When I add a new term or phrase to Biblical Terms, one of the things to fill in is a list of references (one per line) where the term occurs, so:
Now, let’s suppose I generate such a list outside of Paratext, like so (Notepad++):
Now I select the list and paste it into the reference list in the Edit Biblical Term dialog and I get:
Why is this? Because the tool does not accept a simple new line (\n), as in the example above, nor a simple carriage break (\r). It requires a carriage break + new line (\r\n) sequence, in that specific order! Thus:
When I paste this into the dialog, I get the required line breaks.
I’m posting this for two reasons:
- If someone else runs into this problem, here’s the solution.
- At some point it might be useful for the developers to tweak this so that standard line breaks are accepted in the dialog.
Note that copying from a Paratext-generated reference list works just fine. But sometimes one might want to copy from a self-created reference list. In this case, I was creating a list in Logos of all the places that the Hebrew word עֶבֶד is translated as ‘(court) official’. There’s no way to generate such a list in Paratext, as far as I know.
