Reset proposed spelling corrections?

Question

A project in Paratext 8 had a mixture of á composed and decomposed. We did a search and replace to change all composed á to decomposed á. There are now no more composed á in the character inventory, but Paratext is still proposing changes to the composed version, when using “Apply correction,” under “Spell Check Current Book.”

Is there a way to reset Paratext’s spelling suggestions?

We’ve already tried reinitializing Paratext and uninstalling and reinstalling.

Answer 1

Yes, unfortunately we made a bad decision in 7.6 and didn’t realize it (or how bad it really was) until users started migrating to 8.0 (because we didn’t have nearly as many users of 7.6 as we had for 7.5 or 8.0).
However, fixing the problem is very complicated because of the fact that many users will still be old versions of Paratext that will still have the problem. We are still discussing it internally, but fixing the issue may require everyone on a project to update to the newest version of Paratext at the same time (which we generally try to avoid) to ensure that that data is not messed up again after it’s fixed.

Comments

anon291708:

because we didn’t have nearly as many users of 7.6 as we had for 7.5 or 8.0

In retrospect, it would presumably have been good to have done the following: once it was reasonably clear that 7.6 was stable, to have sent out an announcement strongly advising people to move to 7.6.

That way you would have had a larger userbase from which to get feedback on the changes made.

Personally, I soon found 7.6 to be super-reliable, and moved our projects to it at that point.

Answer 2

I found the following discussion where the proposed solution is to convert the project. =(

Matches Not Found in Word List - Composed and Decomposed

I have recently come across an issue, which I am now recognizing in more and more projects. Its particular symptom comes when you try to correct a word with a character that has a diacritic (.e.g. á or Á). You make the correction, and it comes back with the message, No Matches Found. This is often because (1) there is no normalization being applied to the project (2) the character á or Á in this project are decomposed characters, not composed (one unit). I am told Paratext 8 stores all its da…

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