Text Retriever for Windows) around the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, making the manual full-text searchable with a powerful query language. SIC codes subsequently were superseded by NAICS codes. SICbase™Standard Industrial Classification ManualSearchable through TR/Win™Text Retriever for WindowsVersion 2.0 What is […]

Below is a display advertisement for PostSearch that appeared in AIIP Connections, the newsletter of the Association of Independent Information Professionals.

Following is a press release for PostSearch 2.0 that appeared in the industry journal Information Today on February 1, 2995. PostSearch was a database search post-processor that reclaimed hours per day for professional database searchers. PostSearch 2.0 Press Release [Synoptic Text] has released Version 2.0 of PostSearch for Windows. PostSearch is a series of database […]

This post provides a partial list of writings by Synoptic Text’s President, T. R. Halvorson, about the online information industry in the 1990s and the early 2000s. Page Contents: Book Book chapter Papers Monographs Articles Book Law of the Super Searchers: The Online Secrets of Top Legal Researchers, by T. R. Halvorson, edited by Reva […]

From back in the days of DIALOG, Knowledge Index, Dow Jones News/Retrieval //TEXT, DataStar, DataTimes, NewsNet, STN, CD Plus, BRS, National Library of Medicine, PaperChase, Mead Data Central, and and Synoptic Text’s own Syntex direct-dial database service. While those systems either are defunct or have been transformed into web-based services, the essence of the database […]