Weights, Numbers, and Measures Check

Question

There used to be a check for weights, numbers, and measures in an older version of Paratext that has disappeared. Can anyone find the original file from Paratext 6 (or 7) and get it to me so that we can recreate this check in the current Paratext?

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Are you talking about what is now the Biblical Terms list called Numbers? Or was there an actual check of some sort (maybe a Python check)?

I looked in the Paratext history, and that file was created by reading the old PT6 DB file.

Answer 1

The old Paratext 6 DB checks were made into Biblical Term lists. These are the lists: InclusiveExclusiveWe, Numbers, YoungerOlderSibling. I think this means you can access the check by selecting the Numbers list in the Biblical Terms tool.

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If you still need/want the file, its the /Terms/Lists/Numbers.xml file in the Paratext installation directory.

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That list has numbers in the text like "fourteen" in Mat 1:17, but it does not seem to have any weights, measures or money. Section 24.8 in the manual mentions "Numbers, money, weights and measures", implying there was a Biblical terms list for money, weights and measures, not just for numbers.

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You're right. It looks like the file was edited later to "improve" them and it seems like a lot of the original data was lost. I don't remember why that was done. Here is the original file, which should be more of a direct conversion of the original PT6 data:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O89wUdfuP-YLoQ3ScYClmM19Ud2XRypZ

EDIT: For anyone with access to Paratext's internal tracking system, this issue from 2012 is the one that changed the data.

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That looks good. Although the weights and measures don't appear very informative in the Biblical Terms interface until you open one up.

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FYI Paratext will only open one of the two forms, the one called "numbers.xml".
If I renamed the longer one "numbersweights.xml" it won't see it. To open as I did above I had to name it "numbers.xml" replacing the current default numbers list.

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It should also work to name it NumbersWeightsBiblicalTerms.xml (or anything that ends in "BiblicalTerms.xml") and put it in the My Paratext 9 Projects directory.

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Thanks, that works.