Combination of Alphabetic Characters is not working in Character Check

Question

I ran my first basic check on characters and got in trouble with the following (see the screenshot attached for a visualization):

1. Running the check I got a series of ‘Invalid or unknown character: j’, which in fact should be a valid character.
2. Clicking the examples of the ‘invalid or unknown character: j’, PT reveals that all of the examples are words in which the ‘j’ is the second letter of a character combination ‘Dj’.
3. As you can see in the Character Inventory, the box ‘Show Combinations’ is ticked and ‘dj’ is marked as valid.
4. The guide refers me to the Alphabetic Characters list under the Language Settings of the translation project, so I go there and find the following:
5. ‘dj’ is mentioned as an ‘Alphabetic Character’, as well as the ‘d’ and the ‘D’ right above it.
6. According to the guide I have not entered ‘Dj’ next to ‘dj’ and even if I do, PT would not allow me to do so.

The philosophy of PT is that it even in a character combination PT would recognize ‘Dj’ as ‘dj’ with a capital ‘D’ since the ‘D’ is entered in the list as a capital equivalent for ‘d’.

The problem, thus, is that I can’t get rid of these check errors and I can’t get Paratext to accept not only ‘dj’, but also ‘Dj’ as valid characters.

Any help would be appreciated!

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Answer 1

Let me add a bit. In the English Bibles like GNB etc. the digraph ch has not been entered in the alphabetic list as a digraph. I do not know why. The result is that when you look at C in the inventory, you cannot separate a C in Ch from other occurrences of C. That may be ok, since the English ch is pronounced in various ways including a straight k.
In some languages we use ng’ for a velar nasal. In this way we can check all ng’ occurrences and the g’ only occurs following an N or an n. In the Wordlist words beginning with ng’ are grouped together, but Ng’ and ng’ are still listed in the same group.

Comments

I would recommend that you temporarily add a j and a J without a d or a D into your text and then set your settings like this:

Language settings:

…

d/D

dj

e/E

…

Combined Characters off:

j – valid

J – valid

Combined Characters on:

j - invalid

J – invalid

dj – valid

Dj – valid

Once you done this, you can remove them from the text but Paratext should flag lone j’s as invalid if they happen to occur and accept dj and Dj as valid.

Answer 2

Try adding Dj as a character.

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Answer 3

PT won’t let me. Neither adding Dj as in dj/Dj, nor as a separate character.
I get a warning:
In the first case: dj/Dj: Paratext does not support complex capitalization rules for multigraphs like ‘NGg/Ngg’ so do not specify any capitalization in multipgraphs at all. Just enter the lower case form of the multigraph, e.g. ‘ngg’. Paratext will use the capitalization rules for single characters which have been entered elsewhere in the characters list.
In the second case: Capitalization is not defined correctly for: Dj. It should be entered as lowercase/uppercase

Comments

You are correct in entering only dj in the alphabetic list and not try dj/Dj or Dj.
For the valid characters in the inventory, have you marked both dj, D and j as valid characters? The program will first look for all the dj combinations. The Dj combination is split between a capital D and a following j, so both are valid. Since you do not use j by itself, it only occurs in the combination Dj as you have noted. The D may occur in other words if you sometimes use D without a following j. I suppose there are programming reasons for doing it this way, although it does look intuitive to me.

Answer 4

It appears that j by itself has not been marked as a legal character. You must uncheck Character combinations and check j by itself as legal, and the error will go away. Another option would be to add j/J to the alphabetical characters list and then single j will be automatically marked as valid.

The question then becomes, what about j by itself? shouldn’t that be marked as illegal? Yes, it can be, but you must do the work in the Character check Character combinations to mark an uncombined j as invalid.

By the way, if you add j/J to the alphabetical characters list then you will not be able to mark an uncombined j as invalid in the Character check Character combinations inventory. So the best option is to simply check j by itself as valid in the Character check inventory with Character combinations unchecked.

Answer 5

Thanks! Adding ‘j’ to the character inventory list did the trick.