How do I enter renderings with vowel changes in the Biblical terms tool?

Question

Hi

I am working with a team to enter renderings in their Biblical terms tool. Their language marks the future form with an accent and/or a vowel change. So any verbs can have at least four forms.

I can put an * in place of the vowel (e.g. t*y) but then it would accept all vowels and not just the four valid forms, so this would negate the value of the checking.

Thanks
anon703820

Answer 1

Remember the Biblical terms tool is not a spell check. The pattern is intended to simply determine if the word is in the verse. Using the wild card will probably be fine for most if not all cases since it is unlikely that it would match a wrong word. However if for a few words there is that possibility, then you would need to specify all four possible forms.

You need to use the Wordlist spell checker tool to check for spelling errors.

Comments

Quite true - it is a terms check not a spelling check. But a lot of inconsistencies in Biblical terms come from typos. Some typos are just badly spelled words, others can turn it into the wrong word which is the case in this language with very short words.

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CrazyRocky is right. Be sure to mark all the valid spellings. As for the BT tool, I would use a wildcard everywhere there is a vowel that changes: For example: vem, vim, vom, would all be captured by v*m.