Spell check with 02BC as apostrophe

Question

We are using 02BC as elision apostrope as in words like n’ma. Recently we decided to write tone on some of the unmarked pronouns. So now we have words like ǹʼdanwɔ and ǹʼtɔ and nʼmaŋ. These complete ‘words’ are now underlined by paratext since they are not in the dictionary/wordlist. What is the best solution in paratext to deal with these hundreds of cases (at once)? Thanks in advance for your help. goodgoan

Answer 1

There are a couple of ways to approve all the words.

• The most common way to deal with these situations, is to use an extra book (e.g. XXA) and type/paste all of the words you need approved into that book. Then open up the Wordlist and filter to that book. Then use Tools > Approve Spelling of Common Words to approve all the words in that book (i.e. set the minimum occurrence count to 1).

• Otherwise, if all of the new words are common words, then you can just use the Approve Spelling of Common Words tool in the Wordlist without having to put them all into an extra book.

Comments

Thank you for the tip anon291708. That could save us some time … but I was wondering if I could add 02BC to a special category so that the words after are seen seperate from the words before. So if for instance if in english it was possible to write t’house instead of “the house”, it would suffice to 1) tell paratext that t or t’ is correct and 2) that “house” is correct, instead of treating “t’house” as a seperate word.

Answer 2

Since 02BC is marked as a letter in Unicode, it will be treated as word-forming by Paratext. Since Paratext has no way to override that, I don’t think there is a way around it (that character will produce new “words”).