User wants the cross reference to say the equivalent of See Luke 2:1

Question

We have a user who wants to have the Cross reference say See Luke 2:1…in the \xo

She also wants to be able to have in \mr (From Luke 1 to Luke 5)

We can see the option in Scripture Reference Settings to add extra text. Is it possible instruct Paratext to accept “See Luke 2:1” as well as “From Luke 1…”

Thank you

Answer 1

MSEAIT/LT,
Are you saying that each cross reference would begin with something like:
See Luke 2:1 and then followed by the actual cross references in the \xt fields? From a publishing standpoint this seems rather excessive since you would end up with the words on every cross reference.
See Luke 2:1 Matthew 4:5; Mark 2:6

or are they wanting something like:
2:1 See Matthew 4:5; Mark 2:6

This is a more normal pattern and is handled by adding the word “See” in the section on " Extra Material" in the Scripture Reference Settings. Note that you can add various options here by using the | character.

As best I can tell, the Scripture Reference settings don’t normally expect (allow) a book name in the \xo field. However you can have Extra material. So in theory you could have "See Luke " in the Extra material so that it would pass the check, but as said, it is not normal to use the book name in the \xo.

For the \mr you could likewise add “From” to the extra material and in the case of the word “to” you could add this as a divider between books or chapters. So your Scripture reference settings might look like the following:

List of books ; | to
Extra material See |From

Note that spaces are important so I have a space after "See " , but no space before "From ". The “to” would have spaces on either side, depending on your need.

Answer 2

You can use a vertical bar ‘|’ to specify more than one possible extra text format:
“See |From”
(Note that there is a space after “from” that is not showing up here)

Answer 3

Thank you anon291708 and anon848905, that’s exactly what we are after. I also learned that that | can be used in other fields in scripture reference settings as well.

This particular user wants to be able to put the equivalent of From VERSE to VERSE in major sections and also have the long dash in smaller sections