How to correct Latin letters to the corresponding Cyrillic letters in the term list?

Question

Can you advise how to solve the problem we are facing?

Our project uses the Cyrillic alphabet, but in addition to the standard Cyrillic letters, two additional letters are used. Those letters were Latin. We have now corrected them to the corresponding Cyrillic letters in the biblical texts. We have Run Basic Checks in Paratext, and everything seems to be OK in that respect. But now "Biblical Terms Renderings," "Major Biblical Terms" and "Project Biblical Terms" show, for words with those specific letters, that the word is not found in the text. This is because the words in the term lists still have those Latin letters, but in the Bible verses those letters are in Cyrillic. How could one easily change those two letters in the term lists to Cyrillic to make the term lists work correctly. The same problem may also exist in other Paratext tools, for example the Interlinear tool.

Answer 1

You should be able to do this by using the XML converter tool of SIL Encoding Converters (https://software.sil.org/silconverters/).

The file you want to change is TermRenderings.xml and you would only what to change the Renderings, Before and After elements. The XML converter tool allows you to specify the elements that you want to change. The Before and After elements aren't required, but would make viewing the rendering history consistent with the new characters.

There is also a TECKit editing tool that will help with creating the converter you need.

I haven't created a TECKit converter, so maybe someone else can help with the details about how you should do this.

Comments

Thank you very much! I used the TECKit Map Unicode Editor and the XML Document Converter, and the term lists are now in order.