How do we configure the glossary to only show the first listing of the word

Question

Hello,
I’m helping a user who’s working on a Glossary for his project. He’s marked up the words that he wants to have in the glossary but, according to the user, the glossary lists every instance of the word in the book.
He says" We prepared all the glossary and tried to use \w majaikat\w* to mark the specific word of glossary but we realized that it occurs every single case of its entry in the NT. For example, if it occurs 20 times in Mark, it shows all the 20 entries in different chapters of the Mark. But we want to make it(\w majaikat\w* ) occur only one time at first entry in the book of Mark. And we want this rule will apply to all the other books as well."

Is this possible? Thank you

Answer 1

Currently, what you’re looking for isn’t possible using the glossary tools. The option which creates the fewest links in the text is “first occurrence in every chapter”. I believe the rationale for that is that most readers don’t read whole books at a time, more likely a few chapters at a time.

To remove unwanted \w…\w* links from the text, “unlink” all renderings by filtering the Biblical Terms tool to show the terms you wish to unlink. Then, go to Biblical terms menu > Edit > Unlink selected renderings from glossary. (Or “unlink all renderings” if you want to remove all glossary entries from your project text.)

Next, filter the Biblical terms tool to the terms you want to create links for and choose Biblical terms menu > Edit > Link selected renderings to glossary, choose the option you prefer from these choices:

If you want check a book or chapter for glossary entries, here is a helpful regex to use in Edit > Find:
regex:\w .+?\w*

Results will look something like this:

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Others may have more pro tips for Glossaries. I don’t have much experience of them.

Comments

Thank you IanH, I have passed your reply on to the user who asked me.
Is it possible to add a Once per book Glossary option as a Feature Request?

Answer 2

You can use the “Give feedback…” menu item, then select “Make a suggestion about Paratext” (for Paratext 9) or “Help”, then “Make a suggestion” (for Paratext 8) to make your feature request.