Glottal as apostroph

Question

I am using an apostrophe for a glottal. Patext doesn’t recognize the apostrophe ’ as a letter. Is it possible to count it as a letter? I can teach the spell check to recognize it but it usually separates the word after glottal as a separate one and it doesn’t count as one word.

Thanks

anon318824

Answer 1

Based on the information in the Guide for Language Settings>Alphabetic characters, it seems that they do want you to put the glottal stop in the Alphabetic Characters list, on its own line. Then Paratext will no longer divide words which contain glottal stops.

A similar thing can be achieved by putting things in the Other Characters> Word medial punctuation. But I think in the case of the glottal stop, it is correct to have it only in the Alphabetic Characters field.

Comments

Yes, all word forming characters need to be in the Alphabetic characters list. Also, if you are using what is typically a punctuation character as word-forming then you need to remove it from the punctuation inventory. If you still need the apostrophe for punctuation, then consider using a different UNICODE character for the glottal stop. Help has the following recommendation:

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