A reference check gotcha

Question

It turns out if your language names 1, 2 and 3 John by putting the number after the book name, this will confuse the reference check whenever you have a reference to Gospel of John chapter 1, 2 or 3:

Example: if John is spelled “Yahya”, and the book names (or abbreviations) are Yahya (gospel), then Yahya 1, Yahya 2 and Yahya 3 for the epistles. A reference to Yahya 1:12 will fail, Paratext recognizes Yahya 1 as a book name, then cannot find the chapter number, and reports “Invalid book/chapter separator.”

A reference to John 10 will also fail. It will recognize “Yahya 1” as the book name, then report 0 is an invalid chapter number.

Fix it by either:

1. Remove space in the epistle names. Yahya, Yahya1, Yahya2, Yahya3 won’t have this problem.
2. Make the name or abbreviation different for the Gospel than for the epistle book names.
   Yahya, Yah 1, Yah 2, Yah 3 won’t have the problem.
3. Put the 1 or 2 or 3 in the epistle names in front of the name.

Answer 1

Another option I have tried is to use a tilde ~, which represents a Non-breaking space in the book name: \toc2 Yahya~1 I don’t think there is a downside to this solution, but if anyone can think of one let me know.

Comments

Thank you for sharing that. I don’t see a downside if you use it everywhere for the short name.

Blessings,