Word list from a Paratext Resource?

Question

A member of our team will be helping to review a Bible-based text in a Language of Wider Communication. He would very much benefit from a spell-check dictionary in LibreOffice for this work. And this language (Sango) has a published Bible among Paratext Resources. I know how to export a word list from a Paratext project, but I don’t know about any usage rights issues with trying to do the same from a Paratext resource, plus the “Export” option in the word list window is grayed out anyway. Can anyone give me pointers here? Thanks.

Answer 1

I wasn’t aware of copyright affecting a word list… Have you verified that is actually the case?

You CAN copy the words out of the word list by doing this:

1. Open the Word List tool for the Resource
2. Select the row for the first word
3. Scroll down to the very bottom
4. Hold SHIFT while you select row for the last word
5. Press CTRL + C to copy
6. Open whatever document you want to paste the word list into
7. Press CTRL + V to paste

From there, you should be able to edit the list however you need to for importing into a spell checking dictionary.

I don’t know if it will be an issue for LibreOffice, but the letters with accents in the Sango resource are precomposed Unicode values. For example: é (U+00E9) is a character instead of a string of the base letter e (U+0065) and the acute accent (U+0301).

james_post

Answer 2

Is this La Bible courant en Sango? The project info says the copyright is held by the Société Biblique en Centrafrique, so presumably they would be the ones to give permission, and maybe even a non-resource copy of the project that you could export the wordlist from?

Comments

Yes, I can do that. I just wanted to make sure there wasn’t some technical problem with Paratext that I was running into.